Centrifugal Pump Simulation

Aim: Simulation of flow through a centrifugal pump

Objective: Obtaining a performance diagram for the pump

Procedure:

1) An arbitrary centrifugal pump was drafted

2) A rotation region was defined with rpm 1000 rad/sec

3) Flow simulation was carried out with an automatic level 3 mesh in solidworks

4) Using inlet pressure of 1 atm with varying exit velocities a parametric study was conducted to obtain different mass flow rates, the inlet and exit pressures for each case are obtained and used to calculate corresponding pressure ratios

5) Performance Diagram was obtained by plotting the pressure ratios against mass flow rates

Results: