• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.36-42
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• 2013

The performance of the wind turbine is determined by wind speed and unsteady flow characteristics. Unsteady wake flow causes not only the decline in performance but also structural problems of the wind turbine. In this paper, conceptual designs for the wind turbine tower are conducted to minimize unsteady wake flow. Numerical simulations are performed to inspect the shape effect of the tower. Through the installation of additional structures at the rear of the tower, the creation of Karman vortex is delayed properly and vortex interactions are reduced extremely, which enhance the stability of the wind turbine. From the comparative analysis of lift and drag coefficients for each structure, it is concluded that two streamwise tips with a splitter plate have the most improved aerodynamic characteristics in stabilizing wake flow.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2016

In this paper, a study on the development of OpenFOAM grid generation program for two-dimensional flow analysis is described. By using the pre-processor(eMEGA) of EDISON_CFD system, grids for OpenFOAM flow calculation were obtained. Resultant two-dimensional grids were used to calculate flow fields by applying simpleFoam, one of the OpenFOAM's popular solvers, and the obtained flow results were compared with theoretical and experimental data available. Also grids generated by present program were compared with grids by a commercial pre-processor Pointwise for the purpose of verification. Verification work includes three cases(single block, O-type single block, and multi block grid), and all results show reasonable matches. According to the current achievement, it can be concluded that OpenFOAM grid can be constructed conveniently by using eMEGA with GUI.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제40권12호
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• pp.1025-1031
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 간단한 압축성 유체이론에 기초하여 렘젯 엔진의 초음속 흡입구를 개념 설계하고 보다 넓은 범위의 운영조건에서 안정적인 성능을 내도록 블리딩 유동제어 연구를 수행하였다. 초음속 흡입구의 성능을 개선시키기 위해서는 충격파 안정성, 충격파-경계층 상호작용 및 유동 박리를 적절히 제어할 수 있어야 한다. 비점성 해석을 통해 얻어진 1차 기초설계 형상으로부터 점성을 고려하여 충격파의 강도와 경계층 및 박리의 효과가 반영된 2차 수정설계를 수행하였다. 그 결과 설계조건에서 충격파가 안정화되고 목표 흡입 유량을 만족하는 형상을 얻었다. 흡입구가 탈 설계조건 내에서도 성능이 유지되도록 하기 위해 블리딩을 적용하였다. 질량유량 경계조건을 이용하여 블리딩 효과를 모델링 하였으며 위치와 개수를 조절해가며 성능변화를 관찰하였다.