Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780128233887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 354 str.

Foivos Koukouvinis; Manolos Gavaises

Spis treści

1. Review of Numerical Methodologies of Cavitation 2. The Non-Spherical Collapse of Single Bubbles Near Boundaries and in Confined Spaces 3. Cavitation Nuisance in Ship Propulsion: A Review of Developments 4. The Numerical Prediction of Cavitation and Related Nuisance in Marine Propulsion Systems 5. The Study and Detection of Cavitation in Centrifugal Pumps 6. Cavitation in Hydraulic Turbines 7. X-Ray Measurement Techniques used for Wall-Bounded Cavitating Flows 8. The Interaction of Cavitation with Sprays in High-Pressure Diesel Injection Systems 9. Experimental Diagnostics and Investigations on Cavitation in Engine Injector Nozzles 10. Cavitation in Positive Displacement Pumps and Fuel Systems

O autorze

Phoevos Koukouvinis is a Research Fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics of City University of London, UK and a Research fellow at Sandia National Laboratories, USA. His research focuses on numerical methods in compressible and multiphase flows. Manolis Gavaises is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics of City University of London, UK. He is the Co-founder and Director of the International Institute of Cavitation Research and also Director of the Thermo-Fluids Research Centre.