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Theory of Light Emission in Sonoluminescence as Thermal Radiation

Wang-Kong Tse, P. T. Leung

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0606359

Abstract

Based on the model proposed by Hilgenfeldt at al. [Nature 398, 401 (1999)], we present here a comprehensive theory of thermal radiation in single-bubble sonoluminescence (SBSL). We first invoke the generalized Kirchhoff's law to obtain the thermal emissivity from the absorption cross-section of a multilayered sphere (MLS). A sonoluminescing bubble, whose internal structure is determined from hydrodynamic simulations, is then modelled as a MLS and in turn the thermal radiation is evaluated. Numerical results obtained from simulations for argon bubbles show that our theory successfully captures the major features observed in SBSL experiments.

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