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Review
. 2022 Nov 29;22(23):9294.
doi: 10.3390/s22239294.

Application of Digital Twins and Metaverse in the Field of Fluid Machinery Pumps and Fans: A Review

Bin Yang  1   2 , Shuang Yang  1 , Zhihan Lv  3 , Faming Wang  4 , Thomas Olofsson  2
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Review

Application of Digital Twins and Metaverse in the Field of Fluid Machinery Pumps and Fans: A Review

Bin Yang et al. Sensors (Basel). .

Abstract

Digital twins technology (DTT) is an application framework with breakthrough rules. With the deep integration of the virtual information world and physical space, it becomes the basis for realizing intelligent machining production lines, which is of great significance to intelligent processing in industrial manufacturing. This review aims to study the application of DTT and the Metaverse in fluid machinery in the past 5 years by summarizing the application status of pumps and fans in fluid machinery from the perspective of DTT and the Metaverse through the collection, classification, and summary of relevant literature in the past 5 years. The research found that in addition to relatively mature applications in intelligent manufacturing, DTT and Metaverse technologies play a critical role in the development of new pump products and technologies and are widely used in numerical simulation and fault detection in fluid machinery for various pumps and other fields. Among fan-type fluid machinery, twin fans can comprehensively use technologies, such as perception, calculation, modeling, and deep learning, to provide efficient smart solutions for fan operation detection, power generation visualization, production monitoring, and operation monitoring. Still, there are some limitations. For example, real-time and accuracy cannot fully meet the requirements in the mechanical environment with high-precision requirements. However, there are also some solutions that have achieved good results. For instance, it is possible to achieve significant noise reduction and better aerodynamic performance of the axial fan by improving the sawtooth parameters of the fan and rearranging the sawtooth area. However, there are few application cases of the Metaverse in fluid machinery. The cases are limited to operating real equipment from a virtual environment and require the combination of virtual reality and DTT. The application effect still needs further verification.

Keywords: Metaverse fluid machinery; digital twins; fan; pump.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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The digital twins technology (DTT).
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Figure 2
Examples of DTT simulation in different scenarios: (a) aircraft aerodynamic simulation, (b) factory simulation, (c) urban simulation, and (d) battlefield simulation.
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The technical support of the Metaverse.
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DTT-based applications in centrifugal-pump-oriented fault diagnosis.
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Figure 5
Example of DTT-based IFD’s technical scheme.
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