CFD validation of performance improvement of a 500 kW Francis turbine

Renewable Energy

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 111-123

  Choi, Hyen Jun ^a   Zullah, Mohammed Asid ^b   Roh, Hyoung Woon ^c   Ha, Pil Su ^d   Oh, Sueg Young ^d   Lee, Young Ho ^a  

^a Korea Maritime University   (South Korea)

^b Green and Industrial Technology Center   (South Korea)

^c IVAIGD3 Ltd   (South Korea)

^d Korea Water Resources Corporation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamic (CFD); Efficiency; Francis turbine; Pressure distribution

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; 3D TURBULENT; AVERAGE VALUES; CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; CONCEPT DESIGNS; CONSTANT ROTATIONAL SPEED; COST EFFECTIVE; DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; FLOW ANGLES; FLOW BEHAVIORS; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLOW INFORMATIONS; FLOW PARAMETERS; FRANCIS TURBINE RUNNER; GUIDE VANE; HYDRAULIC MACHINES; INVERSE DESIGNS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODEL TESTING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; REAL FLOW; REPLACEMENT PROJECTS; TURBINE PERFORMANCE;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; DESIGN; EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; FRANCIS TURBINES; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; HYDRAULIC MOTORS; INLET FLOW; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; REVERSE ENGINEERING; TURBINE COMPONENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW MODELING; FLOW VELOCITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TURBINE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84873447690     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.08.049     Document Type: Article

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