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Paper presented at the 1998 US-Japan Seminar on Abnormal Flow Phenomena in Turbomachines, Osaka, Japan. PARTIAL CAVITY INSTABILITIES M.E. Duttweiler and C.E. Urennen Califoniia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91126, USA ABSTRACT This paper reviews some of the literature on partial cavity ir~stabilities on single liydrofoils arid then surn- marizes the striking differences in the appearance and behavior of partial cavities on swept foils (as opposed tco two-dimensional, unswept foils) as rrcently higlrlight.c.rl by de Lange et al. (1994) and Labert*eaux and Cec- cio (1998). These demonstrate the iir~portarice of the spanwise evolution of the re-enthnt jet, a~td the cortse- quences for the characteris tics of the cavi by closure [low. It is suggested in this paper tlmt several variant.^ of kliis evolution can be seen in the photograpl~s of cavitation on single hydrofoils foils and on propellers. What is common to many of these variants is that, the spanwise evolution of the cavity and the re-entrant, jet can give rise to conditiorts at some particrrlar span- wise location(s) which initiate partial cavity inst,abilit,y. In this paper we present infortriation on an iri~tabilit~y that was observed to occur on a cavitatir~g propeller of modern US Navy design. Detailed photograpllic ex- BIII~II~~~OIIB show ihai ihe insiabiiiiy osciiiations invoive spanwise development of a re-entrant jet and I)elravior similar to that of the partial cavity oscillations previ- ously observed on two-dimensional foils. NOMENCLATURE Chord of the hydrofoil Lift coefIlcierlt Pressure coeflicient, (p - p,)/$p~2 Prequericy (Hz) Advance ratio, Ulr/RR Advance ratio for zero angle of nthck Cavity length Liquid pressure Vapor pressure Upstream fluid pressure Propeller blade tip radius Fluid velocity Upstream fluid velocity Flutter speed Volume of the cavity Angle of attack Dytiarnic viscosity of the liquid Liquid density Cavitation nutnber, (p, - p,)/$p~2 Propeller tip cavitatiotl ~lt~rr~ber, (p, - p,)/$p~2~2 IhAorial tirr~e dt~ring period Preqi~cucy (radls) Nalurnl frecpiency of vihrnl ion (rnr?/s) I'rtrpcll~r rotrational freqr~cr~ry (rnrl/s) 1 INTRODUCTION In many tlows of prarl-ic-a1 irtlrrrst,, clo& of c a v i t a t h bul)I)les are periodically forrrtetl at~d t811c.n c01Iapse wltrn they are convected intm regions of higher prrssllre. It. is now widely recogrriaeci that, t.1~ colrererrt, c o l l a p s ~ or these cloi~tls can cause a sub~tant,ial increase in the ra- diated noise and in the potmtial for cavilat.ion datnage (see, for example, Soyama et nl. 1992). The mechan- ics and acousbics of SIJC~I cloutls have conseqllet~tlyat.- tractetl n~ucli research att~rnt.ion in recent yexrs, both experitneutal (Bark and van 13erlekorn 1978, Sltet~ atlrl I'etcrson 1978, 1980, Franc a 1 ~ 1 Micllel 1988, Hart et al. 1990, I<ubota et nl. 1989, I\'IcI<~riney and fjret~~t~tr 1994, lleistrlan et nl. 1998) awl at~nlytic-al (van Wi- jngaartlc~~ 1!1F4, Ilarlsorl et d. 1981, CIial~irie11182, rl'hgostino and Brenrlen 1983, 1089, Ilris~rra~l ~t GI. 19 98). The tetrtporal periodicity wttic:ll is i~rlpliciL in the phc- nonlerron may occw naturally as a rrsult of a flow in- stabilit9y or it may be the response to a periodic disl,t~r- bance irrlposetl on t.he flow SIICII as that experienc~d Ijy a propeller blade oprrat,i~~g in the 11on-t~nifort~~ \val<eof a sltip. We focns in this pa1w 011 the fol.trlrr, natnrly IJtr several flow inst,al~iIii.ies whicll rnay Iratl t.o rlolld cavi- tation. One which can readily bc tlisccr~re~l in the exist-- ing literat,i~re is the process I)y which cavit.at.ion IIIII~I~IPS arc enirairted in periodically sllecl vortic~s wlticll t,ltctt \,pcorne clonds wit11 circrr\al.ion. h otlw is lhe insbahil- ity of 1)arf.ial cavitirs (Wade a~icl Acosla 1966, 13rrnrlrn 1905). Though we focus in this paper on the latter, it

