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Rayleigh collapse of a spherical cavity
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Spherically symmetric incompressible radial flow
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A
vacuum
cavity of
radius
a
(
t
)
in an infinite inviscid incompressible fluid of
density
ρ
and far-
field
pressure
p
0
obeys
a
a
¨
+
2
3
a
˙
2
=
−
ρ
p
0
.
(1)
If
a
(
0
)
=
a
0
and
a
˙
(
0
)
=
0
, its collapsing branch satisfies
a
˙
=
−
3
ρ
2
p
0
(
a
3
a
0
3
−
1
)
.
(2)
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Spherically symmetric incompressible radial flow
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge
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2021
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ib
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Paper 4
/
16A
/
c
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