- Set up a simulation with cavitation turned on and pressure levels set high enough to avoid levels of cavitation that significantly affect pressure rise. - If you have trouble getting a converged solution, try running a simulation with cavitation turned off, then use the result as an initial guess for a simulation with cavitation turned on. 
- Run the solver to obtain a solution. 
- Calculate the pressure rise across the pump and the NPSH value, then plot a point in the performance diagram. 
- Lower the pressure boundary condition by about 5% to 10%. 
- Repeat starting from step 2, using the previous solution as the initial guess, until cavitation has caused a significant loss of pump head.