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Title: Modelling complex draft-tube flows using near-wall turbulence closures

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OSTI ID:574291
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  2. Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States). Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research

This paper presents a finite-volume method for simulating flows through complex hydroturbine draft-tube configurations using near-wall turbulence closures. The method employs the artificial-compressibility pressure-velocity coupling approach in conjunction with multigrid acceleration for fast convergence on very fine grids. Calculations are carried out for a draft tube with two downstream piers on a computational mesh consisting of 1.2x10{sup 6} nodes. Comparisons of the computed results with measurements demonstrate the ability of the method to capture most experimental trends with reasonable accuracy. Calculated three-dimensional particle traces reveal very complex flow features in the vicinity of the piers, including horse-shoe longitudinal vortices and and regions of flow reversal.

Research Organization:
Lockheed Idaho Technologies Co., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC07-94ID13223
OSTI ID:
574291
Report Number(s):
CONF-9609429-1; ON: DE98001760; TRN: 98:001212
Resource Relation:
Conference: 18. IAHR symposium on hydraulic machinery and cavitation, Valencia (Spain), 16-19 Sep 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English