ABSTRACT
The name cavitation as used in physics and technology originates from the Latin word cavitas (a hollow space or cavity). The first correct analysis of this phenomenon was presented by Reynolds in 1894. Cavitation describes a particular phenomenon which occurs inside a liquid when subjected to changes in the pressure field over time and distance. These changes depend on the liquid rarefying to a sufficiently low critical pressure, causing the formation of voids, filled with vapour from the liquid, as well as dissolved gases in the liquid. Then upon violent compression these voids, filled with vapour and gas, implode.
