Research Article
Performance Comparison of Bow and Stern Rudder for High-Speed Supercavitating Vehicles
Table 3
Comparison of feature sizes of supercavity obtained by numerical model and empirical correlations.
| Cavitation number | Full length/Rn | Maximum radius/Rn | Numerical model | Empirical correlations | Relative difference (%) | Numerical model | Empirical correlations | Relative difference (%) |
| 0.017 | 221.33 | 215.12 | 2.89 | 7.14 | 6.95 | 2.73 | 0.020 | 187.76 | 183.45 | 2.35 | 6.61 | 6.45 | 2.48 | 0.023 | 163.38 | 160.04 | 2.09 | 6.17 | 6.05 | 1.98 | 0.026 | 145.24 | 142.03 | 2.26 | 5.85 | 5.73 | 2.09 | 0.029 | 130.29 | 127.75 | 1.99 | 5.59 | 5.46 | 2.38 |
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