Liquids Under Negative Pressure

by Imre, A. R.; Maris, H. J.; Williams, P. R.

• ISBN13: 9781402008962
• ISBN10: 1402008961
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

It is possible to "stretch" a liquid and, when suitably prepared, liquids are capable of sustaining substantial levels of tension, often for significant periods of time. These negative pressure states are metastable but can last for days - long enough for substantial experimental investigation. This volume is a review of recent and current research into the behaviour of liquids under negative pressure. Part I deals with the thermodynamics of stretched liquids. Part II discusses the physical and chemical behaviour of liquids under negative pressure. Part III contains papers on the effect of negative pressure on the solidification of a liquid. Part IV is devoted to stretched helium and Part V discusses cavitation in various stretched liquids. Part VI deals with the effect of foreign substances on cavitation.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Photograph of the participants

Participants

Stability, metastability and instability

Limits of stability for liquids under tension

Limiting superheat of aqueous solutions at negative pressures

Classical thermodynamics of states with negative absolute temperature or with negative absolute pressure

Limiting tensions for liquids and glasses from laboratory and MD studies

Investigation of the thermodynamic properties of a polarizable water model in a wide range of pressures around the temperature of maximum density

Physical chemistry of liquids under negative pressure

Water at positive and negative pressures

The thermophysical properties of liquids on the melting line at negative pressures

Liquid-liquid phase equilibria in binary mixtures under negative pressure

Measuring the properties of liquids and liquid mixtures at absolute negative pressures

Limiting tensile strength of capillary-condensed liquids

On the tricritical point of the isotropic-nematic transition in a rod-like mesogen hidden in the negative pressure region

Negative pressure and solidification

Negative pressure development during crystalization of polymers

Cavitation during isothermal crystallization of isotactic polypropylene and poly(methylene oxide)

Helium under negative pressure

The limits of metastability of liquid helium

Cavitation in 3He-4He liquid mixtures

A Quantum Monte Carlo study of the negative pressure regime in quantum liquids

Nucleation of bubbles on electrons in liquid helium

Quantum statistics of metastable liquid helium

Cavitation during static and dynamic tensions

Acoustic cavitation thresholds of ocean water

Cavitation in liquids by classical nucleation theory and molecular dynamics simulations

A study of cavitation phenomena using an atomic force microscope

Cavitation thresholds, free surface and cavity cluster dynamics in liquids at shock wave reflection

Relaxation effects and disintegration problems of cavitating liquids at pulse loading

Measurement of the cavitation threshold of liquids under dynamic stressing by pulses of tension

Negative pressure tail of a reflected pressure pulse: A lattice-Boltzmann study

Ultrasonic cavitation in freon at room temperature

Heterogeneous nucleation

Dependence on kinds of impurity gases in metals of negative pressures in water/metal Berhelot tube systems

Heterogeneous nucleation, influence of heterophase fluctuations on the cavitation strength, and the supercooling of liquids with phase inclusions

Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.