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Single stage centrifugal pumps are widely used in several engineering fields such as: room conditioning, energetic cycles, automotive industry, home care, etc. Thus, the possibility of simulate their behaviour, in terms of pressure increase and mass flow rate, is helpful in reducing prototyping costs in the first design stages.

The Rotating Machinery Interface is a dedicated tool implemented in COMSOL Multiphysics® in the CFD Module, containing the Frozen Rotor study type. Aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of this methodology by the comparison of simulation results with experimental data. The matching between FEM and experimental results is good, underlining the suitability of the new frozen rotor methodology.