Project supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2016YFC0401810);the Research Project of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Munici-pality(Grant No.16DZ1202205);and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.2016B10814)
The vent tube is commonly used for the water hammer protection in the hydropower tailrace system. In transient processes, with air entering and exiting the vent tube, one sees complex hydraulic phenomena, which threat...
Ministry of Human Development Resource (MHRD),India for the financial support
Sediment flow through hydro turbine causes erosion of hydraulic components resulting in drop of turbine efficiency, parti- cularly in hydropower plants of the Himalayan region. The measurement of erosion and monitorin...
funded in part by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), U.S. Department of Energy, under Award Numbers DE-EE0002667 (the DOE/PSU Graduate Student Fellowship Program for Hydropower Research);DE-EE0002668 (The HRF Fellowship);the Hydro Research Foundation
A new Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence model is developed in order to correctly predict the mean flow field in a draft tube operating under partial load using 2-D axisymmetric simulations. It is sho...
the support of Lancaster University Renewable Energy Group and Fluid Machinery Group
A numerical case study on identifying the optimum number of buckets for a Pelton turbine is presented. Three parameters: number of buckets, bucket radial position and bucket angular position are grouped since they ar...
Lancaster University Renewable Energy Group and Fluid Machinery Group;the Laboratory of Hydraulic Turbo Machines at the National Technical University of Athens;Gilbert Gilkes and Gordon Ltd;the EU ERASMUS programme for the financial support
This paper aims to develop a generic optimisation method for Pelton turbine runners using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Two different initial runners are optimised to achieve more generic results. A simple buc...