Owing to the part-load operations for the enhancement of grid flexibility, the Francis turbine often suffers from severe low-frequency and large-amplitude hydraulic instability, which is mostly pertinent to the highly...Owing to the part-load operations for the enhancement of grid flexibility, the Francis turbine often suffers from severe low-frequency and large-amplitude hydraulic instability, which is mostly pertinent to the highly unsteady swirling vortex rope in the draft tube. The influence of disturbances in the upstream（e.g., large-scale vortex structures in the spiral casing） on the draft-tube vortex flow is not well understood yet. In the present paper, the influence of the upstream disturbances on the vortical flow in the draft tube is studied based on the vortex identification method and the analysis of several important parameters（e.g., the swirl number and the velocity profile）. For a small guide vane opening（representing the part-load condition）, the vortices triggered in the spiral casing propagate downstream and significantly affect the swirling vortex-rope precession in the draft tube, leading to the changes of the intensity and the processional frequency of the swirling vortex rope. When the guide vane opening approaches the optimum one（representing the full-load condition）, the upstream disturbance becomes weaker and thus its influences on the downstream flow are very limited.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(51475215,51275215)Scientific Research Foundation of Jiangsu University(14JDG030)A Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD)
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51506051)
文摘Owing to the part-load operations for the enhancement of grid flexibility, the Francis turbine often suffers from severe low-frequency and large-amplitude hydraulic instability, which is mostly pertinent to the highly unsteady swirling vortex rope in the draft tube. The influence of disturbances in the upstream（e.g., large-scale vortex structures in the spiral casing） on the draft-tube vortex flow is not well understood yet. In the present paper, the influence of the upstream disturbances on the vortical flow in the draft tube is studied based on the vortex identification method and the analysis of several important parameters（e.g., the swirl number and the velocity profile）. For a small guide vane opening（representing the part-load condition）, the vortices triggered in the spiral casing propagate downstream and significantly affect the swirling vortex-rope precession in the draft tube, leading to the changes of the intensity and the processional frequency of the swirling vortex rope. When the guide vane opening approaches the optimum one（representing the full-load condition）, the upstream disturbance becomes weaker and thus its influences on the downstream flow are very limited.
