In many applications—from centrifugal pumps and hydro turbines to high-speed hydrofoils—understanding cavitation is crucial to mitigating associated vibrations, erosion and noise.

Everybody likes a quiet pump — one that just does its job and doesn’t break down often. But a noisy pump raises concern. Although the noise is often attributed to cavitation, not every noisy pump is ...

Steenkamp says, although centrifugal pumps are the most common type of pump used in the mining industry, they are known to fail, as a result of complications – such as cavitation, corrosion ...

Focus on energy efficient alternatives is hampering sales of centrifugal pumps. Cavitation effect in centrifugal pumps will restrict the market growth.

Description: Unified treatment of principles underlying fluid mechanic design of hydraulic pumps, turbines and gas compressors. Similarity and scaling laws. Cavitation. Analysis of radial and axial ...