The prediction of design and off-design efficiency for centrifugal compressor impellers
Abstract
Losses in centrifugal compressor impellers stem from a number of sources and their exact calculation is not yet possible. This paper investigates several modeling schemes and shows that a fair-to-good prediction (within a point or two) can be achieved by the selection of the most important flow parameters resulting from a meanline (inlet and exit) analysis.
- Publication:
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Performance Prediction of Centrifugal Pumps and Compressors
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979ppcp.proc..185M
- Keywords:
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- Centrifugal Compressors;
- Centrifugal Pumps;
- Compressor Efficiency;
- Computer Aided Design;
- Impellers;
- Performance Prediction;
- Compressor Blades;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Diffusers;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Mathematical Models;
- Transonic Flow;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer