Strength Analysis of Axial-Flow Pump Impeller Based on FSI

Abstract

It’s necessary to calculate and analyze the strength of the pump impeller for the safe operation of the pump. In this paper, the impeller strength of a two-way full-adjust horizontal axial-flow pump in a domestic pump station under forward pumping conditions was calculated by using the unidirectional fluid-structure interaction method; it means loading the blade surface water pressure calculating from CFD software CFX as structure surface loads to the blade, and then calculating the strength of the impeller using finite element software ANSYS ; the strength of the impeller was calculated under different blade rotating angle conditions. Through the calculation, we has got static stress and deformation distribution in the impeller. The results show that under each blade rotating angle, the maximum static stress always increases with lift increasing; the maximum static stress occurs at the junction of the blade and hub; the stress concentration also occurs in there prone to cause fatigue failure; maximum deformation of the blade occurs in the leading edge close to the rim; the maximum static stress is far less than yield strength of the material that the static stress can not cause cracks.