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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Projects Using PHOENICS - Cham

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Example 3:Surface Water Pumps at Tims Ford ReservoirObjective: Evaluate surface water pumps performance under severalconfiguration layouts, pump sizes, and initial propeller velocities.Goal: Determine an optimum design that maximizes the improvement of watertemperature and dissolved oxygen (DO) content in hydropower plant releaseswithout disturbing reservoir bottom sediment.Tools: A 3-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model, <strong>PHOENICS</strong>.Alternatives: Several modeling analysis for different locations, operating speed,with three and six pump layouts.

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