Steady and unsteady radial forces for a centrifugal pump with impeller to tongue gap variation

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 454-462

  González, José ^a   Parrondo, Jorge ^a   Santolaria, Carlos ^a   Blanco, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CENTRIFUGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; FORCE CONTROL; IMPELLERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; SEPARATION;

CENTRIFUGAL PUMP; SEPARATE ANALYSIS; TONGUE GAP VARIATION; UNSTEADY RADIAL FORCES;

RADIAL FLOW;

EID: 33745127368     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2173294     Document Type: Article

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