TITLE:
Shadowgraph Imaging of Cavitating Jet
AUTHORS:
Ryuta Watanabe, Takayuki Kikuchi, Takayuki Yamagata, Nobuyuki Fujisawa
KEYWORDS:
Cavitating Jet, POD Analysis, Shadowgraph, Periodic Structure
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Flow Control, Measurement & Visualization,
Vol.3 No.3,
July
17,
2015
ABSTRACT: This paper deals with the statistical properties of unsteady structure of cavitating water-jet issuing into a stagnant fluid of water using the shadowgraph imaging combined with the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) analysis. The experimental result indicates that the cavitating jet is composed of axisymmetric mode, while the periodic axial oscillation is found along the jet centerline. The reconstructed cavitation images show the presence of growing, shrinking and shedding motion in the cavitation cloud, which sustains a periodic behavior of the cavitating jet.