Abstract
The suction characteristics of a pump are determined by a series of tests performed at nearly constant speed. Often, however, a pump is not used at its test speed. Other pumps may be too big to test on any available rig, and all tests must be performed on a scale model. In both cases, one must resort to using model laws to estimate whether the pump will perform satisfactorily under actual working conditions.
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Yedidiah, S. (1996). Cavitation in Centrifugal Pumps. In: Centrifugal Pump User’s Guidebook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1217-8_6
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