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A review of studies of mechanism and prediction of tip vortex cavitation inception

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The inception of the tip vortex cavitation (TVC) is a very important problem in cavitation researches. The study of the mechanism of the TVC inception is not only conducive to its prediction, but also helps to suppress or suspend the occurrence of cavitation. In this paper, the research progresses on the TVC inception including theoretical, experimental and numerical studies mainly in the last two decades are reviewed. It is shown that the TVC inception is affected by complicated factors, such as the water quality, the average pressure and the fluctuating pressure. In the scaling law for the determination of the TVC inception, all these factors are considered. To precisely describe the scaling law, more investigations are needed to understand the effects of the water quality and the fluctuating pressure.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power Transmission and Control, Department of Mechanics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Ling-xin Zhang  (张凌新), Na Zhang  (张娜) & Xue-ming Shao  (邵雪明)

  2. China Ship Scientific Research Center, Wuxi, 214082, China

    Xiao-xing Peng  (彭晓星)

  3. School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Ben-long Wang  (王本龙)

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Project supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Science of China (Grant No. 11332009), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11272284).

Biography: ZHANG Ling-xin (1978-), Male, Ph. D., Associate Professor

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Zhang, Lx., Zhang, N., Peng, Xx. et al. A review of studies of mechanism and prediction of tip vortex cavitation inception. J Hydrodyn 27, 488–495 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1001-6058(15)60508-X

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