FLOW OPTIMIZATION IN HYDRAULIC TURBINES BY
NUMERICAL COMPUTING METHODS
The increasing need of green energy on the daily market [1] leads to
the optimization of the design approach of hydraulic machinery, Kaplan and
Francis turbines as well. The required costs (test rigs and time spent) to test
experimentally the hydraulic performances of several technical solutions for a
particular model of a power plant shows that a better way would be to develop
numerical techniques for hydrodynamics optimization. This would increase the
energo-cavitational performances for the studied hydraulic models.
Cuvinte cheie: turbine Kaplan, turbine Francis, optimizare numerică,
dezvoltare de software, analiza rapidă a curgerii
Keywords: Kaplan turbines, Francis turbines, numerical optimization,
software development, fast flow analysis
52 OPTIMIZAREA CURGERII ÎN TURBINELE HIDRAULICE CU AJUTORUL CALCULULUI NUMERIC