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At this time, a large number of hydraulic turbomachinery installations are ageing, so that they need refurbishement to increase their efficiency and their associated output power. The items that need refurbishement are mainly the runner and the guide vanes ...
The paper below is a follow up of the authors contribution to the IAHR 2002, in which the simulations of the flow through Pelton buckets were presented. In 2002, a good consistency between the predicted and measured efficiency was presented. This paper wil ...
International Association For Hydraulic Research2004
Measurement of key plasma jet properties, such as the Mach number, electron density and temperature, in a low pressure environment, were performed using double Langmuir probes and Mach probes. In particular, under-expanded jets are studied in detail by per ...
In this first part of a 2 papers series, we present the experimental procedure for onboard measurement of pressure and strain fluctuation in a model of low head Francis turbine. 28 miniature pressure sensors are fitted in the pressure and suction sides of ...
International Association For Hydraulic Research2002
This paper presents a pressure sensor based on a variable capacitor formed by a movable polysilicon sealed membrane sensitive to pressure. When operated as a pressure sensor two operation regions are observed, an exponentially sensitivity region at low pre ...
Scale model of high specific speed Francis turbines may present at upper part load operation under low cavitation number pressure fluctuation in the range 2 to 4 times fn, the rotating frequency. In the framework of the FLINDT project, pressure measurement ...
International Association For Hydraulic Research2004
Flows in hydraulic machinery show interactions between guiding and rotating components. The wakes of the fixed components will be part responsible for the pressure fluctuations sensed on the blades. Those fluctuations become more important when the distanc ...
A series of tests have been put into effect in a laboratory to improve the cavitation monitoring techniques. Simultaneous vibrations and dynamic pressures have been measured in a reduced scale Francis turbine model with different types of cavitation: weak ...
Low Pressure Plasma Spraying (LPPS) processes use a DC plasma jet expanding at low pressure for fast deposition of dense coatings in a controlled atmosphere. The LPPS technology is widely used industrially in particular in the aeronautics and medical indus ...
Flow in a elbow draft tube is a turbulent complex unsteady flow caused by its rotating nature and the draft tube's geometry. The understanding of the main phenomena that could appear near the BEP and at off-design conditions is important to master the inst ...
International Association For Hydraulic Research2002