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AdhavRohit December 24, 2013 08:09

negative efficiency of centrifugal pump
 
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please help someone.


my simulation is converging without showing any reverse flow. but the result is

negative efficiency
negative head generated

flow rate is ok.

ARohit December 25, 2013 23:22

Please help somebody..i am still sttuck.
 
please help somebody..

I tried every possibility..
changing mesh,
boundary condition
time step factor ... and what not...


thanks from heart.. !!

ghorrocks December 26, 2013 04:18

Are you sure you have the rotation and torque vectors defined correctly? And the flow set up correctly? Have you manually calculated the rotor torque and rotation to check it makes sense?


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