Modeling Fluid-Structure Interaction in Cavitation Erosion: Preliminary Results

Modelling cavitation erosion using fluid-material interaction simulations.

Material deformation and pitting from cavitation bubble collapse is investigated using fluid and material dynamics and their interaction. In the fluid, a novel hybrid approach, which links a boundary element method and a compressible finite difference method, is used to capture non-spherical bubble dynamics and resulting liquid pressures efficiently and accurately. The bubble dynamics is intima...

Fluid-structure interaction studies on marine propeller

Composite propellers offer high damping characteristics and corrosion resistance when compared with metal propellers. But the design of a hybrid composite propeller with the same strength of metal propeller is the critical task. For this purpose, the present paper focusses on fluid-structure interaction analysis of hybrid composite propeller with Carbon/Epoxy, R-Glass/Epoxy and S2-Glass/Epoxy t...

A spectral-element method for modelling cavitation in transient fluid-structure interaction

In an underwater-shock environment, cavitation (boiling) occurs as a result of reflection of the shock wave from the free surface and/or wetted structure causing the pressure in the water to fall below its vapour pressure. If the explosion is sufficiently distant from the structure, the motion of the fluid surrounding the structure may be assumed small, which allows linearization of the governi...

Biomechanical Modeling of the Arterial Fluid-Structure interaction in hemodynamic

The Volume Factor in Cavitation Erosion

Use of jet cavitation, however, occurs through an exit nozzle whose diameter can be changed, thereby changing volume with changing velocity. The results of such a change is shown to tie cavitation damage more powerfully to volume flow than to velocity. A specific example is in cavitation erosion of a high strength igneous rock which remained virtually undamaged at 70 MPa driving pressure but wa...