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With the increasing noise pollution,low noise optimization of centrifugal pimps has become a hot topic.However,experimental study on this problem is unacceptable for industrial applications due to unsustainable cost.A hybrid method that couples computational fluid dynamics(CFD)with computational aeroacoustic software is used to predict the flow-induced noise of pumps in order to minimize the noise of centrifugal pumps in actual projects.Under Langthjem's assumption that the blade surface pressure is the main flow-induced acoustic source in centrifugal pumps,the blade surface pressure pulsation is considered in terms of the acoustical sources and simulated using CFX software.The pressure pulsation and noise distribution in the near-cutoff region are examined for the blade-passing frequency(BPF)noise,and the sound pressure level(SPL)reached peaks near the cutoff that corresponded with the pressure pulsation in this region.An experiment is performed to validate this prediction.Four hydrophones are fixed to the inlet and outlet ports of the test pump to measure the flow-induced noise from the four-port model.The simulation results for the noise are analyzed and compared with the experimental results.The variation in the calculated noise with changes in the flow agreed well with the experimental results.When the flow rate was increased,the SPL first decreased and reached the minimum near the best efficient point(BEP);it then increased when the flow rate was further increased.The numerical and experimental results confirmed that the BPF noise generated by a blade-rotating dipole roughly reflects the acoustic features of centrifugal pumps.The noise simulation method in current study has a good feasibility and suitability,which could be adopted in engineering design to predict and optimize the hydroacoustic behavior of centrifugal pumps.

Cavitation of centrifugal blood pump is a serious problem accompany with the blocking failure of short inlet cannula.However,hardly any work has been seen in published literature on this complex cavitation phenomenon caused by the coupling effect of inlet cannula blocking and pumps suction.Even for cavitation studies on ordinary centrifugal pumps,similar researches on this issue are rare.In this paper,the roles of throttling,rotation speed and fluid viscosity on bubble inception and intensity in a centrifugal blood pump are studied,on the basis of experimental observations.An adjustable throttle valve installed just upstream blood pump inlet is used to simulate the throttling effect of the narrowed inlet cannula.The rotation speed is adjusted from 2 600 r/min to 3 200 r/min.Glycerin water solutions are used to investigate the influences of kinetic viscosity.Bubbles are recorded with a high-speed video camera.Direct observation shows that different from cavitation in industrial centrifugal pumps,gas nuclei appears at the nearby of vane leading edges while throttling is light,then moves upstream to the joint position of inlet pipe and pump with the closing of the valve.It's found that the critical inlet pressure,obtained when bubbles are first observed,decreases linearly with viscosity and the slope is independent with rotation speeds;the critical inlet pressure and the inlet extreme pressure which is obtained when the throttle valve is nearly closed,fall linearly with rotation speed respectively and the relative pressure between them is independent with rotation speed and fluid viscosity.This paper studies experimentally on cavitation in centrifugal blood pump that caused by the failure of assembled short inlet cannula,which may beneficial the design of centrifugal blood pump with inlet cannula.

The existing research on improving the hydraulic performance of centrifugal pumps mainly focuses on the design method and the parameter optimization.The traditional design method for centrifugal impellers relies more on experience of engineers that typically only satisfies the continuity equation of the fluid.In this study,on the basis of the direct and inverse iteration design method which simultaneously solves the continuity and motion equations of the fluid and shapes the blade geometry by controlling the wrap angle,three centrifugal pump impellers are designed by altering blade wrap angles while keeping other parameters constant.The three-dimensional flow fields in three centrifugal pumps are numerically simulated,and the simulation results illustrate that the blade with larger wrap angle has more powerful control ability on the flow pattern in impeller.The three pumps have nearly the same pressure distributions at the small flow rate,but the pressure gradient increase in the pump with the largest wrap angle is smoother than the other two pumps at the design and large flow rates.The pump head and efficiency are also influenced by the blade wrap angle.The highest head and efficiency are also observed for the largest angle.An experiment rig is designed and built to test the performance of the pump with the largest wrap angle.The test results show that the wide space of its efficiency area and the stability of its operation ensure the excellent performance of the design method and verify the numerical analysis.The analysis on influence of the blade wrap angle for centrifugal pump performance in this paper can be beneficial to the optimization design of the centrifugal pump.

