CFD에 의한 용적형수차의 압력맥동 및 내부유동 해석

Abstract

It has been known that one of the main obstacles of improving the performance of positive displacement hydraulic turbine is pressure pulsation which occurs at the regions upstream and downstream of the turbine. In order to suppress the pressure pulsation, occurrence reason of the pressure pulsation should be understood in detail. Therefore, this study aims to establish a CFD analysis method by which the phenomena of unsteady pressure pulsation can be examined with high accuracy. Internal flow field of the turbine is modeled simply to generalize the relation between the pressure pulsation and internal flow. The results show that the present CFD method adopting unsteady calculation can be applied successfully to the analysis of the phenomena of pressure pulsation. Occurrence of the pressure pulsation is due to the difference of the rotational speed of turbine rotors. When driving rotor rotates by uniform speed and following rotor rotates by variable speed, very large pressure pulsation occurs within the turbine periodically.