A two-phase solver has been developed and is applied to model the cavitation flow. The governing equation system is the two-phase Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) Equation in a homogeneous form in which both liquid and vapor phases are treated as...
A two-phase solver has been developed and is applied to model the cavitation flow. The governing equation system is the two-phase Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) Equation in a homogeneous form in which both liquid and vapor phases are treated as incompressible fluids. It employs an implicit, dual time, preconditioned algorithm using finite difference scheme in curvilineal coordinates. In order to close the model, a low Reynolds number k-ε turbulence model is introduced. A standard k-ε turbulence model is also used for the purpose of comparison. Other closure models incorporated relate to the mass transfer rates between liquid and vapor phases. The experimental cavitating flows around a hemispherical fore-body, an ogive fore-body and a caliber-0 fore-body cylinders are employed to test the solver.