Abstract:
Studies on the hydraulics of water intakes have been traditionally performed in physical
models. In order to validate the use of computational fluid dynamics models to characterize
the flow in water intakes in terms of velocity and pressure, a comparative experimentalnumerical
study was performed, centered in the case study of the Foz Tua pumped-storage
hydropower plant. Overall, was observed proximity between numerical and experimental
data, predicting that numerical models can be used to simulate flow in water intakes.
