Hydrodynamische Effekte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Wasserqualität und ihre Messverfahren

The development of fluid mechanics during the twentieth century has been affected by intense research in order to fathom numerous practically relevant hydrodynamic effects, to understand the physical processes and correlations and to describe them mathematically. This became necessary because employing only the fundamental hydrodynamic equations, the description of certain phenomena in fluid flows caused by fluid properties was impossible. In order to assess the quality of fluids regarding their gas contents and their nuclei distributions, various measuring methods and devices have been developed and constructed since the beginning of the twentieth century. This historical development could be described nearly completely in this work, particularly the development of devices to determine the total gas content. Apart from the mostly difficult handling of these measurement methods and devices, only the influence of single parameters such as the total gas content, the dissolved oxygen content, nucleus content, nucleus distribution and the distribution of nucleus sizes on hydrodynamic effects was examined. However, the correlations between these single parameters, as they occur in real flows, could not be taken into consideration. As early as the end of the ninetieth century the development of methods and devices began to determine the tensile strength of fluids. The initially static methods have been followed by the developments of dynamic methods since the beginning of the 1970s. While for specially prepared fluids, tensile strengths of several hundred bar were measured under static conditions, the typical values for water, measured with the eddy and swirl nozzle, range between zero and two bar. This illustrates the strong influence of interactions between all parameters on the tensile strength in flowing fluids. Except for sound velocity and pressure distribution at profiles, water quality particularly affects certain cavitation phenomena. Various cavitation tests around the world have shown that without determining the actual tensile strength of the test water, it is impossible to obtain reproducible results regarding cavitation inception. In experiments concerning cavitation erosion, the correlation between water quality, erosive aggressiveness and erosion rate was proven unmistakably. Evidently, permanent measurement of the test fluid?s tensile stress during cavitation experiments with model bodies is compulsory in order to be able to interpret measurement results correctly. Cavitation phenomena at profiles or other parts affected by flow cause changes of lift, drag and loss coefficients depending on the degree of the cavitation progress. The influence of transition, detachment, obstruction and pressure distribution plays a special role. The quality of electrically conductive fluids is determined by their conductivity. By means of electromagnetic fields Lorentz-forces are generated, whose effect can be observed in lessening of flow detachment, drag reduction and increased lift. Manifold experimental research results in the area of fluid mechanics have proven that the fluid quality must be taken into account when describing real flow processes. Since the many flow parameters are subject to permanent interaction, ultimately, the sum of all single parameters lead to the effects mentioned. For the determination of the water quality such as in cavitation experiments, the tensile stress of the water can be measured making the mathematical description of cavitation inception possible.

Level thesis:degree_level

thesis.habilitation

Grantor dc:publisher

Technische Universität Dresden

Year

2005

Author dc:creator

• Heller, Winfried

Contributors dc:contributor

• Adams, Nikolaus
• Lauterborn, Werner
• Dittmann, Achim

• Flüssigkeiten
• Gasgehalt
• Kavitation
• Wasserqualität
• Zugspannung
• cavitation
• fluide
• gas content
• tensile strength
• water quality