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Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics
Fundamentals and Applications
- 1st Edition - September 24, 2021
- Editors: Phoevos Koukouvinis, Manolis Gavaises
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 3 8 8 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 3 9 8 - 6
Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications examines the latest advances in the field of cavitation and multiphase flows, including associated effects such as m… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCavitation and Bubble Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications examines the latest advances in the field of cavitation and multiphase flows, including associated effects such as material erosion and spray instabilities. This book tackles the challenges of cavitation hindrance in the industrial world, while also drawing on interdisciplinary research to inform academic audiences on the latest advances in the fundamentals.
Contributions to the book come from a wide range of specialists in areas including fuel systems, hydropower, marine engineering, multiphase flows and computational fluid mechanics, allowing readers to discover novel interdisciplinary experimentation techniques and research results.
This book will be an essential tool for industry professionals and researchers working on applications where cavitation hindrance affects reliability, noise, and vibrations.
- Covers a wide range of cavitation and bubble dynamics phenomena, including shock wave emission, jetting, and luminescence
- Provides the latest advice about applications including cavitation tunnels, cavitation testing, flow designs to avoid cavitation in pumps and other hydromachinery, and flow lines
- Describes novel experimental techniques, such as x-ray imaging and new computational techniques
1. Review of Numerical Methodologies of Cavitation
Foivos Koukouvinis, Manolis Gavaises, Evangelos Stavropoulos-Vasilakis, Nikolaos Kyriazis and Hesamaldin Jadidbonab
2. The Non-Spherical Collapse of Single Bubbles Near Boundaries and in Confined Spaces
Fabian Reuter and Claus Dieter Ohl
3. Cavitation Nuisance in Ship Propulsion: A Review of Developments
Tom J.C. van Terwisga, Martijn van Rijsbergen, Johan Bosschers, Sören Schenke, Themis Melissaris
4. The Numerical Prediction of Cavitation and Related Nuisance in Marine Propulsion Systems
Rickard Bensow
5. The Study and Detection of Cavitation in Centrifugal Pumps
George Mousmoulis, Ioannis Kassanos and Ioannis Anagnostopoulos
6. Cavitation in Hydraulic Turbines
Ioannis Kassanos and Ioannis Anagnostopoulos
7. X-Ray Measurement Techniques used for Wall-Bounded Cavitating Flows
Milad Heidari Koochi, Ioannis Karathanassis and Manolis Gavaises
8. The Interaction of Cavitation with Sprays in High-Pressure Diesel Injection Systems
Joonsik Hwang
9. Experimental Diagnostics and Investigations on Cavitation in Engine Injector Nozzles
Michael Wensing, Sebastian Riess, Chris Conrad, Dmitrii Mamaikin and Alexander Neubauer
10. Cavitation in Positive Displacement Pumps and Fuel Systems
Foivos Koukouvinis, Mithun Murali Girija, Ioannis Karathanassis and Manolis Gavaises
- No. of pages: 354
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 24, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128233887
- eBook ISBN: 9780128233986
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Phoevos Koukouvinis
Phoevos Koukouvinis is a Research Fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics of City University of London, UK and a Research fellow at Sandia National Laboratories, USA. His research focuses on numerical methods in compressible and multiphase flows.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, City University of London, UK and Research Fellow, Sandia National Laboratories, USAMG
Manolis Gavaises
Manolis Gavaises is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics of City University of London, UK. He is the Co-founder and Director of the International Institute of Cavitation Research and also Director of the Thermo-Fluids Research Centre.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, City University of London, UK; Co-founder and Director, International Institute of Cavitation; Research and Director, Thermo-Fluids Research CentreRead Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics on ScienceDirect