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Improvements Of Renewable Energy: Cavitation Treatment And Optimization Of Hybrid System For Remote Areas, Mohammad Qandil
Improvements Of Renewable Energy: Cavitation Treatment And Optimization Of Hybrid System For Remote Areas, Mohammad Qandil
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The optimization of turbines hydrofoils is to improve the efficiency and lifetime of the hydro turbines. Air treatment is one of the methods to reduce the cavitation effect and improve hydro turbines performance. It is necessary to utilize Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis and to generate cavitation at different Angle of Attack (AoA) for the hydrofoil and test a variety of designs of air injection slots through the hydrofoil to optimize the best design. StarCCM+ software is used for CFD simulations. The hydrofoil is tested in a square water tunnel with water entering the tunnel at different velocities for each …