experimental and numerical simulations predictions comparison of power and efficiency in hydraulic turbine实验和数值模拟预测水轮机功率和效率的比较.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Modelling and Simulation in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 146054, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2011/146054 Research Article Experimental and Numerical Simulations Predictions Comparison of Power and Efficiency in Hydraulic Turbine Laura Castro,1 Gustavo Urquiza,1 Adam Adamkowski,2 and Marcelo Reggio3 1 Centro de Investigacion en Ingenierıa y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Avenida Universidad 1001, ´ Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, Morelos, CP 62209, Mexico 2 The Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, 80952 Gdansk, Poland 3 Departament de Genie Mecanique, Ecole Polythecnique de Montreal, 2500 Chemin de Polytechnique, Montreal, ´ ´ ´ ´ QC, Canada H3T 1J4 Correspondence should be addressed to Gustavo Urquiza, gurquiza@uaem.mx Received 1 November 2010; Accepted 24 February 2011 Academic Editor: Guan Yeoh Copyright © 2011 Laura Castro et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. On-site power and mass flow rate measurements were conducted in a hydroelectric power plant (Mexico). Mass flow rate was obtained using Gibson’s water hammer-based method. A numerical counterpart was carried out by using the commercial CFD software, and flow simulations were performed to principal components of a hydraulic turbine: runner and draft tube. Inlet boundary conditions for the runner were obtained from a previous simulation conducted in the spiral case. The computed results