Development and experimental validation of computational models for cavitating flows, surface erosion damage and material loss

Project Information

CaFE

Grant agreement ID: 642536

DOI

10.3030/642536

Project closed

EC signature date 5 December 2014

Start date 1 January 2015

End date 31 December 2018

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 3 939 999,12

EU contribution

€ 3 939 999,12

Coordinated by

CITY ST GEORGES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
United Kingdom

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website

Project website set up

Documents, reports (14)

Erosion model 1

Implementation of surface erosion indication model.

Interface tracking

DNS methodology for bubble dynamics with interface tracking

MHV data

Complete set of measurements for MHV cavitation

Barotropic LES

LES methodology with effective mixture equation of state

TUM-LES validation

LES model validation and application to fuel injectors

Conference paper

Conference paper produced and published

MHV test rig

Refractive index rig for mechanical heart valve

Vortex data

Complete set of cavitating vortex measurements

Journals

Journal papers published gradually over the 48 months process.

Control valve cavitation

Simulation of cavitation in control valves in the presence of solid particle stack between valve plates

Marine propeller and Kaplan turbine

Model application to marine propeller and Kaplan turbine

Erosion and atomisation

Coupled simulation of nozzle erosion and fuel atomisation.

DNS-derived bubble pressure

DNS results for single-bubble and bubble cloud collapse.

Abrasive particle cavitation

Parametric studies from control valve test case using abrasive wear particles

Publications

Conference proceedings (15)

A NUMERICAL STUDY ON THE SHEDDING FREQUENCY OF SHEET CAVITATION

Author(s): Themistoklis I. Melissaris, Norbert Bulten and Tom van Terwisga
Published in: MARINE 2017 Computational Methods in Marine Engineering VII, Issue Every two years, 2017, Page(s) 801-812, ISBN 978-84-946909-8-3
Publisher: International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)

On the Cavitation Erosion Prediction Using a URANS Method

Author(s): Themistoklis I. Melissaris, Norbert Bulten and Tom van Terwisga
Published in: 20th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS 2017), Issue Every year, 2017, Page(s) 139-144, ISBN 978-1-5108-5218-1
Publisher: Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN)

A multi-scale Eulerian-Lagrangian model for simulation of cavitating flows

Author(s): Ebrahim Ghahramani and Rickard Bensow
Published in: 19th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS 2016), Issue 3-4 October 2016, 2016, Page(s) 37-42, ISBN 9781-510831872
Publisher: CENTRALE NANTES

A tabulated data technique for cryogenic two-phase flows

Author(s): Nikolaos Kyriazis, Phoevos Koukouvinis, Ioannis Karathanassis and Manolis Gavaises
Published in: ECFD2018, Issue Every 4 years, 2018, Page(s) 585-596, ISBN 978-84-947311-6-7
Publisher: http://www.eccm-ecfd2018.org

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations of cavitation bubble collapse induced plasticity

Author(s): Joshi , Shrey; Franc , Jean-Pierre; Ghigliotti , Giovanni; Fivel , Marc
Published in: 2nd International Conference on Advanced Modelling of Wave Propagation in Solids, Sep 2018, Prague, Czech Republic, Issue 4, 2018, Page(s) 45-46
Publisher: The ECCOMAS Regional Conference

Numerical simulation of compressible cavitating two-phase flows with a pressure-based solver

Author(s): Marco Cristofaro, Wilfried Edelbauer, Manolis Gavaises, Phoevos Koukouvinis
Published in: Proceedings ILASS–Europe 2017. 28th Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Issue every year, 2017, Page(s) 1-8, ISBN 9788-490485804
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica València
DOI: 10.4995/ILASS2017.2017.4629

Density-based Compressible Solver with Equilibrium Cavitation Model in OpenFOAM

Author(s): Mohammad Hossein Arabnejad , Rickard Bensow ,Claes Eskilsson
Published in: 19th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium, Issue NuTTS 2016, 2016, Page(s) 5-10, ISBN 978-1-5108-3187-2
Publisher: 19th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium

Simulating Compressibility in Cavitating Flows with an Incompressible Mass Transfer Flow Solver

Author(s): Sören Schenke and Tom J.C. van Terwisga
Published in: SMP '17: 5th International Symposium on Marine Propulsors, Issue 5th (2017), 2017, Page(s) 71-79, ISBN 978-951-38-8606-6
Publisher: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Numerical Prediction of Vortex Dynamics in Inviscid Sheet Cavitation

Author(s): Sören Schenke and Tom J.C. van Terwisga
Published in: 20th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS 2017), Issue every year, 2017, Page(s) 197-202, ISBN 978-1-5108-5218-1
Publisher: Curran

