Affiliation: | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hachinohe Institute of Technology, Hachinohe, Japan Department of Machine Intelligence and Systems Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan |
Abstract: | Effects of surface roughness on the unsteady cavitating flow around a two-dimensional circular cylinder were experimentally investigated at Reynolds numbers from 1.36 × 105 to 1.78 × 105. Two patterns of surface roughness were investigated, a double-cut pattern and a single-cut pattern. The cavity elongates with an increase of the surface roughness, especially in supercavitating flow. However, for some roughness parameters tested, the cavity length exhibits an extreme decrease. In a particular case of the double-cut pattern, there exists the minimum cavity behind the cylinder. |