TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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LIST OF FIGURES iv 



LIST OF TABLES viii 



NOTATION x 



PREFACE xiii 



FOREWORD xiv 



CAVITATION INCEPTION AND INTERNAL FLOWS 



WITH CAVITATION 1 



INTRODUCTION 1 



CAVITATION INCEPTION 2 



Preliminaries 2 



Scale Effect — Early Results 4 



The ITTC Tests 12 



Forms of Cavitation 14 



VISCOUS EFFECTS ON CAVITATION INCEPTION 14 



Experimental Methods 14 



Laminar Separation 18 



Inception Observations within the 



Laminar Separation 22 



Conditions within the Separation 27 



Transition and Cavitation 32 



Stimulated Boundary Layers 40 



The Polymer Effect in Cavitation 45 



Turbulence Levels 49 



CAVITATION NUCLEI, BUBBLE MECHANICS AND 



SCALING 54 



Nuclei and Their Measurements 54 



Some Bubble Mechanics 59 



Scaling Ideas 67 



FULLY DEVELOPED CAVITATION IN INTERNAL 



FLOWS 68 



Analytic Methods for Internal 



Cavitation 73 



The Coupling Problem for a Pump 74 



The Transfer Function 79 



Application to Pumps 80 



Experiments in Unsteady Pump 



Dynamics 83 



