Les vibrations induites par l'écoulement dans le coeur du REP peuvent provoquer une usure par frottement des crayons combustibles par friction au niveau des contacts entre la cellule de grille et les crayons des assemblages combustibles. Cela peut entraîner des dommages irréversibles de la gaine du crayon combustible et compromettre la première barrière de sûreté du réacteur. Assurer l'intégrité de la gaine est une préoccupation majeure dans la sûreté du réacteur. Cependant, les spectres d'excitation des forces fluides agissant sur les crayons ne sont pas bien connus. Le but de cette thèse est d'utiliser des éléments géométriques simples pour reproduire des cellules de grilles d'un REP. SGE ont été effectuées sur une conduite annulaire avec différents maillages en utilisant le code TrioCFD. Une étude de sensibilité de maillage a été réalisée afin de proposer un maillage reproduisant correctement les résultats dans la littérature. Ces informations de résolution de maillage ont été utilisées lors de la réalisation des simulations en utilisant divers obstacles géométriques intérieurs à la conduite, i.e., des ailettes de mélange, une grille circulaire et une combinaison de grille carrée et d'ailettes de mélange. Un maillage hybride a été utilisé dans le cas des ailettes de mélange et dans le cas de cellule de grille carrée. Les caractéristiques hydrauliques ainsi que la pression pariétale ont été analysées dans chaque cas. Il apparaît que la grille carrée est une combinaison approximative du cas des ailettes de mélange et du cas de la grille circulaire. Les simulations ont été comparés avec des mesures réalisées au CEA / Flow-induced vibrations in the pressurized water reactor core can cause fretting wear in the fuel rods. Due to friction, wear occurs at the contact locations between the spacer grid and the fuel rod. This may compromise the first safety barrier of the nuclear reactor by damaging the fuel rod cladding. In order to ensure the integrity of the cladding, it is necessary to know the random fluctuating forces acting on the rods. However, the spectra for these fluid forces are not well known. The goal of this thesis is to use simple geometrical elements to check the reproducibility of realistic PWR spacer grids. As a first step, LES were performed on annular pipe for different mesh refinements using the CFD code TrioCFD. A mesh sensitivity study was performed to propose a good mesh for reproducing standard literature results. This information on mesh resolution was used when carrying out simulations using various geometric obstacles inside the pipe-mixing vanes, circular spacer grid and a combination of square spacer grid with mixing vanes. Structured mesh was generated for the annular pipe case and circular grid case. An innovative hybrid mesh was used for the two remaining cases of the mixing vanes and the square grid; keeping unstructured mesh around the obstacles and structured mesh in the rest of the domain. Both hydraulic and wall pressure characteristics were analyzed for each case. The results for the square grid case were found to be an approximate combination of the mixing vane case and circular grid case. Simulation results were compared with experiments performed at CEA Cadarache. Some preliminary comparisons were also made with classical empirical models.

The goal is to measure the temperature of the turbocharger after engine shutdown.Measurements wants to show the need to keep a car engine to cool after a heavier burden on the idle speed. It would also prevent possible disruptions turbocharger. The paper also deals with the problems, construction and basic principles of operation of the turbocharger

Several alternative ways of producing energy came up as the world took conscience of the finite availability of fossil fuels and the environmental consequences of its use and processing. Wave and tidal energy are among the so called green energies. Wave energy converters have been under research for the past two decades and yet there hasn’t been one technology that gathered everyone’s acceptance as being the most suitable one. The present work is focused on a self-rectifying turbine for wave energy harnessing. It’s a self-rectifying biplane Wells with an intermediate stator. The main goal is to evaluate the performance of such a turbine. Two different analyses were performed: experimental and computational. The experimental tests were made so that efficiency, velocity profiles and loss coefficients could be calculated. To do so scaled-down prototypes were built from scratch and tested experimentally. The 3D numerical analysis was possible by using a CFD commercial code: Fluent 6.3. Several simulations were performed for different flow coefficients. Three different degrees of mesh refinement were applied and k-ε turbulence model was the one chosen to simulate the viscous behavior of the flow through the turbine. A steady-state analysis is due and two mixing planes were used at the interfaces between the rotors and the stator. In the end comparisons are made between the experimental and numerical results

