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The Evolution of Cavitation Events with Speed and Scale of the Flow

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Title The Evolution of Cavitation Events with Speed and Scale of the Flow
 
Creator Waniewski, Tricia A.
Brennen, Christopher E.
 
Subject Caltech Library Services
 
Description This paper focuses on the different forms that individual cavitating events may take when the cavitation number is below the inception value (but not so low as to produce only attached cavities) and individual nuclei trigger individual cavitation events. It is a sequel to those of Kuhn de Chizelle et al. (1992a, 1992b, 1995) which described a set of cavitation scaling observations on simple Schiebe headforms conducted in the US Navy Large Cavitation Channel (LCC). The most common events observed in those experiments were traveling, hemi-spherical shaped bubbles which grew and collapsed as they were convected through the low pressure region on the headform. Several interesting variations were also observed, including the development of bubble tails and the triggering of patches, or local regions of attached cavitation. In the present paper, the frequency of occurrence of the various types of events is analyzed as well as how those probabilities changed with cavitation number, velocity and headform size. In general, the probabilities of tails and patches increased with decreasing cavitation number, but they also increased with increasing headform size and increasing velocity. A specific parametric dependence on these variables is suggested.
 
Date 1999-07
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://authors.library.caltech.edu/162/1/WAN193.pdf
Waniewski, Tricia A. and Brennen, Christopher E. (1999) The Evolution of Cavitation Events with Speed and Scale of the Flow. In: 3rd ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, 18-23 July 1999, San Francisco, CA, USA. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:WANfedsm99 <http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:WANfedsm99>
 
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