Standing waves and jets on a sessile, incompressible bubble

Abstract: We show numerically that large amplitude, \textit{shape deformations}, imposed on a spherical-cap, incompressible, sessile gas bubble pinned on a rigid wall can produce a sharp, wall-directed jet. For such a bubble filled with a permanent gas, the temporal spectrum for surface-tension driven, linearised perturbations has been studied recently in \citet{ding2022oscillations} in the potential flow limit. We reformulate this as an initial-value problem. Linear theory is validated by distorting the shape of the pinned, spherical cap employing eigenmodes obtained theoretically, as the initial perturbation for our numerical simulations. It is seen that linearised predictions show good agreement with nonlinear simulations at small distortion amplitude producing standing waves. Beyond the linear regime, we observe the formation of a dimple followed by a slender, wall-directed jet analogous to similar jets observed in other geometries from collapsing wave troughs\cite{farsoiya2017axisymmetric,kayal2022dimples}. This jet can eject with an instantaneous velocity exceeding nearly twenty times that predicted by linear theory. By projecting the shape of the bubble surface around the time instant of jet ejection, into the linearised eigenspectrum we show that the jet ejection coincides with the nonlinear spreading of energy into a large number of eigenmodes. We demonstrate that the velocity-field associated with the dimple plays a crucial role in evolving it into a jet and without which, the jet does not form. Our inferences also complement well-known results of \citet{naude1961mechanism} and \citet{plesset1971collapse} demonstrating that wall-directed jets can be generated from \textit{volume preserving}, shape deformation of a pinned bubble.