Identification of Cavitation by Noise

Recent Observations on Cavitation and Cavitation Noise

This paper is primarily concerned with the acoustics of traveling bubble cavitation around foils or headforms. We begin with observations of individual bubbles and the acoustic signals they emit, our purpose being to identify areas of research which would enhance our tlriderstaridirig of the history of individual bubbles. Then we present some riumerical integrations of the Rayleigh/Plesset equa...

Noise Reduction in Butterfly Valve Cavitation by Semicircular Fins and Visualization of Cavitation Flow

Cavitation Bubble Dynamics and Noise Production

This paper presents a summary of some recent observations of the interaction between individual traveling cavitation bubbles and the nearly solid surface. These reveal a complex micro-fluid-mechanics associated withThe interaction of the bubble with the boundary layer, the surface and the large pressure gradients exterior to the boundary layer which normally occur in the vicinity of a minimum p...

Identification of static distortion by noise measurement

ELECT Many active devices exhibit gross nonlinearity, which is traditionally mitigated using negative feedback. In those cases where negative feedback is not desired, compensation for the distortion can be carried out at the postprocessing stage by inverting the transfer function of the device. A new technique is demonstrated where the inherent noise in the system is exploited to estimate the r...

The Effect of Water Quality Characteristics on Cavitation Noise

This study investigated the effects of seawater on cavitation noise using a water jet test, a two-dimensional wing test, and a three-dimensional wing test. A model propeller cavitation test was conducted in a cavitation tunnel using seawater, in order to determine the effects of propeller cavitation more precisely. In the cavitation tests, measured propeller performance for both cavitation nois...