Thirty years of numerical flow simulation in hydraulic turbomachines

Acta Mechanica

Volumn 201, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 211-229

  Keck, Helmut ^a   Sick, Mirjam ^a  

^a ANDRITZ HYDRO AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMICS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENGINES; EULER EQUATIONS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; HYDRAULIC MOTORS; HYDRAULIC TOOLS; HYDRAULIC TURBINES; HYDRAULICS; MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBINES; TURBULENCE MODELS;

ACTIVE AREAS; ADVANCED TURBULENCE MODELS; APPLICATIONS.; BLADE PASSAGES; EULER SOLUTIONS; FINITE VOLUMES; FREE SURFACE FLOWS; NUMERICAL FLOW SIMULATIONS; PELTON TURBINES; PHASE FLOWS; PHYSICAL MODELS; RANS SIMULATIONS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTS; SIMULATION METHODS; STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; UNSTEADY RANS; WATER TURBINES; WHOLE MACHINES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 56749156476     PISSN: 00015970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00707-008-0060-4     Document Type: Article

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