ITEAM meets UPC
On July 21st – 22nd 2020, Dr Ignazio Floris from ITEAM (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) visited UPC to show the Fiber Bragg Grating technology. The visit included a brief presentation…
Assembling of the LTU test-rig has started
As of mid-April, assembling of the LTU test-rig has started. About four meters of piping network that will connect the low-pressure and high-pressure tanks has been put into place. We…
New blog post
Read our newest blog post about digitalization in hydropower on https://afc4hydro.eu/blog/.
LTU visits workshop company to discuss turbine manufacturing
On Wednesday the 4th of March, Joel Sundström from LTU visited workshop company Tooltech located in Töre 50 km north of Luleå. Tooltech will manufacture some of the essential parts…
New PhD student
Rafel Roig Bauzà has joined the AFC4Hydro UPC team in January 2020 as PhD with a focus on fluid structure interaction (FSI). He got his MS in Mechanical Engineering at…
Visit to Porjus
On January 30th UPC staff entered the Arctic Circle in Sweden to visit Porjus power plant as a first step to plan the test campaign on unit U9 (a Kaplan…
New AFC4Hydro blog post
Read our newest blog post on https://afc4hydro.eu/blog/. FDBs Morten Kjeldsen attended the 72nd American Physics Society (APS)- Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) meeting in Seattle Nov 24-26, 2019.
New Work Package Leader for WP2
Dr Ingrid K. Vilberg from FDB will take over as WP2 leader in January 2020. She finished her PhD at NTNU, Norway in 2019, with a focus on cavitation and…
AFC4Hydro Alignment Meeting
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…