Cavitation

Written by F. Ronald Young, this book gathers into one volume a body of cavitation research that had been scattered across technical reports, book chapters, student theses and a great many journal papers. The first edition came from McGraw-Hill in 1989.

The material spans the underlying fluid dynamics and acoustics as well as experimental findings from physics, chemistry and biology laboratories. The phenomena discussed range from the erosion of ship propellers and ultrasonic cleaning to the detection of high-energy particles, the breaking apart of biological cells and sonoluminescence.

The author gives each aspect of cavitation attention in proportion to its importance, with particular focus on the many settings where it occurs and on its practical uses. The book suits specialists who have made cavitation their field as well as newcomers who want either a detailed or a broad working knowledge of it.