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The Rise of Life on Earth: Cavitation in Nature

Dr. Oleg V. Kozyuk

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Abstract

The phenomenon of cavitation has been known in science and technology for more than a hundred years. It was first recognized as an important hydrodynamic phenomenon in connection with high speed marine propulsion, including early observations associated with British destroyers in the late nineteenth century. Osborne Reynolds and later researchers helped establish cavitation as a serious problem in ship propellers, pumps, and turbines [1,2].

References

  1. Brennen, C. E. (1995). Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics. Oxford University Press.

  2. Breslin, J. P., & Andersen, P. (1993). “Cavitation.” In Hydrodynamics of Ship Propellers. Cambridge University Press, pp. 128–161

  3. Miller, S. L. (1953). “A Production of Amino Acids under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions.” Science, 117(3046), 528–529.

  4. Didenko, Y. T., McNamara III, W. B., & Suslick, K. S. (1999). “Hot Spot Conditions during Cavitation in Water.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 121(24), 5817–5818.

  5. McNamara III, W. B., Didenko, Y. T., & Suslick, K. S. (1999). “Sonoluminescence Temperatures during Multi-Bubble Cavitation.” Nature, 401(6755), 772–775

  6. Suslick, K. S., & Flannigan, D. J. (2008). “Inside a Collapsing Bubble: Sonoluminescence and the Conditions during Cavitation.” Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 59, 659–683.

  7. Ben Amots, N., & Anbar, M. (2007). “Sonochemistry on Primordial Earth: Its Potential Role in Prebiotic Molecular Evolution.” Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 14(5), 672–675.

  8. Kalson, N. H., Furman, D., & Zeiri, Y. (2017). “Cavitation Induced Synthesis of Biogenic Molecules on Primordial Earth.” ACS Central Science, 3(9), 1041–1049.

  9. Patehebieke, Y., Zhao, Z. R., Wang, S., Xu, H. X., Chen, Q.Q., & Wang, X. (2021). “Cavitation as a Plausible Driving Force for the Prebiotic Formation of N9 Purine Nucleosides.” Cell Reports Physical Science, 2(3), Article 100375.

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