ADVANCES IN HEAT TRANSFER Volume 39 i ii Advances in HEAT TRANSFER Coordinating Technical Editor George A. Greene Energy Sciences and Technology Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, New York Serial Editors James P. Hartnetty Young I. Cho Energy Resources Center University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois Department of Mechanical Engineering Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Avram Bar-Cohen Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Maryland College Park, Maryland Volume 39 Founding Editors Thomas F. Irvine, Jr. y James P. Hartnett y State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Amsterdam Boston London New York Oxford Paris San Diego San Francisco Singapore Sydney Tokyo Academic Press is an Imprint of Elsevier iii ACADEMIC PRESS Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier 84 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8RR, UK Radarweg 29, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495, USA First edition 2006 Copyright r 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone (+44) (0) 1865 843830; fax (+44) (0) 1865 853333; email: [email protected] Alternatively you can submit your request online by visiting the Elsevier web site at http://elsevier.com/locate/permissions, and selecting Obtaining permission to use Elsevier material Notice No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, in particular, independent verification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be made ISBN-13: 978-0-12-020039-9 ISBN-10: 0-12-020039-2 ISSN: 0065-2717 For information on all Academic Press publications visit our website at books.elsevier.com Printed and bound in Great Britain 06 07 08 09 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 iv CONTENTS Contributors . ...................................... xi Preface . .......................................... xiii Sonoluminescence and the Search for Sonofusion R.T. LAHEY, Jr., R.P. TALEYARKHAN, R.I. NIGMATULIN, I.S. AKHATOV I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II