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Peter Ott, Dominique Charbonnier, Elia Colombo, Cécile Deslot

Annular cascades are particularly useful to study the three dimensional phenomena encountered in turbomachines. The Non-Rotating Annular Test Facility of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) consists in a radial-axial inlet nozzle a ...

2011

Influence of the Pump-Turbine Guide Vanes Vibrations on the Pressure Fluctuations in the Rotor-Stator Vaneless Gap

François Avellan, Mohamed Farhat, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Steven Roth, Francisco Botero

We investigate the Rotor-Stator Interaction in a pump-turbine reduced scale model by considering fluid-structure coupling. The pressure fluctuations amplitude in the rotor-stator vaneless gap has generally been shown to increase linearly with the operating ...

2011

On the Applicability of Oil and Dye Technique During the Design Phase and Operation of Experimental Rigs

Alexandros Terzis

In this paper, an oil and dye flow visualization technique applied in two different cases of experimental testing is described, namely a single fan in crossflow and the wake of a compressor cascade. In both cases, the mixture of paint was prepared using a ...

2011

Effect of Stators on the Performance and the Thermal Capabilities of Small Axial Cooling Fans

Peter Ott, Alexandros Terzis

This investigation examines experimentally the effect of stators on the performance curves and the heat transfer capabilities of small axial cooling fans. The experimental data indicated that the results are highly affected by the flow conditions at the fa ...

2011

Control of axisymmetric vortex breakdown in a constricted pipe: Nonlinear steady states and weakly nonlinear asymptotic expansions

François Gallaire, Philippe Meliga

The present paper investigates numerically and theoretically the axisymmetric vortex breakdown occurring in a constricted pipe of infinite extension, i.e., the transition from a smooth columnar state to a breakdown state exhibiting a recirculation bubble. ...

2011

Hydrodynamics of a Pump-Turbine Operating at Off-Design Conditions in Generating Mode: Experimental Investigation

François Avellan, Mohamed Farhat, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Steven Roth, Francisco Botero

Modern pump-turbines are subject to frequent switching between the pumping and generating modes with extended operation under off-design conditions. Depending on the specific speed of the pump-turbine, the discharge-speed as well as torque-speed characteri ...

2011

THEORETICAL STUDY OF THERMALLY DRIVEN HEAT PUMPS BASED ON DOUBLE ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLE: WORKING FLUID COMPARISON AND OFF-DESIGN SIMULATION

Daniel Favrat, Jonathan Demierre

This study deals with a type of thermally driven heat pumps that consists of a reverse Rankine heat pump cycle, the compressor of which is driven by the turbine of a supercritical Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC). The application is residential heating (domesti ...

2011

Modelling and simulation of a Three-Stage Air Compressor Based on Dry Piston Technology

Alfred Rufer, Philippe Barrade, Mahbod Heidari

The core of this modelling is to study heat transfer and fluid dynamics processes for a compression expansion system, and the main particularity is that heat transfer and air movement are due to the movement of the piston. We have implemented a "moving mes ...

2011

Aeroelasticity at Reversed Flow Conditions – Part 1: Numerical and Experimental Investigations of a Compressor Cascade with Controlled Vibration

Peter Ott, Virginie Anne Chenaux

The prediction of flutter and forced response at normal flow conditions has become a standard procedure during the design of compressor airfoils. But at severe off-design conditions, the flow field becomes very complex, especially during the surge blow-dow ...

2011

Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind-Turbine Wakes: Evaluation of Turbine Parametrisations

Fernando Porté Agel, Yu-Ting Wu

Large-eddy simulation (LES), coupled with a wind-turbine model, is used to investigate the characteristics of a wind-turbine wake in a neutral turbulent boundary-layer flow. The tuning-free Lagrangian scale-dependent dynamic subgrid-scale (SGS) model is us ...

Springer Netherlands2011

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