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Paper presented at the 1998 US-Japan Seminar on Abnormal Flow Phenomena in Turbomachines, Osaka, Japan.

PARTIAL CAVITY INSTABILITIES

M.E. Duttweiler and C.E. Urennen

Califoniia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91126, USA

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews some of the literature on partial cavity ir~stabilities on single liydrofoils arid then surn- marizes the striking differences in the appearance and behavior of partial cavities on swept foils (as opposed tco two-dimensional, unswept foils) as rrcently higlrlight.c.rl by de Lange et al. (1994) and Labert*eaux and Cec- cio (1998). These demonstrate the iir~portarice of the spanwise evolution of the re-enthnt jet, a~ td the cortse- quences for the characteris tics of the cavi by closure [low. It is suggested in this paper tlmt several variant.^ of kliis evolution can be seen in the photograpl~s of cavitation on single hydrofoils foils and on propellers.

What is common to many of these variants is that, the spanwise evolution of the cavity and the re-entrant, jet can give rise to conditiorts at some particrrlar span- wise location(s) which initiate partial cavity inst,abilit,y. In this paper we present infortriation on an iri~tabilit~y that was observed to occur on a cavitatir~g propeller of modern US Navy design. Detailed photograpllic ex- B I I I ~ I I ~ ~ ~ O I I B show iha i ihe insiabiiiiy osciiiations invoive spanwise development of a re-entrant jet and I)elravior similar t o that of the partial cavity oscillations previ- ously observed on two-dimensional foils.

NOMENCLATURE

Chord of the hydrofoil Lift coefIlcierlt Pressure coeflicient, ( p - p , ) / $ p ~ 2 Prequericy ( H z ) Advance ratio, Ulr/RR Advance ratio for zero angle of nthck Cavity length Liquid pressure Vapor pressure Upstream fluid pressure Propeller blade tip radius Fluid velocity Upstream fluid velocity Flutter speed Volume of the cavity

Angle of attack Dytiarnic viscosity of the liquid Liquid density Cavitation nutnber, ( p , - p , ) / $ p ~ 2 Propeller tip cavitatiotl ~ l t~r r~ber , ( p , - p , ) / $ p ~ 2 ~ 2

IhAor i a l tirr~e dt~ring period Preqi~cucy ( r a d l s ) Nalurnl frecpiency of vihrnl ion (rnr?/s) I'rtrpcll~r rotrational freqr~cr~ry (rnrl/s)

1 INTRODUCTION

In many tlows of prarl-ic-a1 irtlrrrst,, clo& of c a v i t a t h bul)I)les are periodically forrrtetl a t~d t811c.n c01Iapse wltrn they are convected intm regions of higher prrssllre. It. is now widely recogrriaeci that, t . 1 ~ colrererrt, col laps~ or these cloi~tls can cause a sub~tant,ial increase in the ra- diated noise and in the potmtial for cavilat.ion datnage (see, for example, Soyama et nl. 1992). The mechan- ics and acousbics of S I J C ~ I cloutls have conseqllet~tly at.- tractetl n~ucli research att~rnt.ion in recent yexrs, both experitneutal (Bark and van 13erlekorn 1978, Sltet~ atlrl I'etcrson 1978, 1980, Franc a 1 ~ 1 Micllel 1988, Hart et

al. 1990, I<ubota et nl. 1989, I\'IcI<~riney and f j r e t~~ t~ t r 1994, lleistrlan et nl. 1998) awl at~nlytic-al (van Wi- jngaartlc~~ 1!1F4, Ilarlsorl et d. 1981, CIial~irie 11182, rl'hgostino and Brenrlen 1983, 1089, Ilris~rra~l ~t GI. 19 98).

