Design and experimental validation of the inlet guide vane system of a mini hydraulic bulb-turbine

L.M.C. Ferro, L.M.C. Gato and A.F.O. Falcão

Renewable Energy, 2010, vol. 35, issue 9, 1920-1928

Abstract: The paper presents a fast design method for the inlet guide vanes of low-cost mini hydraulic bulb turbines. The guide vanes are positioned between two conical surfaces with a common vertex and have constant thickness distribution, except close to the leading and the trailing edges. The conical-walled inlet guide vane row is designed using a quasi-three-dimensional calculation method, by prescribing the angular-momentum distribution along the span at the outlet section of the guide vanes.

Keywords: Axial flow turbine; Design method; Guide vane row; Singularity method; FLUENT code (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.01.020

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