Pressure recovery of axial flow turbine draft tube with inlet swirl

• Main Authors: Augusto, Gerardo L., Culaba, Alvin B., Gan Lim, Laurence A., Maglaya, Archie B., Piseth, Sok
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: Axial flow; Draft tubes; Mechanical Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/12014
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study presents the numerical and experimental investigations of flow behavior in an axial flow turbine draft tube model with cross-section changing from annular to rectangular. Forced vortex type of tangential velocity was introduced upstream of diffuser inlet with Reynolds number of 40,000 and...