Affiliation:
1. Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
Abstract
The integration of intermittent renewable energy resources to the grid system requires that hydro turbines regularly operate at part-load conditions. Reliable operation of hydro turbines at these conditions is typically limited by the formation of a Rotating Vortex Rope (RVR) in the draft tube. In this paper, we investigate the formation of this vortex using the scale-resolving methods SST-SAS, wall-modeled LES (WMLES), and zonal WMLES. The numerical results are first validated against the available experimental data, and then analyzed to explain the effect of using different scale-resolving methods in detail. It is revealed that although all methods can capture the main features of the RVRs, the WMLES method provides the best quantitative agreement between the simulation results and experiment. Furthermore, cavitating simulations are performed using WMLES method to study the effect of cavitation on the flow in the turbine. These effects of cavitation are shown to be highly dependent on the amount of vapor in the RVR. If the amount of vapor is small, cavitation induces broadband high-frequency fluctuations in the pressure and forces exerted on the turbine. As the amount of cavitation increases, these fluctuations tend to have a distinct dominant frequency which is different from the frequency of the RVR.
Funder
Chalmers Energy Area of Advance
Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at NSC and C3SE partially funded by the Swedish Research Council
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Mechanical Engineering,Condensed Matter Physics
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