NUMERICAL CALCULATION OF PRESSURE FIELDS IN SONOCHEMICAL REACTORS - LINEAR EFFECTS IN HOMOGENEOUS PHASE

Abstract

During the last 50 years sonochemistry was under active investigation. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of a sound theoretical basis for the design of sonochemical reactors. Furthermore, sonochemical reactions are not understood in detail on a molecular level. In order to calculate the yield of chemical reactions in reactors of different shapes one needs to know the number of cavitation bubbles in the reactor. These bubbles are generated by oscillating pressures in the liquid. Therefore, as a first step of the design of sonochemical reactors pressure fields in homogeneous media in reactors of different geometric shapes are calculated ..