The tetrtporal periodicity wttic:ll is i~rlpliciL in the phc- nonlerron may occw naturally as a rrsult of a flow in- stabilit9y or it may be the response to a periodic disl,t~r- bance irrlposetl on t.he flow SIICI I as that experienc~d Ijy a propeller blade oprrat , i~~g i n the 11on-t~nifort~~ \val<e of a sltip. We focns in this pa1w 011 the fol.trlrr, natnrly IJtr several flow inst,al~iIii.ies whicll rnay Iratl t.o rlolld cavi- tation. One which can readily bc tlisccr~re~l in the exist-- ing literat,i~re is the process I)y which cavit.at.ion I I I I I ~ I ~ I P S arc enirairted in periodically sllecl vort ic~s wlticll t,ltctt \,pcorne clonds wit11 circrr\al.ion. h o t l w is lhe insbahil- ity of 1)arf.ial cavitirs (Wade a~ ic l Acosla 1966, 13rrnrlrn 1905). Though we focus in this paper on the latter, it

should be noted that there may be other unrecognized instabilities in these complex multiphase flows which lead to larger scale flow oscillations and therefore to cloud cavitation.

2 PARTIAL CAVITY INSTABlLlTY

The partial cavity instability on a single hydrofoil has beer1 known for rnany years and documented by many authors. Very briefly, it is observed (for exarr~ple by Wade and Acosta 1966) that a partial attached cav- ity on a single hydrofoil is relatively stable provided the cavity length is less than about 314 of a chord and that a supercavity is also stable provided it is longer than about 413 of a chorcl. However, for interrnedi- ate cavity lengths close to a chord in length, the cav- ity becomes quite unstable, and the size of the cavity fluctuates quite violently. During a fluctuation cycle, the cavity lengthens fairly s~rioc~thly. As i t reaches the rnaxi~nurn size, a re-entrant jet is formed in the region of cavity closure and propagates forward filling a sub- stantial fraction of the cavity with a bubbly mixture. Then a process of "pinching-off of a large cloud of bubbles from the rear causes a sudden decrease in the attached cavity lengt,h. The separated cloud can col- lapse quite violently (Franc and Michel 1988, Hart et al. 1990, Kubota et a!. 1989, Mclienney and Brennen 1994, Reisrr~an et al. 1998). As Wade and Acosta (1966) point out this process is very sirr~ilar to the cavitation cycle originally described by Knapp (1955) except that the re-eutrant jet does noi iiii tile euiiie cavity prior to piuch-off.

Wade a r ~ d Acosta (1966) observed that the frequency of the instability, f , corresponded to a reduced fre- quency, f c / U , in the range 0.07 - 0.14. Similar val- ues have been measured recently by Tsujirr~oto et al. (1998). Other investigators, such as Le et a!. (1993) and de Lange et al. (1'394), encountered sornewhat higher values of the order of 0.34. It seerns likely that the monopole excitation of the facility by the oscilla- tion of the cavity volu~r~e, V( t ) , would lead to facility dependent effects arid this may account for sorne of this discrepancy. Most recently, Tsujimoto et al. (1998) re- mark that i t may be irr~portant to distinguish between the phenomena of vortex shedding from the rear of an otherwise stable fully-developed cavity and the partial cavity iustability. We focus here on the latter because of the violence of the phenon~enon.

The linearized free streamline analyses of these flows by Tulin (1953) in the supercavitating case and by Acosta (1955) in the partial cavitating case offer some insights into the cause of this partial cavity instability

CAVITATION NUMBER, o

Figure 1: Typical results from the linearized theories for a ravitalirrg flat plate at an angle of attack of 4'. The lift coefGcients, CL (solid lines), and the ratios of cavity length, t , to c-hord, c (dashed lines), are frorn the supercavitation theory of Tulin (1953) and the partial cavitation theory of Acosta (1955). Also shown are the experirnental results of Wade and Acosta (1966) for l / c (A) and for CL (o and *) where the open symbols rep- resent points of stable operation and the solid symbols denote points of unstable cavity operation.

