Suspension Acoustics: An Introduction to the Physics of Suspensions

Abstract

This monograph is an introduction to physical and mathematical modeling of suspensions of bubbles, droplets, and solid particles in gases and fluids. To do this, the book first presents a detailed description of basic particle motions that small particles can sustain. Here the great attention is devoted to translations and pulsations, and to thermal effects. Some problems of the dynamics and thermodynamics of suspensions are discussed in the next part, together with important acoustic problems of attenuation and dispersion in the mixture of a gas and discrete phases. The book concludes with applications of acoustic techniques to the characterization and modification of suspensions by means of acoustic waves.