Minnaert resonance

The Minnaert resonance[1][2][3] is a phenomenon associated with a gas bubble pulsating at its natural frequency in a liquid, neglecting the effects of surface tension and viscous attenuation.

It is the frequency of the sound made by a drop of water from a tap falling in water underneath, trapping a bubble of air as it falls.

The natural frequency of the entrapped air bubble in the water is given by where

is the radius of the bubble,

is the polytropic coefficient,

This formula can also be used to find the natural frequency of a bubble cloud with

the difference between the density of water and the bulk density of the cloud.

For a single bubble in water at standard pressure

is the natural frequency of the bubble.

The Minnaert formula assumes an ideal gas.

However, it can be modified to account for deviations from real gas behavior by accounting for the gas compressibility factor,[4] or the gas bulk modulus

being respectively the density and the speed of sound in the bubble.