Radial Piston Pump Model

6.6.3 Radial Piston Pump Model

The section describes the operating parameters for the radial piston pump model and conditions specified for the boundaries and volumes.

The Radial Pistons module is automatically added in the Model Panel (see, Figure 6.364), when the radial piston mesh is generated using the Rotor Template Mesher. The parameters under Radial Pistons module is accessed as follows:

Model Panel > Radial Pistons

Properties Panel > Model Tab

Setup Options

This provides the option to specify the operating parameters in either:

Template Mode: Serves as a “wizard” in setting up a problem, but with the restriction that not all options are visible.
Extended Mode: Provides the full access to all the operating parameters relevant to the module.

Switching between Template Mode or Extended Mode does not alter any parameters related to radial piston pump module. It only changes the accessibility for other advanced settings (numerics or boundary condition related). As such, the user is free to go back and forth during the problem set-up.

Reference Pump

This determines which template controls the Time Definition, when there is an additional pump or valve template as part of the simulation. This option is active only when there are multiple templates in the simulation.

Figure 6.364 - Model and Setup options-Radial piston

Note: Only one template can be set as the Reference Pump. The others are reset to No.

On defining the above settings, further parameters are defined under: