Preface of the proceeding of 12th International Symposium on Current Research in Hydropower Technologies

Current Research in Hydropower Technologies, CRHT-XII conference is taking place at Kathmandu University every year since 2012. It is an annual event of Turbine Testing Lab, where researchers and students in the field of hydraulic turbines and hydropower technologies share their experiences and research outcomes in a common platform. The event used to take place among the Masters and PhD students of Kathmandu University and Norwegian University of Science and Technology. However, there has also been an active participation from researchers and students around the world who are engaged in the similar fields in recent times. The conference has now taken an international recognition, as the selected papers from this conference will be published in journal proceedings. This year in the conference, 37 papers were presented in the topics of hydraulic turbines and pumps, computational and experimental techniques, hydropower and other renewable energy technologies, as well as the problems of erosion and cavitations. This year, we also saw many papers in the field of fish migration, fish passing technologies in hydropower, tunnel engineering and EV technologies, which show the broad topics covered within the hydropower. After receiving comments from the presentations and a peer review process, 24 papers have been selected for publication in this proceeding. We hope that the papers will be beneficial for the researchers and students involved in the sector of hydropower. We would like to thank all the participants, organizing team and the technical committee for the valuable contributions to make this a successful event. Editors Sailesh Chitrakar, PhD (sailesh@ku.edu.np) Prajwal Sapkota (prajwal.sapkota@ku.edu.np)