Numerical Modeling of Unsteady Cavitating Flows around a Stationary Hydrofoil

Table 1

Comparison of the measures and predicted cavity shedding frequencies for the Merkle and Singhal cavitation models with 𝑛=1 and 𝑛=3 for the case of unsteady sheet/cloud cavitation. 𝜎=1, Re=750,000, 𝑉_∞ = 5 m/s, and 𝛼=6^o.

Models	Merkle		Singhal		Experiments
	𝑛=1	𝑛=3	𝑛=1	𝑛=3
Shedding frequency; (Hz)	4.0	3.5	22.5	20.5	3.5