THERMAL SCIENCE
International Scientific Journal
NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF CAVITATING FLOW AROUND A HYDROFOIL USING PANS AND IMPROVED SHEAR STRESS TRANSPORT K-OMEGA MODEL
ABSTRACT
The prediction accuracies of partially-averaged Navier-Stokes model and improved shear stress transport k-ω turbulence model for simulating the unsteady cavitating flow around the hydrofoil were discussed in this paper. Numerical results show that the two turbulence models can effectively reproduce the cavitation evolution process. The numerical prediction for the cycle time of cavitation inception, development, detachment, and collapse agrees well with the experimental data. It is found that the vortex pair induced by the interaction between the re-entrant jet and mainstream is responsible for the instability of the cavitation shedding flow.
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PAPER SUBMITTED: 2015-01-02
PAPER REVISED: 2015-05-22
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2015-05-25
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2015-10-25
THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR
2015, VOLUME
19, ISSUE
Issue 4, PAGES [1211 - 1216]
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