简介:1.INTRODUCTIONInconnectionwithexperimentalmodelinvestigationsofcavitationphenomenaatsubmergedbodiessocalledscaleeffectscanoccur.Inordertobeabletopredictthecavitationbehaviourofaprototypefrommodeltests,thesescaleeffectsmustbeknownandbetakenintoaccountbysimu-larityrelations.Inpreviousinvestigationstestbodyfamiliesofdifferentshapesandsizewereinvestigatedinwaterofdifferenttensilestrengthforcavitationinception.