Cavitation has bothered the hydraulic machinery for centuries, especially in pumps. It is essential to establish a solid way to predict the unsteady cavitation evolution with considerable accuracy. A novel cavitation model was proposed, considering the rotating motion characteristic of centrifugal pump. Comparisons were made with three other cavitation models and validated by experiments. Considerable agreements can be noticed between simulations and tests. All cavitation models employed have similar performance on predicting the pump head drop curve with proper empirical coefficients, and also the unsteady cavitation evolution was well solved. The proposed rotating corrected-based cavitation model (rotating based Zwart-Gerber-Belamri (RZGB)) obtained identical triangle cavity structure with the experiment visualizations, while the others also got triangle structure but with opposite direction. The maximum flow velocity in the impeller passage appears near the shroud, contributing to the typical triangle cavity structure. A preprocessed method for instant rotating images was carried out for evaluating the erosion risk area in centrifugal pump, based on the standard deviation of gray level. The results imply that the unsteady rear part of the attached cavity is vulnerable to be damaged, where the re-entrant flow was noticed. This work presented a suitable cavitation model and reliable numerical simulation approach for predicting cavitating flows in centrifugal pump.
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Multiphase Flows
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