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The paper presents the results of numerical simulation of three-dimensional turbulent flow around a hydraulic turbine guide vane at the angle of attack of 9° with the aspect ratio of the foil equal to 0.8. The influence of turbulence modeling variants on 3D flow effects is analyzed. The 3D boundary layer separation at the vane-sidewall junctions and the flow separation near the trailing edge influence the flow pattern. The study considered various approaches for modeling of a turbulent flow, such as the k-ω SST turbulent viscosity model and several variants of the differential and algebraic Reynolds stress models. At the given angle of attack, the k-ω SST model shows a significant separation zone in the corners between the wall and the vane, while no separation of the flow in the central plane is observed. Both differential and algebraic Reynolds stress models reproduce the secondary vortex flow at the corners and suppress the flow separation near the central cross section.
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The research was funded by RFBR, Krasnoyarsk Territory and Krasnoyarsk Regional Fund of Science, project number 20-41-240004. Development of the computational model was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (project No. AAAA-121031800229-1).
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Sentyabov, A.V., Gavrilov, A.A. & Dekterev, A.A. Numerical simulation of turbulent flow around a 3D hydrofoil under the effect of corner separation. Thermophys. Aeromech. 28, 337–346 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869864321030045
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