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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: d'Agostino, Luca (Editor), Salvetti, Maria Vittoria (Editor)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2017.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures, 575
Subjects:
Aerospace engineering.
Astronautics.
Fluid mechanics.
Continuum mechanics.
Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
Engineering Fluid Dynamics.
Continuum Mechanics.
Online Access:Full-text access
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.

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