Centrifugal, mixed flow and axial pumps. Code for hydraulic performance tests. Precision class

1999 ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 929-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. Wood ◽  
J. S. Murphy ◽  
J. Farquhar

A mixed flow impeller design was tested with six, five, and four vanes in a closed water loop to study the effects of cavitation on hydraulic performance and the results were compared with the work of other investigators. Two idealized flow models for incipient cavitation were derived to illustrate limits of cavitation design. It was found that both vane blockage and solidity effects are important when designing for optimum cavitation performance. Data showing incidence and speed effects plus the tip static pressure profiles in cavitating and noncavitating flow are also presented.


Author(s):  
N. Karamanis ◽  
R. F. Martinez-Botas ◽  
C. C. Su

A detailed flow investigation downstream of two mixed-flow turbocharger turbines has been carried out at 50% and 70% design speeds, equivalent to 29,400 and 41,300 rpm respectively. The measurement technique used was laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV). The measurements were performed at a plane 9.5 mm behind the rotor trailing edge, they were resolved in a blade-to-blade sense to fully examine the nature of the flow. The results confirmed the performance tests and indicated the improved performance of the rotor with a constant inlet blade angle relative to the rotor with a nominally constant incidence angle.


Author(s):  
Wenpeng Zhang ◽  
Fangping Tang ◽  
Sheng-ying Zhou ◽  
Lijian Shi ◽  
Ye Xia

2001 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. P. M. van Esch ◽  
N. P. Kruyt

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.


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