About this blog

Nowadays, cavitation phenomenon is increasingly employed in a diverse range of applications, particularly in biomedical and chemical engineering. For therapeutics, cavitation induced by ultrasound irradiations is an important mechanism for many biomedical treatments, e.g. lithotripsy, tissue ablation and transdermal drug transportations. For chemical engineering, a new discipline termed “sonochemistry”, which mainly studies the effects induced by cavitation activities (e.g. nucleation, growth and collapse of bubbles under sonic waves) for facilitating chemical reaction speed, is being intensively investigated by researchers. 

The purpose of this blog is to introduce both the physical principles and the emerging technologies involving with cavitation to the public. On this blog, I will not only forward the latest information and technologies of the cavitation research to the readers in an accessible style but also provide many useful resources and links for those professional researchers. Owing to interdisciplinary natures of many cavitation-induced effects, I hope that new connections and collaborations with other researchers can also be established through this blog. 

I got to know the term "cavitation" when I was a final-year undergraduate of Tsinghua University (China). Later, as a first-year master student of Tsinghua University, I fortunately participated a joint project between Tsinghua University and Warwick University (UK) to investigate the mechanism of a newly identified cavitation phenomenon in Francis turbines of Three Gorges hydropower station, which is the largest one across the world (Total Capacity: 18,200,000 KW, figure from the website of China Three Gorges Cooperation). In 2008, I  became a Ph.D. student of Cavitation Research Group in Warwick University with a three-year Ph.D. studentship under the support of EPSRC WIMRC project “Non-Surgical Cavitation-Effect Destruction of Kidney Stones” to develop a new technology for kidney stone crushing based on cavitation-induced effects. In a word, nearly all my researches during the past several years are related with cavitation, covering both hydrodynamic and acoustic cavitation. Through those activities, I am totally absorbed in cavitation phenomenon, which is the central topic of this blog. 

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