Experimental and numerical analysis of fluid-solid-thermal coupling on electric fuel pump

Abstract

This paper designs an axial partition fuel cooling shell to solve the problem of temperature rise in the motor of the electric fuel pump (EFP). And describes a simplified method in conjunction with the computational fluid dynamics(CFD) to analyze heat generations and fuel cooling effects in integrated EFPs. Furthermore, CFD is used to numerically simulate the coupling effects among the fluid-solid-thermal based on multiple physical field. With varying different working conditions of the pump, cooling characteristics of the fuel cooling shell are obtained through CFD results. Finally, an experimental system for the EFP is established to verify reliability of the simplified method and the effectiveness of the fuel cooling scheme. Results show that fuel cooling shell plays an essential role in heat dissipating, with a maximum reduction of up to approximately 42 K in temperature. Temperature error between simulations and experiments is less than 4%, which indicates reliabilities of the simplified model and fuel cooling shell.