Efficiency improvement of centrifugal reverse pumps

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 0211031-0211039

  Derakhshan, Shahram ^a   Mohammadi, Bijan ^b   Nourbakhsh, Ahmad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Blade rounding; Blade shape optimization; Efficiency improvement; Reverse pump; Small hydrosite

Indexed keywords

BLADE SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; BLADE SHAPES; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; GRADIENT BASED OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; IMPELLER INLETS; INLET EDGE; LEADING EDGE; MEASURED POINTS; NAVIER-STOKES FLOW SOLVER; NUMERICAL EFFICIENCY; OPTIMAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION EFFICIENCY; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PUMP IMPELLER; TEST RIGS; TURBINE MODES;

CENTRIFUGATION; EFFICIENCY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PUMPS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSONIC FLOW; TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 77952078106     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3059700     Document Type: Article

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