Static stress and modal analysis on the impeller of screw centrifugal pump

The modeling of the screw centrifugal pump was set up with Pro/E, the meshing of the fluid domain and the impeller were completed with ICEM, CFD and Workbench respectively. The 3-D steady turbulence flow in the pump was simulated by using ANSYS CFX under the design condition to get the pressure distribution on the surface of the blades. The static pressure and modal analysis were set using sequential coupling technique based on the simulation result. The results show that the maximum equivalent stress which is far less than the permissible stress occurs at the blade connected with the hub; the maximum deformation of the impeller occurs at the edge of the blade inlet; the deformation domain increase with the frequency ascended.