Andres Müller

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Investigation of the Time Resolution Set Up Used to Compute the Full Load Vortex Rope in a Francis Turbine

François Avellan, Arthur Tristan Favrel, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Andres Müller

The flow in a Francis turbine at full load is characterised by the development of an axial vortex rope in the draft tube. The vortex rope often promotes cavitation if the turbine is operated at a sufficiently low Thoma number. Furthermore, the vortex rope ...

2021

Evaluation of a Dynamic Transfer Matrix for a Hydraulic Turbine

François Avellan, Andres Müller, Keita Yamamoto

It is well known that hydraulic machines experience various types of flow instabilities causing a negative influence on the system under off-design operations. The transfer matrix method correlating the flow properties in upstream and downstream of hydraul ...

2020

Pressure measurements and high speed visualizations of the cavitation phenomena at deep part load condition in a Francis turbine

François Avellan, Andres Müller, Christian Landry, Arthur Tristan Favrel, Keita Yamamoto

In a hydraulic power plant, it is essential to provide a reliable, sustainable and flexible energy supply. In recent years, in order to cover the variations of the renewable electricity production, hydraulic power plants are demanded to operate with more e ...

IOP Publishing2014

Local wave speed and bulk flow viscosity in Francis turbines at part load operation

François Avellan, Christophe Nicolet, Arthur Tristan Favrel, Andres Müller, Christian Landry

The operation of Francis turbines at off-design conditions may cause the development of a cavitation vortex rope in the draft tube cone, acting as a pressure excitation source. The interactions between this excitation source and the hydraulic system at the ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

Modeling of Unsteady Friction and Viscoelastic Damping in Piping Systems

François Avellan, Andres Müller, Christophe Nicolet, Christian Landry

In real systems, the phenomena, such as pipe-wall viscoelasticity, unsteady friction or fluid structure interaction induce additional damping and dispersion of transient pressure waves than that defined by classical waterhammer. In this paper, unsteady fri ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2012

Use of compact Laser Doppler Velocimetry in reduced scale model testing of hydraulic machines

Vincent Berruex, François Avellan, Andres Müller, Loïc Andolfatto

Laser based flow survey methods such as Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) or Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) have long been used for studying the flow in hydraulic machines. Even if the results have crucially improved our understanding of potentially destab ...

2018