Validated CFD-Based Performance Characterization and Cavitation-Susceptibility Screening for Comparative Turbine Selection in Micro-Hydropower Systems
Turbine selection requires information on the operating range as well as peak efficiency. This paper extends previously documented bench-scale Francis, Pelton, and Cross-flow turbine data through a new analysis of CFD and laboratory performance curves. The original ANSYS CFX (2025) calculations used steady incompressib...