(see Brennen 1995). These analyses lead to equilibrium solutions for which the lift coeficient on the foil and t t ~ e cavity length vary with cavitation nurnber as shown in figure I. Note that the data frorn Wade and Acosta jlsec) agrees we!! the =f the .te2dy, linear theory. But here we are addressing the instabil- ity which occurs at the solid points in figure 1. Acosta (1981) has previously pointed out (see also Brennen 1995) that this region of instability (specifically a cavity length between 314 and 413 chords) corresponds closely to the region in which the theories yield a r~rgat~ive lift slope (dCL/da < 0) and that i t could be heuristically argued that such a flow would be unstable. Such a hy- pothesis would clearly have some merit for a flexibly ~nounted hydrofoil but since the instability occurs with quite rigidly supported foils, a more fundamental ex- planation must be sought. Tsujin~oto et al. argue that the flow is unstable in this region because the cavita- tion compliance (equal to -pdV/dp, (Brennen 1994)) is negative there. This property is also apparent in fig- ure 1 since a positive gradient in the cavity length versus cavitalion number graph implies a negative compliance. This is a more plansible explanation for the instability even though the linear stability analysis based on this hypothesis yields oscillation frequencies which do not agree with the experimental measurements. However,

the experiments strongly suggest that the instability leads to a limit cycle oscillation and, in such circum- stances, the frequency is often radically less than the most unstable frequency predicted by linear stability analysis.

In rriost of this paper we will be concerned about the radical effects of foil sweep on the evolution of the re-entrant jet and the developrnent of partial cavity in- stability. However, before errharking on that, it is in- structive to review the relationship of the partial cavity instability t o another potential instability, narnely the leading edge flutter of cavitating foils.

3 CONNECTION W I T H LEADING

EDGE FLUTTER

Brenn~n, Oey and Babcock (1980) carried out both ex- perimental and theor~tical analyses of leading edge flut- ter of single cavitating foils, and this shed some partic- ular light on the partial cavitation instability which is worth recounting. The water tunnel experiments in- volved a number of thin, flexible foils supported near the trailing edge and operated at an angle of attack and at a sufficiently low cavitation number that they had large attached cavities which normally closed well downstrealn of the trailing edge. As the tunnel veloc- ity, U, was increased these foils would exhibit a dra- matic onset of flutter a t a particular flutter speed, UF, given approximately by UF/wFc = 0.15 - 0.23. Here W F is tile naturai frequency of ur~cle~ water vibiation of the foil. Su~a l l variations occurred with angle of at- tack and mass ralio but these are not pertinent to the present discussion. What is pertinent is how this flut- ter speed and the ot,her oscillation cliaracteristics varied with cavitly leugth. As the cavity length was decreased the flutter speed would decrease, ir~itially slowly, bnt then dramatically as the cavity length was decreased below 2c. Since the reduced flutter speed for long cav- ities, narnely U F / w ~ c = 0.15 - 0.23, corresponds to a reduced frequency of fc/U = 0.7 - 1.0, this reduction in frequency is consistent with a transition to partial cavity instability a t the substantially lower reduced fre- quencies described above.

As the cavity length was decreased in those flutter experiments, the amplitude of the vibration and the arrlplitude of the pressure oscillations in the cavity also increased dramatically. What these observations docu- ment is the systematic decline in the stability of a foil with a fully developed cavity when the length of the' cavity is reduced below about two chord lengths, and that tlie partial cavity instability is likely to be the dom-

inant observation for rigid foils when the cavity length is close to the chord of the foil.

