Characteristics and control of the draft-tube flow in part-load Francis turbine

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 0211011-02110113

  Zhang, Ri Kui ^a   Mao, Feng ^a   Wu, Jie Zhi ^a,b   Chen, Shi Yi ^a,c   Wu, Yu Lin ^d   Liu, Shu Hong ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE PRESSURE FLUCTUATIONS; AXIAL PRESSURE GRADIENTS; CHAOTIC FLOWS; CHAOTIC MOTIONS; COMPLEX FLOW; CONTROL METHODOLOGY; CONTROL PRINCIPLE; DRAFT TUBES; FAST FORWARD; FLOW BEHAVIORS; FLOW STABILITY; FLUID MOTIONS; GLOBAL INSTABILITY; HELICAL VORTICES; IN-BETWEEN; JET INJECTION; LOW FREQUENCY; MASS FLUX; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PART LOAD; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RESEARCH GROUPS; REVERSED FLOW; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; SHEAR LAYER; UNSTEADY MOTION; VORTEX ROPE;

FRANCIS TURBINES; FUZZY CONTROL; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; HYDRAULICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PIPE FLOW; ROPE; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TURBINES; VORTEX FLOW;

INLET FLOW;

EID: 77955239917     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3002318     Document Type: Article

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