Pelton turbine (or Pelton wheel) is among the most efficient impulse turbines and has retained its existence in hydropower for well over a century. However unlike in the development of the reaction turbines, where Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) have been successfully applied for more than 20...

This paper presents a technology that can accelerate the development of hydro turbines by fully automating the initial testing process of prototype turbine models and automatically converting the acquired data into efficiency hill charts that allow straight forward comparison of prototypes'...