Fast prediction of the performance of the centrifugal pump based on reduced-order model

In the present paper, the prediction of the performance of a centrifugal pump is investigated based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) reduced-order model (ROM). Firstly, the POD method is used to analyze the characteristics of the complex flow field inside the centrifugal pump, especially the eigenvalues of the velocity field and pressure field, and then the ROM of the flow field in the centrifugal pump is established then. After that, the established reduced-order model is used to predict the internal flow field. The results show that the POD mode field can reflect the spatial scale distribution of the flow field. The low-order flow field reflects the large-scale flow field structure, while the high-order flow field reflects the small-scale flow field structure. With the established ROM, the overall pump head (0D, 0-dimensional parameter) can be predicted with the relative error of less than 5%, and the standard root mean square error (normalized root mean square error, NRMSE) of pressure field and velocity field (3D, 3-dimensional parameter) is less than 4% and 8%, respectively. The efficiency and accuracy of both 0D and 3D parameters’ prediction motivate the fast prediction of multi-scale simulation of the large-scale industrial system in the future.