Hydrodynamic mechanisms controlling cavitation erosion

Issue title: Papers from the 29th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, 26–31 August 2012, Gothenburg, Sweden

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bark, Göran^; | Bensow, Rickard E.

Affiliations: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: bark@chalmers.se

Abstract: In this paper we consider development of cavitation erosion having its origin in sheet cavitation. The discussion includes generation of cloud cavitation from sheet cavitation and how a cloud collapse can be enhanced by energy cascading from the collapse of a glassy sheet cavity into the collapse of a cloud. A decomposition of the cavitation process into crucial parts results in formulation of a conceptual model for description and analysis of the generation of erosion by mixed glassy and cloud cavitation.

Keywords: Sheet and cloud cavitation, cavitation erosion

DOI: 10.3233/ISP-130097

Journal: International Shipbuilding Progress, vol. 60, no. 1-4, pp. 345-374, 2013