Effects of Turbulence Structure on the Cavitation of Turbomachinery

Information

• NSF Award
• 8960434

Owner

• Aerometrics, Incorporated

• Award Id

  8960434

• Award Effective Date

  1/1/1990 - 35 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  9/30/1990 - 35 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 49,895.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

This Phase I Small Business Innovative Research Award is for analytical and experimental work on a technique to determine the size and shape of individual gas bubbles suspended in liquids from the measured variation in phase for light scattered at different angles from a single bubble. The analysis will be based on geometrical optics for scattering from spheroidal bubbles. Experiments will attempt to verify the analytical predictions and to validate the deduced bubble size and aspect ratio by comparison with measurement by high speed photography. An instrument for rapidly characterizing bubble sizes, shapes, velocities, and concentrations would find use in studying cavitation in turbomachinery as well as in gas-liquid contacting devices such as fermentors and flotation ponds.

• Program Officer

  Ritchie B. Coryell

• Min Amd Letter Date

  12/26/1989 - 35 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  12/26/1989 - 35 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  Aerometrics Inc

• City

  Sunnyvale

• State

  CA

• Country

  United States

• Address

  755 North Mary Avenue

• Postal Code

  940852909

• Phone Number

  4087386688

• First Name

  William

• Last Name

  Bachalo

• Email Address

  wbachalo@aol.com

• Start Date

  1/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

• Name

  Engineering-Mechanical

• Code

  56