Finite Mass Transfer Effects in Cavitation Modelling

Author(s): Sören Schenke and Tom J.C. van Terwisga
Published in: 19th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS 2016), Issue every year, 2017, Page(s) 132-137, ISBN 978-1-5108-3187-2
Publisher: Curran

A Methodology to Identify Erosive Collapse Events in Incompressible Simulation of Cavitating flows

Author(s): Mohammad Hossein Arabnejad, Rickard Bensow
Published in: 20th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium, Issue NuTTS 2017, 2017, Page(s) 28-33, ISBN 9781-510852181
Publisher: 20th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium

High-speed X-Ray Phase Contrast Imaging of String Cavitation in a Diesel Injector Orifice

Author(s): Ioannis Karathanassis, Phoevos Koukouvinis, Massimo Lorenzi, Efstathios Kontolatis, Zhilong Li, Jin Wang, N. Mitroglou, Manolis Gavaises
Published in: Proceedings ILASS–Europe 2017. 28th Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Issue 2017/7/28, 2017, Page(s) 1019-1026, ISBN 9788-490485804
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica València
DOI: 10.4995/ILASS2017.2017.4996

A hybrid model for simulation of cavitating flows

Author(s): Ebrahim Ghahramani, Mohammad Hossein Arabnejad , Rickard Bensow
Published in: OpenFOAM Workshop, Issue 12th OpenFOAM Workshop, 2017
Publisher: OpenFOAM® Workshop

An experimental study on suppressing Tip Vortex Cavitation by means of a Flexible Thread

Author(s): Jeonghwa Seo, Ali Amini, Seung Jae Lee, Jongyeol Park, Honggu Yeo, Mohamed Farhat, Shin Hyung Rhee
Published in: APS DFD 2018, Issue Every year, 2017
Publisher: American Physical Society

Coupling of the cavitation mixture model with the discrete bubble model

Author(s): Ebrahim Ghahramani , Rickard Bensow
Published in: 20th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium, Issue NuTTS 2017, 2017, Page(s) 68-73
Publisher: 20th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium

Book chapters (15)

Effect of Gas Content on Tip Vortex Cavitation

Author(s): Ali Amini, Martino Reclari, Takeshi Sano, Mohamed Farhat
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 322-325, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch62

Simulating the Effect of In-Nozzle Cavitation on Liquid Atomisation Using a Three-Phase Model

Author(s): M.G. Mithun, P. Koukouvnis, I. K. Karathanassis, M. Gavaises
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 920-924, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch175

Large Eddy Simulation of the Internal Injector Flow During Pilot Injection

Author(s): Marco Cristofaro, Wilfried Edelbauer, Phoevos Koukouvinis, Manolis Gavaises
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 665-668, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch127

Initial Findings of an Investigation on the Removal of the Cavitation Erosion Risk in a Prototype Control Orifice Inside a Diesel Injector

Author(s): Maxwell Brunhart, Celia Soteriou, Christian Daveau, Manolis Gavaises, Phoevos Koukouvinis, Mark Winterbourn
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 556-560, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch106

On Cavitation Aggressiveness and Cavitation Erosion on Marine Propellers using a URANS Method

Author(s): Themistoklis Melissaris, Norbert Bulten, Tom van Terwisga
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 838-843, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch160

Erosive Aggressiveness of Collapsing Cavitating Structures

Author(s): Sören Schenke, Tom J.C. van Terwisga
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 357-362, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch69

Cavitation Induction by Projectile Impacting on a Water Jet

Author(s): E. Stavropoulos Vasilakis, P. Koukouvinis, M. Farhat, M. Gavaises
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 222-226, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch43

Analysis of the Finite Mass Transfer Models in the Numerical Simulation of Bubbly Flows

Author(s): Ebrahim Ghahramani, Rickard E. Bensow
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 89-93, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch18

X-ray Computed Tomography of Cavitating Flow in a Converging-Diverging Nozzle

Author(s): Saad Jahangir, Evert C. Wagner, Robert F. Mudde, Christian Poelma
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 1104-1108, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch209

Heating Effects During Bubble Collapse Using Tabulated Data

Author(s): Nikolaos Kyriazis, Phoevos Koukouvinis, Manolis Gavaises, Richard Pearson, Martin Gold
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 495-499, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch94

Numerical Investigation of the Dynamics of Pressure Loading on a Solid Boundary from a Collapsing Cavitation Bubble

Author(s): Prasanta Sarkar, Giovanni Ghigliotti, Marc Fivel, Jean-Pierre Franc
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 765-770, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch146

Numerical Simulation of Collapsing Vapor Bubble Clusters Close to a Rigid Wall

Author(s): Daria Ogloblina, Steffen J. Schmidt, Nikolaus A. Adams
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 783-788, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch149

