Flow in a centrifugal pump impeller at design and off-design conditions - Part I: Particle image velocimetry (PIV) and laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) measurements

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-72

  Pedersen, Nicholas ^a,b   Larsen, Poul S ^a   Jacobsen, Christian B ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Grundfos DK AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; IMPELLERS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; TURBULENCE;

PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV);

ROTATIONAL FLOW;

EID: 0037233166     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1524585     Document Type: Article

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