Research Article

Effects of Geometrical Parameters in Gravitational Water Vortex Turbines with Conical Basin

Table 1

Solver settings used for simulation.

SolverSteady-state 3D, pressure based

Discretization schemeSecond order in space

Turbulence modelSST

Convergence criteriaRMS, scaled residual target = 

Computer hardwareIntel Core i7 @ 3.6 GHz × 8 cores, 16 GB RAM