Cavitation
Cavitation research spans the range from basic research to finding answers from demanding industrial questions. The advancement of numerical and experimental methods in the recent years offers new tools to attack many of the problems defying answers for decades. Some of these open problems are listed below. While we don’t expect answers to them we hope to attract the expert in the field to provide numerical, analytical and experimental insight to advance the field.
Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Scaling of hydrodynamic cavitation
- Scaling-up acoustic cavitation
- Preventing and dealing with cavitation erosion in applications
- The cause of cavitation erosion
- Utilizing cavitation for liquid processing
- The origin of cavitation and the cavitation nucleus
- Conversion of liquid energy into light and sound emission
- Heat and mass transfer in cavitation
- Utilizing cavitation to amplify pressures
- Cavitation in constrained environments
- Cavitation in elastic solids, tissue and bodily liquids
- Bubble dynamics in plants
- Cavitation and atomization of liquids
- Utilizing cavitation for applications
- Flow physics in performance deterioration of mechanical devices/systems
- Dynamic characteristics and flow instabilities in mechanical devices/systems related to cavitation
- Prediction of cavitation noises
- Advancement of numerical simulation and/or experimental methods to help answer the above questions.
Guest Editors
Boo Cheong Khoo, National University of Singapore
A. Jeffrey Giacomin, Queens University, Canada
Savvas G. Hatzikiriakos, University of British Columbia
Kathleen A. Feigl, Michigan Technological University
Nhan Phan-Thien, National University of Singapore