Abstract

In the present paper the dynamics of a single gas bubble under the influence of an acoustic field is studied, taking mass transfer through the moving bubble wall into account. Mass transfer is calculated separately in the diffusion problem. Due to changes in the pressure inside the bubble caused by oscillations of its volume, the concentration of the gas dissolved in the liquid undergoes oscillations of large amplitude near the bubble boundary. To eliminate the computational problems associated with the moving boundary, the convection-diffusion equations describing the transport of a gas dissolved in a liquid are written in Lagrangian coordinates.