Study of Thermodynamic Cavitation Effects in an Inducer

What is it about?

Cavitation is a critical problem in Liquid Rocket Engine, which limits the performance of the turbopump inducers, or even leads to launch failure. It is more and more popular to use cryogen as working fluids in current rocket engine, but the cavitation thermodynamic effect shown by cryogen is still an open question. To shed light on this topic, we develop a new test facility, this paper describes the facility and some experimental results.

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