Abstract: For a centrifugal pump, the interaction between the leakage and the pressure profile in the side chambers is crucial to the performance and reliability of the pump. However, existing theoretical models for directly predicting ...

Abstract: For a pump, the inlet condition of flow determines the outlet conditions of fluid (i.e., energy). As a rule to minimize the losses at the entry of pump, the bends should be avoided as one of the methods. But for the case ...

Abstract: Vertical inline pump is a single-stage single-suction centrifugal pump with a bent pipe before the impeller, which is usually used where installation space is a constraint. In this paper, with three objective functions of ...

Abstract: Vertical inline pump is a single-stage single-suction centrifugal pump with a bent pipe before the impeller, which is usually used where installation space is a constraint. In this paper, with three objective functions of ...

Abstract: This study comprehensively investigates the flow features and energy loss mechanisms under stall conditions based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and hydraulic loss visualization techniques. The three-dimensional ...

Abstract: This study employs an incompressible homogeneous flow framework with a transport-equation-based cavitation model and shear stress transport turbulence model to successfully reproduce the unsteady cavitating flow around a ...

Abstract: Cavitation is the main factor that causes reliability problems in centrifugal charging pumps (CCPs) in nuclear power plants. In this study, the cavitation-induced unsteady flow characteristics of a CPR1000 CCP were ...