Steady-state capabilities for hydroturbines with OpenFOAM

The availability of a high quality Open Source CFD simulation platform like OpenFOAM offers new R&D opportunities by providing direct access to models and solver implementation details. Efforts have been made by Hydro-Quebec to adapt OpenFOAM to hydroturbines for the development of steady-state...

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Published in:IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2010-08, Vol.12 (1), p.012076-012076
Main Authors: Page, M, Beaudoin, M, Giroux, A M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Availability
Boundary conditions
Computational fluid dynamics
Conferences
Freeware
Hydraulic turbines
Interfaces
Mathematical models
Platforms
Solvers
Steady state
Turbomachinery
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Summary:The availability of a high quality Open Source CFD simulation platform like OpenFOAM offers new R&D opportunities by providing direct access to models and solver implementation details. Efforts have been made by Hydro-Quebec to adapt OpenFOAM to hydroturbines for the development of steady-state capabilities. The paper describes the developments that have been made to implement new turbomachinery related capabilities: Multiple Frame of Reference solver, domain coupling interfaces (GGI, cyclicGGI and mixing plane) and specialized boundary conditions. Practical use of the new turbomachinery capabilities are demonstrated for the analysis of a 195-MW Francis hydroturbine.
ISSN:1755-1315
1755-1307
1755-1315
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/12/1/012076