Lopez, A, Stickland, M and Dempster, W (2015) Modeling erosion in a centrifugal pump in an Eulerian-Lagrangian frame using OpenFOAM®. Open Engineering, 5 (1). pp. 275-279. ISSN 2391-5439
Abstract
Erosion induced by solid particle impingement is a very commonwear mechanism in turbomachinery and Computational Fluid Dynamics is one of the most widely used tools for its prediction. In this article, erosion is modeled in one of the channels of a centrifugal pump using OpenFOAM®,which is an Open Source CFD package. A review of some of the most commonly used erosion models is carried out in an Eulerian-Lagrangian frame along with a comparative study of the erosion rates obtained with each model. Results yielded some disparities between models due to the different factors taken into consideration. The mesh is then deformed to obtain the resulting eroded geometry.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 A. Lopez et al., licensee De Gruyter Open. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. The article is published with open access at www.degruyter.com. |
Keywords: | erosion; solid particle impingement; centrifugal pumps |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Chemical & Process Engineering (Leeds) > Institute for Particle Science and Engineering (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2016 17:00 |
Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2016 17:00 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/eng-2015-0037 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | De Gruyter Open |
Identification Number: | 10.1515/eng-2015-0037 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:105971 |