Cavitation Inception in Turbulent Flows Around a Hydrofoil

For most engineering purposes cavitation de-grades performance.Engineering designs are ai med atproducing geometries and operating conditions thatresist cavitation.It is desirable to identify,under-stand,predict,and control the physical mechanismsleading to cavitation inception.One of the centralproblems in cavitation research has been the predic-tion of the onset or inception of cavitation.The cavi-tation occurring in a flow system is related to thepressure field and viscous flowpatterns[1].…