Versatility of Waterjet Technology: Machining Materials from Macro- to Microscale (Original PDF from Publisher)

Versatility of Waterjet Technology

Supersonic, turbulent, compressible, and three-phase interactions are among the complicated flow phenomena that are a part of waterjet technology. The editor and co-authors of this book have distilled Flow Industries, Inc.’s thirty years of R&D experience.and the US-based OMAX Corp., situated in Kent, Washington. It combines restricted computational fluid dynamics analysis and physical experiments as R&D approaches and is divided into 32 chapters and 10 parts. The book describes waterjet geometry, water-droplet and abrasive speeds, surface roughness and edge quality of machined items, and more using flow visualization and probe measurement. Showcasing developments in micro abrasive-waterjet technology, it was named a finalist for the 2016 R&D 100 Awards and received the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2016 Tibbitts Award.