Moin Moin! I'm just glad (and a bit surprised, actually) to see Taleyarkhan's work being examined at all. I read very vague references to his work when I first started researching cavitation in 1993, and that was in the form of some BBS messages or something. It wasn't even on the internet. In some references, he was referred to as being a professor, in others not. There was no mention of his country of origin, and by his name, I figured that he was Russian.
He was using cavitation to clean large aquarium tanks in the far East - Singapore, I believe, in the mid 70's. Beyond that, there was never any mention of him, and I was digging for info on him for years. His work just wasn't very widely published back then. As I recall, he had only published two papers in some very obscure journals, and I never could find any copies of those. Of course, you are right that a large number of people have contributed to the science since Lord Reyleigh first proposed the cavitation bubble collapse hypothosis in the late 1800's, and Jed is also right about the black and white nature of the announcement of the BBC experiment, but that is purely showbizness. The fact remains though, that Taleyarkhan was doing useful work with cavitation twenty years before the likes of me, Tessien, or Putterman got into the act, and I am glad to see that he is still around. By his foto, he doesn't look to be all that old, either. It would be interesting to learn more about his career. Knuke > Even so, it was a big mistake, and typical mainstream > arrogance, that in all the publicity that Taleyarkhan > recieved (riding on the ORNL coat-tails) that he did not > credit nor even mention the extraordinary contributions to > the field of sonfusion from former vortex contributor Ross > Tessien, founder of Impulse Devices, and Dr. Gaitan the > chief scientist (nor did he mention Knuke either, but should > have !). Caveat: this criticism relates to the first ORNL > announcement and they may have issued an addenda, but if so, > it didn't make the news. > > Here is some new and surprising info from them (Tessien's > Co); > http://tinyurl.com/6f5me
