An Efficient Method to Compute Pressure on Blades of Hydraulic Machines

Published in: Proceedings of the 13th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology: Engineering Education Facing the Grand Challenges, What Are We Doing?
Date of Conference: July 29 - 31, 2015
Location of Conference: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Authors: Vyacheslav Kalashnikov
Nataliya Kalashnykova
Felipe J. Castillo Pérez
Refereed Paper: #109

Abstract:

In this paper we use the method of discrete hydrodynamic singularity and a condition on the velocity normal component at the flow’s boundary in order to reduce the problem of ideal liquid flow around arbitrarily positioned bodies to the solution of an appropriate linear equations with a block matrix structure. Having applied discretization in such a way that the resulting system’s matrix boasts an implicit diagonal dominance, one can establish the convergence of a block Jacobi iteration method to the exact solution of the system. The algorithm’s efficiency is illustrated by a sample computing of hydrodynamic pressure on the ring blades of a hydraulic turbine.

Keywords-- Method of discrete hydrodynamic singularity, the implicit diagonal dominance, hydrodynamic charges.