Research Article

Research on Cavitation Flow Dynamics and Entropy Generation Analysis in an Axial Flow Pump

Table 2

Grid independence verification.

Mesh nodes (kg/s)NPSH (m)Convergence criterionNumerical simulation head (m)Relative error between simulations and experiments

3004495302.9179.28010-53.8855.937%
4047425302.9179.28010-53.9813.668%
5136088302.9179.28010-54.0083.024%
6036526302.9179.28010-54.0142.864%