designing a semi-open impeller for pumps, how?

[mechamza]

I am supposed to completely design a centrifugal pump semi-open impeller from scratch. I have tried to design a simple impeller in solidworks and calculate its efficiency using flow simulation but I'm not sure if I should do some maths before going to solidworks like calculating the theoretical efficiency or finding out the design/angle of blades that give the best efficiency. Is there a book that can help me in this?? any help would be highly appreciated. thanks

 

[bimr]

try this:

http://www2.ts.ctw.utwente.nl/kruyt/asme2005.pps

http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tomej/articles/V002/75TOMEJ.pdf

http://www.aicfm2011.iitm.ac.in/papers/AICFM_TM_002.pdf

 

[TenPenny]

Centrifugal Pumps: Design and Application by Lobanoff and Ross has a great section on design of impellers.