Cavitation in an Elastic Liquid

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Abstract
An idealized theory of cavitation in the interior of a liquid is developed as an extension of the hydrodynamics of irrotational motion. It is assumed that cavitation occurs whenever the pressure sinks to a fixed breaking-pressure and that the pressure then rises at once to a fixed cavity pressure. The boundary of the cavitated region either advances as a breaking-front, moving with supersonic velocity, or remains stationary as a free surface, or recedes toward the cavitated region as a closing-front. The relevant formulas are obtained.

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