Standing waves play a significant role in the appearance of cavitation phenomena. The goal of this study was to investigate the effect that the relation between standing and propagating waves in a focused field has on acoustic bubble cloud formation. Measurements of the cavitation signals were performed on five different configurations of a hemispheric phased array transducer (230 kHz) representing a wide range of relations between propagating and standing waves. The results show that configurations with a larger propagating component induce bubble clouds at lower pressures than configurations with a larger standing component.

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