Our new paper is accepted by Soft Matter: “Modeling high strain-rate microcavitation in soft materials: The role of material behavior in bubble dynamics”. In this paper, we developed a novel finite element (FE) framework to simulate large-finite-deformation, high-rate inertial cavitation phenomena in soft materials, which can be further utilized to understand and guide lots of relevant high-rate engineering and biomedical applications, i.e., laser and ultrasound-related medical surgery. A preprint link is available here and here (ResearchGate link). An open-source FE code is available on GitHub (see here). Congratulations to all the collaborators!
Yang Research Group
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin
