The Effect of Viscosity on Performance of a Low Specific Speed Centrifugal Pump

Table 4

The effect of oil viscosity on pump efficiency, based on CFD results.

	1 cSt	35 cSt	64 cSt	90 cSt
	0.75	0.89	0.92	0.94
	0.77	0.69	0.66	0.63
	0.84	0.58	0.50	0.45
	0.98	0.98	0.98	0.98
	0.47	0.35	0.30	0.26