Cavitation in various types of shear flow is treated using the unique approach of turbulence-governed cavitation. After modeling the nuclei spectrum and the Langrangian pressure field sensed by a nucleus, it is found that the two most important parameters of the process are the nondimensional Lagrangian pressure r.m.s. (')S(,L), and the nondimensional cavitation event rate (THETA). Jet experiments conducted in the course of this work and other available jet cavitation data, as well as cavitation data obtained for disc wakes and boundary layers on rough surfaces are found to be in satisfactory agreement with the theory.
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