The increasing penetration of variable renewable energy sources in the Nordic Power System is causing frequency quality degradation and has increased the importance of primary frequency control provided by hydropower plants. Hydropower is the world’s largest renewable energy source. Its reliability, controllability and dispatchability along with its large storage volume makes it the most important source for providing frequency regulation in the Nordic Power System. Many hydropower plants offering regulating power have Kaplan turbines which have complex mechanical systems. Furthermore, the frequent and fast mechanical movements of the Kaplan turbines, providing frequency regulation causes the problem of wear and tear in the guide vanes and runner blades of the turbines. Kaplan turbines are suitable for stable operation.   To mitigate this problem, a solution of hybrid hydropower plants combined with  battery energy storage systems is investigated in this thesis, where batteries can take care of fast frequency deviations, allowing for a more stable operation of the turbines. The analysis is based on the FCR-N service offered by hydropower plants, because FCR-N is identified as one of the services that requires very fast changes in the output power of the hydropower plant. Modelling and simulation, data analysis and on-site measurement are adopted as main study methods in this thesis.  The simulation models of a hydropower plant and a hybrid hydropower plant are developed for the analysis. The simulation model of the hydropower plant is validated using data from a typical Swedish hydropower plant. Quantification of wear and tear is the main focus of the study. The performance of the hydropower plant and hybrid hydropower plant are compared in terms of wear and tear of turbines, speed of the response of plants to frequency deviations and number of directional changes during the mechanical movements of the turbine. Finally, it is concluded that, addition of batteries with hydropower plants will reduce wear and tear of the turbines as well as improve the frequency quality in the Nordic Power System.

La presente tesis tiene como objetivo evaluar una propuesta para el control de erosión fluvial de la curva externa del rio Rimác ubicada entre los sectores Cantagallo y La Perla en Chosica, verificando su eficacia a través de un modelamiento con fines de calcular la socavación producida para diferentes periodos de retorno y proponer como estructura de control a las paletas sumergidas, comparando ambos resultados obtenidos para evaluar sus beneficios. El tramo escogido presentó fallas en los muros de contención ubicados a lo largo del cauce según un estudio previo realizado por el INGEMMET, por lo que es necesario mejorar la infraestructura ya construida, por lo que la presencia de las paletas sumergidas podría actuar como tal. Por este motivo, el modelamiento hidráulico, realizado en el software Iber, nos permitirá conocer el comportamiento del río para obtener las variables de diseño y conocer los valores de velocidades y esfuerzos cortantes de fondo producidos en la curva externa. Se realizó la simulación para dos escenarios, uno considerando las máximas avenidas producidas en años previos y el segundo despreciando dichos valores. Esto nos permite comparar las dimensiones y comportamiento de ambas estructuras para un futuro diseño. Finalmente, en ambos escenarios se verificó que la presencia de las paletas sumergidas en la curva externa reduce los niveles de erosión local y general producido para los diferentes caudales simulados, por lo que resulta una estructura viable a ser aplicada como medida de control. / The objective of this thesis is to evaluate a proposal for the control of fluvial erosion of the external bend of the Rimac river located between the Cantagallo and La Perla sectors in Chosica, verifying its effectiveness through a modeling in order to calculate the undercut produced for different return periods and propose submerged vanes as a control structure, comparing both results obtained to evaluate their benefits. The chosen section presented failures in the retaining walls located along the channel according to a previous study carried out by INGEMMET, so it is necessary to improve the infrastructure already built, so the presence of the submerged vanes could act as such. For this reason, the hydraulic modeling, carried out in the Iber software, will allow us to know the behavior of the river to obtain the design variables and to know the values of speeds and shear stresses produced in the external bend. The simulation was performed for two scenarios, one considering the maximum avenues produced in previous years and the second disregarding these values. This allows us to compare the dimensions and behavior of both structures for a future design. Finally, in both scenarios it was verified that the presence of the submerged vanes in the external curve reduces the levels of local and general scour produced for the different simulated flows, making it a viable structure to be applied as a control measure. / Tesis

