Abstract: Many recent experiments have shown the significance of cavitation nuclei, i.e., gas bubbles and/or particulate; however, progress in making quantitative predictions of cavitation depends upon some ...

Abstract: Cavitation inception of a vortex is difficult to predict. This is due in a large part to a confusion in the type of cavitation occurring, i.e., vaporous versus nonvaporous cavitation. In ...

Abstract: As part of a study on the structure of a trailing vortex, laser doppler anemometer (LDA) measurements were made of the flow field near an open rotor having an inlet velocity gradient. The ...

Abstract: In order to relate nuclei size distributions with inception cavitation in cavitation facilities, a test program was conducted at the Grand Tunnel Hydrodynamique (GTH) of the Bassin d’Essais des ...

Abstract: The results of an experimental investigation into the effect of gas diffusion on the volume flow-rate of gas needed to sustain a ventilated cavity are presented. Gas diffusion was found to ...

Abstract: Tip clearance flow in turbomachinery can lead to losses in efficiency and stall margin. In liquid handling turbomachinery, the vortical flow field, formed from the interaction of the leakage ...

Abstract: Scale effects on limited cavitation discussed in this paper are those departures from the classical similarity relations due to variations in size and velocity. These scale effects are an ...

Abstract: Several devices have been developed or adapted to the use of measuring “nucleating sources” in a liquid including acoustic methods, direct observation (e.g. microscopy and holography), single ...

Abstract: The results of an investigation of thermodynamic effects are presented. Distributions of temperature and pressure in a developed cavity were measured for zero- and quarter-caliber ogives. A ...