EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDY OF COOLING AIR FLOW IN A HYDROELECTRIC GENERATOR
Paper in proceeding, 2012
The cooling air flow inside an electric generator has been numerically simulated and validated with experimental measurements. The numerical studies are performed using OpenFOAM in a quasi-steady mode at three rotor speeds. The numerical and experimental results show similar flow distributions.
OpenFOAM Cooling Turbulence Generator Experiment Computation
Author
Pirooz Moradnia
Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics
Valery Chernoray
Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics
Håkan Nilsson
Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics
European Research Comunnity On Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, ETMM9
Areas of Advance
Energy
Subject Categories
Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics