The Action Mechanism of Rotor–Stator Interaction on Hydraulic and Hydroacoustic Characteristics of a Jet Centrifugal Pump Impeller and Performance Improvement
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School of Energy and Power Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, China
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Key Laboratory of Fluid Machinery and Systems, Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730050, China
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Water 2020, 12(2), 465; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020465
Received: 7 December 2019
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Revised: 5 February 2020
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Accepted: 6 February 2020
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Published: 10 February 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydraulic Dynamic Calculation and Simulation)
The aim of this study was to investigate the action mechanism of the rotor–stator interaction (RSI) on the transient flow field and hydrodynamic noise field inside the impeller of jet centrifugal pumps (JCPs) and optimize effects of the guide vane on the hydraulic and hydroacoustic characteristics of the impeller. The numerical method of CFD (computational fluid dynamics) coupled with CFA (computational fluid acoustics) was used to analyze the correlation between the guide vane and the flow/sound performances of the impeller. The orthogonal test method, with the hydroacoustic performance of the impeller taken as the objective, was used to optimize the structural parameters of the guide vane for the stability of the hydraulic performance of the JCP. The results show that the RSI leads to a significant increase in the hydroacoustic level of the impeller, but it is indispensable for improving the hydraulic performance of the pump. The RSI effect on the fluctuation intensity of the transient flow field inside the impeller is much more sensitive than the time-average, and the fluctuation intensity of the flow field is positively correlated with the vortex intensity inside the impeller. When the impeller geometry is constant, the evolution processes of the flow field inside the impeller are mainly related to the blade number of the guide vane; when the number of guide vanes is given, the RSI effect on the hydroacoustic characteristic of the impeller is characterized by a positive correlation between the total sound pressure level (SPL) and the fluctuation intensity of the flow field. The frequency spectrum characteristics of the hydroacoustic SPL of the impeller are not consistent with the pressure fluctuation characteristics inside the impeller. The pressure fluctuation characteristics are related not only to the blade number and speed of the impeller but also to its wake characteristics determined by the guide vane. The optimization scheme for the stable hydraulic performance of the JCP significantly reduced the total SPL of the impeller compared with the original scheme, which verifies the feasibility of using the weight matrix optimization method to obtain the global optimization scheme.
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Keywords:
jet centrifugal pump; rotor–stator interaction; hydraulic performance; hydroacoustic characteristics; sound pressure level; optimization
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Guo, R.; Li, R.; Zhang, R.; Han, W. The Action Mechanism of Rotor–Stator Interaction on Hydraulic and Hydroacoustic Characteristics of a Jet Centrifugal Pump Impeller and Performance Improvement. Water 2020, 12, 465. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020465
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Guo R, Li R, Zhang R, Han W. The Action Mechanism of Rotor–Stator Interaction on Hydraulic and Hydroacoustic Characteristics of a Jet Centrifugal Pump Impeller and Performance Improvement. Water. 2020; 12(2):465. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020465
Chicago/Turabian StyleGuo, Rong, Rennian Li, Renhui Zhang, and Wei Han. 2020. "The Action Mechanism of Rotor–Stator Interaction on Hydraulic and Hydroacoustic Characteristics of a Jet Centrifugal Pump Impeller and Performance Improvement" Water 12, no. 2: 465. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020465
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