Velocity profiles were measured in the impeller of a centrifugal pump with a two directional laser velocimeter. Blade to blade profiles were measured at four circumferential positions and four radii within and one outside the four bladed impeller. Data is presented herein at two circumferential and three radial locations. The pump was tested in two configurations; with the impeller running centered within the pump, and with the impeller orbiting with a synchronous motion (ϵ/r2). Variation in velocity profiles among the individual passages in the orbiting impeller were found. At design flow rate, these variations ranged from 30 to 60 percent for the radial component, and 15 to 25 percent for the tangential component. Tangential velocity profiles near the impeller exit (r/r2 = 0.973) were near uniform across each individual passage. Differences in the magnitude of the exit tangential velocities among the passages, however, were detected. Systematic differences in the velocity profile shapes of the centered and orbiting impellers were in general not measured, the only exception being at r/r2 = 0.973 at 40% of the design flow rate. At this condition, two distinct radial velocity profiles were measured. Two of the impeller passages of the orbiting impeller contained a recirculation region covering 20–30% of the blade passage while the other two passages contained no recirculation region. The centered impeller also contained this region of reverse flow. Finally, velocity data was numerically integrated to find the forces and stiffnesses due to momentum fluxes on the impeller for the orbiting condition.
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ASME 1990 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition
June 11–14, 1990
Brussels, Belgium
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- International Gas Turbine Institute
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978-0-7918-7904-7
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Laser Velocimeter Measurements in a Centrifugal Pump With a Synchronously Orbiting Impeller
Ronald J. Beaudoin,
Ronald J. Beaudoin
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY
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Steven M. Miner,
Steven M. Miner
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
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Ronald D. Flack
Ronald D. Flack
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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Ronald J. Beaudoin
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY
Steven M. Miner
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
Ronald D. Flack
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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90-GT-258, V001T01A087; 11 pages
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March 18, 2015
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Beaudoin, RJ, Miner, SM, & Flack, RD. "Laser Velocimeter Measurements in a Centrifugal Pump With a Synchronously Orbiting Impeller." Proceedings of the ASME 1990 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition. Volume 1: Turbomachinery. Brussels, Belgium. June 11–14, 1990. V001T01A087. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/90-GT-258
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