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About this book
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 part of the book covers the more fundamental aspects of cavitation (nucleation, bubble dynamics, thermodynamic effects, cavitation erosion, stability of parallel bubbly flows) and the main kinds of cavitating flows (attached cavitation, cloud cavitation, supercavitation, ventilated supercavities, vortex cavitation, shear cavitation). The second part focuses on the hydrodynamics and instabilities of cavitating turbopumps (cavitation surge, rotating cavitation, higher order cavitation surge, rotordynamic whirl forces). Finally, the third part illustrates the alternative approaches for modeling and engineering simulation of cavitating flows.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fluid Dynamics of Cavitation and Cavitating Turbopumps
Editors: Luca d’Agostino, Maria Vittoria Salvetti
Series Title: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-76669-9
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: CISM Udine 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-211-76668-2Published: 28 January 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-211-99920-2Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-211-76669-9Published: 20 April 2008
Series ISSN: 0254-1971
Series E-ISSN: 2309-3706
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 351
Number of Illustrations: 256 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics