Viscous effects on the position of cavitation separation from smooth bodies
- Creators
- Arakeri, Vijay H.
Abstract
Flow visualization by the schlieren technique in the neighbourhood of a fully developed cavity on two axisymmetric headforms has shown the existence of laminar boundary-layer separation upstream of cavitation separation, and the distance between the two separations to be strongly dependent on Reynolds number. Based on present results, a semi-empirical method is developed to predict the position of cavitation separation on a smooth body. The method applies only in the Reynolds-number range when the cavitating body possesses laminar boundary-layer separation under non-cavitating conditions. Calculated positions of cavitation separation on a sphere by the method show good agreement with experimentally observed positions
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© 1975 Cambridge University Press. Received 9 April1973 and in revised form 31 May 1974. I should like to express my sincere appreciation to Dr A. J. Acosta, under whose supervision this work was carried out, and formed part of a D.Phil. thesis at the California Institute of Technology. This research was partly carried out under the Naval Ship Systems Command General Hydromechanics Research Program Subproject SR 0230101, administered by the Naval Ship Research and Development Centre, under Office of Naval Research contract N00014-67-A-0094-0023. A generous grant from the Sloan Foundation is also greatly appreciated. The author wishes to thank the CIT Hydro Aeronautics Laboratory staff for their assistance in the experimental work, and Dr C. Brennen for helpful discussions on the subject. The author also wishes to thank the referee for his helpful comments and criticism on the original manuscript.Attached Files
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- SR 0230101
- Naval Ship Research and Development Centre
- N00014-67-A-0094-0023
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- Sloan Foundation
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