• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.258-264
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• 2010

Most of fluid systems, such as P&ID in ships, power plants, and chemical plants, consist of various components. The components such as bends, tees, sudden-expansions, sudden-contractions, and orifices contribute to overall pressure loss of the system. The local pressure losses across such components are determined using a pressure loss coefficient, k-factor, in lumped parameter models. In many engineering problems Idelchik's k-factor models have been used to estimate them. The present work compares the k-factor based on CFD calculation against Idelchik's model in order to confirm whether a commercial CFD package can be used for pressure loss coefficient estimation of complex geometries. The results show that RSM is the best appropriate for evaluating pressure loss coefficient. Commercial CFD package can be used as a tool evaluating k-factor even though the accuracy is influenced by a turbulence model.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.38 no.10
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• pp.797-805
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate the drag and lift characteristics of the cavitator of a supercavitating underwater vehicle and the pressure loss due to water intake. These investigations were performed by changing the diameter, velocity, radius of curvature of the intake, and angle of attack of the cavitator. With increasing ratio of the intake diameter to the cavitator diameter ratio($d/D_1$), the drag coefficient and the pressure loss coefficient of the water intake decreased. The greater the increase in the ratio of the intake velocity-to-free stream velocity ratio(S), the smaller was the decrease in the drag coefficient and the lift coefficient. When the intake had a radius of curvature(c), the pressure loss coefficient decreased. On the contrary, the effect of the radius of curvature on the drag coefficient was imperceptible. For angles of attack (${\alpha}$) of the caviatator in the range of $0^{\circ}$ to $10^{\circ}$, the drag coefficient and the pressure loss coefficient changed slightly, whereas the lift coefficient increased linearly with increasing angle of attack.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.59-66
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• 1995

본 연구에서는 액체 유동층 열교환기의 수직관내에 유리알 (직경 3.0mm, 비중 2.54) 이 물과 함께 흐를 때 압력 손실, 열전달 계수 및 화울링 계수를 측정하였다. 실험 결과 유리알은 1.0 m/s 이하의 낮은 유속에서 열전달을 증진시켰고 실험범위 내에서 열전달 계수는 유속 및 고체의 흐름양에 관계없이 거의 일정하였다. 압력 손실은 고체의 흐름양이 증가할수록 급격히 증가하였다. 실험 결과를 토대로 압력손실 및 열전달 계수를 예측할 수 있는 상관식을 개발하였다. 유리알 유동층 흐름은 화울링 조절에 효과적인 것으로 일어나지 않았고 이미 화울링이 심하게 일어난 때에도 유리알은 효과적으로 산화철을 제거할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.5696-5703
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• 2012

In this study, the characteristics of filter that make up the automotive airbag system were analyzed. The gas pressure change of airbag is directly impacted by the filter. However, it is uncertain how much the design factors of filter affect the pressure of airbag. And it is difficult to access the pressure loss coefficient in the respect of characteristics of the airbag filter in the simulation method. To solve this problem, this study suggests pressure loss coefficient of the filter using simulation analysis. But it is impossible to interpret a sudden increase of pressure such as airbag filter. To solve this problem, by applying interpolation and scale down method, analysis was processed. Also, through the simulation interpretation of airbag filter's pressure loss coefficient, the guidelines for the filter design could be suggested.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.126-133
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• 2007

An experimental apparatus has been designed and prepared in order to measure a pressure loss coefficient of hydropneumatic components, which is an important parameter in a hydropneumatic system Blow-down system has been adopted for the experimental apparatu to meet the high flow energy requirement as well as the apparatus safety. Especially, pressure loss coefficient measurements of pyrostarter filters have been performed and the pressure loss coefficient, K of CQSF has been experimentally acquired. Then it is shown that the turbine inlet pressure $p_2$, which is predicted from the measured K, is in accord with the results of combustion tests. Moreover, the relation between K and combustion pressure $p_0$ has been presented and it is disclosed that the relation accords well with the results of combustion tests. It is anticipated that K of a filter could play a role in PS size reduction by rising up the combustion pressure resulting in increasing the burning rate of solid propellant.

