This paper presented research small- and minihydroelectric power plants as an effective source of compensation for instability of non-guaranteed renewable energy sources (RES) power plants. HPPs play the main role for balancing the power system operation mode. To somehow compensate for the&#...

Flow in the wake of a circular cylinder is studied experimentally using time-resolved stereo PIV method. Special attention is paid to 3D topology of dynamical structures. While the distribution of statistic quantities along the cylinder is uniform, and i.e. 2D, the instantaneous flow&#x...

The wake behind an inclined plate simulating airfoil is to be studied experimentally. The vortical structures are identified eventually. Theirs topology and dynamical behaviour is to be studied in details using the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition method. The stereo time resolved Particle Ima...

The flow around an airfoil is analyzed from the point of view turbulence anisotropy assessment. The turbulent flow-field in the vicinity of an airfoil is populated by vortices, in some locations they tend to regularity in orientation, i.e. to anisotropy. However in the wake be...

The Particle Image Velocimetry was used to investigate the coherent structures behind a cylinder under moderate Reynolds number. Dynamical decomposition method was used to detect flow patterns having similar frequency as the vortex shedding frequency which is given by Strouhal number. The&#x...

The Particle Image Velocimetry is utilized to investigate flow behind a cylinder of finite length with subcritical value of Aspect Ratio (AR). The cylinder is submitted to uniform freestream with very low intensity of turbulence and thin laminar boundary layer. The flow field canno...

Reynolds number is the basic parameter determining the flow-field topology and its evolution in time unambiguously if only inertial, pressure and viscous effects are involved. However the Reynolds number definition is not unique and its physical meaning depends strongly on its actual de...

The wake dynamics behind a long circular cylinder in cross-flow was studied using the POD method. The temporal parts of POD modes, Chronoses, are subjected to frequency analysis. Five groups of modes are distinguished according to the frequency contents. The low order high energy&#...

The dynamics of the tip vortices in the wake behind a wall-mounted finite-length circular cylinder of the aspect ratio 2 was studied experimentally using time resolved stereo PIV technique. The cylinder was mounted normal to a ground plane and it was subjected to a cross-flow&...

Long-term efforts have been made to understand loss generation and its reduction in the field of axial turbomachines. The traditional approach to losses for an isolated blade row considers the profile and the secondary losses as a result of viscous flow. The additional kinds o...

We showed an analysis of installed capacity and annual electricity generation of photovoltaic power stations in the world and Ukraine. The main focus of our research was on the analysis of the influence of meteorological factors on power generation. Two photovoltaic power stations ...

Condensing tails of almost all steam turbines operate in wet steam region. The impacts of water droplets on material of the steam turbine moving blades are causing the erosion of the material. The situation is even worse for steam turbines which already have saturated or ...

This paper describes the process of designing an experimental energy device based on the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for converting heat to mechanical or electrical energy, or processing this heat energy so that it can be used to heat living spaces. When designing an ORC ...