Cavitation Modelling and Characteristic Study of （空化建模和特征的研究）.pdf

International Journal of Innovative Research in Advanced Engineering (IJIRAE) ISSN: 2349-2163 Volume 1 Issue 10 (November 2014) Cavitation Modelling and Characteristic Study of a Centrifugal Pump Impeller Arun mathew M. Tech in Machine Design S.N.G.C.E, Kolenchery, M.G. University, Kottayam Abstract— The phenomenon of cavitation can be described as the vapour bubble formation of an originally liqui d flow, this change of phase is carried through at constant temperature and local drop pressure, gener ated by flow conditions. Turbo machines like centrifugal pumps suffer with loss of performance, degradation of its useful life caused by the cavitation. The use of tools like CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) has been widely used in way to get better results in projects. The main objective of this work is to present the cavitation modelling in a centrifugal pump impeller without the use of experimental met hods that in the most cases showing high coast. The blade number of impeller is an important design parameter of pumps, which affects the characteristics of pump heavily. In this study, to accurate predict cavitation of a centrifugal pump, numerical analysis was compared with experimental results to validating the analysis. Certain parameters are used to study the cavitational behaviour at each particular value and the values are taken from Ansys customer portal and experimental studies. The parameters are blade number, inlet and outlet pressure, inlet flow angle and traili