One of the most important milestones in history hydropower is invention Kaplan turbine. It a machine stemming from Francis turbine, which Viktor was originally trying to improve. However, it gradually developed into creation completely new solution an impeller with axial flow rate and adjustable blades. The first patent relating dates 1913. Shortly afterwards, turbine became widely used type de...

..̂IJ Previous papers described the Phase IA tests of the Rocketdyne configuration of the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) High Pressure Fuel Turbopump (HPFTP) turbine with rough coated flight engine rotor blades and with polished coated rotor blades at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) . The testing involved using scaled performance parameters and model measurements to determine the performan...

Acoustic resonances in Francis turbines often define undesirable limitations to their operating ranges at high load. The knowledge of the mechanisms governing the onset and the sustenance of these instabilities in the swirling flow leaving the runner is essential for the development of a reliable hydroacoustic model for the prediction of system stability. The present work seeks to study experim...

In our country we have enormous low head potation flows in agricultures and aquacultures with almost fix flow rates that can be used as micro hydro power plants for producing energy. But the main problem is the high capital price per kW. Therefore there is needed to design a simple machine with a good runner for covering the various potential flows. In this paper an axial hydro turbine has desi...

In the framework of this master thesis, a numerical study has been carried out in order to investigate the effect of tip geometry on the tip leakage flow and heat transfer features in a unshrouded high pressure axial flow turbine stage designed by Erhard [10]. Four different tip profiles were considered, namely a default flat tip, a modified flat tip, a modified double squealer tip and a modifi...

This paper explores the influence of blockage and free-surface deformation on the hydrodynamic performance of a generic marine cross-flow turbine. Flows through a three-bladed turbine with solidity 0.125 are simulated at field-test blade Reynolds numbers, O(10(5)-10(6)), for three different cross-stream blockages: 12.5, 25 and 50 per cent. Two representations of the free-surface boundary are co...

Internal steam leakage in turbines from the high-pressure side to low-pressure through clearances causes loss, resulting reduced efficiency and potentially compromising safe operation of turbine. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding flow characteristics blade tip is crucial improve turbines. In this paper, last stage blades cylinder certain 600 MW ultra-supercritical turbine unit were studi...

The design and adjustment of modern gas turbine engines significantly rely on the use numerical research methods. This paper reports a method devised for calculating thermogasdynamic parameters characteristics turboshaft engine. special feature given is two-dimensional blade-by-blade description compressor in engine system. Underlying calculation nonlinear mathematical model that makes it possi...