Compressibility effects on cavity dynamics behind a two-dimensional wedge

Abstract

To understand cavity dynamics, many experimental and computational studies have been conducted for many decades. As computational methods, incompressible, isothermal compressible, and fully compressible flow solvers were used for the purpose. In the present study, to understand the compressibility effect on cavity dynamics, both incompressible and fully compressible flow solvers were developed, respectively. Experiments were also carried out in a cavitation tunnel to compare with the computational results. The cavity shedding dynamics, re-entrant jet, transition from bounded shear layer vortices to Karman vortices, and pressure and velocity contours behind the two-dimensional wedge by the two developed solvers were compared at various cavitation numbers.