What is the Optimum Blade Loading for Pumps?
Pumps account for 20% of global energy consumption, and energy is often the largest cost in the life cycle costs of a pump system. Critical to a good performance pump...
The Manual Design of an Axial Fan
The fan design process generally starts with the chart shown in Figure 1 which provides the relationship between speed number and diameter number as experimentally found...
Automatic Optimization of an Axial Fan
In another article on the manual redesign of a baseline axial fan, we showed how to manually set the spanwise and streamwise blade loading parameters in order to improve...