4 EFFECT OF FOIL SWEEP

Until very recently, all of the experimental observations of partial cavity instability (and rriost of the observa- tions for cavitating hydrofoils in general) involved ex- periments with two-dimensional, unswept foils mounted in water tunnels. However, the recent observations of attached cavities on hydrofoils with sweep by de Lange et al. (1994), Jessup (1997) and Laberteaux and Cec- cio (1998) have brought to our attention sorne singular differences between cavity closure with three dimen- sional swept foils and the traditional two-dimensional foils. Remarkably, closure along a substantial fraction of the span of a swept foil is strikingly steady compared with the rorr~sponding two-dimensional flow. The dif- ference is illustratecl in the photographs of Laberteaux and Ceccio, two of which are reproduced in figure 2. As Laberteaux and Ceccio point out, the difference results from changes in the direction of the re-entrant jet. As de Lange et a1 (1994) observe, when the line of closure is no longer normal to the prevailing direction of t,he fluid flow, the re-entrant jet is no longer directed upstearn as it would be in a purely two-dimeasional flow but is inclined ah a "reflected" angle (as sketched in figure 3) because the mornenturn tangent to the closure line will be carried through into the re-entrant jet.

011e speculation of the consequences of this reflection is inciudeci in figure 4 where the probabie re-er~trmi jet strearrllines in the Laberteaux and Ceccio swept hydro- foil case (figure 2 lower) are sketched using t,lle jet ve- locity vectors just after reflection. Note that the cavity closure downstream of the point a t which tlie re-entrant jet reaches the le;ding edge is raclically different arid rr~uch rrlore unsteady than the closure upstrearn of this point. A sirrlilar phenornenorl is seen in the photographs of Jessup (1997). As far as the author is aware, there is no available method which could be used to predict this evoIutiori of the re-entrant jet. Clearly such a method is necessary for the prediction of cavitation on a swept foil or propeller blade.

5 OTHER FOIL GEOMETRIES

The de Lange et al. (1994) and Laberteaux and Cec- cio (1998) observations were made with swept foils of uniform chord. Foils with spanwise varying chord (ie. non-rectangular planforms), spanwise varying cavita- tion numbers or incidence angles (as would occur with

Figure 2: Photographs of the cavitation otr the suction surface of single hydrofoils in a water tunriel. The di- rection of the incident flow is downward. The leading edge is close to the top of the upper photograph and is the inclined line in the lower photograph. The tunnel sidewalls are on the sides of the photographs. Upper photograph: Unswept foil a t 2' angle of attack with U = 9.4rn/s and a = 0.6. Lower photograph: Foil with 30' of sweep a t 2' angle of attack with U = 10.lm/s and a = 0.7. Reproduced from Laberteaux and Ceccio (1998) witah the author's permission.

LEADING EDGE + CAVITY SEPARATION

'i RE-EMRANT

Figure 3: Sketch of the reflection of a re-entrant iet at an inched cavity closure. Adapted from de Lange et al. (1994).

4. f LEADING EDGE

STEADY CAVITY

CLOSURE

Figure 4: Sketch of the orientation and evolution of the re-entranl jet in figure 2 (lower).

Propeller I

Figure 5: Scherr~atic of the propeller installation in the water tunnel. Adapted from McKenney (1994,95).

a propeller) may exhibit other spanwise developments of the re-entrant jet. Thus many of the instabilities of cavitating propeller blades described by Bark (1986) may result from the spanwise development of the re- entrant jet. Coi~sider, specifically, the flow near the tip of a cavitatiug propeller blade. The local cavitation nurriber is decreasing and the chord is decreasing with radial position. Thus, at sortie spanwise location, the flow may become locally unstable t,o partial cavity in- stability as the cavity length approaches the local chord length. Though this flow is often further complicated by tile inferaciion wiih ihe tip witex , ~ i i d i z local par- tial cavity instability may be present in the observations of Higucl~i et al. (1986) on a finite aspect ratio foil of elliptical planform. In the present paper we describe the occurrence of such an instability on the blades of a propeller.

6 PROPELLER INSTABILITY

Recent experimental observations of cavitation on a typical US Navy propeller (Duttweiler and Brennen 1998) have revealed a substantial instability which ap- pears to be triggered by partial cavity instability near the tip of the blades. We outline this here as an example of the pl~enornena under discussion.

