Hydraulic machines are faced with increasingly severe performance requirements. The need to
design smaller and more powerful machines rotating at higher speeds in order to provide increasing
efficiencies, has to face a major limitation: cavitation.
A two-dimensional numerical approach, by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), has
been developed for studying the effect of cavitation in the volumetric efficiency of external gear
pumps. Several cavitation models and grid deformation algorithms have been studied, and a method
for simulating the contact between solid boundaries has been developed. The velocity field in the
inlet chamber has also been experimentally measured by means of Time-Resolved Particle Image
Velocimetry (TRPIV) and results have been compared to the numerical ones in order to validate
the accuracy of the model.
Our two-dimensional model is not able to predict the real volumetric efficiency of the pump, since
several simplifications are involved in it. Nevertheless, this model shows to be valid to understand
the complex flow patterns that take place inside the pump and to study the influence of cavitation
on volumetric efficiency. The influence of the rotational speed of the pump has been analyzed, as
well as the effect of the geometry of the inlet chamber, the working pressure, the inlet pressure loss
factor, and the flow leakage through the radial clearances of the pump between gears and casing.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TDX_UPC/oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/81558 |
| Date | 27 April 2012 |
| Creators | Campo Sud, David del |
| Contributors | Castilla López, Roberto, Codina Macià, Esteve, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Mecànica de Fluids |
| Publisher | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| Source Sets | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
| Format | 223 p., application/pdf |
| Source | TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa) |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, L'accés als continguts d'aquesta tesi queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/ |
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