Evaluating flow-added damping of hydrofoils by combining vibro-acousticsand doublet-lattice panel analyses
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Abstract
Hydroelectric turbines designers need to know the damping coefficient of a turbine blade to assess its longevity. Damping is difficult to simulate numerically. Current flow-added damping evaluation methods involve solving Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations, which are numerically expensive and complex. Here, we present a new, simple, and fast method to evaluate the added damping coefficient of straight hydrofoils using NASTRAN's multiple modules. Using the vacuum and resting fluid natural frequencies, a proportionality matrix is implemented into NASTRAN's flutter solution using the Added Virtual Mass Incremental factor, which allows to evaluate the added damping adequately. The proposed methodology is validated against experimental and numerical data from a NACA0003 hydrofoil by Cupr et al. ( The method is then adapted for more complex geometries. In this way, we look at a hydrofoil cascade. This is a first step to get closer to the geometry of a complete hydraulic turbine. In the case of a hydrofoil cascade, we have to take into account the coupling between the different hydrofoils, which results in a linear combinations of the standalone hydrofoil's eigenmodes. Once these linear combinations are found, the implementation of such a geometry is possible within NASTRAN's flutter solution for hydroelastic applications. This could enable turbine design for flow-added damping, such that turbine designers could optimize turbines for a wider range of flowrates, head and for frequent startups while maintaining low vibration amplitude through higher flow-added damping, which would ease the integration of other clean energy sources into the power grid such as wind and solar. Next possible steps to achieve this are to implement cambered hydrofoils under variable angles of attack and confinement effects.
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