Abstract: Abstract Turgo turbines are reported to be reliable, robust and able to operate efficiently over a range of flow rates. They are typically used in medium- to high-head applications. In this paper, the operation of a single-jet Turgo turbine outside of this typical application domain is investigated, at low heads of 3.5 m down to 1 m, a typical head range available for remote communities. A 2D quasi-steady-state mathematical model with low computational requirements is developed, to arrive at a base-line design. Experimental results from this ba...
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