Basic study of vortex cavitation inception

Ezure, Toshiki ; Sato, Hiroyuki; Kimura, Nobuyuki; Kamide, Hideki 

Concerning the vortex cavitation in the sodium-cooled fast reactor, basic experiments were performed. The effects of pressure and viscosity on the inception of vortex cavitations were examined in a basic water experiments. As the results, it appeared that the onset value of cavitation coefficient became higher with the increase of the pressure. In addition, it also appeared that the onset value of cavitation coefficient became higher with lower viscosity. However, this difference of onset value for the viscosity became smaller with the increase pressure, and was negligible with the same pressure in the real reactor.