Acoustically enhanced bubble growth at low frequencies and its implications for human diver and marine mammal safety

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2898-2907

  Crum, Lawrence A ^a   Mao, Yi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AIR; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DIVER; GAS; LIQUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND PRESSURE;

ACOUSTICS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SAFETY;

EID: 0029919121     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.414859     Document Type: Article

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