Numerical and experimental study of using axial pump as turbine in Pico hydropower plants

Renewable Energy

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 258-264

  Bozorgi, A ^a   Javidpour, E ^a   Riasi, A ^a   Nourbakhsh, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Axial reverse pump; Computational fluid dynamics; Experiment; Pico hydropower; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AXIAL PUMPS; CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOR; HYDRO PLANTS; HYDROPOWER PLANTS; LOW HEAD; NUMECA SOFTWARE; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PICO HYDROPOWER; REMOTE AREAS; REVERSE MODE; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; SPALART-ALLMARAS TURBULENCE MODEL; TEST SETUPS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW RATE; HYDRAULIC MOTORS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; PUMPS; TURBINES; TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW;

HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEVELOPING WORLD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW FIELD; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHOD; PUMP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATION; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84871653173     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.11.016     Document Type: Article

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