TwinMesh for Reliable CFD Analysis of Eccentric Screw Pumps
Combining TwinMesh and leading CFD solvers such as Simcenter STAR-CCM+ or Ansys CFX offers engineers a unique, efficient and fast workflow for transient, three-dimensional computational fluid and thermal analyses (CFD) of eccentric screw pumps.
Design engineers of progressive cavity pumps have to:
- Have deep insight into their machine behavior and existing limits,
- Analyse the impact of changing operation requirements (e.g other fluid viscosity, different revolution speeds, impact of external temperatures, etc.) as well as the impact of different stator materials
- Be able to answer specific customer demands and
- Produce fast and reliable answers.
Thanks to our software TwinMesh virtual product development is available for progressive cavity pumps (eccentric screw pumps)!
No More Numerical Limits
Common limitations of CFD software packages such as limited physics, insufficient mesh resolution or numerical errors due to bad mesh quality or interpolation errors or overlapping mesh method are redundant for the TwinMesh approach.
Using structured grids from the TwinMesh software users get access to the full capacity of CFD modelling available in CFD software packages. The high quality meshes from TwinMesh result in reliable and stable CFD simulations for progressive cavity pumps at moderate model sizes and moderate calculation times for transient analysis.
What Engineers Can Expect:
CFD analysis results generated with TwinMesh and CFD software provide engineers of eccentric screw pumps with essential information such as:
- Velocity, pressure, and temperature fields within the working chamber
- Flow rates and mass flow at user defined operation points,
- Torques, moments, forces and machine efficiency (CoP),
- Leakage and losses,
- Pulsation behavior of the machine,
- Location and magnitude of erosion (e. g. particles, cavitation),
- Duration and magnitude of acoustic sources (emission).
TwinMesh and leading CFD solvers together make a reliable, modern, and state-of-the-art engineering tool, which allows for fast, reliable and efficient analysis and optimization of progressive cavity pumps (eccentric screw pumps).
Better Designs
Increase machine performance, efficiency, and durability by a better understanding of complex phenomena inside your machine.
Speed & Flexibility
Reduce your time-to-market and fasten your response time to changing demands significantly by massive use of virtual prototyping.
Drive Innovation
Drive real innovation by getting deeper insight into the details of your products and their interaction with connected systems.
Reduced Costs
Reduce development and manufacturing costs by massive use of virtual product development instead of time consuming measurements on physical prototypes.
CFD Results of Eccentric Screw Pump Simulations
Mesh for rotor and stator
Pressure distribution and mesh on rotor
Mesh for rotor and stator
Pressure distribution
Animations of Eccentric Screw Pump Simulations
Transport of the tracer towards the pressure side as volume rendering
Absolute pressure on rotor surfaces, and velocity as streamlines
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