A novel double suction shaft-less mini pump was developed for heat control of small energy systems in this study.The mini pump impeller with an exit diameter of 40 mm was combined with the motor rotor supported by the hybrid dynamic bearing.The specific speed of the pump was 125 min-1 m3 min-1 m.The hydraulic performance of the pump was investigated experimen-tally under four rotational speeds.From the test results,it was recognized that the pump could provide a flow discharge of 5 L/min and head of 1.5 m,which are applicable for the heat control system of a 3 kW fuel cell.A three-dimensional turbulent flow simulation in the pump was also conducted near the design point.The numerical results showed that the average hydraulic performance of the mini pump was predicted reasonably.From the internal flow simulation,it was revealed that the favorable inflow condition upstream of impeller inlet could be attained by applying the double suction shaft-less design for the mini pump.
Liquid sloshing is a kind of very complicated free surface flow and exists widely in many fields.In order to calculate liquid sloshing damping precisely a volume of fluid method based on finite volume scheme is used to simulate free surface flows in partly filled cylindrical containers.A numerical method is pre-sented to simulate the movement of the free surface flow,in which a piecewise linear interface con-struction scheme and an unsplit Lagrangian advection scheme instead of Eulerian advection scheme are used.The damping performance of liquid sloshing in cylindrical containers under fundamental sloshing mode is investigated.There are four factors determining the surface-wave damping:free surface,boundary-layer,interior fluid and contact line.In order to study different contributions from these four factors to whole damping,several examples are simulated.No-slip and slip wall boundary conditions on both side wall and bottom wall of the cylindrical containers are studied to compare with the published results obtained by solving Stokes equations.In the present method the first three main factors can be considered.The simulation results show that the boundary-layer damping contribution increases while the interior fluid damping contribution decreases with increase of Reynolds number.
