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Energy dissipater of multi-stage orifice plate, as a kind of effective energy dissipater with characteristics of high energy dissipation ratio and low cavitations risk, has become welcomed more and more by hydraulics researchers. The relationship between the contraction ratio of upper stage orifice plate and the lower one’s under the principle of equal-cavitation characteristics, and the reasonable distance between upper stage orifice plate and the lower one under the condition of complying with this principle, are two important factors to be considered for multi-stage energy dissipater design. In the present paper, these two factors were analyzed by theoretical consideration and numerical simulations, and solving methods were put forward. The conclusion in this paper was proved to be reasonable by model experiment.
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Ai, Wz., Zhou, Q. Hydraulic characteristics of multi-stage orifice plate. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.) 19, 361–366 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-014-1510-x
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Key words
- multi-stage orifice plate
- contraction ratio
- energy dissipater
- cavitation number
- equal-cavitation characteristics