Effect of the feeding pipeline properties on the nature of cavitation-induced self-oscillations in the presence of a ventilated cavity with a negative cavitation number in the system

Abstract

Physical modeling of a ventilated cavity with a negative cavitation number has shown that at the same flow rate and head parameters different cavitation-induced self-oscillation patterns can be realized. The generation of these patterns depends on the feeding pipeline parameters. The high-speed videofilming shows that the physics of the process are the same in different frequency regimes, the wave propagation velocity in the jet flow is mainly determined by the cavitation number, and the difference between self-oscillation patterns is characterized by the number of the waves along the cavity length. A method of estimating the self-oscillation frequencies from the given flow geometry and the cavitation number is proposed.