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Previously published inception data for cavitation in the wake of sharp-edged disks are reanalyzed. The boundary layer characteristics at the face of the disk are found to play a major role. Good correlation between theory and experiment is achieved when the boundary layer is laminar.
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Roger E. A. Arndt (1976) studied this question.
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