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We consider a cavitating flow over a mini hydrofoil (foil profile:Clark-Y-11.7) having a 14mm chord length in a cavitation tunnel at various cavitation numbers.Experimental observations show that cavitating flows over a miniature hydrofoil display several types of cavitation behavior,such as cavitation inception,sheet cavitation,cloud cavitation and super cavitation with the decreasing cavitation number.Under the same cavitation conditions,cavitation over a mini hydrofoil would be suppressed in comparison to cavitation over an ordinary hydrofoil.This cavitation scale effect is suspected to be caused by the Reynolds number.