The US Navy rnodel propeller designated 5236 (diam- eter 7in, design advance ratio, .I = 1.15) was mounted in the Low Turbulence Water Tunnel at Caltech us- ing the drive system developed by McKenney (1994,95) and illustrated in figure 5. The support strut which houses the drive can be rotated so that the propeller

Advance Ratlo, J

Figure 6: Unstable (o symbols), marginally unstable (8 symbols) and stable ( x symbols) operating points irk ( . J , a*) space for file 5236 propeller operating at 185Orpm and at zero yaw.

can be operated (1) at a yaw angle and/or (2) either upstrearn or downstream of the strut. The observations described here focus orily on the configuration in which the propeller is operating downstream and therefore in the wake of the support strut. In this configuration, the propeller exhibited a flow instability at advance ra- tios, J, below design when the cavitation number was reduced below a certain critical value. The unstable operatiug points are presented graphically in figure 6. 1 - 1 4 4 I : 7 . " t * . .,t +Lo rlno;nn l u u ~ t : L I I ~ ~ b~le I L ~ B ~ ~ W I ~ I V J wan vuubL "ed u--.a.. advance ratio since the cavitation number could not be decreased below 0.14. Also note that the instability oc- curs at increasingly large cavitation numbers as the ad- vance ratio is decrpasetl. The instability boundary was quite repeatable, but, when it occured, the magnitude of the oscillations were quite variat~le. The bour~dary also showed little hysteresis. Moreover, the instabil- ity was relatively insensitive to propeller yaw; figl~re 7 derrionstrates that the irrstat~ilit~y boundary at a yaw angle of 10' was not muck1 different f rom that at zero yaw angle, though yaw did appear to be somewhat sta- bilizing.

The instability consisted of synchronous oscillat~ion in the size of the cavities on all blades, including both the tip vortex cavities and the blade cavities. These cavity size oscillations were readily visible t o t>he naked eye and readily apparent in the signals from hydrophones installed in the tunnel. Figure 8 presents typical noise spectra from one particular hydrophone installed in the tunnel wall a short distance downstream of the pro- peller. The figure shows the evolution of the spectrum

Advance Ratlo, J

Figure 7: Supplemrnt too figure 6 showing the effect of propeller yaw angle or1 the instability boundary. Solid line is taken frorn figure f i for zero yaw while tlte dash- dot line is for a yaw angle of 10'. 'The straight, (lashed lines are desc~rit)ecl i r ~ the text.

0 5 10 15 20 25

Frequency (Hz)

Figure 8: Series of power spectral density plots for the radiated noise from the cavitating propeller operating at J = 0.72 and decreasing cavitation number.

as the cavitation number is reduced at a fixed advance ratio of J = 0.72. As a* is reduced and the region of instability is entered, a t,ransition occurs frorn one dom- inar~t peak at 14Nz to another at 9Ek. The growth of the lower frequency peak is what characterized the on- set or the instability. For simplicity we refer to the lowrr fretjuency as t,he instability frequency. This fre- quency was relatively insensitive to cavitation number or advarlce ratio, and was almost always in the range of 9Hz to 1 Off z . The deper~dence on propeller rotational speed c.oulci not be defirtitively established since similar operating poirlts c.oultl only be established for a quite lirnitrtl rarrgtl of speeds frorr~ 1700rprn to I SOOrprn.

