Advanced Experimental and Numerical Techniques for Cavitation Erosion Prediction

Comprehensive treatment of both fluid and material aspects of cavitation erosion Includes the most relevant experimental methods and computational approaches to study cavitation erosion Includes a didactic and instructive presentation that can be used as a textbook for graduate students Presents state-of-the-art research useful for engineers and researchers in the field Provides predictive techniques of cavitation damage in hydraulic machineries such as propellers and pumps Describes cavitation damage in terms of microscopic and macroscopic phenomena in solid state plasticity Offers experimental and numerical inverse method tools to estimate impulsive pressures from materials damage Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras