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A fully detailed explanation of the code caffa3d is not intended to be included in this paper, but some of its main characteristics are mentioned for completeness. In addition, convergence and grid sensitivity analysis were performed in order to assess the adequacy of the model. Evolution of instantaneous power over a few turns of the HPM shows typical blade pass frequency for all operating discharges and another oscillatory phenomena at rotating frequency for higher discharges. The Power\u2014Discharge and Efficiency\u2014Discharge curves obtained from the simulations present a good correlation with the experimental curves, up to the discharge value corresponding to the maximum power of the HPM. The comparison error in power and efficiency remained below 6% for discharge lower than 97.8 L\/s. For higher discharge, the flow through the HPM becomes very unsteady, with big eddy structures, underfilling of the buckets and recirculation down to the entry of the channel, significantly reducing the generated power. This behaviour was also observed during the previous experiments. 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