7 INSTABILITY ANALYSIS

Figure 9 preser~ts a series of frames from a digital high speed video recording showing the cavitation on the propeller blades at various rnorrlents in the instability osc-illation cycle. The rlurnbers are the fraction, T, of t,he instability cycle elapsed. At T = 0 the attached cavity is at its smallest volurne and the re-enitrant jet penetrates almost to the leading edge. At T = 0.25 the cavity is growing and the re-entrant jet is being swept downstrearn; its forward h i t can clearly be seen and is identified by the white arrow. At T = 0.70 the cavity is close to its rrlaximurn extent and the re-entrant jet has been swept off the rear of the blade over a substantial part of the span near the tip. Consequently the cavity length near the blade tip is now longer than the blade chord over a substar~tiai part of the biade span. Af- ter this the cavity collapses much more quickly than it grew. As shown at T = 0.92, the re-entrant jet reforms and quickly invades the cavity from the rear. Prom the high speed video it appears that the jet is also most active at the tip. Eventually, almost the entire cavity is filled as the re-entrant jet approaches the leading edge again at T = 0.

These observations strongly suggest a limit cycle behavior which is a three-dirnensional version of the partial cavity instability previously described for two- dimensional foils. Further perspective on this can be gained by considering the onset boundaries in figures 6 and 7 . To do this, consider the approximate func- tional dependence of the cavity length, .t, on the angle of attack, a, and cavitation number, a, which ernerges from the studies of single, two-dimensional foils. These show that l / c is approximately a function of the single variable mla. Now, in the context of a propeller, the angle of attack in the vicinity of the blade tip is ap- proximately propartiorla1 to Jo - J. It follows that, if the instability is similar to the two-dirrlensional partial

Figure 9: Series of frames from a digital high speed video recording showing the variation in cavitation and position of the re-entrant jet through one instability cycle. The numbers indicate the fraction, T, of the in- stability cycle elapsed where the zero is arbitrary b u t coincides with the smallest extent of cavitation. The white arrows indicate the front of the re-entrant jet.

cavity instability and occurs at a particular value of -f f c then the instability boundary should occur along a line of constant (Jo - J) /u * in figures 6 and 7. Two exam- ples of lines of constant (Jo - J) /u* are plotted in figure 7 to demonstrate that the instability boundary does in- deed conform quite closely to such a construct. This further strengthens the explanation of the propeller ob- servations as a partial cavity instability.

When the observed limit cycle frequency of about 9N.z is non-dimensionalized using the relative incident velocity a t the tip and the maximum propeller chord, the resulting reduced frequency is about 0.04. This is significantly smaller than the range of reduced frequen- cies observed for two-dimensional foils, for example the values of 0.07 - 0.14 measured by Wade and Acosta (1966). The reason far this discrepancy is not cleat but then the mechanism which determines the frequency in either case is not understood.

Finally, we note that this propeller instability inves- tigation is on-going and further information will be pro- vided later.

8 CONCLUDING REMARKS

This paper reviews the literature on partial cavity in- stability and the dynamics of re-entrant jets for two- dimensional foils. Then we add the recent observations

of de Lar~ge et al. (1994) and Laberteaux arid Ceccio (1998) which highlight the marked differences in the appearance of cavity closure on a foil with sweep as cornpared to a foil without sweep. These observations demonstrate the importance of the spanwise evolution of cavity closure and the re-entrant jet. These, in turn, have a major irnpact on the steadiness of the flow and on the formation of cavity clouds in the closure region.

Wit11 this as background, observations of an instabil- ity of a cavitating propeller are described. High speed video and movie film of this phenomena show that it irivolves a cycle of cavity growth and collapse similar to that of partial cavity instatdity. 'I'he partial cavities o n tlie propeller blades grow in unison until a substantial region near the tip has a cavity length greater than the local chord. Then the cavity collapses as the re-entrant jet fills the cavity and penetrates alrnost to the leading edge. The instability is primarily observed at advance ratios below design and at progressively higher ravita- tioti numbers a t lower J. It is shown that, the instability boundary seems to correspond with a particular cavity size or length at which a substantial spanwise fraction near the tip has a cavity length which oscillates about the chord length. The effect of propeller yaw was also examined and appeared to be minor.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author is grateful to the Office of Naval Research and technical monitor Dr. Edwin Rood for the sup- port of this research under Contract N00014-97-1-0002. Thanks are also due to Dr. Stuart Jessup and the David Taylor Model Basin for the loan of the propellers used in this program and to Dale Parkes for his help with the propeller experiments.

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