Numerical Investigation of Cavitation-Regimes in a Converging-Diverging Nozzle

Author(s): Polina Gorkh, Steffen J. Schmidt, Nikolaus A. Adams
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 760-764, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch145

Modeling Fluid-Structure Interaction in Cavitation Erosion using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Author(s): Shrey Joshi, Jean Pierre Franc, Giovanni Ghigliotti, Marc Fivel
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 716-721, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch137

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Cavitating Flows over a Modified NACA0009 Foil

Author(s): Mohammad Hossein Arabnejad, Ali Amini, Rickard Bensow, Mohamed Farhat
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018), Issue every three years, 2018, Page(s) 369-373, ISBN 9780-791861851
Publisher: ASME Press
DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch71

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Simulation and analysis of collapsing vapor-bubble clusters with special emphasis on potentially erosive impact loads at walls

Author(s): Daria Ogloblina, Steffen J. Schmidt, Nikolaus A. Adams
Published in: EPJ Web of Conferences, Issue 180, 2018, Page(s) 02079, ISSN 2100-014X
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201817002079

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Dynamics of partial cavitation in an axisymmetric converging-diverging nozzle

Author(s): Saad Jahangir, Willian Hogendoorn, Christian Poelma
Published in: International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Issue 106, 2018, Page(s) 34-45, ISSN 0301-9322
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2018.04.019

High-speed visualization of vortical cavitation using synchrotron radiation

Author(s): Ioannis K. Karathanassis, Phoevos Koukouvinis, Efstathios Kontolatis, Zhilong Lee, Jin Wang, Nicholas Mitroglou, Manolis Gavaises
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Issue 838, 2018, Page(s) 148-164, ISSN 0022-1120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2017.885

Modelling cavitation during drop impact on solid surfaces

Author(s): Nikolaos Kyriazis, Phoevos Koukouvinis, Manolis Gavaises
Published in: Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Issue 260, 2018, Page(s) 46-64, ISSN 0001-8686
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2018.08.004

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation of a laser pulse impact onto a liquid metal droplet

Author(s): Phoevos Koukouvinis, Nikolaos Kyriazis, Manolis Gavaises
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 13/9, 2018, Page(s) e0204125, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204125

Direct comparison of shadowgraphy and X-ray imaging for void fraction determination

Author(s): Amitosh Dash, Saad Jahangir, Christian Poelma
Published in: Measurement Science and Technology, Issue Volume 29, Number 12:125303, 2018, 2018, Page(s) 1-11, ISSN 0957-0233
Publisher: Institute of Physics and the Physical Society
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6501/aaea49

Realizability improvements to a hybrid mixture-bubble model for simulation of cavitating flows

Author(s): Ebrahim Ghahramani, Mohammad Hossein Arabnejad, Rickard E. Bensow
Published in: Computers & Fluids, Issue 174, 2018, Page(s) 135-143, ISSN 0045-7930
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2018.06.025

An energy conservative method to predict the erosive aggressiveness of collapsing cavitating structures and cavitating flows from numerical simulations

Author(s): Sören Schenke, Tom J.C. van Terwisga
Published in: International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Issue 111, 2019, Page(s) 200-218, ISSN 0301-9322
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2018.11.016

A comparative study between numerical methods in simulation of cavitating bubbles

Author(s): Ebrahim Ghahramani, Mohammad Hossein Arabnejad, Rickard E. Bensow
Published in: International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Issue Volume 111, February 2019 Volume 111, 2018, Page(s) 339-359, ISSN 0301-9322
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2018.10.010

SPH modelling of a cavitation bubble collapse near an elasto-visco-plastic material

Author(s): Shrey Joshi, Jean Pierre Franc, Giovanni Ghigliotti, Marc Fivel
Published in: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Issue 125, 2019, Page(s) 420-439, ISSN 0022-5096
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2018.12.016

Numerical investigations on bubble-induced jetting and shock wave focusing: application on a needle-free injection

Author(s): Nikolaos Kyriazis, Phoevos Koukouvinis, Manolis Gavaises
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Issue 475/2222, 2019, Page(s) 20180548, ISSN 1364-5021
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2018.0548

Numerical investigation of bubble dynamics using tabulated data

Author(s): Nikolaos Kyriazis, Phoevos Koukouvinis, Manolis Gavaises
Published in: International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Issue 93, 2017, Page(s) 158-177, ISSN 0301-9322
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2017.04.004

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Hydrodynamic Mechanisms in Erosive Sheet Cavitation

Author(s): Arabnejad Khanouki, Mohammad Hossein
Published in: Issue 7, 2018
Publisher: Chalmers University of Technology

A Realizable Hybrid Mixture-Bubble Model for Cavitating Flows

Author(s): Ghahramani, Ebrahim
Published in: Issue 8, 2018
Publisher: Chalmers University of Technology