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APPROACH TO THE LABORATORY MODELING OF THE FLOW VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION BEHIND A HYDRO-TURBINE RUNNER. 1. DESIGN OF SWIRLER VANES

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Investigation of hydro-turbine runner flow on a full-scale test rig consisting of a spiral casing, a stator, guide vanes, and a runner is difficult due to high cost and labor intensity. Therefore, an approach to modeling the inlet velocity profile of a hydro turbine draft tube is proposed that significantly reduces the cost of testing. In this approach, the draft tube inlet flow is modeled using a special swirl apparatus which is a combination of two swirlers: fixed and rotating. The paper presents the results of analytical calculation of the vane shape that provides a given velocity distribution corresponding to the optimal operation of the hydro turbine.

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  1. Power Machines Company, St. Petersburg, Russia

    A. S. Ustimenko, V. I. Sonin & A. V. Semenova

  2. Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

    I. V. Litvinov, S. I. Shtork & P. A. Kuibin

  3. Novosibirsk National Research State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

    I. V. Litvinov & P. A. Kuibin

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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, 2023, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 76-85. https://doi.org/10.15372/PMTF20230107.

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Ustimenko, A.S., Litvinov, I.V., Sonin, V.I. et al. APPROACH TO THE LABORATORY MODELING OF THE FLOW VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION BEHIND A HYDRO-TURBINE RUNNER. 1. DESIGN OF SWIRLER VANES. J Appl Mech Tech Phy 64, 64–72 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021894423010078

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