What is cavitations?How it is generated?

Answer Posted / vikas kumar

when the pressure of any region falls below the vapour pressure.
what is vapour pressure
the very first thing is once pressure is decreasing boiling point of fluid decreasing
then vapour pressure is the pressure at which fluid gets evaporated resulting vapour bubbles is formed. overall this is undesired phenomenon it may leads to collapse the pipe

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