• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 추계학술대회논문집B
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• pp.405-409
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• 2001

An experimental analysis of the flow inside the refrigeration compartment of a home refrigerator was conducted in order to achieve better performances in terms of uniform temperature distribution and cooling speed. 2D PIV and stereoscopic PIV were used for the experiments on an actual-size refrigerator at operating conditions. Two CCD cameras were employed for a wider field of view in the measurement of the shelf, and stereoscopic PIV was used to measure the three velocity components at the various cooling duct outlets and the mean velocity fields were area-integrated to calculate the flow-rates. 50 to 100 instantaneous velocity fields were time averaged for the mean velocity fields. With the result of this analysis, a new cooling duct system was developed, with the refrigerator's cooling performance increasing 11% in terms of cooling speed, and 25% in temperature uniformity.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.509-514
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• 2000

A numerical study has been performed to design duct parameters in the freezer of a domestic refrigerator. The visualization results of FDM analysis using the standard k-$\varepsilon$ model with inlet boundary conditions modelled in this paper show good agreements with the experimental ones in prediction overall flow characteristics. Dominant vortex flows are found in the left upper and right lower corners, while there exists large turbulent kinetic energy around the fan and right upper side of the fan. It, in turn, has effects on the performance and noise. It is recommended to locate the outlet far away from the fan in order to reduce the noise level.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제29권9호
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• pp.995-1002
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• 2012

In a refrigerator, many food boxes are stored, so the flow of chilly air has very complicate stream paths inside the room of a refrigerator. Moreover, on some occasions, there is no flow of chilly air in a space due to blocking flow paths by food boxes, which is an important issue to be settled for improving the ability of food storage with fresh states. One of methods to solve this problem is to redesign the flow-pattern of chilly air to be uniform flow inside room, if possible. In this work, we have tried to design the duct-structure for the uniform flow of a chilly air using a FE-analysis method. And we conducted real commercial tests using a refrigerator having the redesigned duct. The results showed that good agreements with general requirements.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.555-565
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• 2021

본 연구의 목표는 냉장고 냉동실 냉기순환용으로 사용되는 후향익 원심팬 시스템을 대상으로 익형의 형상을 최적설계 하여 유동성능 및 소음성능을 향상시키는 것이다. 대상 시스템은 전형적인 원심팬 시스템에서 사용되는 스크롤 하우징 형상 없이 두 개의 Volute가 후면 덕트 시스템과 연계하여 냉기를 공급한다는 특성을 가지고 있다. 먼저 팬 시스템의 유동 및 소음성능을 실험적으로 평가하였다. 유동실험에서 팬 성능 시험기를 사용하여 P-Q 곡선을 도출할 수 있었으며, 무향실에서 소음실험을 통해 소음 스펙트럼을 측정하였다. 다음으로, 3차원 비정상 Navier-Stokes 방정식을 전산유체역학을 사용하여 수치해석하여 유동 특성을 분석하였으며, 예측한 유동장을 입력값으로 Ffowcs Willams-Hawkings방정식을 이용해 소음해석을 수행하였다. 수치해석결과는 실험 결과와 비교를 통해 그 유효성을 검증하였다. 검증된 수치해석 기법을 기반으로 반응표면법의 2인자 중심합성법을 통해 유량이 최대가 되는 입구각 및 출구각을 도출하였다. 마지막으로 최적화된 팬을 대상으로 시제품을 제작하여 실험한 결과 개선된 유량 성능 및 소음성능을 확인하였다.