Mass transfer from the surface of a stationary spherical particle in the wake of a cavitating cylinder
Abstract
Experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of cavitation on mass transfer from a stationary spherical particle in the wake of a cylinder. Before the onset of cavitation, mass transfer from the particle increased with the flow velocity. At the first stage of cavitation, mass transfer from the particle remained practically unchanged but then decreased during subsequent stages of cavitation. The observed decrease in mass transfer is attributed to a reduction in the frequency of vortex formation in the wake of the cylinder. Cavitation did not lead to particle erosion.
- Publication:
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Inzhenerno Fizicheskii Zhurnal
- Pub Date:
- December 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983InFiZ..45..922O
- Keywords:
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- Cavitation Flow;
- Cylinders;
- Mass Transfer;
- Spheres;
- Wakes;
- Cavities;
- Flow Velocity;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer