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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

Experimental Evidence of Rotating Stall in a Pump-Turbine at Off-Design Conditions in Generating Mode

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

An experimental investigation of the rotating stall in reduced scale model of a low specific speed radial pump-turbine at runaway and turbine brake conditions in generating mode is achieved. Measurements of wall pressure in the stator are performed along w ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2011

Study of a Fully Developed Wind Turbine Array Boundary Layer

Marc Calaf Bracons

Wind harvesting is fast becoming an important alternative source of energy. As wind farms become larger, they begin to attain scales at which two-way interactions with the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) must be taken into account. Several studies (Baidya ...

EPFL2011

Large-eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layer flow through wind turbines and wind farms

Fernando Porté Agel, Yu-Ting Wu, Hao Lu

Accurate prediction of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow and its interactions with wind turbines and wind farms is critical for optimizing the design (turbine siting) of wind energy projects. Large-eddy simulation (LES) can potentially provide the kind ...

Elsevier2011

Investigation of High Pressure Turbine End-Wall Film Cooling Performances under Realistic Inlet Conditions

Peter Ott, Magnus Jonsson

The mean value of turbine entry temperature increased to improve efficiency and specific power. Due to the combustor characteristics, thermal and aero-dynamics non-uniformities can be individuated at the turbine inlet section. Then, a further increase in t ...

2011

Decision Support System for the hydropower plants management : the MINERVE project

Anton Schleiss, Javier García Hernández

The MINERVE project was initiated for flood management in the Upper Rhone river basin. Its first goal is the prediction of floods. The second one is the optimum management of the complex system of hydropower plants located in the basin in order to diminish ...

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group2011

Effects of Swirl Velocities From Fan Assemblies Mounted on Lifting Surfaces

Alexandros Terzis, Charilaos Kazakos, Nikolaos Papadopoulos

The penetration of a jet of fluid into a traversal moving stream is a basic configuration of a wide range of engineering applications, such as film cooling and V/STOL aircrafts. This investigation examines experimentally the effect of blowing ratio of fans ...

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

Application of Fluid-Structure Coupling to Predict the Dynamic Behavior of Turbine Components

Steven Roth

In hydro turbine design, fluid-structure interaction (FSI) may play an important role. Examples are flow induced inertia and damping effects, vortex induced vibrations in the lock-in vicinity, or hydroelastic instabilities of flows in deforming gaps (e.g. ...

2010

Analysis and Prevention of Vortex Breakdown in the Simplified Discharge Cone of a Francis Turbine

François Avellan, Vlad Hasmatuchi

We perform a numerical analysis of the decelerated swirling flow into the discharge cone of a model Francis turbine operated at variable discharge and constant head, using an axisymmetric turbulent swirling flow model and a corresponding simplified computa ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2010

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