Simulation of Cavitation Erosion in a Hydraulic Valve

Simulation of Cavitation Erosion in a Hydraulic Valve

DOMAGAŁA Mariusz, MOMENI Hassan, DOMAGALA-FABIS Joanna, FILO Grzegorz, KWIATKOWSKI Dominik

Abstract. This paper presents a numerical simulation of cavitation of a non-return hydraulic valve. Cavitation is one of the most common reasons of hydraulic system failures or malfunctioning. Due to complex geometry and flow path which may rapidly change, hydraulic valves are exposed to a cavitation phenomenon. Additionally, hydraulic fluid always includes contaminants including dissolver air, which may accelerate nucleation formation. Despite the fact that cavitation is not a fully discovered phenomenon, an attempt of simulation of cavitation process was taken using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools.

Keywords
Cavitation Erosion, CFD Simulation, Non-return Valve

Published online 7/16/2018, 6 pages
Copyright © 2018 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: DOMAGAŁA Mariusz, MOMENI Hassan, DOMAGALA-FABIS Joanna, FILO Grzegorz, KWIATKOWSKI Dominik, ‘Simulation of Cavitation Erosion in a Hydraulic Valve’, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 5, pp 1-6, 2018

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781945291814-1

The article was published as article 1 of the book Terotechnology

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