CFD Modelling and Simulation of Water Turbines

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: History of engineering and technology; Technology: general issues; Archimedean screw; axial flow turbines; backwater; biological; CFD; clearance discipline; computational fluid dynamics; Computational Fluid Dynamics; design Archimedes screw hydropower plant; draft tube vortex belt; energy loss; energy recovery factor; entropy production; fault diagnostics; fault tolerance; fish safe/friendly; flap; flow field characteristics; fuzzy control; guide vane profile change; hydro power plant; hydrodynamic performance; hydrokinetic; hydropower plant; inland hydrokinetic; integrated design; model-based fault detection; multi-ASG; multiphase pump; n/a; numerical analysis; numerical calculation; numerical simulation; overset mesh; pressure pulsation; pump-turbine; quick estimation method; reversible water turbines; sliding mesh; small/micro/pico/low head hydro power plant; Sparse Grid method; stall; tip leakage flow; transition SST k-ω turbulence model; tubular turbine; vertical axis water turbine; volume of fluid; vorticity; wake
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication

 The design and development of water turbines requires accurate methods for performance prediction. Numerical methods and modelling are becoming increasingly important tools to achieve better designs and more efficient turbines, reducing the time required in physical model testing. This book is focused on applying numerical simulations and models for water turbines to predict tool their performance. In this Special Issue, the different contributions of this book are classified into three state-of-the-art Topics: discussing the modelling of pump-turbines, the simulation of horizontal and vertical axis turbines for hydrokinetic applications and the modelling of hydropower plants. All the contributions to this book demonstrate the importance of the modelling and simulation of water turbines for hydropower energy. This new generation of models and simulations will play a major role in the global energy transition and energy crisis, and, of course, in the mitigation of climate change.