Kazuhiko Ogawa
Proceedings of the 57th Intenational Instrumentation Symposium IIS11-P016 1-9 2011年6月 査読有り
In this study, the measurement of the number and size of cavitation bubbles around a butterfly valve was performed at three positions; at the leading edge, at the position near the rear face of the valve, and at the position which was 1 diameter downstream of the valve. From the visualization results, it was found that cavitation bubble diameters range from about 20 micromters to about 500 micrometers, at the valve opening of 45 degrees. On the contrary, at the position near the rear face of the valve and at a position 1 diameter downstream of the valve, the maximum diameter of cavitation bubbles was about 200 micrometers, at the same valve opening. The number of cavitation bubbles at the leading edge was over a few times the number which was 1 diameter downstream of the valve. Consequently, it is considered that cavitation occurrence is dominant at the leading edge by the contraction flow and that the bubbles which occurr at the leading edge become smaller size bubbles through pressure recovery.