Damage Due to Spot Cavitation on Hemisperical Cylindrical Body (Comparison Between Isolated Cavity and Parallel Cavities)

Shimizu, Seiji and Ihara, Akio and Okada, Motoo and Sakurai, Motoyasu (2001) Damage Due to Spot Cavitation on Hemisperical Cylindrical Body (Comparison Between Isolated Cavity and Parallel Cavities). In: CAV 2001: Fourth International Symposium on Cavitation, June 20-23, 2001, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA USA.

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Abstract

When the Reynolds number is larger than the critical value or laminar separation is eliminated by a trip installed on a hemispherical cylindrical body, attached spot cavitation is observed occasionally. It occurs at fixed place in the vicinity of the minimum mean pressure and grows into a triangular wedge. In the present investigation, isolated and parallel spot cavitation is artificially generated on the hemispherical body adn the behavior of the cavitation is observed by instantaneous photographs. The frequency of damaging blows in the range of the flow speed of 25 to 50 m/s is obtained by counting the number of damaged pits on an aluminum specimen. When spot cavitation occurs adjacently, the cavity become rather stable. The pitting rate at the maximum damage zone by the parallel spot cavitation is much smaller than that by the isolated spot cavitation. The total pitting rates at the maximum damage zone by the isolated and parallel spot cavitation vary roughly 5th power of the flow speed for the both cases.

EPrint Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	erosion, spot cavitation, pit
Subjects:	All Records Session B4 Cavitation Erosion 1
ID Code:	345
Deposited By:	Seiji Shimizu
Deposited On:	29 May 2001
Record Number:	CAV2001:sessionA3.004
Official Persistent URL:	http://resolver.caltech.edu/CAV2001:sessionA3.004
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