| Abstract: | As a rule, axisymmetric cavitation flows are investigated by means of numerical computations in the absence of analytic solutions. However, substantial difficulties are still encountered here which are discussed in detail in the survey report of Birkhoff [1]. One of the integral equation methods used earlier for numerical computations of a plane cavitation flow [2] is considered below. General considerations about its application for the computations of axisymmetric flows are presented in [3]. This method turns out to be effective for the numerical computations of axisymmetric flows, as well as for an analytical investigation of the curvature of the meridian section of the cavern boundary near the point of its separation from the body. This latter question has been examined earlier in [4], where it has been shown for the case of a circular cone with a rectilinear generator that the curvature becomes infinite. The order of the infinity has not been established. |
