The Asymmetric Collapse of Bubbles in Compressible Liquid

The analytical solution of a bubble collapse close to a solid boundary in a compressible water is investigated by means of a perturbation method to first order in the bubble wall Mach number. It is shown, in this paper, that it is the Rayleigh–Plesset equation for incompressible liquid to zero order solution or similar to the Gilmore equation for compressible water to first order solution when the effect of solid boundary is negligibly small enough, i.e., sufficiently far away from the bubble center.