Hydraulic Performance of a Mixed-Flow Pump: Unsteady Inviscid Computations and Loss Models

2001 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. P. M. van Esch ◽  
N. P. Kruyt
Keyword(s):  
Potential Flow ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Hydraulic Performance ◽  
Mixed Flow ◽  
Global Performance ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Loss Models ◽  
Potential Flow Model ◽  
Flow Pump

The hydraulic performance of an industrial mixed-flow pump is analyzed using a three-dimensional potential flow model to compute the unsteady flow through the entire pump configuration. Subsequently, several additional models that use the potential flow results are employed to assess the losses. Computed head agrees well with experiments in the range 70 percent–130 percent BEP flow rate. Although the boundary layer displacement in the volute is substantial, its effect on global characteristics is negligible. Computations show that a truly unsteady analysis of the complete impeller and volute is necessary to compute even global performance characteristics; an analysis of an isolated impeller channel and volute with an averaging procedure at the interface is inadequate.

Improved κ-ɛ Modelling of Impeller Flow Performance of a Mixed-Flow Pump under off-Design Operating States

1993 ◽  
Vol 207 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
S M Fraser ◽  
Y Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Stokes Equations ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Mixed Flow ◽  
Navier Stokes Equations ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Flow Pump

Three-dimensional turbulent flow through the impeller passage of a model mixed-flow pump has been simulated by solving the Navier-Stokes equations with an improved κ-ɛ model. The standard κ-ɛ model was found to be unsatisfactory for solving the off-design impeller flow and a converged solution could not be obtained at 49 per cent design flowrate. After careful analysis, it was decided to modify the standard κ-ɛ model by including the extra rates of strain due to the acceleration of impeller rotation and geometrical curvature and removing the mathematical ill-posedness between the mean flow turbulence modelling and the logarithmic wall function.

A Numerical Analysis of a Mixed Flow Pump

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ferna´ndez ◽  
E. Blanco ◽  
C. Santolaria ◽  
T. J. Scanlon ◽  
M. T. Stickland
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Axial Direction ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Mixed Flow ◽  
Wall Functions ◽  
Flow Phenomena ◽  
Numerical Grid ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Flow Pump

The rotating passages of turbomachinery contain some very interesting and complex fluid flow phenomena. This paper presents the three-dimensional turbulent flow through the impeller passages and surroundings of a mixed-flow pump. The model has five impeller blades mounted on a conical hub and nine stator blades in a diffuser which brings the diagonally outward flow back to the axial direction. This pump was tested with air, giving a nominal flow-rate of 1.01 m3/s and 250 Pa at 1200 rpm. Temporal discretization has second order accuracy and this is in line with the discretization of convection which is also second order. For turbulence closure the standard k-e model has been applied with conventional wall functions employed at solid surfaces. For this transient, three-dimensional computation, the numerical grid has been decomposed into five separate regions in order to process these in a parallel cluster of five individual PC’s. The results show entirely reasonable correlations with published experimental data as detailed in the flow rate-head comparisons and the numerical / experimental flow fields. These outcomes allow us to confirm that such a complex transient phenomenon may be reasonably captured by employing a commercial CFD code.

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