Proceedings of the General Meeting (18th) of the American Towing Tank Conference, 23-25 August 1977, Annapolis, Maryland. Volume II. Cavitation Session, Seakeeping Session,

Abstract

Steady progress has been made in our understanding of the effect of laboratory environment on the prediction of full scale cavitation, ventilation and cavitation erosion. Tentative guidelines may be provided as how to minimize these scale effects in each subject area. However, in most cases, quantiative values for the level of turbulence, the proper roughness of the model surface, the proper size and distribution of nuclei can not be provided. Further fundamental studies on these and other matters are still needed and careful full scale measurements are required in most of the four areas in order to quantify the differences between laboratory and full scale environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA062507

Entities

People

  • Bruce Johnson
  • Bruce Nehrling

Organizations

  • United States Naval Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Engineers
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Froude Number
  • Geometry
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Research Facilities
  • Test And Evaluation

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  • Academic Conference Management
  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Theoretical Analysis.