PT Journal
AU Pozovnyi, O
   Zahorulko, A
   Krmela, J
   Artyukhov, A
   Krmelova, V
TI Calculation of the Characteristics of the Multi-gap Seal of the Centrifugal Pump, in Depend-ence on the Chambers' Sizes
SO Manufacturing Technology Journal
PY 2020
BP 361
EP 367
VL 20
IS 3
DI 10.21062/mft.2020.048
DE multi-gap seals; hydrostatic forces; a leakage; an experimental and numeral research
AB The paper presents the results of an experimental research and a numerical calculation of a multi-gap seal of a centrifugal pump. The experimental research allowed to obtain the characteristics? performance of the multi-gap seal at different operating modes, in dependence on the axial size of the chambers, pressure distributions? changes, and a leakage from the seal. Using finite volume methods, values of radial hydrostatic forces, pressure distribu-tions and leakage values were obtained. The results of the numerical calculation were compared with the results of the experiment, which showed that they matched.
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