Laboratory of Hydraulic Turbomachines (LHT)
Main Activities
The Laboratory of Hydraulic Turbomachines aims to promote education and research, and to provide high level services to the public and private sector in the scientific areas of Hydraulic Turbomachines and Installations. The laboratory participates in various funded research activities in the framework of national and european projects. The main activities of the laboratory are focused around both theoretical and experimental investigations of Hydraulic Turbomachines and their components. The main scientific and technological areas of interest of LHT are:
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Flow Analysis in Turbines and Pumps
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Development of advanced computational techniques and software for flow modeling
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Rotor-Stator Interaction
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Numerical analysis of transient phenomena and study of unsteady flow mechanisms
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Laboratory testing and experimental analysis of performance curves
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Numerical design optimization
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Free Surface Flows in Pelton Turbines
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Development of Maintenance Strategies for Hydraulic Machines
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Detection of Cavitation in Pumps and Turbines
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Calibration of measuring instrumentation for Turbomachinery applications
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Optimum sizing and design of pumping stations, hydraulic networks and small Hydroelectric Plants
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Optimum design and optimum operation strategies of hybrid power production schemes from renewable sources with pumped storage