Analysis on Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Turbine Flow Characteristics

By the use of modelling software, this paper set up the three-dimensional physical model of single-stage turbine and guided it into the pre-process software. After meshing the turbine flow channel, simulating the mud flow characteristics in Turbine with CFD, and calculating the pressure drawdown at the inlet/outlet and the pressure distributions in single-stage turbine. Such results indicate that the pressure drawdown of single-stage turbine is influenced by the mud discharge capacity, drilling fluid density and viscosity. The pressure drop increases with the augment of mud discharge, which is approximately linear. There are significantly positive correlations between the pressure drawdown and the increase of mud density. The research in the paper provides reliable guidance in turbine flow channel design and the drilling technological parameters optimizing.