Physical and Mathematical Modeling in the Field of High-Velocity Hydrodynamics in the Experimental Base of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Plant

V. A. Kulagin^a1, V. V. Moskvichev^a^,^b2, N. A. Makhutov^c3, D. M. Markovich^a^,^d^,^e4, and Yu. I. Shokin^f5^, *
Translated by B. Alekseev

^aSiberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

^bNauka Specialized Design Technology Office, Institute of Computational Technologies, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

^cBlagonravov Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

^dKutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

^eNovosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

^fInstitute of Computational Technologies, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Correspondence to: е-mail: ¹v.a.kulagin@mail.ru; ²krasn@ict.nsc.ru; ³kei51@mail.ru; ⁴dmark@itp.nsc.ru; ⁵dir@ict.nsc.ru

*Vladimir Alekseevich Kulagin, Dr. Sci. (Eng.), is Head of the Department of Heat Engineering and Fluid Dynamics at Siberian Federal University (SFU). Vladimir Viktorovich Moskvichev, Dr. Sci. (Eng.), is Director of the Nauka Specialized Design Technology Office, Institute of Computational Technologies (ICT), RAS Siberian Branch (RAS SB). RAS Corresponding Member Nikolai Andreevich Makhutov is Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (RAS MERI). RAS Corresponding Member Dmitrii Markovich Markovich is Head of the Laboratory of Physical Foundations of Energy Technologies, Institute of Thermophysics, RAS Siberian Branch. RAS Academician Yurii Ivanovich Shokin is Director of the Institute of Computational Technologies, RAS Siberian Branch.

Received 14 March, 2016

Abstract—Improvement of advanced technologies in the field of high-velocity hydrodynamics is strategically significant in terms of national security and stable and long-term growth of the economy due to regional development in Siberia and the Arctic, as well as support of Russia’s scientific and technological authority in the global arena. The practice of creating and operating large gravitational hydrodynamic tunnels with small Euler numbers is generalized to study cavitation processes under natural conditions and the motion of bodies in fluids at high velocities. Some results of model and field studies conducted in laboratories of the dam of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric plant are described. The authors suggest directions for follow-up studies and justify the need to set up a high-velocity hydrodynamics research center part of the High-Pressure Hydraulic Laboratory at the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric plant, which is a completely unique facility.

Keywords: cavitation, high-velocity hydrodynamics, polyphase flows, supercavitation, experimental base, hydro- and thermodynamic simulation.

DOI: 10.1134/S1019331616060034