Blowing bubbles may be fun for kids, but for engineers,
bubbles can disrupt fluid flow and damage metal.
Researchers from the Fuels, Engines and Emissions Research
Center at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and
collaborators from ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor – a DOE Office of Science
User Facility – are using neutrons to study the formation of these
damage-causing bubbles in fuel injectors.