Computerized Engineering for the Hydraulic Design of Hydro-Turbine Stay Vanes

by William H. Colwill, Pennsylvania State Univ, State, College, PA, USA,
Alfred G. Mount, Pennsylvania State Univ, State, College, PA, USA,
Jon E. Eaton, Pennsylvania State Univ, State, College, PA, USA,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Waterpower '85

Abstract:

To design a turbine stay vane as an integral part of the spiral case/stay vane/wicket gate waterpassage, both the vane geometry and the gate/vane position must be developed and analyzed. The computerized system presented here has been optimized to do this with minimal engineering time. Major components of this system are: Spiral case design analysis using the 'ANTHONY' flow prediction to determine stay vane inlet flow angles; Stay vane geometry generation and vane/gate tandem cascade setup for flow analysis; Multicasing of Douglas-Neuman/DEBRA flow analysis of the vane/gate positions to evaluate the hydraulic performance. The methods used to couple separate generation and flow analysis codes to form task oriented, efficient engineering tools are discussed.

Subject Headings: Hydraulic design | Vanes | Fluid flow | Turbines | Hydraulic engineering | Geometrics | Computing in civil engineering

Services: Buy this book/Buy this article

 

Return to search