A comprehensive review of cavitation and bubble dynamics for engineers concerned with fluid mechanics, physics, chemical engineering and biomedical engineering.This book covers the latest techniques and technologies for understanding cavitation and bubble dynamics in non-Newtonian fluids, and reviews the theory of the subject. It demonstrates how the effects of non-Newtonian properties on bubble dynamics and cavitation are fundamentally different from those of Newtonian fluids, including the dramatic increase in viscosity of polymer solutions in an extensional flow, such as that generated about a spherical bubble during its growth or collapse phase.- Covers the role of elongational viscosity on the behaviour of cavitation bubbles in non-Newtonian liquids - Illustrates shock wave propagation from collapsing bubbles near a rigid boundary (high-speed photography with 200 million frames/s) and behaviour of cavitation bubbles near and inside tissue phantoms - Details mechanisms of cavitation erosion in non-Newtonian liquidsThe information contained in this book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in mechanical, chemical and biomedical engineering, as well as to engineers seeking to understand the diverse physics of these systems and the variety of physical phenomena that manifest themselves on the micrometer and microsecond scales.

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• Covers the role of elongational viscosity on the behaviour of cavitation bubbles in non-Newtonian liquids
• Illustrates shock wave propagation from collapsing bubbles near a rigid boundary (high-speed photography with 200 million frames/s) and behaviour of cavitation bubbles near and inside tissue phantoms
• Details mechanisms of cavitation erosion in non-Newtonian liquids