Effect of gap size on tip leakage cavitation inception, associated noise and flow structure

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 994-1004

  Gopalan, Shridhar ^a   Katz, Joseph ^a   Liu, Han L ^a,b  

^a Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

^b NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBBBLE DYNAMICS; CAVITATION NOISE; FLOW STRUCTURE; TIP LEAKAGE CAVITATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CAMERAS; ELECTROLYSIS; FLOW PATTERNS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; VAPOR PRESSURE; VORTEX FLOW;

CAVITATION;

EID: 10844225287     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1514496     Document Type: Article

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