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SHIP AND PROPELLER CAVITATION 



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ance of screw propellers in the supercavitating 

 range are described in Sec. 70.40 of Part 4. The 

 design comments given there are likewise general 

 in nature. 



While the references of that section contain 

 data relative to the variation in propeller thrust 

 at high rates of rotation, there are no systematic 

 data which permit the ship or propeller designer 

 to make reliable predictions of supercavitation 

 performance for high-power and high-speed craft. 



47.13 Selected Cavitation Bibliography. The 

 published literature on all phases of cavitation in 

 liquids, including cavitation erosion, is almost 

 staggering in its immensity. In December 1947 

 the David Taylor Model Basin prepared and 

 issued, as TMB Report R-81, "An Annotated 

 BibUography of Cavitation." This contains refer- 

 ences to most of the material published up to 

 that time, especially that relating directly to 

 work in the marine field. Some important papers 

 not Usted, and some published since 1947 have 

 either been referenced previously in this chapter 

 or are set down here. These apply to material in 

 Chaps. 7 and 23 as well as to that in this chapter 

 and in Chap. 70 of Part 4. 



The first three references help to fill out the 

 historical picture: 



(1) Reynolds, Osborne, "On the Causes of the Racing of 



the Engines of Screw Steamers," INA, 1873, pp. 

 59-60 



(2) Normand, J.-A., "Note sur I'lnfluence de I'lmmersion 



de I'Hfelice et de la Vitesse sur la Rupture du 

 Cyjindre d' Eau Actionne (Note on the Influence 

 of Propeller Immersion and Speed on the Rupture 

 of Water in the Propeller Stream)," ATMA, 1893, 

 Vol. 4, pp. 68-73 



(3) Thornycroft, J. I., and Barnaby, J. W., "Torpedo 



Boat Destroyers," ICE, Vol. CXXII, Part IV, 

 1894-1895, p. 51ff 



(4) Wood, R. MoK., and Harris, R. G., "Some Notes on 



the Theory of an Airscrew Working in a Wind 

 Channel," ARC, R and M 662, 1920 



(5) Brodetsky, S., "Discontinuous Fluid Motion Past 



Circular and Elliptic Cylinders," Proc. Roy. Soc, 

 London, Ser. A, Feb 1923, Vol. 102, No. A718, 

 pp. 542-553 



(6) Mueller, J., "tlber den gegenwartigen Stand der 



Kavitationsforschung (On the Present Status of 

 Cavitation Research)," Die Naturwissenschaften, 

 Jun 1928, Vol. 22, pp. 423-426 



(7) Taylor, G. I., "The Mean Value of the Fluctuations in 



Pressure and Pressure Gradient in a Turbulent 

 Fluid," Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc, 1936, Vol. 32, 

 pp. 380-384 



(8) Van Iterson, F. K. T., "Cavitation et Tension Super- 



ficielle (Cavitation and Surface Tension)," Proc. 

 Roy. Acad., Amsterdam, 1936. Abstracted in 



Engineering (London), 1936, Vol. 142, p. 95ff. 

 Translated by E. F. Wilaey, U. S. Bureau of 

 Reclamation, Nov 1936. 

 (9) Bottomley, W. T., "Flow of Boiling Water Through 

 Orifices and Pipes," NECI, 1936-1937, Vol. 53, 

 p. 65ff 



(10) Green, A. E., "The Mean Value of the Fluctuations 



in Pressure and Pressure Gradient in a Turbulent 

 Fluid," Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc, 1938, pp. 534-539 



(11) Viskovid, I., "Rotation Losses at the Rear of Turbo- 



Machine Runner Wheels," Escher Wyss News, 

 1941, Vol. XIV, pp. 14-19 



(12) Freeman, H. B., "Calculated and Observed Speeds 



of Cavitation About Two- and Three-Dimensional 

 Bodies in Water," TMB Rep. 495, Nov 1942 



(13) Edstrand, H., "The Effect of the Air Content of 



Water on the Cavitation Point and upon the 

 Characteristics of Ships' Propellers," SSPA, Rep. 6, 

 1946 



(14) Harvey, E., McElroy, W. D., and Whiteley, A. H., 



"On Cavity Formation in Water," Jour. Appl. 

 Phys., Feb 1947, Vol. 18, pp. 162-172 



(15) Briggs, H. B., Johnson, J. B., and Mason, W. P., 



"Properties of Liquids at High Sound Pressures," 

 Bell Tel. Lab. Monograph B-1507, publ. in Jour. 

 Acoust. Soc. America, Jul 1947, Vol. 19, pp. 664-677 



(16) Dieudonne, J., "Resultats Obtenus k la Mer avec des 



Helices en Regime de Cavitation (Results from 

 Sea Trials with Propellers Operating in the Cavi- 

 tating Region)," ATMA, 1947, Vol. 46, pp. 253- 

 270. The data were taken on various torpedoboats 

 and destroyers at high speed. 



(17) Walohner, 0., "Contribution to the Design of Ship 



Propellers without Cavitation," AVA, 1947 



(18) Vennard, J. K., "Elementary Fluid Mechanics," 



1947, pp. 329-332 



(19) Bell, L. G., "Some Model Experiments on the Effect 



of Blade Area on Propeller Cavitation," INA, 



1948, Vol. 90, pp. 79-91. There are some good 

 cavitation photographs opp. pp. 86-87. 



(20) Eisenberg, P., "A Cavitation Method for the Develop- 



ment of Forms Having Specified Critical Cavita- 

 tion Numbers," TMB Rep. 647, Sep 1947 



(21) Macovsky, M. S., Stracke, W. L., and Wehausen, 



J. v., "Predicted Cavitation Characteristics for 

 the TMB-EPH Strut Section Compared with 

 Those for the Bureau of Ships Standard Strut 

 Section," TMB Rep. 879, Jan 1948 



(22) Plesset, M. S., and Shaffer, P. A., "Drag in Cavitat- 



ing Flow," Rev. Mod. Phys., Jan 1948, Vol. 20, 

 pp. 228-231 



(23) Rouse, H., and McNown, J. S., "Cavitation and 



Pressure Distribution; Head Forms at Zero Angle 

 of Yaw," IIHR, Studies in Eng'g., Bull. 32, 1948 



(24) Knapp, R. T., and Hollander, A., "Laboratory 



Investigations of the Mechanism of Cavitation," 

 Trans. ASME, Jul 1948, Vol. 70, pp. 419-435 



(25) Gawn, R. W. L., "Cavitation of Screw Propellers," 



NECI, 1948-1949, Vol. 65, pp. 339-373, D105- 

 D124 



(26) Eisenberg, P., and Pond, H. L., "Water Tunnel 



Investigations of Steady State Cavities," TMB 

 Rep. 668, Oct 1948 



