An assessment of the cavitation erosion risk by using a contemporary unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) method in conjunction with a newly developed postprocessing procedure is made for an NACA0015 hydrofoil and an NACA0018-45 hydrofoil, without the necessity to compute the details of the actual collapses. This procedure is developed from detailed investigations on the flow over a hydrofoil. It is observed that the large-scale structures and typical unsteady dynamics predicted by the URANS method with the modified shear stress transport (SST) k-ω turbulence model are in fair agreement with the experimental observations. An erosion intensity function for the assessment of the risk of cavitation erosion on the surface of hydrofoils by using unsteady RANS simulations as input is proposed, based on the mean value of the time derivative of the local pressure that exceeds a certain threshold. A good correlation is found between the locations with a computed high erosion risk and the damage area observed from paint tests.
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April 2014
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Assessment of Cavitation Erosion With a URANS Method
Zi-ru Li,
Zi-ru Li
Wuhan University of Technology
,Hubei 430063
China
;
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Tom van Terwisga
e-mail: t.v.terwisga@marin.nl
Tom van Terwisga
1
Delft University of Technology
Delft 6700 AA
, The Netherlands
;Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN)
,Wageningen 6700 AA
, The Netherlands
e-mail: t.v.terwisga@marin.nl
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Zi-ru Li
Wuhan University of Technology
,Hubei 430063
China
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Mathieu Pourquie
Tom van Terwisga
Delft University of Technology
Delft 6700 AA
, The Netherlands
;Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN)
,Wageningen 6700 AA
, The Netherlands
e-mail: t.v.terwisga@marin.nl
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Contributed by the Fluids Engineering Division of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF FLUIDS ENGINEERING. Manuscript received December 20, 2012; final manuscript received December 3, 2013; published online February 28, 2014. Assoc. Editor: Olivier Coutier-Delgosha.
J. Fluids Eng. Apr 2014, 136(4): 041101 (11 pages)
Published Online: February 28, 2014
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December 20, 2012
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Li, Z., Pourquie, M., and van Terwisga, T. (February 28, 2014). "Assessment of Cavitation Erosion With a URANS Method." ASME. J. Fluids Eng. April 2014; 136(4): 041101. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4026195
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