Hydro-abrasive erosion of hydraulic turbines is an economically important issue due to
maintenance costs and production losses, in particular at high-and medium-head run-of …

Medium-and high-head hydropower plants (HPPs) often feature Pelton turbines. For very
high-heads above some 800 meters, this turbine type is practically the one and only …

The objective of the present paper is to propose a strategy to optimize the performance of a
Pelton runner based on a parametric model of the bucket geometry, massive particle based …

Abstract The Finite Volume Particle Method (FVPM) is a meshless method for simulating
fluid flows which includes many of the desirable features of mesh-based finite volume …

The objective of the present paper is to perform numerical simulations of a high-speed water
jet impinging on rotating Pelton buckets using the finite volume particle method (FVPM) …

In previous works (Jahanbakhsh et al., CMAME 298 (2016): 80–107, Jahanbakhsh et al.,
CMAME 317 (2017): 102–127; see [1] and [2]), the authors introduced SPHEROS, a 3-D …

Abstract The Finite Volume Particle Method (FVPM) is a meshless method for simulating
fluid flows which includes many of the desirable features of mesh-based finite volume …

We present DFVF-overset (Direct Flux via Virtual Faces), a conservative overset scheme
based on a general form of the finite volume method, originally derived for a meshless …

Numerical investigation of the unsteady flow patterns around the bucket can be helpful to
improve the Pelton turbine efficiency. In fact, by studying the loss mechanisms in the flow …

For the design optimization of the Pelton turbine, it is highly demanded to investigate the
flow inside the turbine casing, which includes the water jet from the nozzles, the interaction …