Assessment of unsteady cavitating and non-cavitating flows on marine hydrokinetic foil (MHKF-180s) - Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy

The article centers on assessing unsteady cavitating and non-cavitating flows on a marine hydrokinetic foil (MHKF-180s), drawing on prior research in cavitation modeling and CFD uncertainty practices. It cites studies on unsteady predictions of cavitating flow around three-dimensional hydrofoils, including work using a modified RNG k-ε model (2018). Other references cover experimental and numerical analyses of cavitation in hydraulic proportional directional valves, scale effects on cavitation inception for 2D hydrofoils, and multiscale cavitating flow simulations. The bibliography also includes guidance on estimating and reporting discretization uncertainty in CFD applications, along with turbulence-model influence on unsteady cavitating flows and temperature effects. It further points to methods such as OpenFOAM simulations of NACA0015 cavitation and approaches for modeling isothermal cavitation. Overall, the cited literature supports the technical backdrop for evaluating cavitation behavior on the specified hydrokinetic foil geometry.