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With the advancement of offshore oil production in deep waters and increasing distances, the Electrical Submersible Pumping (ESP) system has emerged as an important artificial lift method. However, various pressure losses act in centrifugal pumps, thus reducing the energy transfer efficiency to the pumped fluid. Modeling the effects of different kinds of pressure losses at pump head is a far cry from...