Numerical simulation study on the flow field of porous hydrofoil

Abstract

Because cavitation and cavitation erosion will caused significant impact to the security and stability of hydro turbine, so changing geometric structure to reduce the risk of cavitation is considered. Punching many holes on the hydrofoil is adopted. By using RNG κ-ε turbulence model and SIMPLEC algorithm, the flow field around hydrofoil and porous hydrofoil are simulated based computational fluid dynamics(CFD). The numerical simulation result-velocity and pressure field of hydrofoil with different geometry are compared and analysed. This study introduces geometry optimization ideas to researchers for improving cavitation phenomenon in water turbine. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.