Frequency in Shedding/Discharging Cavitation Clouds Determined by Visualization of a Submerged Cavitating Jet

Abstract

Visualization of a highly submerged cavitating water jet was done by high-speed camera photography in order to study and understand the jet structure and the behavior of cloud cavitation within time and space. The influencing parameters, such as injection pressure, nozzle diameter and geometry, and nozzle direction (convergent and divergent), were experimentally proven to be very significant. Periodical shedding and discharging of cavitation clouds have been also analyzed and the corresponding frequency was determined by cloud shape analysis. Additionally, the dependence of this frequency on injection pressure and nozzle geometry has been analyzed and a simple formula of correspondence has been proposed. The formula has been tested on self-measured and literature data. The recordings of sonoluminescence phenomenon proved the bubble collapse everywhere along the jet.