Vortex ropes in draft tube of a laboratory Kaplan hydro turbine at low load

Application Area 6: Turbomachinery Internal Flow

Application Challenge AC6-15

Best Practice Advice

REFERENCES

* Aakti, B., Amstutz, O., Casartelli, E., Romanelli, G., & Mangani, L. (2015). On the performance of a high head Francis turbine at design and off-design conditions. Francis-99 Workshop 1: steady operation of Francis turbines. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 579(1), 1-12. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/579/1/012010

Contributed by: A. Minakov [1,2], D. Platonov [1,2], I. Litvinov [2], S. Shtork [2], K. Hanjalić [3] —

[1] Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia,

[2] Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia,

[3] Delft University of Technology, Chem. Eng. Dept., Holland.