Nahon, Jeremy;
Zangeneh, Mehrdad;
Tsuneda, Tomoki;
Nohmi, Motohiko;
Watanabe, Hiroyoshi;
Goto, Akira;
(2023)
Experimental analysis of shock smoothing design strategy for reducing cavitation erosion aggressiveness.
Physics of Fluids
, 35
(1)
, Article 013331. 10.1063/5.0131967.
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Abstract
This article presents the experimental analysis of cavitation erosion for two cascade hydrofoil profiles. The aim is to evaluate the change in erosive intensity between a conventional smooth blade surface and one generated by the means of inverse design specifically to reduce cavitation aggressiveness. The applied design strategy consists in imposing a reduced amplitude and gradient at the cavity closure pressure jump in order to bring down the potential energy contained in the vapor sheet. The result is a unique geometry that presents a surface kink located at cavity closure, which successfully smoothes the pressure jump according to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) verification analysis. Here, an experimental rig is constructed and equipped with a pressure sensing system and high-speed imaging to capture the flow field. The measurements for both geometries are first compared against a set of steady-state CFD solutions, which demonstrate the reliability of the inverse design solver for generating targeted flow characteristics in non-cavitating and cavitating conditions. Visual recordings also reveal significant changes in the aspect of the vapor sheet between the two blades indicating a shift in its dynamic behavior. Erosion intensity levels are then measured by paint method at identical conditions. The outcome of the experiment is highly conclusive as a marked reduction in paint erosion is observed for the design geometry. The measured data also serve as a benchmark test for predictive cavitation erosion models by comparing the measured erosion distributions for each blade to those obtained numerically from unsteady CFD.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Experimental analysis of shock smoothing design strategy for reducing cavitation erosion aggressiveness |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1063/5.0131967 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0131967 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164148 |
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