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Experimental investigation of unsteady attached cavitating flow induced pressure fluctuation

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This paper experimentally investigates the pressure fluctuation induced by the unsteady attached cavitating flow, with special focus on the quasi-periodic cloud cavitation. A simultaneous sampling method is adopted for the synchronous measurement of the wall pressure signals and the cavitating flow images in a convergent-divergent channel. The results show that the pressure fluctuation is composed of three parts, the flow noise, the low-frequency fluctuation, and the cavity collapse induced impulse, and the pressure evolution of the quasi-periodic cloud cavitation is well consistent with the cavitation evolution. The statistical analysis of the pressure fluctuation shows that, when σ > 1.01, the probability density function (PDF) is nearly in the normal distribution, implying the randomness of the pressure fluctuation, when 0.84 < σ < 0.91, the PDF has a much larger variance than when σ > 1.01, when σ < 0.84, the PDF becomes narrow and asymmetric. In addition, the variance and the average value of the pressure indicate that the fluctuation intensity increases downstream along the cavity and reaches the maximum at the cavity closure and it also increases with the decrease of the cavitation number. The spectral analysis shows that the low-frequency pressure fluctuations mainly consist of two dominant components, the cavity shedding induced fluctuation and the lock-in fluctuation. The cavity shedding induced frequency decreases with the decrease of the cavitation number but the lock-in frequency is kept nearly constant. According to the spectral analysis of the cavity area fluctuation and the modal analysis of the flow system, the lock-in is possibly caused when the fluctuation frequency of the cavity volume approaches the natural frequency of the flow system.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Bei**g Municipality (Grant Nos. 3204056, 3212023).

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Bei**g Institute of Technology, Bei**g, 100081, China

    Hou-sheng Zhang, Qin Wu & Biao Huang

  2. AVIC **cheng Nan**g Engineering Institute of Aircraft System, Nan**g, 211106, China

    Guang-hao Chen

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Zhang, Hs., Chen, Gh., Wu, Q. et al. Experimental investigation of unsteady attached cavitating flow induced pressure fluctuation. J Hydrodyn 34, 31–42 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42241-022-0003-x

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