<p>  </p> <p>In gas turbines, the hot gas exiting the combustor can be as high as 2000 ^oC, and some of this hot gas enter into the space between the stator and rotor disks (wheelspace). Since the hot gas entering with its high temperatures could damage the disks, hot-gas ingestion must be minimized. This is done by using rim seals and by introducing a flow of cooler air from the compressor (sealing flow) into the wheelspace. </p> <p>Ingress and egress into rim seals are driven by the stator vanes, the rotor and its rotation, and the rotor blades. This study focuses on the first-stage turbine, where ingress could cause the most damage and has two parts. The first part focuses on understanding ingress and egress driven by the rotor and its rotation, known as rotationally-induced ingress, by studying ingress about an axial seal in a stator-rotor configuration without vanes and without blades. The second part focuses on understanding ingress and egress driven by stator vanes, known as externally-induced ingress, by studying a stator-rotor configuration with vanes but no blades, where the ratio of the external Reynolds number to the rotational Reynolds number is 0.538. For both parts, solutions were generated by wall-resolved large-eddy simulation (LES) based on the WALE subgrid model and by Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) based on the SST model. For both stator-rotor configurations, the grid-independent solutions obtained were compared with available experimental data.   </p> <p>Results obtained for the configuration without vanes and blades show Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) to form even without swirl from the hot-gas flow and to create a wavy shear layer on the rotor. Also, Vortex shedding (VS) occurs on the backward-facing side of the seal and impinges on the rotor side of the seal. The KHI and VS produce alternating regions of high and low pressures about the rotor-side of the axial seal, which cause ingress to start on the rotor side of the seal. Results obtained for the configuration with vanes but no blades show both LES and RANS to correctly predict the coefficient of pressure, C_p, upstream of the axial seal. However, only LES was able to correctly predict the sealing effectiveness. This shows C_p by itself maybe is inadequate in quantifying externally-induced ingress. One reason why RANS was unable to predict sealing effectiveness is significantly under predicting the pressure drop on the rotor surface, which affected the pressure variation along the hot-gas path and hence the pressure difference across the axial seal, which ultimately drives ingress. </p>

Global renewable energy requirements rapidly increase with the transition to a fossil-free society. As a result, intermittent energy resources, such as wind- and solar power, have become increasingly popular. However, their energy production varies over time, both in the short- and long term. Hydropower plants are therefore utilized as a regulating resource more frequently to maintain a balance between production and consumption on the electrical grid. This means that they must be operated away from the design point, also known as the best-efficiency-point (BEP), and often are operated at part-load (PL) with a lower power output. Moreover, some plants are expected to provide a spinning reserve, also referred to as speed-no-load (SNL), to respond rapidly to power shortages. During this operating condition, the turbine rotates without producing any power. During the above mentioned off-design operating conditions, the flow rate is restricted by the closure of the guide vanes. This changes the absolute velocity of the flow and increases the swirl, which is unfavorable. The flow field can be described as chaotic, with separated regions and recirculating fluid. Shear layer formation between stagnant- and rotating flow regions can be an origin for rotating flow structures. Examples are the rotating-vortex-rope (RVR) found during PL operation and the vortical flow structures in the vaneless space during SNL operation, which can cause the flow between the runner blades to stall, also referred to as rotating stall. The flow structures are associated with pressure pulsations throughout the turbine, which puts high stress on the runner and other critical parts and shortens the turbine's lifetime. Numerical models of hydraulic turbines are highly coveted to investigate the detrimental flow inside the hydraulic turbines' different sections at off-design operating conditions. They enable the detailed study of the flow and the origin of the instabilities. This knowledge eases the design and assessment of mitigation techniques that expand the turbines' operating range, ultimately enabling a wider implementation of intermittent energy resources on the electrical grid and a smoother transition to a fossil-free society. This thesis presents the numerical study of the Porjus U9 model, a scaled-down version of the 10 MW prototype Kaplan turbine located along the Luleå river in northern Sweden. The distributor contains 20 guide vanes, 18 stay vanes and the runner is 6-bladed. The numerical model is a geometrical representation of the model turbine located at Vattenfall Research and Development in Älvkarleby, Sweden. The commercial software ANSYS CFX 2020 R2 is used to perform the numerical simulations. Firstly, the draft tube cone section of the U9 model is numerically studied to investigate the sensitivity of a swirling flow to the GEKO (generalized kω) turbulence model. The GEKO model aims to consolidate different eddy viscosity turbulence models. Six free coefficients are changeable to tune the model to flow conditions and obtain results closer to an experimental reference without affecting the calibration of the turbulence model to basic flow test cases. Especially, the coefficients affecting wall-bounded flows are of interest. This study aims to analyze if the GEKO model can be used to obtain results closer to experimental measurements and better predict the swirling flow at PL operation compared to other eddy viscosity turbulence models. Results show that the near-wall- and separation coefficients predict a higher swirl and give results closer to experimentally obtained ones. Secondly, a simplified version of the U9 model is investigated at BEP and PL operating conditions and includes one distributor passage with periodic boundary conditions, the runner and the draft tube. The flow is assumed axisymmetric upstream of the runner, hence the single distributor passage. Previous studies of hydraulic turbines operating at PL show difficulties predicting the flow's tangential velocity component as it is often under predicted. Therefore, a parametric analysis is performed to investigate which parameters affect the prediction of the tangential velocity in the runner domain. Results show that the model predicts the flow relatively well at BEP but has problems at PL; the axial velocity is overpredicted while the tangential is underpredicted. Moreover, the torque is overpredicted. The root cause for the deviation is an underestimation of the head losses. Another contributing reason is that the runner extracts too much swirl from the flow, hence the low tangential velocity and the high torque. Sensitive parameters are the blade clearance, blade angle and mass flow. Finally, the full version of the U9 model is analyzed at SNL operation, including the spiral casing, full distributor, runner and draft tube. During this operating condition, the flow is not axisymmetric; vortical flow structures extend from the vaneless space to the draft tube and the flow stalls between the runner blades. A mitigation technique with independent control of each guide vane is presented and implemented in the model. The idea is to open some of the guidevanes to BEP angle while keeping the remaining ones closed. The aim is to reduce the swirl and prevent the vortical flow structures from developing. Results show that the flow structures are broken down upstream the runner and the rotating stall between the runner blades is reduced, which decreases the pressure- and velocity fluctuations. The flow down stream the runner remains mainly unchanged.

