Passive Cavitation Mitigation on Hydrofoils via Porous Media: A Comparative Study of LES and RANS Models
Ali Alavi, Maziyar Ghasemnezhad, Ali Sangtarash, Ehsan Roohi
TL;DR
This paper compares LES and RANS models to evaluate porous media as a passive method for reducing cavitation on hydrofoils in unsteady two-phase flows.
Contribution
It provides a comparative analysis of LES and RANS modeling approaches for cavitation mitigation using porous media on hydrofoils.
Findings
LES and RANS models show different cavitation suppression effectiveness.
Porous media significantly reduce cavitation intensity.
Model predictions align with experimental observations.
Abstract
This study numerically investigates the use of porous media as a passive strategy for mitigating cavitation on a NACA 66 (MOD) hydrofoil subjected to unsteady two-phase flow.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsFluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions · Cavitation Phenomena in Pumps · Underwater Acoustics Research