Abstract: The article illustrates the results of an exploratory study on the effectiveness of maximum likelihood Bayesian estimation in the identification of cavitation instabilities in axial inducers using the blade-to-blade pressure ...

Abstract: This paper reports the experimental characterization of the cavitation-induced flow instabilities of a high head three-bladed inducer at design condition detected simultaneously by means of piezoelectric pressure transducers ...

Abstract: The characteristics of flow instabilities as well as the cavitation phenomenon in a centrifugal pump operating at low flow rates were studied by experimental and numerical means, respectively. Specially, a threedimensional ...

Abstract: The paper presents the results of an activity carried out on a threebladed inducer and compares the experimental data from other similar inducers. All the inducers considered in the present study have been designed by means ...

Abstract: In the present paper, the results from an extensive experimental characterization of the rotordynamic forces acting on a whirling threebladed, taperedhub, variablepitch inducer are presented. The campaign has been conducted ...

Abstract: The fluid-induced rotordynamic forces acting on a whirling space turbopump composed by an inducer and a radial impeller have been compared to the same forces measured on each single component of the turbomachine (i.e., on ...

Abstract: The paper describes the results of recent experiments carried out in the Cavitating Pump Rotordynamic Test Facility for the dynamic characterization of cavitation-induced flow instabilities as simultaneously observed in ...

Abstract: A high-head three-bladed inducer has been equipped with pressure taps on the hub along the blade channels with the aim of more closely investigating the dynamics of cavitation-induced instabilities developing in the impeller ...