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AFC system experimentally investigated on a 10 MW Kaplan prototype turbine and a 200 MW Francis prototype turbine
(2024-09-09)
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Open AccessThe Active Flow Control (AFC) system is a multifaceted integration of distinct subsystems, including the Injection of Pulsating Momentum (IPM), Injection of Continuous Momentum (ICM), Structural Health Monitoring System ... -
AFC system validated on a model turbine
(2024-09-09)
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Open AccessThe Active Flow Control (AFC) system is composed of various subsystems, encompassing the Injection of Pulsating Momentum (IPM), Injection of Continuous Momentum (ICM), Structural Health Monitoring System (SHM), and the ... -
ICM system validated on 10MW Kaplan and 25MW Francis prototype turbines
(2024-09-09)
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Open AccessThe Injection of Continuous Momentum (ICM) systems aims at reducing pressure fluctuations, and associated negative effects on shaft line dynamics, by introducing angular momentum to the flow field. The validation of the ... -
Report of the dynamic responses of the model and prototype turbines
(2024-09-09)
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Open AccessThis report aims to present the different numerical simulations of the model and prototype turbines which were selected to install the AFC4Hydro system, as well as the experimental modal analysis performed to validate those ... -
Report of the SHM system validated on 10 MW Kaplan prototype and 210 MW Francis prototype turbine
(2024-09-09)
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Open AccessThis report aims to summarize the design, development, testing and evaluation of the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system performance in combination with the IPM and ICM systems to reduce the induced damage during ... -
Report of the SHM systems validated on a model turbine
(2024-09-09)
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Open AccessThis report aims to summarize the different steps carried out to design, implement and test an optimized version of the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system for evaluating the turbine model test rig condition and ... -
Report of the SHM system tested, optimised and coupled with the controller in the simple structure at the laboratory
(2024-09-09)
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Open AccessThis report aims to summarize the different tasks performed at laboratory level on a simple structure, which can be rotated and submerged in water, in order to design, build and test a Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) ... -
Thermal skin friction drag reduction in aquatic animals considering oxygen precipitation from saturated oceans
(2023-08-18)
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Open AccessIt is believed that Killer whales, Dusky dolphins and other aquatic animals can take advantage of their skin color to provide drag reduction owing to preferential solar heating. In this work, however, in addition, a first ... -
Flow physics characterization of microconfined high-pressure transcritical fluids turbulence
(2022)
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Open AccessMicrofluidics technology has grown rapidly over the past decades due to its high surface-to-volume ratios, flow controllability, and length scales efficiently suited for interacting with microscopic elements. These properties ... -
Investigation of a novel numerical scheme for high-pressure supercritical fluids turbulence
(2022)
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Open AccessHigh-pressure supercritical turbulence simulations are strongly susceptible to numerical instabilities. The multi-scale nature of the flow, in conjunction with the nonlinear thermodynamics and the strong density gradients ... -
Simulaciones 3D del encauzador actual del chorro de la presa de Almendra
(2022-05-12)
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Restricted access - confidentiality agreementDesarrollar un modelo 3D que permita reproducir de forma aproximada el chorro de la presa de Almendra -
Simulaciones 3D de la propuesta de pared lateral a la salida del chorro de la presa de Almendra
(2022-05-26)
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