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Article Dans Une Revue European Physical Journal E: Soft matter and biological physics Année : 2009

Transmission of ultrasound through a single layer of bubbles

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We investigate, both experimentally and theoretically, the effect of coupling between resonant scatterers on the transmission coefficient of a model system of isotropic scatterers. The model system consists of a monodisperse layer of bubbles, which exhibit a strong monopole scattering resonance at low ultrasonic frequencies. The layer was a true 2D structure obtained by injecting very monodisperse bubbles (with radius a ∼ 100 μm) into a yield-stress polymer gel. Even for a layer with a low concentration of bubbles (areal fraction, n π a 2 , of 10-20%, where n is the number of bubbles per unit area), the ultrasonic transmission was found to be significantly reduced by the presence of bubbles (-20 to -50 dB) and showed a sharp minimum at a particular frequency. Interestingly, this frequency did not correspond to the resonance frequency of the individual, isolated bubbles, but depended markedly on the concentration. This frequency shift is an indication of strong coupling between the bubbles. We propose a simple model, based on a self-consistent relation, which takes into account the coupling between the bubbles and gives good agreement with the measured transmission coefficient.

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hal-00421962 , version 1 (05-10-2009)

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Valentin Leroy, Anatoliy Strybulevych, Mark Scanlon, John H. Page. Transmission of ultrasound through a single layer of bubbles. European Physical Journal E: Soft matter and biological physics, 2009, 29, pp.123-130. ⟨10.1140/epje/i2009-10457-y⟩. ⟨hal-00421962⟩
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