Abstract: Three mixed flow impellers representing a wide range of design parameters were tested in a closed water loop to obtain correlations of the high-speed photographic records of the cavitation ...

Abstract: The essential ingredient missing in existing prediction methods for the performance of multistage axial compressors is that which would account for the effect of end-wall boundary layers. It is, ...

Abstract: Several design models of centrifugal pump impellers were tested in water to determine tip-clearance effects on noncavitating and cavitating performance. Although most of these impellers were ...

Abstract: 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 ...

Abstract: The cavitation damage resistance of alloys of aluminum, columbium (niobium), tantalum, molybdenum, and stainless steel was evaluated in water using a rotating disk apparatus that simulated the ...

Abstract: High performance, mobile, nuclear power plants utilizing liquid metals require high temperature pumps to circulate these heat transport fluids. These pumps must have moderately high efficiency, ...

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor stage with an unusually high inlet hub/tip ratio of 0.87 was designed for a pressure ratio of 2.0 at a corrected mass flow of 2.45 lb per sec. The geometry was ...

Abstract: The circulation of the liquid-metal heat-transport fluids used in high-performance, mobile, nuclear power plants requires high-temperature pumps. These pumps must be capable of moderately high ...