Characterization of cavitation instabilities in axial inducers by means of high-speed movies

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE 42nd Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 9, Issue , 2006, Pages 7177-7187

  Cervone, Angelo ^a,c   Torre, Lucio ^a,c   Fotino, Domenico ^a,d   D'Agostino, Luca ^a,c,d   Bramanti, Cristina ^b,c,e  

^a ALTA SpA   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e ESA Advanced Concepts Team ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITATING PUMP ROTORDYNAMIC TEST FACILITY (CPRTF); CAVITATION INSTABILITIES; CAVITATION RECOGNITION; HIGH SPEED MOVIES;

ALGORITHMS; BINARY CODES; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; MOTION PICTURES; THRESHOLD LOGIC;

CAVITATION;

EID: 34249290734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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