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Individual travelling cavitation bubbles were examined as they interacted with the flow over a two-dimensional hydrofoil. Each bubble was produced from a single nucleus created upstream of the hydrofoil, and the flow near the hydrofoil was visualized using particle imaging velocimetry (PIV). Travelling bubbles were observed to generate a local region of turbulence as they passed close to an unstable laminar boundary layer. By producing a locally turbulent region, the bubbles could temporarily sweep away a portion of attached cavitation at the foil midchord. Also, the bubbles were observed to strongly interact with a turbulent boundary layer, producing local regions of patch cavitation.
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