Optimization procedure for variable speed turbine design

This article outlines a design procedure for variable speed Francis turbines using optimization software. A fully parameterized turbine design procedure is implemented in MATLAB $ ^{\circledR } $ . ANSYS $ ^{\circledR } $ CFX $ ^{\circledR } $ is used to create hill diagrams for each turbine design....

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Main Authors: Erik Tengs, Pål-Tore Storli, Martin Holst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2018.1507950