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Advanced Experimental and Numerical Techniques for Cavitation Erosion Prediction

  • Comprehensive treatment of both fluid and material aspects of cavitation erosion
  • Includes the most relevant experimental methods and computational approaches to study cavitation erosion
  • Includes a didactic and instructive presentation that can be used as a textbook for graduate students
  • Presents state-of-the-art research useful for engineers and researchers in the field
  • Provides predictive techniques of cavitation damage in hydraulic machineries such as propellers and pumps
  • Describes cavitation damage in terms of microscopic and macroscopic phenomena in solid state plasticity
  • Offers experimental and numerical inverse method tools to estimate impulsive pressures from materials damage
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications (FMIA, volume 106)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Cavitation and Cavitation Erosion: Computational and Experimental Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Cavitation and Cavitation Erosion

      • Georges L. Chahine, Jean-Pierre Franc, Ayat Karimi
      Pages 3-20
    3. Laboratory Testing Methods of Cavitation Erosion

      • Georges L. Chahine, Jean-Pierre Franc, Ayat Karimi
      Pages 21-35
    4. Pitting and Incubation Period

      • Jean-Pierre Franc, Georges L. Chahine, Ayat Karimi
      Pages 37-69
    5. Cavitation Impulsive Pressures

      • Georges L. Chahine, Jean-Pierre Franc, Ayat Karimi
      Pages 71-95
    6. Mass Loss and Advanced Periods of Erosion

      • Georges L. Chahine, Jean-Pierre Franc, Ayat Karimi
      Pages 97-121
    7. Modeling of Material Response

      • Ayat Karimi, Jean-Pierre Franc
      Pages 163-181
  3. Selected Papers from the International Workshop on Advanced Experimental and Numerical Techniques for Cavitation Erosion Prediction (Grenoble, March 1–2, 2011)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
    2. Hydrodynamic Processes Controlling Cavitation Erosion

      • Göran Bark, Rickard E. Bensow
      Pages 185-220
    3. On the Kinematics of Sheet and Cloud Cavitation and Related Erosion

      • Peter F. Pelz, Thomas Keil, Gerhard Ludwig
      Pages 221-237
    4. Assessment of Erosion Sensitive Areas via Compressible Simulation of Unsteady Cavitating Flows

      • Steffen J. Schmidt, Michael S. Mihatsch, Matthias Thalhamer, Nikolaus A. Adams
      Pages 329-344
    5. Scaling of Cavitation Bubble Cloud Dynamics on Propellers

      • Georges L. Chahine, Chao-Tsung Hsiao, Reni Raju
      Pages 345-372
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 397-399

About this book

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the cavitation erosion phenomenon and state-of-the-art research in the field. It is divided into two parts. Part 1 consists of seven chapters, offering a wide range of computational and experimental approaches to cavitation erosion. It includes a general introduction to cavitation and cavitation erosion a detailed description of facilities and measurement techniques commonly used in cavitation erosion studies, an extensive presentation of various stages of cavitation damage (including incubation and mass loss) and insights into the contribution of computational methods to the analysis of both fluid and material behavior. The proposed approach is based on a detailed description of impact loads generated by collapsing cavitation bubbles and a physical analysis of the material response to these loads. Part 2 is devoted to a selection of nine papers presented at the International Workshop on Advanced Experimental and Numerical Techniques for Cavitation Erosion Prediction (Grenoble, France, 1-2 March 2011) representing the forefront of research on cavitation erosion. Innovative numerical and experimental investigations illustrate the most advanced breakthroughs in cavitation erosion research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Office of Naval Research, Arlington, USA

    Ki-Han Kim

  • DYNAFLOW, Inc., Jessup, USA

    Georges Chahine

  • Laboratoire des Ecoulements Géophysiques et Industriels (LEGI), Grenoble, France

    Jean-Pierre Franc

  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Ayat Karimi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advanced Experimental and Numerical Techniques for Cavitation Erosion Prediction

  • Editors: Ki-Han Kim, Georges Chahine, Jean-Pierre Franc, Ayat Karimi

  • Series Title: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8539-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8538-9Published: 12 March 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0581-1Published: 03 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8539-6Published: 08 July 2014

  • Series ISSN: 0926-5112

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0056

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 399

  • Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 220 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings

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eBook USD 84.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
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