Pelton Turbine Runner – CENTAUR Software

Pelton Turbine Runner

This geometry represents the runner of a Pelton turbine with multiple spoon-shaped buckets arranged around a central disk. A hybrid mesh was generated using CENTAUR, capturing the detailed curvature of each bucket and the narrow gaps between them.
CAD Model
CAD Model
Surface Mesh
Surface Mesh
Buckets
Buckets
Prismatic Boundary Layer Mesh on Buckets
Prismatic Boundary Layer Mesh on Buckets
Prismatic Boundary Layer Mesh on Runner
Prismatic Boundary Layer Mesh on Runner