CFD data of unsteady cavitation around a hydrofoil, based on an extended Schnerr-Sauer model coupled with a nucleation model

Maria Grazia De Giorgi; Donato Fontanarosa; Antonio Ficarella

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104226

CFD data of unsteady cavitation around a hydrofoil, based on an extended Schnerr-Sauer model coupled with a nucleation model

Data Brief. 2019 Aug 7:25:104226. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104226. eCollection 2019 Aug.

Authors

Maria Grazia De Giorgi¹, Donato Fontanarosa¹, Antonio Ficarella¹

Affiliation

¹ Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento, Italy.

Abstract

The data presented in this article were the basis for the study reported in the research articles entitled "Characterization of unsteady cavitating flow regimes around a hydrofoil, based on an extended Schnerr-Sauer model coupled with a nucleation model" (De Giorgi et al., 2018)[1]. The reference study presented a spatio-temporal characterization of different cavitating flow regimes using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The authors evaluated the accuracy of an extended Schnerr-Sauer cavitation model. The accuracy of the numerical model has been improved by means of the introduction of a Density Correction Model of the turbulent viscosity, and a simplified Population Balance Modeling (PBM).