Optimized Reduction of Unsteady Radial Forces in a Singlechannel Pump for Wastewater Treatment

A single-channel pump for wastewater treatment was optimized to reduce unsteady radial force sources caused by impeller-volute interactions. The steady and unsteady Reynolds- averaged Navier-Stokes equations using the shear-stress transport turbulence model were discretized by finite volume approxim...

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Veröffentlicht in:IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2016-11, Vol.49 (3), p.32008
Hauptverfasser: Kim, Jin-Hyuk, Cho, Bo-Min, Choi, Young-Seok, Lee, Kyoung-Yong, Peck, Jong-Hyeon, Kim, Seon-Chang
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Zusammenfassung:A single-channel pump for wastewater treatment was optimized to reduce unsteady radial force sources caused by impeller-volute interactions. The steady and unsteady Reynolds- averaged Navier-Stokes equations using the shear-stress transport turbulence model were discretized by finite volume approximations and solved on tetrahedral grids to analyze the flow in the single-channel pump. The sweep area of radial force during one revolution and the distance of the sweep-area center of mass from the origin were selected as the objective functions; the two design variables were related to the internal flow cross-sectional area of the volute. These objective functions were integrated into one objective function by applying the weighting factor for optimization. Latin hypercube sampling was employed to generate twelve design points within the design space. A response-surface approximation model was constructed as a surrogate model for the objectives, based on the objective function values at the generated design points. The optimized results showed considerable reduction in the unsteady radial force sources in the optimum design, relative to those of the reference design.
ISSN:1755-1307
1755-1315
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/49/3/032008