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Flow modeling in Pelton turbines by an accurate Eulerian and a fast Lagrangian evaluation method

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Article number679576
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>2015
<mark>Journal</mark>International Journal of Rotating Machinery
Number of pages13
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The recent development of Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) has allowed the flow modeling in impulse hydro turbines that includes complex phenomena like free surface flow, multi fluid interaction, and unsteady, time dependent flow. Some commercial and open-source CFD codes, which implement Eulerian solving methods, have been validated against experimental results showing satisfactory accuracy. Nevertheless, further improvement of the flow analysis accuracy is still a challenge, while the computational cost is very high and unaffordable for multi-parametric design optimization of the turbine’s runner. In the present work, a CFD Eulerian approach is applied at first, in order to simulate the flow in the runner of a Pelton turbine model installed at the laboratory. Then, a particulate method, the Fast Lagrangian Simulation (FLS), is used for the same case, which is much faster than the Eulerian approach, and hence potentially suitable for numerical design optimization, providing that it can achieve adequate accuracy. The results of both methods for various operation conditions of the turbine, as also for modified runner and bucket designs, are presented and discussed in the paper. In all examined cases the FLS method shows very good accuracy in predicting the hydraulic efficiency of the runner, although the computed flow evolution and torque curve during the jet-runner interaction exhibit some systematic differences from the Eulerian results.

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Copyright © 2015 A. Panagiotopoulos et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.