Cavitation Instabilities and Rotordynamic Effects in Turbopumps and Hydroturbines Turbopump and Inducer Cavitation, Experiments and Design /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: d'Agostino, Luca (Editor), Salvetti, Maria Vittoria (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures, 575
• Subjects: Engineering.; Fluids.; Fluid mechanics.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.

The book provides a detailed approach to the physics, fluid dynamics, modeling, experimentation and numerical simulation of cavitation phenomena, with special emphasis on cavitation-induced instabilities and their implications on the design and operation of high performance turbopumps and hydraulic...

Table of Contents:

• An introduction to cavitation in inducers and turbopumps
• Experimental methods for the study of hydrodynamic cavitation
• An introduction to flow-induced instabilities in rocket engine inducers and turbopumps
• 3-D simulation of cavitation instabilities
• Rotordynamics of turbopumps and hydroturbines
• On the preliminary design and performance prediction of centrifugal turbopumps
• Numerical simulation of cavitating flows with different cavitation and turbulence models
• Numerical simulation of cavitating flows in complex geometries
• From cavitating to boiling flows.