...Chunlei Shao; Ning Bao; Sheng Wang; Jianfeng Zhou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a prediction method of gas-liquid two-phase flow patterns and reveal the flow characteristics in the suction chamber of a centrifugal pump. Design/methodology/approach A transparent model pump...

...Jian Wang; Yong Wang; Houlin Liu; Haoqin Huang; Linglin Jiang Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the unsteady caivitating flows in centrifugal pump, especially for improving the turbulence model to obtain highly resolution results-capable of predicting the cavitation inception...

... the fluid‐fluid interface are: Fluid dynamics Pumps Turbulence Modelling Surges Thermodynamics Cavitation Centrifugal pump Computational fluid dynamics R_B=bubble radius C_μ=constant U=time averaged mixture...