9.8.
3.
j;luctuntions of
total
prcssure
at
runrlcr
exit
nest
fluctuations \\-ere ~neasrired in pl:lne
V!I/A.
For thc measurement thc nrl-angemcn~
rig.
9.8.3a
was crnployed with
a
transducer of
2
mn1 diameter for
thc
djrnamic meo-
'
cmel~t of total
head.
The curves in Fig.
9.8.3
b
show the distribution of tirne-averngcd
rtlr
.
,
aunllable-
A,,loeo~~s to the distl-ibution of tlie relative velocity a rathcr steep change of total
ssill.c in the \\lake past the pressure face is seen here, whercas in the wake due to the
F.
ruct,o~~
face the range of total pressure drop vs circumference becomes more broac! and
more on the individual point of operation. Only at operating point
31
a
rather
dcp
trougll of total pressure extends across the wake, probably duc to a vortex there.
brgc
1hc
fluctuation of total pressure reachcs
a
n~axi~num within the transicn
t
rcpion betweel;
t~
boundary layer or wake and thc main flow. The maximum of totnl pressure fluctua-
tions
due to gate position
16
occurs there at overgate.
9.8.4.
Unsteady abso?ote
flow
between gate
and
runner
This
unsteady flow is generated mai~lly by the two bladed cascades of runner al~d gate
apinst each other. Besides them fluctuations of lower frequency are expected clue
the
action of thc asymmetric and precessing flow field within the draft tube at past load
&o
propagating into the runner. In Fig. 9.8.3 d the fluctuations of total pressure during
&period of a runner \lane and the resulting turbuleilce level, are pl~tted \.ersus the span
d
the gates. They are
generated
by displacement of the runner biade. 'The strong increase
dthese fluctuations towards the shroud and with increased gate opening is caused by the
decreasing
distance bctween gate exit
and
runner. Hence the pulsations originating froin
cutting of the wakes from the gates by the runner vanes become
enhanced.
(Note that the
turbulence level increases towards both the ~valls, Fig. 9.8.3e.)
fhc
precessing cork
screw
vortex under
part
load
within
the
draft
t~rbc.
produces also periodic:tl
nrialions
of
flow both before
rind
past the runner. The conscqucnces are more or less strong
bctuations
of pressure and velocity propagating
also
into
the
spiral
casing
and
ihe
penstock.
A
gowlh
of
the
wake
reglon past the hub and
an
incrcase of the vortex core dialnctcl
nith
dzcrzaslng
bw
and
increasing
moment
of momentum past the runner causes an
increase
of
pressure
fluciua-
*ns
due
to
the
draft tube vortex
with
increasing distance
frnrn
the
bep.
Af
a
certain
gate opening, they belong to a draft tube
vor
~cx
cf
a
certain form and origin,
which
ends
as
well on
the
runner
design. So, c.g.
at
part load
witk
i!b
i:oi-k
screw vortex, the origin
may
kon
the
hub,
sometimes
deep
in
the vaned zonc of thc runner as
was
dcscribcd
by
S~~l~l~r~inier,
Gerich
Koabe
I9.831,
or
it
may
be on the top of the hub cone as was described
by
Ilcnrjl
[10.49].
The
9rat
diversity
of torch-like, rope-like, twin,
axial,
helicoidal, steadily precessing
and
unsteadily
lroccssing
draft
tube vortices as
a
function of speed and discharge of
the
working
point
at
a
certain
has bccn shown
by
Schlenlr~ic~r
[5.18]
for
a
given Francis turbine.
Usually only the fluctuations due to the draft tube vortex could be recognized from the
wsuring signals of the static or the total pressure or the
velocity.
The broad spectrum
4aII
the disturbances ;tppenring could not be determined from the apparently stocllas-
measuring signals. As all the signals have been combined with considerable noise,
a
andysis of frequencies has been carried out for the most important si_enals.
I9.1331
has registered several power spectra of pressure fluctuations at the head
"er
and
within the intcrspace between runner and gate by means of a correlator and
transformer. Besides the expected resonance frequencies
/.
of pressure surges