The high speed water tunnel facility at the Indian Institute of Science

Arakeri, VH and Sharma, SD and Ram, Govinda HS and Mani, K (1988) The high speed water tunnel facility at the Indian Institute of Science. In: Sadhana : Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 13 (4). pp. 223-235.

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Abstract

The present article about the high speed water tunnel facility at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, provides a general description of the tunnel circuit, and brief reports on the performance of the facility and some typical results from investigations carried out in it. A unique aspect of the facility is that it has a horizontal resorber in the form of a large cylindrical tank located in the lower leg of the circuit. The facility has been used, among other things, for flow visualization studies, and investigations on marine propeller hydrodynamics and “synthetic cavitation”. The last topic has been primarily developed at the Indian Institute of Science and shows considerable promise for basic work in cavitation inception and noise.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Sadhana : Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences
Publisher:	Indian Academy of Sciences
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Indian Academy of Sciences.
Keywords:	Water tunnel;hydrodynamics;cavitation;flow visualization; marine propellers.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering
Date Deposited:	30 Aug 2010 12:01
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 06:15
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/31579

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