The Proceedings of the Fluids engineering conference
Online ISSN : 2424-2896
2006
Session ID : 815
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815 Estimation of Influence of Pump Clearances on Performance of Undulation Pump with Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis(2)
Norihiko MITSUMUNETetsuya YANOTakashi ISOYAMAHironori YADARyusuke ISHIMUROYusuke ABEItsuro SAITOHidemoto NAKAGAWAToshiya ONOAkimasa KOUNOAyaka SUGINOWei SHIKou IMACHITsuneo CHINZEI
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The undulation pump shows excellent performance for pulsatile operation with small size. The pumping effect is produced by precessional waving motion of a disc inside pump housing. In this study, the effect of clearances between the waving disc and pump housing on hydraulic performance was investigated with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. The result demonstrates that the circumferential clearance had larger influence on the pump performance than the upper and lower clearances because they were more related to the regurgitation flow. This analysis was validated by comparison with the experimental result.
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