Currently, relatively large errors are found in numerical results in some low-specific-speed centrifugal pumps with unshrouded impeller because the effect of clearances and holes are not accurately modeled. Establishing an accurate analytical model to improve performance prediction accuracy is therefore necessary. In this paper, a three-dimensional numerical simulation is conducted to predict the performance of a low-specific-speed centrifugal pump, and the modeling, numerical scheme, and turbulent selection methods are discussed. The pump performance is tested in a model pump test bench, and flow rate, head, power and efficiency of the pump are obtained. The effect of taking into consideration the back-out vane passage, clearance, and balance holes is analyzed by comparing it with experimental results, and the performance prediction methods are validated by experiments. The analysis results show that the pump performance can be accurately predicted by the improved method. Ignoring the back-out vane passage in the calculation model of unshrouded impeller is found to generate better numerical results. Further, the calculation model with the clearances and balance holes can obviously enhance the numerical accuracy. The application of disconnect interface can reduce meshing difficulty but increase the calculation error at the off-design operating point at the same time. Compared with the standard k–ε, renormalization group k–ε, and Spalart–Allmars models, the Realizable k–ε model demonstrates the fastest convergent speed and the highest precision for the unshrouded impeller flow simulation. The proposed modeling and numerical simulation methods can improve the performance prediction accuracy of the low-specific-speed centrifugal pumps, and the modeling method is especially suitable for the centrifugal pump with unshrouded impeller.

The transient behavior of centrifugal pumps during transient operating periods,such as startup and stopping,has drawn more and more attention recently because of urgent needs in engineering.Up to now,almost all the existing studies on this behavior are limited to using water as working fluid.The study on the transient behavior related to solid-liquid two-phase flow has not been seen yet.In order to explore the transient characteristics of a high specific-speed centrifugal pump during startup period delivering the pure water and solid-liquid two-phase flow,the transient flows inside the pump are numerically simulated using the dynamic mesh method.The variable rotational speed and flow rate with time obtained from experiment are best fitted as the function of time,and are written into computational fluid dynamics(CFD)code-FLUENT by using a user defined function.The predicted heads are compared with experimental results when pumping pure water.The results show that the difference in the transient performance during startup period is very obvious between water and solid-liquid two-phase flow during the later stage of startup process.Moreover,the time for the solid-liquid two-phase flow to achieve a stable condition is longer than that for water.The solid-liquid two-phase flow results in a higher impeller shaft power,a larger dynamic reaction force,a more violent fluctuation in pressure and a reduced stable pressure rise comparing with water.The research may be useful to understanding on the transient behavior of a centrifugal pump under a solid-liquid two-phase flow during startup period.

In the mixed-flow pump design,the shape of the flow passage can directly affect the flow capacity and the internal flow,thus influencing hydraulic performance,cavitation performance and operation stability of the mixed-flow pump.However,there is currently a lack of experimental research on the influence mechanism.Therefore,in order to analyze the effects of subtle variations of the flow passage on the mixed-flow pump performance,the frustum cone surface of the end part of inlet contraction flow passage of the mixed-flow pump is processed into a cylindrical surface and a test rig is built to carry out the hydraulic performance experiment.In this experiment,parameters,such as the head,the efficiency,and the shaft power,are measured,and the pressure fluctuation and the noise signal are also collected.The research results suggest that after processing the inlet flow passage,the head of the mixed-flow pump significantly goes down;the best efficiency of the mixed-flow pump drops by approximately 1.5%,the efficiency decreases more significantly under the large flow rate;the shaft power slightly increases under the large flow rate,slightly decreases under the small flow rate.In addition,the pressure fluctuation amplitudes on both the impeller inlet and the diffuser outlet increase significantly with more drastic pressure fluctuations and significantly lower stability of the internal flow of the mixed-flow pump.At the same time,the noise dramatically increases.Overall speaking,the subtle variation of the inlet flow passage leads to a significant change of the mixed-flow pump performance,thus suggesting a special attention to the optimization of flow passage.This paper investigates the influence of the flow passage variation on the mixed-flow pump performance by experiment,which will benefit the optimal design of the flow passage of the mixed-flow pump.

Current research on the operational reliability of centrifugal pumps has mainly focused on hydrodynamic instability. However, the interaction between the fluid and structure has not been sufficiently considered; this interaction can cause vibration and dynamic stress, which can affect the reliability. In this study, the dynamic stresses in a single-blade centrifugal pump impeller are analysed under different operating conditions; the two-way coupling method is used to calculate the fluid–structure interaction. Three-dimensional unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations are solved with the SST k–ω turbulence model for the fluid in the whole flow passage, while transient structure dynamic analysis is used with the finite element method for the structure side. The dynamic stresses in the rotor system are computed according to the fourth strength theory. The stress results show that the highest stress is near the loose bearing and that the equivalent stress increases with the flow rate because the dynamic stresses are closely related to the pressure load. The stress distributions on the blade pressure side, suction side, leading edge, and trailing edge are each analysed for different flow rates; the highest stress distribution is found on the pressure side. On the blade pressure side, a relatively large stress is found near the trailing edge and hub side. Based on these results, a stress distribution prediction method is proposed for centrifugal pumps, which considers the interaction between the fluid and structure. The method can be used to check the dynamic stress at different flow rates when optimising the pump design to increase the pump reliability.