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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Rotating Machinery Volume 2011, Article ID 137860, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2011/137860 Research Article Research on Pump Volute Design Method Using CFD Sunsheng Yang, Fanyu Kong, and Bin Chen Research Center of Fluid Machinery Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China Correspondence should be addressed to Sunsheng Yang, yangsunsheng@126.com Received 27 September 2010; Accepted 31 March 2011 Academic Editor: David Japikse Copyright © 2011 Sunsheng Yang 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. Volute is an important hydraulic part of centrifugal pump, hydraulic loss within pump volute takes up a large part of total hydraulic loss within pump, thus appropriate design of pump volute has significant meaning to centrifugal pump performance. In this paper, numerical method was adopted to investigate volute main geometric parameters, including volute throat area, volute cross- section shape, design rule of spiral development area, and radial gap between impeller and volute tongue to pump performance. A design method of high-efficiency pump volute is developed through the influence of volute main geometric parameters to pump performance. This paper could provide theoretical guidance to high-efficiency pump volute design. 1. Introduction volute tongue to the performance of pump were carried out using numerical method. The curves of pump with different Pumps are energy-consuming devices people used in daily