Pressure field of a pulsating sphere

ID: pressure-field-of-a-pulsating-sphere

In an unbounded incompressible flow with spherical symmetry, the kinematic boundary condition on a sphere of radius gives and velocity potential . The Unsteady Bernoulli equation at infinity has . Subtracting it from the finite-radius equation gives the displayed pressure, independently of . Time differentiation is at fixed . Evaluating at yields the Rayleigh equation for an inviscid spherical bubble when the boundary pressure is prescribed.

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