Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Illustration of the experimental setup: the cavitation tunnel and the plate. We choose a 45 deg wedge with a sharp edge to provide a clean definition of the separation point and leading edge of the cavity.
Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Geometry of the dtEIP. Bottom panels show the microphotographs of the two probe tips.
Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Snapshots of the bubble distributions using a high-speed camera at 400 frames per second; the time lag between two consecutive images is 25 ms
Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Distribution of velocity of various bubbles within one series of measurements. Blue points represent the data of the high-speed camera. For reference, the theoretical terminal velocity of air bubbles in pure water is plotted as a dashed line, and the empirical terminal velocity in tap water is plotted as a solid line [32].
Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Probability distribution of the chord length and diameter. μ=0.47 and σ=0.50. Bar: the directly measured raw data of the chord length; dashed line: normal distribution of the chord length, Pc(c;μ,σ); and solid line: spherical-corrected probability distribution Pp(d) using Eq. (2).
Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Distribution of the pressure and the standard deviation. The saturated pressure Ps is shown as a thick dashed line for reference.
Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Pressure histories at locations #3 to #6: (a) σv = 1.60 and (b) σv = 1.77
Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Instantaneous high-speed camera pictures of fluid structures at different cavitation numbers: (a) σv = 1.54, (b) σv = 1.60, (c) σv = 1.70, and (d) σv = 1.77
Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Averaged gray level of 2000 frames from the high-speed camera video: (a) σ = 1.60 and (b) σ = 1.77
Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Time-averaged distributions of the void fraction α are shown in black lines, inside the cavity region enclosed with a thick line. Cavitation number σv= 1.54, 1.60, 1.70, and 1.77 from top to bottom. The standard deviation of the void fraction is shown as thin lines. The solid and dash lines in green show the thickness of turbulent boundary layer δ defined with fluid properties of liquid phase and vapor phase, respectively.
Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Experimental data of CLD and fitting curves according to the log normal law at the sample positions #3 and #4, corresponding to x = 18 and 24 cm. The vertical coordinate z of the probe is shown in the legend. (a) σv = 1.54, (b) σv = 1.60, and (c) σv = 1.77.
Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Density distribution of the bubble size along the vertical coordinate z in millimeter as indicated in the legends, at four different horizontal sites #1 to #4 along the plate surface corresponding to x= 6 cm, 12 cm, 18 cm, and 24 cm downstream of the separation corner of the plate. The vertical lines in the top of each figure indicate the corresponding mean chord length cM. (a) σv = 1.54, (b) σv = 1.60, and (c) σv = 1.77.
Date of download: 10/16/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Probing and Imaging of Vapor–Water Mixture Properties Inside Partial/Cloud Cavitating Flows J. Fluids Eng. 2017;139(3):031303-031303-10. doi:10.1115/1.4035013 Figure Legend: Two distinct density distributions of bubble size at the main region of sheet cavitation (a) and the closure region (b). Red asterisks represent experimental data for the supercavitation case σv=1.54, and blue circles and green plus signs are the experimental data for σv=1.60 and 1.77. (a) Solid line is empirical formulation with μ=1.06 and σ=0.67. (b) Dashed line is empirical formulation with μ=0.52 and σ=0.68.