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Old 08-11-2009, 05:10 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by sb01box
reason for the question is that with suction, cavitation can occur whereas with push stagnation maybe but no cavitation.
It's more complicated than that, technically.

Cavitation refers to the phenomenon in which a liquid flow experiences local low pressure such that it changes phase to a gas. In this case, we are already talking about a gas, so there's no possibility for cavitation to occur.
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