Following the successful first six Workshops held in previous years this seventh Seminar/Workshop is organised by the Special Interest Group in Turbomachinery.

Time: 4th.-7th. January 1999

Place: CNRS Conference Centre, Aussois, France.

Purpose: A forum for comparing the facilities and methods of various computational techniques for turbomachinery flows.

Format: Presentation of test cases and review seminars on CFD problems related to turbomachinery.

For more information, look at: http://www.mecaflu.ec-lyon.fr/CONGRES/ERCOFTAC

Hello ERCOFTAC!!

While i am an undergarduate Mechanical Engineering student, in one of my research projects i`m very interested on modeling the flow trough a francis turbine runner. For this reason, i`m looking some useful information about the boundary conditions i have to use if take into account only one periodic section of the runner. As i surely can not assist to any Seminar outside my country (CHILE!!!), i will be very happy if you can help me with any information about this topic.

Please write me back if you can.

Thanks a lot, Rodrigo Escobar

Departamento de Ingenieria Mecanica,

Universidad de Santiago de Chile