Ultimate fate of a dynamical bubble/droplet system following acoustic vaporization

The phase-change of a liquid droplet induced by a supply of acoustic energy is known as “Acoustic Droplet Vaporization,” and it represents a versatile tool for medical applications. In an attempt to understand the complex mechanisms that drive the vaporization threshold, a theoretical concentric three phase model (bubble of vapor dodecafluoropentane + layer of liquid dodecafluoropentane + water) is used to compute numerical simulations of the vapor bubble time evolution. The dynamics are sorted into different regimes depending on their shared characteristic and the system ultimate fate. Those regimes are then organized within a phase diagram that collects all the possible dynamics and that predicts whether the complete vaporization occurs or not.