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What Is Cavitation? Causes, Effects & Prevention in Pumps and Turbines

Cavitation is the formation and subsequent violent collapse of vapour-filled bubbles in a flowing liquid when the local static pressure

Water hammer is a pressure surge (hydraulic shock) that occurs when a moving column of liquid in a pipe is

Buoyancy is the upward force a fluid exerts on any object placed in it. Archimedes’ principle states that this upward

Surface tension is the property of a liquid surface that makes it behave like a stretched elastic membrane, caused by

Priming of a pump is the process of filling the pump casing and suction pipe completely with liquid to drive

The boundary layer is the thin region of fluid immediately next to a solid surface where velocity rises from zero

Poisson’s ratio is the ratio of lateral (transverse) strain to longitudinal (axial) strain when a material is stretched or compressed

Toughness vs resilience both measure a material’s ability to absorb energy under load, but at different points. Resilience is the

Creep vs fatigue describes two distinct ways materials fail under load over time. Creep is the slow, time-dependent plastic deformation

Enthalpy (H) is a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the sum of its internal energy and the product