• Water for future
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.141-150
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• 1995

An air chamber is designed to keep the pressure from exceeding a predetermined value, or to prevent low pressures and column separation. Therefore, it can be used to protect against rapid transients in a pipe system following abrupt pump stoppage. In this research, an air chamber was applied to a hypothetical pipe system to analyze attenuation effect of pressure head for different air volumes, locations, chamber areas, coefficients of orifice loss and polytropic exponents. With an increase of air volume, the maximum pressure head at pump site is decreased and the minimum pressure head is increased. For different locations and areas of the chamber, the attenuation effects do not show much difference. Also, as the orifice loss coefficient increases, the maximum pressure head is decreased. For different polytropic exponents, isothermal process shows lower maximum pressure head than that of the adiabatic process.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.293-299
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• 2003

In this paper, the correlation of Pressure drop about the Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid was investigated experimentally for vibrating intravascular lung assist device (VIVLAD) and we determined correlation equation to make a prediction about Pressure drop for designing VIVLAD. Design conditions to predict the pressure drop of the modules were studied through an experimental modeling before inserting the artificial lung assist device into as venous. Experiments were performed by distilled water, glycerol/water mixed solution(40% glycerol) of Newtonian fluids. and the bovine blood of non-Newtonian fluids. These fluids were flowed outside and parallel of hollow fiber membranes. Also we measured pressure drop according to the number of the fiber membranes which ware inserted into the inside diameter of shell of 3 cm, and developed the prediction equations by curve fitting method based on correlation between the experimental pressure drop and the frontal area or the packing density of device. The result showed that the Pressure drop and the friction factor of the water/glycerol mixed solution were similar to that of bovine blood. It was showed that the water/glycerol mixed solution (40% glycerol) could be used for measuring the pressure drop and the friction factor instead of the bovine blood. Also, we could estimate the prediction equation of pressure drop and friction factor as the function of Packing density at the number of hollow fibers. We obtained the reliance of the prediction equations because the pressure drop and the friction factor measured from the experiments were similar to that from the prediction equation. These results may be used to further usefulness for the design of VIVLAD.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.25-30
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• 2014

The flow characteristics of two types of overhung compressor volutes for automobile turbochargers were analyzed numerically using commercial software. For obtaining high performance from a volute, it is necessary that the volute have a high pressure recovery coefficient and a low loss coefficient. We investigated the flow characteristics of two types of overhung compressor volutes with a fixed diffuser inlet angle of $24^{\circ}$ and a mass flow rate of 0.055 kg/s. The first type is a volute with one-arc cross section (type 1) and the second type is with three-arc cross section (type 2). Our results showed that between the two types of volutes, type 2 had the higher pressure recovery coefficient and the lower loss coefficient along the entire angular position.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1828-1832
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• 2008

우수 관거 시스템에서 흐름은 중력에 의해서 흐르고 개수로 흐름과 같이 처리된다. 그러나 유입유량이 관거의 만관 상태를 초과하거나 하류 흐름의 제한 때문에 발생하는 역류의 영향을 받는다면, 우수 관거 시스템은 과부하(surcharge) 상태의 압력흐름이 된다. 개수로 상태에서 맨홀에서의 수두 손실은 일반적으로 무시되지만, 과부하 맨홀에서의 수두손실은 중요하며, 우수 관거 시스템의 전체 손실에 중요한 부분을 차지하게 된다. 이러한 현상은 여러 개의 맨홀을 가지는 우수 관거 시스템에서 특히 중요한 사항이 된다. 현재 계획 또는 설계단계에서 수행되고 있는 관거 시설의 수리계산에서는 연결관의 마찰손실만을 감안하여 수행하고 있으며, 맨홀에서의 수두손실은 고려되지 않는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 일반적으로 3차원 유체거동의 특성분석에 많이 사용되는 Fluent 모형을 이용하여 과부하 원형 맨홀에서의 흐름특성을 수치모의 하였으며, 맨홀내 손실수두의 변화를 계산하여 손실계수를 산정하였다. 계산된 손실계수는 수리모형 실험을 통하여 산정된 손실계수와 비교하였다. 수치 모형에 의해서 산정된 손실계수 값이 수리모형 실험에 의해서 산정된 손실계수 값보다 약간 크게 산정되었다. 앞으로 난류 모형의 매개 변수들의 조정을 통한 정확한 수치모의 연구가 필요하다고 판단된다.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2014.03a
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• pp.614-618
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 디퓨저의 압력회복을 높이기 위해 디퓨저 입구에 실린더를 설치하여 후류가 압력회복에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 알아보았다. 2D-Incomp-2.1-P 해석자를 이용하여 속도, 압력에 따른 유동가시화를 통해 내부유동을 분석하였고, 압력회복계수를 비교하여 디퓨저 입구에 설치된 실린더의 후류가 디퓨저 성능에 어떤 영향을 주는지 비교하였다. 그결과 실린더를 설치하였을 때 확대부에서의 박리영역이 더 작아졌고 압력회복계수가 더 높아졌다.