Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis on Turbulent Annular Seals of Centrifugal Pumps during Transient Process.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 929574, 22 pages doi:10.1155/2011/929574 Research Article Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis on Turbulent Annular Seals of Centrifugal Pumps during Transient Process Qinglei Jiang,1, 2 Lulu Zhai,1, 2 Leqin Wang,1, 2 and Dazhuan Wu1, 2 1 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Chemical Machinery and process equipment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China 2 Engineering Research Center of High Pressure Process Equipment and Safety, Ministry of Education, Hangzhou 310027, China Correspondence should be addressed to Dazhuan Wu, wudazhuan@ Received 6 February 2011; Accepted 31 August 2011 Academic Editor: Christos H. Skiadas Copyright q 2011 Qinglei Jiang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The current paper studies the influence of annular seal flow on the transient response of centrifugal pump rotors during the start-up period. A single rotor system and three states of annular seal flow were modeled. These models were solved using numerical integration and finite difference methods. A fluid-structure interaction method was developed. In each time step one of the three annular seal models was chosen to simulate the annular seal flow according to the state of rotor systems. The objective was to obtain a transient response of rotor systems under the influence of fluid-induced forces generated by annular seal flow. This method overcomes some shortcomings of the traditional FSI method by improving the data transfer process between two domains. Calculated results w