The AFC4Hydro Alignment Meeting was held in Barcelona 22 to 24 October 2019. The meeting was organized by project coordinator Prof. Xavier Escaler and hosted by UPC. All partners were represented in the meeting. Attendants: UPC: Xavier Escaler, Oscar De La Torre, Esteve Jou, Malcolm Burns, Rafel Roig, Jian Chen, Linlin Geng, Oriol Gomis, Eduardo […]
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Dr Oscar de la Torre has joined AFC4HYDRO Project as a WP3 leader as of September 20th. He has been involved in diverse experimental research for the last four years during his experiences in Ireland and UK and hopes he can provide his experience back in Barcelona for the development of a successful Structural Health
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Last September 23rd, project coordinator Prof Xavier Escaler and WP3 leader Dr Oscar de la Torre visited the Group for Fiber Optics at EPF Lausanne.
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The UPC team in charge of the AFC4Hydro project has carried out the first internal meeting at the Fluid Mechanics Department of the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (https://etseib.upc.edu/en). The group is composed by: Xavier Escaler, Oscar De La Torre and Esteve Jou from the Centre for Industrial Diagnostics and Fluid Dynamics (https://cdif.upc.edu/en), Tom Creemers
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The Vattenfall turbine test stand located in Älvkarleby 110 km north of Stockholm will host a series of testing necessary for meeting the objectives of the AFC4Hydro project. Validation and verification of AFC4Hydro technologies require a strong correspondence between results obtained using numerical modelling and physical measurements. The Vattenfall test stand ensure a very high
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The objective of this work package is to investigate the possibility to mitigate pressure pulsations in hydraulic turbine by the injection of pulsating momentum (IPM). The concept will be investigated experimentally and numerically at different scales in the following order; reduced model (Re»104), turbine model (Re»106), 10 MW prototype turbine and 200 MW prototype turbine.
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I am glad to announce the start-up of the project AFC4Hydro. The project is funded by the European Commision, starting June 1, and with a duration of four years. A promise of the project is to share results with other parties. This web site will contain information of the progress of the projects, and instructions
