Pumps and most turbomachinery operate by converting power in the form of an electric motor (P 2 in the diagram below) to fluid power in the form of pressure and flow.
The motor rotates the impeller at high speed, creating a vacuum to generate suction at the inlet. This article looks at applying these concepts to a pump design.Ĭonsider the pump shown in Figure 1. This involves specifying rotation of the fluid and solid bodies within the computational domain. However, there is another feature of the Flow Simulation toolset that can assist in evaluating fluids interacting with mechanisms in motion, useful for assessing the design and performance of turbomachinery. While the software is capable of analyzing a variety of solid bodies and fluid configurations, the solutions are typically characterized by flow in or around stationary solid bodies. SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation can evaluate the fluid flow for various engineering applications and can facilitate thermal analysis for solving various heat transfer problems.