Les différentes structures composant les moteurs aéronautiques requièrent des analyses dynamiques afin de prédire leur durée de vie. Pour des raisons d'allègement, les roues aubagées fixes de turbomachines, appelées redresseurs, sont conçus comme des ensembles de secteurs comportant plusieurs aubes. Cette architecture rompt la symétrie cyclique empêchant l'application des méthodes numériques l'exploitant. De plus, les dispersions géométriques et matériaux génèrent un désaccordage involontaire impliquant des zones de forte densité modale, dans lesquelles est observée une amplification de la réponse vibratoire, accrue par le caractère monobloc, et donc peu amorti, des secteurs. Une méthodologie statistique de prédiction du niveau vibratoire d'un secteur de redresseur désaccordé aléatoirement est développée ici. La modélisation des incertitudes est basée sur une approche paramétrique de la théorie probabiliste : des paramètres matériaux aléatoires suivant une loi uniforme sont associés à différentes parties du secteur. Une expansion de Karhunen-Loève permet de réduire le champ stochastique à un petit nombre de variables aléatoires et donc de diminuer les temps de calcul. Les modes stochastiques sont ensuite projetés sur ces espaces aléatoires par le biais de deux méthodes d'interpolation non-intrusives. La première est basée sur une projection sur une base du chaos polynomial tandis que la deuxième est une méthode de régression non-paramétrique (méthode MARS). Afin d'appliquer les deux méthodes de calcul à un modèle industriel, une méthode de double synthèse modale est appliquée permettant de diviser le temps de calcul des modes par un facteur d'environ 300. La sous-structuration adoptée s'adapte à la méthode de modélisation des incertitudes et s'avère robuste vis-à-vis du désaccordage. De plus, les deux méthodes permettent d'obtenir des résultats prédictifs en termes de moments statistiques tout en réduisant les temps de calculs. Enfin, la méthodologie est validée expérimentalement puisque l'enveloppe vibratoire numérique encadre la réponse fréquentielle expérimentale au niveau de la zone des modes d'intérêt. Une stratégie de positionnement des jauges de déformation est proposée à partir d'une distribution statistique des déplacements maximaux à mi-hauteur de veine sur une plage fréquentielle donnée. / Aircraft engine components necessitate extensive dynamical analyses in order to obtain life cycle prediction. In order to lighten the structure, turbomachinery stator bladed disks, called stator vanes, are designed as a set of multiple blades clusters. This architecture implies a loss of cyclic symmetry condition and prevents the use of numerical methods using it. Moreover, geometric dispersions and materials defaults generate an involuntary mistuning involving high modal density areas, in which is observed an amplification of the vibratory response, enhanced by the monobloc character - and hence low damped - of stator vanes. A statistical methodology for predicting the vibratory level of a randomly mistuned industrial stator vanes is developed here. Uncertainties modelization is based on a parametric approach of the probability theory : material random parameters following a uniform distribution are associated with different cluster's parts. A Karhunen-Loeve expansion reduces the stochastic field to a small number of random variables and therefore reduces the computation time. Stochastic modes are then projected on these random spaces through two non-intrusive methods of interpolation. The first is based on a projection on a polynomial chaos basis while the second is non-parametric regression method (MARS method). In order to implement both numerical methods to an industrial model, a double modal synthesis method is applied to divide the calculation time of modes by a factor around 300. The sub-structuring way adopted fits the uncertainties modelization method and is robust towards mistuning. Moreover, both methods yield predictive results in terms of statistical moments while reducing computation time. Finally, the methodology is experimentally validated because the numerical vibratory envelope frames the experimental frequency response at the area of the modes of interest. A positioning strategy of strain gauges is proposed based on a statistical distribution of the maximum displacements in vein halfway over a given frequency range.