Which risk increases when fluid flow through aged pipelines becomes highly turbulent?

💡 Explanation

Increased turbulence creates chaotic pressure fluctuations near the pipe walls, and cavitation then corrodes the pipe material. It does this via boundary-layer separation, because increased shear stress dislodges protective layers; therefore erosion accelerates, rather than acoustic resonance, under these high-stress scenarios.

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