Peng Tian1, Jun Huang1, Weidong Shi1,2,*, Ling Zhou1
FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.15, No.2, pp. 139-151, 2019, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2019.05216
Abstract A prototype centrifugal pump with a specific speed of 110 is used to investigate and optimize the performances of a turbine for power generation. Particular attention is given to the design of the internal impeller. The internal flow field is simulated in the framework of a commercial computational fluid dynamics software (ANSYS). Four geometrical parameters of the impeller are considered, i.e., the inlet diameter, the inlet width, the blade number, and the blade angle. The optimization is carried out on the basis of a three-level approach relying on an orthogonal test method. The results of More >