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 criterion | Numerical simulation head (m) | Relative error between simulations and experiments |
| 3004495 | 302.917 | 9.280 | 10-5 | 3.885 | 5.937% | 4047425 | 302.917 | 9.280 | 10-5 | 3.981 | 3.668% | 5136088 | 302.917 | 9.280 | 10-5 | 4.008 | 3.024% | 6036526 | 302.917 | 9.280 | 10-5 | 4.014 | 2.864% |
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