Author(s): M Kaniecki; Z Krzemianowski

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Abstract: The paper contains the short description of the design process of the axial flow turbines for Small Hydro. The crucial elements of the process are: ARDES programme for 1D inverse problem (containing the statistic information of the well performed hydraulic units, applying the lifting aerofoil theory); determination of universal hill diagram and optimization of the runner blades geometry by utilization of the 3D CFD codes. As the result of design process with utilization of both design steps, the generated runner blades geometry (1D inverse problem) and some computational results of 3D CFD solver have been presented. As the conclusion some crucial remarks of the designed process have been brought forward.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/12/1/012069

Year: 2010