CAVITATION SEPARATION 

 BOUNDARY LAYER SEPARATION 

 MODEL OUTLINE 



MODEL OUTLINE 



Figure 12 - The Form and Extent of Cavitation Originating Within the 

 Viscous Separated Region of the Hemispherical Nose at Three 

 Levels of Tunnel Pressure (The freestream speed is 

 40 ft/ sec and the body Reynolds number is 



6 x 10 . The dark patches above the 



model outline are the cavitating 



areas. Arakeri and Acosta 



1973) 



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