Liquid-vapor two-phase flow in centrifugal pump: Cavitation, mass transfer, and impeller structure optimization

G Li, X Ding, Y Wu, S Wang, D Li, W Yu, X Wang, Y Zhu… - Vacuum, 2022 - Elsevier
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been widely used to model the internal flow field of
centrifugal pumps to analyze cavitation phenomena. However, accurate determination of …

Cavitating flow structures and corresponding hydrodynamics of a transient pitching hydrofoil in different cavitation regimes

Z Mengjie, H Biao, Q Zhongdong, L Taotao… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present paper applied experimental and numerical methods to investigate the cavitating
flow structures and corresponding hydrodynamics for a transient pitching Clark-Y hydrofoil …

Numerical study of the effect of tip-speed ratio on hydrokinetic turbine wake recovery

O El Fajri, J Bowman, S Bhushan, D Thompson… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The predictive capabilities of blade-resolved unsteady Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes
(URANS) and detached eddy simulation (DES), the most commonly used hybrid RANS/large …

Towards a better understanding of yawed turbine wake for efficient wake steering in tidal arrays

PK Modali, A Vinod, A Banerjee - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Tidal stream turbines (TST) deployed in open-water energetic sites are often unintentionally
at yaw to the incoming flow that causes performance degradation and deflection of the wake …

Experimental and numerical investigations on the performance and wake characteristics of a tidal turbine under yaw

Y Qian, Y Zhang, Y Sun, H Zhang, Z Zhang, C Li - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents an extensive examination of the wake characteristics and hydrodynamic
performance of a 1: 60 scale horizontal axis tidal stream turbine under yawed inflow …

The flow regime and hydrodynamic performance for a pitching hydrofoil

M Zhang, Q Wu, G Wang, B Huang, X Fu, J Chen - Renewable energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to study the flow regime and hydrodynamic performance for a
pitching Clark-Y hydrofoil. The aims are to (1) improve the understanding of the interplay …

DLFSI: A deep learning static fluid-structure interaction model for hydrodynamic-structural optimization of composite tidal turbine blade

J Xu, L Wang, J Yuan, Z Luo, Z Wang, B Zhang… - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Horizontal axis tidal turbines (HATT) conversion of ocean tidal waves into electricity
represents a promising source of clean and sustainable energy. However, the widespread …

Optimization of a Horizontal Axis Tidal (HAT) turbine for powering a Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination system using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and …

MH Khanjanpour, AA Javadi - Energy Conversion and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Horizontal Axis Tidal (HAT) turbines can be used to power RO (reverse osmosis)
desalination systems. The greatest weakness of these turbines is the high price of design …

Three-dimensional modelling of turbine wake interactions at a tidal stream energy site

N Michelet, N Guillou, G Chapalain, J Thiebot… - Applied Ocean …, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the biggest uncertainties in tidal stream energy resource assessment is how tidal
energy conversion, particularly at large scale, will interact with the resource. As few arrays …

Performance characteristics of shrouded horizontal axis hydrokinetic turbines in yawed conditions

M Shahsavarifard, EL Bibeau - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
During operations, river and tidal hydrokinetic turbines encounter changes in flow direction
that decrease their performance. Evaluating hydrokinetic turbines in yaw conditions …