A Type Design Method of Large Hydraulic Turbine Based on The Gaussian Mixture Model

Because of the complex fluid motion in hydraulic turbine and the imperfect design theory, the selection design of Large-scale hydraulic turbine is achieved based on the calculation and analysis on the synthetic characteristic curves, which is subjectivity and low efficiency. To solve this problem, the Gaussian mixture model is used to extract the geometric features from the synthetic characteristic curves so that the retrieval process of the model wheel can be achieved by these geometric features. The search model of the running area from the synthetic characteristic curves is build based on the contour curve similarity transformation method. In the paper, the Monte Carlo method is adopted to obtain the mean values of the synthetic characteristics in the running area so that the evaluation targets can be established by combining the mean values with the hydraulic turbine design experiences. Finally the validity of running area can be evaluated by the evaluation targets. The test results show that the accuracy and efficiency of the selection design of Large-scale hydraulic turbine can be improved by the proposed method.