I'm more than happy to be told i'm wrong, but to my understanding, this isn't really cavitation. Surely cavitation is when a void opens up in a liquid (which is filled with the same stuff as the liquid, just in it's gaseous state) due to pressure differentials. this just looks like some air sucked into water by a passing hand
FTWA: The pistol shrimp snaps a specialized claw to create cavitation, which can kill small fish. I had a pair of these shrimp, and I just LOVED them. Now I know more about them, AND about pumps in general (and I wish they'd taught us about cavitation in Aquaculture Engineering class, would have been useful in a couple of instances, in hindsight).
Based on my understanding of it from the mechanical damage stand-point, cavitation describes the collapse of an bubble within a pressurized fluid system, not the bubble itself or its composite parts.
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Date: 2008-03-12 05:14 pm (UTC)...{Keanu} Whoa. {\Keanu}
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Date: 2008-03-12 05:51 pm (UTC)Surely cavitation is when a void opens up in a liquid (which is filled with the same stuff as the liquid, just in it's gaseous state) due to pressure differentials. this just looks like some air sucked into water by a passing hand
that said, it's a lovely picture =D
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Date: 2008-03-12 06:25 pm (UTC)The pistol shrimp snaps a specialized claw to create cavitation, which can kill small fish.
I had a pair of these shrimp, and I just LOVED them. Now I know more about them, AND about pumps in general (and I wish they'd taught us about cavitation in Aquaculture Engineering class, would have been useful in a couple of instances, in hindsight).
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Date: 2008-03-12 07:21 pm (UTC)