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Home Courses Cavitation on Ship Propellers Course materials Lectures Chapter 4: Physics of Cavitation: Cavitation Inception

Chapter 4: Physics of Cavitation: Cavitation Inception

Course subject(s) Physics of Cavitation: Cavitation Inception

Physics of Cavitation: Cavitation inception

 

Cavitation inception is important for two reasons. The first reason is that the radiated noise level of any form of cavitation is an order of magnitude higher than the noise level of a non-cavitating flow. This is used by Navy ships to detect and locate other ships and by torpedo’s to home in on the ship. This is the Navy problem of cavitation inception and the inception speed of a navy ship is very important.

Bubble cavitation due to a single nucleus.
Download as pdf Description of the mechanism of cavitation inception, the phenomena which influence inception and the definition of the inception bucket.
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