Publication Date:
2015-01-16
Description:
Cavitation is one of the key issues affecting the safe and stable operation of centrifugal pumps. This research conducted numerical simulations of the 3-D turbulent flow in the whole flow passage of a centrifugal pump using RANS method. The calculation results of cavitation characteristics agreed well with the experimental results, which were based on SST k-ω turbulence model and Zwart-Gerber-Belamri cavitation model. This paper analysed the cavitation development process and the corresponding pump performance for three typical conditions, namely large discharge condition, design discharge condition and small discharge condition, by changing the available Net Positive Suction Head (NPSHa). For large discharge condition, the incipient NPSHa was large, while for design discharge condition and small discharge condition, the incipient NPSHa values were almost the same and both small. As the flow rate decreased, the critical NPSHa decreased as well,...
Print ISSN:
1757-8981
Electronic ISSN:
1757-899X
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
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