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1st International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Sciences for Sustainable Technologies

A Study on Performance Characteristics of Draft Tube in Francis Turbine

Sathish K, Sabareswaran K, Balakumar B S, Bharathram B and Ramamoorthi R, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Online First : 07 June 2023
Publisher Name : AnaPub Publications, Kenya.
ISSN (Online) : 2960-2408
ISSN (Print) (Online) : 2960-2394
ISBN (Online) : 978-9914-9946-6-7
ISBN (Print) : 978-9914-9946-7-4
Pages : 104-108

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https://doi.org/10.53759/acims/978-9914-9946-6-7_13
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Abstract

The improvement of design in draft tubes and their performance employed in reaction turbines works. The elbow draft tube with the assistance of product, CFD, and surrogate models square measure given during that work. The system confirms to form of draft tube square measure used in function parameters whereas the pressure rebuilds resolve and therefore the loss of headsquare measure the product obtained from this study. The pressure recovery issue is to be exaggerated and therefore the head loss has to be compelled to be decreased.The optimized results square measure obtained and therefore the verification of these models is finished by comparison with CFD results.

Keywords

Additive CFD, Optimization, Draft Tube, Turbine.

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Sathish K, Sabareswaran K, Balakumar B S, Bharathram B and Ramamoorthi R, “A Study on Performance Characteristics of Draft Tube in Francis Turbine”, Advances in Computational Intelligence in Materials Science, pp. 104-108, June. 2023. doi:10.53759/acims/978-9914-9946-6-7_13

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