TY - JOUR
TI - NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF CAVITATING FLOW AROUND A HYDROFOIL USING PANS AND IMPROVED SHEAR STRESS TRANSPORT K-OMEGA MODEL
AU - Zhang De-Sheng
AU - Pan Da-Zhi
AU - Wang Hai-Yu
AU - Shi Wei-Dong
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2015
VL - 19
IS - 4
SP - 1211
EP - 1216
PT - Article
AB - 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.