Cavitating Flow Modeling Including Energy Interchange Effects

Numerical Simulation of the Thermal Effect in the Cavitating Venturi Flow

“…It substantially impacts the cavitation dynamics, and it is one of the underlying phenomena responsible for structural erosion. Although most cavitation problems are assumed as isothermal hydrodynamic processes, this assumption seems inadequate to indicate the thermal effect in cavitating flows [21]. For the present work, the flowfield characteristics are studied for the designed cavitating venturi with the primary motivation to explore the temperature variation in the cavitating venturi flow and to address the thermal effect of cavitation considering the energy exchange and heat release during the cavitating process.…”