Cavitation Characteristics of Ultrapure Water. Behavior of Cavitation Nuclei in Vibratory Erosion Tests.

Reflections on cavitation nuclei in water

Scaling of Cavitation Erosion Progression with Cavitation Intensity and Cavitation Source

A simple mathematical expression is presented to describe cavitation mean depth of erosion versus time for cavitating jets and ultrasonic cavitation. Following normalization with a characteristic time, t*, which occurs at 75% of the time of maximum rate of erosion, and a corresponding material characteristic mean erosion depth, h*, the normalized erosion depth is related to the normalized time ...

Towards numerical prediction of cavitation erosion.

This paper is intended to provide a potential basis for a numerical prediction of cavitation erosion damage. The proposed method can be divided into two steps. The first step consists in determining the loading conditions due to cavitation bubble collapses. It is shown that individual pits observed on highly polished metallic samples exposed to cavitation for a relatively small time can be cons...

Observations of cavitation erosion pit formation.

Previous investigations showed that a single cavitation bubble collapse can cause more than one erosion pit (Philipp & Lauterborn [1]). But our preliminary study showed just the opposite - that in some cases a single cavitation pit can result from more than one cavitation event. The present study shows deeper investigation of this phenomenon. An investigation of the erosion effects of ultrasoni...

Cavitation inception from bubble nuclei.

The tensile strength of ordinary water such as tap water or seawater is typically well below 1 bar. It is governed by cavitation nuclei in the water, not by the tensile strength of the water itself, which is extremely high. Different models of the nuclei have been suggested over the years, and experimental investigations of bubbles and cavitation inception have been presented. These results sug...