Open AccessCavitation in a Mercury Target
Author(s) -
C. D. West
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/763224
Subject(s) - cavitation , spallation , mercury (programming language) , bubble , nucleation , spallation neutron source , neutron source , neutron , mechanics , nuclear physics , physics , nuclear engineering , materials science , thermodynamics , computer science , engineering , programming language
Recent theoretical work on the formation of bubble nucleation centers by energetic particles leads to some reasonably credible calculations of the maximum negative pressure that might be sustained without bubble formation in the mercury target of the Spallation Neutron Source
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