Summary
The draft tube of reaction hydraulic turbines is subject to numerous investigations since it accounts for a significant portion of the energy recovery. But even with up-to-date computational fluid dynamics methodologies, simulating the draft tube flow remains highly challenging since it is a diverging swirling flow that may undergo flow separations and become dominated by unsteady secondary flows. Within the framework of a collaborative research project on the flow dynamics of a propeller turbine model, the flow at the inlet region of the draft tube was studied using 2D-laser Doppler velocimetry (2D-LDV). Measurements were used to detect and characterize the flow structures at three operating conditions: partial discharge, near best efficiency, and full-load conditions. The paper presents
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