Random disturbance in cavity boundaries

Abstract

Abstract The water condition usually is complicated due to many uncertain factors such as internal wave, density differences and so on. So the real cavity boundaries is hard to predict for a supercavition projectile. In this work, a random disturbance model is established based on Poison process of random mathematics. This model is employed to the Logvinovich cavitation expansion equation for simulating a cavity in real ocean environment. A detail of cavity outline is obtained by this calculation. The results indicate that the cavitation boundary of higher velocity case is smoother than lowers. The parameter λ of Poison model is a key factor of disturbance frequency, which largely affects the length of cavity. The λ is proportion to the cavity length. This provides a new method for water environment cavity analysis.