...Yandong Gu; Hao Sun; Chuan Wang; Rong Lu; Benqing Liu; Jie Ge Multi-stage centrifugal pumps are frequently used in high-lift applications and consume considerable energy, but suffer from poor performance and large axial force. The rear shroud of impeller is trimmed for reducing axial thrust...

...Marjan Gantar; Dusan Florjancic; Brane Sirok In this paper, axial thrust problems of multistage pumps are presented. The entire investigation has been focused on the pump design concept having all impellers in series (facing in one direction) and is valid for barrel casing type as well...