Cavitation Instabilities and Rotordynamic Effects in Turbopumps and Hydroturbines: Turbopump and Inducer Cavitation, Experiments and Design

by Luca d'Agostino (editor)

An introduction to cavitation in inducers and turbopumps.- Experimental methods for the study of hydrodynamic cavitation.- An introduction to flow-induced instabilities in rocket engine inducers and turbopumps.- 3-D simulation of cavitation instabilities.- Rotordynamics of turbopumps and hydroturbines.- On the preliminary design and performance prediction of centrifugal turbopumps.- Numerical simulation of cavitating flows with different cavitation and turbulence models.- Numerical simulation of cavitating flows in complex geometries.- From cavitating to boiling flows.

292 pages, Paperback

Published July 11, 2019