• Large eddy simulation of partial cavitation around a 2D plane-convex hydrofoil 

      Hidalgo, V.; Escaler Puigoriol, Francesc Xavier; Soto, R.; Valencia, E.; Cando, E.; Luo, X. (2015-02-02)
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      Investigations of attached partial cavitation are important because to prevent damages in hydrulic machinery and to reduce the costs. As expected computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods have been developed for more ...
    • Numerical simulation of cavitation-erosion on a plane-convex hydrofoil using a homogeneous mixture assumption 

      Hidalgo, V.; Luo, Xianwu; Escaler Puigoriol, Francesc Xavier; Valencia, E.; Cando, E.; Yang, D. (2016)
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      A better understanding of the cavitation-erosion mechanism is important to improve the prediction of the affected region under unsteady cavitation condition. For that, a new model has been proposed to estimate the microjet ...
    • Rotatory 3D structured mesh study using openFOAM to simulate the flow in francis turbine 

      Hidalgo Díaz, Víctor Hugo; Cando, E.; Mora, Carlos; Escaler Puigoriol, Francesc Xavier; Velasco, M.; Simbaña, Stalyn Fabian; Puga, Diana; Valencia, E. (Elsevier, 2021)
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      The development of a methodology to simulate numerically the steady state flow field in Francis turbines was carried out using the open source CFD software OpenFOAM along with a MRF and AMI approach. A structured mesh ...