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Youngkuk Yoon and Seung Jin Song
Cavitation instabilities can induce axial and circumferential vibrations, as well as noise in turbopump inducers. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to investigate the mechanism of cavitation instability. The flow field near the two-bladed in...
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Min Son, Michael Börner, Wolfgang Armbruster and Justin S. Hardi
To investigate a hypothesis of the orifice flow-induced instability in rocket engine thrust chambers, a single liquid oxygen (LOX) injector with an optically accessible orifice module was used for experiments, with water as a simulant for LOX. The unstea...
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Jan Geese, Julian Kimmerl, Marc Nadler and Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud
The investigation of cavitating trailing vortices emerging from marine propellers is of great interest in the industry. With the help of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), studying the cavitating trailing vortices may be facilitated. However, limitation...
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Hao Wang, Jian Feng, Keyang Liu, Xi Shen, Bin Xu, Desheng Zhang and Weibin Zhang
To study instability in the unsteady cavitating flow in a liquid rocket engine inducer, visualization experiments of non-cavitating and cavitating flows inside a model inducer were carried out at different flow conditions. Visual experiments were carried...
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Yunkai Zhou, Giorgio Pavesi, Jianping Yuan and Yanxia Fu
A pump-jet, which is generally and widely adopted on underwater vehicles for applications from deep sea exploration to mine clearing, consists of a rotor, stator, and duct, with the properties of high critical speed, high propulsion efficiency, great ant...
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Florent Ravelet, Amélie Danlos, Farid Bakir, Kilian Croci, Sofiane Khelladi and Christophe Sarraf
The present study focuses on the inception, the growth, and the potential unsteady dynamics of attached vapor cavities into laminar separation bubbles. A viscous silicon oil has been used in a Venturi geometry to explore the flow for Reynolds numbers ran...
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Ville M. Viitanen, Tuomas Sipilä, Antonio Sánchez-Caja and Timo Siikonen
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 mo...
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Dario Valentini, Giovanni Pace, Angelo Pasini, Ruzbeh Hadavandi and Luca D?Agostino
The paper presents an experimental campaign aimed at the characterization of the relationship between cavitation-induced instabilities and forces acting on the shaft, relevant to space application turbopumps. The experiments have been carried out on a si...
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