Open AccessSimulation research on hydraulic characteristics of conical X-shaped flaring gate piers in lock chamber based on CLSVOF method
Author(s) -
Xue Yang,
Bo Wen,
Pei Yu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/781/4/042060
Subject(s) - conical surface , mechanics , lock (firearm) , computer simulation , hydraulic jump , volume of fluid method , body orifice , dissipation , turbulence , materials science , hydropower , fluent , geotechnical engineering , flow (mathematics) , geology , engineering , structural engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , thermodynamics , composite material , electrical engineering
3-D numerical simulation was carried out for flood discharge and energy dissipation process of conical X-shaped flaring gate piers in a hydropower project by using coupled Level Set and VOF method and RNG k-ε turbulent model. The change laws of flow pattern, water surface profile, velocities and pressures distributions in lock chamber of conical X-shaped flaring gate piers were gained. The results of numerical simulation were compared with the model test data and good agreement was found. The numerical results show that, there are differences on both of water surface profiles in lock chamber. With the increase of discharge, water surface profiles falls at the longitudinal axis and vertical diffusion of ski-jump flows are large on the downstream of flaring gate piers.