conference paper
Predicting Cavitation in Francis Turbines on the Basis of Scale Model Testing
1994
Proceedings of the 17th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic machinery and cavitation, Beijing, China
The present article describes an ambitious research project being conducted jointly by EDF, HQ and EPFL, with the aim of developing a method suitable for industrial use for predicting cavitation in Francis turbines on the basis of scale model testing. Results concerning the notion of erosion aggressiveness, methods to measure it -accelerometer, pressure fluctuations and pitting measurements -, the correlation between measurements on models and erosion on prototypes, and validation testing done on an actual machine and its model are presented.
Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Date Issued
1994
Published in
Proceedings of the 17th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic machinery and cavitation, Beijing, China
Series title/Series vol.
Cavitation; 3
Volume
2
Issue
D-3
Start page
509
End page
520
Note
Using Smart Source Parsing pp 3
Editorial or Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
Written at
EPFL
EPFL units
| Event name | Event place | Event date |
Beijing, China | September 15-19,1994 | |
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