Abstract

The main objective of this work is to understand role of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique in analyzing and predicting the performance of centrifugal pump. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the present-day state-of-art technique for fluid flow analysis. The critical review of CFD analysis of CFD analysis of centrifugal pump along with future scope for further improvement is presented in this paper. Different solver like ANSYS-CFX, FLUENT etc. can be used for simulations. Shear stress transport model has been found appropriate as turbulence model. Study of pressure contours, velocity contours, flow streamlines etc. can be studied by CFD techniques. Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (URANS) equations are solved by solver to get flow simulation results inside centrifugal pump. CFD results has to be validated with testing results or with performance characteristics curves. Performance prediction at design and off-design conditions, parametric study, cavitation analysis, diffuser pump analysis, performance of pump running in turbine mode etc. are possible with CFD simulation techniques.

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