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to express the relationship between variables involved in pump or fan performance (such as head, volumetric flow rate rate, shaft speed) and power. . They apply to pumps, fans, and hydraulic turbines. . In these rotary implements, the affinity laws apply both to centrifugal and axial flows. The affinity laws are useful as they allow prediction of the head discharge characteristic of a pump or fan from a known characteristic measured at a different speed or impeller diameter. The only requirement is that th the two pumps or fans are dynamically similar, that is the ratios of the fluid forced are the same. Law 1. With impeller diameter (D) held constant: Law 1a. Flow is proportional to shaft speed:,[1][2] speed:,
Law 2. With shaft speed (N) held constant: [1] Law 2a. Flow is proportional to the cube of impeller diameter:
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/affinity-laws-d_408.html http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/affinity where is the volumetric flow rate (e.g. CFM, GPM or L/s), is the impeller diameter (e.g. in or mm), is the shaft rotational speed (e.g. rpm), is the pressure or head developed by the fan/pump (e.g. ft or m), and is the shaft power (e.g. W). These laws assume that the pump/fan efficiency remains constant i.e. . When applied to pumps the laws work well for constant diameter variable speed case (Law 1) but are less accurate for constant speed variable impeller diameter case (Law 2).