Abstract: Effects of the blade number on the performance of a rocket engine turbopump inducer are investigated in the present paper. For that purpose, two inducers characterized by three blades and five ...

Abstract: Unsteady cavitation in a Venturi-type section was simulated by two-dimensional computations of viscous, compressible, and turbulent cavitating flows. The numerical model used an implicit finite ...

Abstract: In the presented study a special test pump with two-dimensional curvature blade geometry was investigated in cavitating and noncavitating conditions using different experimental techniques and a ...

Abstract: The startup of rocket engine turbopumps is generally performed only in a few seconds. It implies that these pumps reach their nominal operating conditions after only a few rotations. During ...

Abstract: The cavitation behavior of a four-blade rocket engine turbopump inducer is simulated. A two-dimensional numerical model of unsteady cavitation was applied to a blade cascade drawn from an inducer ...