Departament de Mecànica de Fluids

Recent Submissions

  • Detection of hydraulic phenomena in francis turbines with different sensors 

    Valentín Ruiz, David; Presas Batlló, Alexandre; Valero Ferrando, Ma. del Carmen; Egusquiza Montagut, Mònica; Egusquiza Estévez, Eduard (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019-09-19)
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    Nowadays, hydropower is demanded to provide flexibility and fast response into the electrical grid in order to compensate the non-constant electricity generation of other renewable sources. Hydraulic turbines are therefore ...

  • Fatigue life estimation of Francis turbines based on experimental strain measurements: Review of the actual data and future trends 

    Presas Batlló, Alexandre; Luo, Yongyao; Guo, Bao; Wang, Zhengwei (2019-03)
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    Due to the massive entrance of new renewable energies such as wind or solar, hydraulic turbines have to work far from its designed point and withstanding multiple transients, such as starts and stops, that shorten the ...

  • Influence of the hydrodynamic damping on the dynamic response of Francis turbine runners 

    Valentín Ruiz, David; Presas Batlló, Alexandre; Valero Ferrando, Ma. del Carmen; Egusquiza Montagut, Mònica; Jou Santacreu, Esteban; Egusquiza Estévez, Eduard (2019-10-01)
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    The dynamic behavior of Francis runners is of interest in the hydraulic machinery field since it is one of the most used type of hydraulic turbines for electricity generation. To evaluate the dynamic behavior of Francis ...

  • Modelling of the ethanol steam reforming Pd/CeO2 catalytic wall reactor 

    Cifuentes López, Alejandro; Torres Cámara, Ricardo; Llorca Piqué, Jordi (2019-11-27)
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    Open Access
    Existing literature data have been used to model the steam reforming of ethanol on catalytic honeycombs coated with Rh-Pd/CeO2, which have shown an excellent performance and robustness for the production of hydrogen under ...

  • Scale-adaptive simulation of unsteady cavitation around a naca66 hydrofoil 

    Hidalgo, Victor; Escaler Puigoriol, Francesc Xavier; Valencia Torres, Esteban Alejandro; Peng, Xiaoxing (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-09-05)
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    Open Access
    Distances between consecutive aftershocks are analysed by means of mono- and multifractal theory with the aim of quantifying the complexity of the physical mechanism governing them, as well as their predictability and ...

  • Active flow control on SD7003 airfoil using synthetic jets 

    Tousi, Navid Monshi; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María (2019)
    Conference report
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    The present paper focuses on applying the Active Flow Control (AFC) technology on the Selig-Donovan 7003 (SD7003) airfoil at Reynolds number 60,000, the idea is to employ synthetic jets in order to modify the lift and drag ...

  • Analysis of the forces driving the oscillations in 3D fluidic oscillators 

    Baghaei, Masoud; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria (2019-12-11)
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    One of the main advantages of fluidic oscillators is that they do not have moving parts, which brings high reliability whenever being used in real applications. To use these devices in real applications, it is necessary ...

  • Seismic damage scenarios in the municipalities of Elche and Alicante (Spain). A first step to the emergency planning 

    Molina Palacios, Sergio; Agea Medina, Noelia; Galiana Merino, Juan José; Benabdeloued, Boualem Youcef Nassim (2019-01-01)
    Article
    Open Access
    South and South-East of Spain are the regions with a higher seismic hazard in Spain. Therefore, a regional normative, focused on the importance of developing seismic emergency planning in many of the municipalities of the ...

  • CFD study of the effects of ingested bodies on the RSI of hydraulic turbines 

    Guardo Zabaleta, Alfredo de Jesús; Fontanals García, Alfred; Valero Ferrando, Ma. del Carmen; Egusquiza Estévez, Eduard (2018)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The ingestion of large bodies in hydraulic turbines can produce blockage in the runner and/or the distributor, modifying the amplitude and uniformity of pressure pulsations and generating large ...

  • Mean kinetic energy distribution in finite-size wind farms: A function of turbines arrangement 

    Cortina, Gerard; Sharma, V.; Torres Cámara, Ricardo; Calaf, Marc (2019-10-28)
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    Open Access
    In this work the redistribution and recovery of mean kinetic energy in a realistic, finite size wind farm is studied for neutral atmospheric boundary layer conditions. Five different wind farm configurations, with different ...

  • Geophonino-W: a wireless multichannel seismic noise recorder system for array measurements 

    Soler Llorens, Juan Luis; Galiana Merino, Juan José; Giner Caturla, José Juan; Rosa Cintas, Sergio; Benabdeloued, Boualem Youcef Nassim (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019-09-21)
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    Open Access
    The characterization of soil is essential for the evaluation of seismic hazard, because soil properties strongly influence the damage caused by earthquakes. Methods based on seismic noise are the most commonly used in soil ...

  • Numerical investigation into the influence on hydrofoil vibrations of water tunnel test section acoustic modes 

    Wang, Wei; Zhou, Lingjiu; Wang, Zhengwei; Escaler Puigoriol, Francesc Xavier; De La Torre, Oscar (2019-06-17)
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    High-speed water tunnels are typically used to investigate the single-phase and two-phase flows around hydrofoils for hydraulic machinery applications but their dynamic behavior is not usually evaluated. The modal analysis ...

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