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Learning hydraulic turbomachinery with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes
Author(s) -
Pujol T.,
Montoro L.,
Pelegrí M.,
González J. R.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
computer applications in engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.478
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1099-0542
pISSN - 1061-3773
DOI - 10.1002/cae.20513
Subject(s) - computational fluid dynamics , turbomachinery , fluid mechanics , computer science , fluid dynamics , software , hydraulics , hydraulic turbines , mechanical engineering , mechanics , engineering , aerospace engineering , physics , turbine , programming language
Abstract In fluid mechanics courses of engineering curricula, theoretical performance curves of hydraulic turbines are obtained by means of simple analytical expressions that tend to overestimate experimental data. As we show here in the analysis of a laboratory‐scale Pelton wheel, a much deeper physical insight can be achieved by means of general‐purpose commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software programs, becoming a suitable tool for academic activities. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 21: 684–690, 2013