Resumen
The present method can be applied to study characteristics of hydrodynamic cavitation and its consequences, such as performance variations and noise, in propellers and rotating turbomachinery. Compressible formulation of the numerical method ensures a more precise treatment of the multiphase flow dynamics, and can reveal some interesting physical phenomena due to the cavitation. Accurate prediction of the multiphase flow is a requisite for optimal, efficient and environmentally friendly design and operation of such devices.