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Fluid Dynamics of Cavitation and Cavitating Turbopumps

The book focuses on the fluid dynamics of cavitation with special reference to high power density turbopumps, where it represents the major source of performance and life degradation and often generates the conditions for the onset of dangerous fluid dynamic instabilities. To this purpose the first...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: d'Agostino, Luca. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Salvetti, Maria Vittoria. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Series:CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures,
Subjects:
Mechanical engineering.
Automotive engineering.
Mechanics.
Mechanics, Applied.
Mechanical Engineering.
Automotive Engineering.
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-76669-9
Table of Contents:
  • The Rayleigh-Plesset equation: a simple and powerful tool to understand various aspects of cavitation
  • Hydrodynamics and Cavitation of Pumps
  • Cavitation Instabilities in Turbopump Inducers
  • Stability Analysis of Cavitating Flows Through Inducers
  • Suppression of Cavitation Instabilities
  • Tip Leakage and Backflow Vortex Cavitation
  • The Different Role of Cavitation on Rotordynamic Whirl Forces in Axial Inducers and Centrifugal Impellers
  • A hyperbolic non equilibrium model for cavitating flows
  • Towards the simulation of cavitating flows in inducers through a homogeneous barotropic flow model.

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