Study on the Characteristics and Formation Mechanism of Pressure Fluctuation in an Axial Flow Pump Based on Dynamic Mode Decomposition

Zhuang, Z. Y.; Zhou, H. H.; Yu, Z. Y.

doi:10.47176/jafm.18.5.2970

Study on the Characteristics and Formation Mechanism of Pressure Fluctuation in an Axial Flow Pump Based on Dynamic Mode Decomposition

Document Type : Regular Article

Authors

¹ School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

² School of Mechanical Engineering, Hubei University of Automotive Technology, Shiyan, 442000, China

10.47176/jafm.18.5.2970

Abstract

In this study, aiming at investigating the formation mechanism of pressure fluctuations of different frequencies in axial flow pumps, the characteristics of pressure fluctuation were determined using fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the basis of a numerical simulation of complex flow fields in the pump. The pressure and velocity modes corresponding to the primary pressure fluctuation frequency in the pump were decoupled and rebuilt using dynamic mode decomposition (DMD). The consequences showed that the primary pressure fluctuation frequencies in impeller were 11f_n and 4f_n and in diffuser were 4f_n and 2f_n, respectively, where f_n is the shaft natural frequency. Moreover, the pressure fluctuation amplitude in diffuser was significantly larger than that in the impeller. DMD could identify the coherent structures of various frequency pressure fluctuations in the impeller and diffuser. In addition, the used method, which combines both FFT and DMD, revealed that the formation mechanisms of pressure fluctuations at different frequencies are different. In particular, the pressure fluctuation at 4f_n in diffuser were caused by rotor–stator interaction (RSI) and flow separation near the suction surface (SS) of diffuser blades. Moreover, the pressure fluctuation at 2f_n was caused by flow separation near the SS of diffuser blades and wake vortex shedding. In impeller, the pressure fluctuations at 11f_n and 4f_n resulted from RSI and flow separation at the leading edge (LE) of impeller blades, respectively.

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Main Subjects

Turbomachinary

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