• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.13-18
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• 2009

In this paper, it is intended to figure out the features and causes of the processes of creation, growth and disappearance of spiral-vortex-flow generated in Francis turbines generally. The spiral-vortex-flow generated in draft tubes of the Francis turbines is estimated to have negative effects on power plant structure and to the people inside the building as well as to lead to a low-frequency-vibration driven by sub-synchronous whirl vibration. Therefore, we intend to investigate how much the low-frequency-vibration has an influence upon the powerhouse structure and practice analyzing the effectiveness on the previously-introduced methods to reduce side-effects of sub-synchronous whirl vibration and finally we intend to show the optimal solutions through this paper.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.390.2-390
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• 2002

The stability ratio and vibrational amplitude of each tube inside a steam generator have different values. We estimate the characteristics of flow-induced vibration for CE type steam generator with various column and row number of the tube. To obtain the thermal-hydraulic data and stability ratio we use the ATHOS3 and PIAT-FEI/TE code respectively. It turns out that the steam generator has a bounded central zone which the distributed values of the stability ratio and the vibrational amplitude, and those values across the zone boundary become decreased.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.421-427
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• 1987

공력소음은 공기역학적 힘에 의해서나 또는 유동 내에서의 난류와 같은 유체운동에 의해서만 발 생되는 소리와 관계되며, 진동하는 바이올린 줄이나 확성기의 진동에 의해서 발생되는 즉, 고체 표면의 진동에 의해서 발생되는 고전적인 음향학과는 무관하다. 그리고 여기서는 주로 공력 소음문제를 다루되 자세하고 엄밀한 수학적 전개보다는, 간단한 실제적인 예를 들어서, 물리적 메카니즘을 가능한 한 자세히 기술하여 공력 소음의 이해를 돕고자 하였다. 또한 오래된 고전적 방법을 가능한 한 피하고 최근의 방법으로 설명하도록 하였다.

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.2 no.2 s.3
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• pp.27-31
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• 1999

This paper describes the shaft vibration phenomena measured on a pump-turbine of a pumped storage power plant. The pump-turbine runs at a rotational speed of 450 rpm (7.5 Hz). The power output (load) of the pump-turbine is varied from 100 to 300 MW in the generating mode. The magnitude of the shaft vibration highly depends on the power load. The vibration magnitude of the shaft is very high in the middle load zone from 170 to 210 MW, elsewhere the vibration is low. From nitration spectra, it is shown that the frequency of major nitration in that load zone is 2.5 Hz which is approximately $34\%$ of the shaft rotating speed in Hz. This frequency component does not occur below and above that load zone. This subsynchronous vibration is caused by the flow induced disturbance due to spiral vortex flow downstream of the pump-turbine runner. Furthermore, the shaft vibration is highly decreased due to an increased bearing preload.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.84-91
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• 2003

Flow-Induced Vibration of steam generator tubes may result in fretting wear damage at the tube-to-support locations. KSNP(Korean Standard Nuclear Power plant) steam generators experienced fretting wear in the upper part of U-bend above the central cavity region of steam generators. This region has conditions susceptible to the flow-induced vibration, such as high flow velocity, high void fraction, and longer unsupported span. To improve its performance, APR1400 steam generator is designed with additional supports in this region to reduce unsupported span and to reduce peak velocity in the central cavity region. In this paper, we examined its performance improvement using ATHOS code. The thermal-hydraulic condition in the region of secondary side of APR1400 steam generator is obtained using the ATHOS3 code. The effective mass for modal analysis is calculated using the void fraction, enthalpy, and operating pressure information from ATHOS3 code result. With the effective mass distribution along the tube, natural frequency and mode shape is obtained using ANSYS code. Finally, stability ratios and real mean squared displacements for selected tubes of the APR1400 steam generator are computed. From these results, the current design of the APR1400 steam generator are examined.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1994.10a
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• pp.73-79
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• 1994

(1) 진공청소기의 소음은 팬모타의 회전에 기인하는 유체소음과 진동소음이 주류를 이루며, 여기에 공기의 흡입과 배출에 따른 유체소음등이 복합되어 나타난다. (2) 진공청소기의 소음특성은 각 소음원들의 특성에 따라 주파수대역을 구분할 수 있으며, 기계적 진동음인 500Hz부근에서 peak를 보인다. (3) 소음의 저감을 위하여는 기존에 정립되어 있는 흡음, 차음, 감쇠, 방진, 유압유속감소 등의 기술을 종합적으로 활용하여 제한된 공간내에서 효과를 극대화할 수 있는 구조개발이 필요하며 본 연구에 적용하였다. (4) 본 연구의 '정음유로구조'는 차음효과, 유로길이 증가에 의한 감쇠효과, 흡음효과를 극대화할 수 있는 구조이다. (5) 팬모타의 진동모드는 회전축을 중심으로 원운동을 하며, 진동량은 흡입구와 뒷쪽 베어링부위가 가장 작으므로 회전축에 가까운 곳을 지지하는 것이 방진에 유리하다. (6) 본 구조에서 사용된 케이싱은 484Hz의 고유진동수 성분을 가지며 이는 모타와 공진할 우려가 있다. 이에 공진주파수 성분의 진동량이 가장 작은 전면과 후면의 중앙부를 지지하여 진동을 줄일 수 있었다. (7) 본체소음의 전반적인 저감에 따라 흡입구 등에서 발생하는 공기마찰소음의 영향이 상대적으로 커지며, 따라서 흡입구의 유선형 설계 및 누설소음의 흡음, 차폐 등의 역할이 중요한 관리 요소로 된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.927-932
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• 2002

The stability ratio and vibrational amplitude of each tube inside a steam generator have different values. We estimate the characteristics of flow-induced vibration for CE type steam generator with various column and row number of the tube. To obtain the thermal-hydraulic data and stability ratio we use the ATHOS3-MODI and PIAT-FEI/TE code respectively. It turns out that the steam generator has a bounded central zone with the distributed values of the stability ratio and the vibrational amplitude, and those values across the zone boundary become decreased.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.394-399
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• 2005

A case history is presented pertaining to high frequency piping vibration and noise caused by globe valve in the spent fuel pool cooling system of nuclear power plant. Frequency analyses were performed on the system to diagnose the problem and develop a solution to reduce the piping vibration and noise. The source of the high frequency and noise energy was traced to the globe valve located immediately downstream of the centrifugal pump by performing valve throttling test. Measurements of vibration and noise are presented to show that the high frequency vibration and noise amplitude was dependent upon the valve disc position and flow rate. Strouhal vortex shedding frequencies were generated at the exit of the globe valve which exited structural resonance of valve disc and amplified the high frequency vibration and noise. The problem was identified as an interaction between the flow inside globe valve and the valve disc structure. Attempts to reduce the vibration and noise amplitudes of the piping system were successfully achieved by the modification of guide-disc diameter and disc-edge figure The valve disc was replaced by an alternative to eliminate the source of the harmful high frequency vibration and noise.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.1381-1390
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• 1992

This paper presents a dynamic characteristics of flow induced vibration of circular cylinder set with inclined angle against flow direction. The effect of the cylinder bounded by spiral fin and wire on the damping of flow induced vibration is investigated, i.e., inclined angle, spiral pitch angle and number of spiral thread are studied. As the results, the cylinder with spiral fin is most effective for the damping. Also the cylinder bounded by pitch angle 50.deg. and 2 spiral thread is most effective.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.452-459
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• 2003

The characteristics of fluid-elastic instability and effects of turbulent excitations for the KSNP steam generator tubes were investigated numerically. The information for the thermal-hydraulic data of the steam generator has been obtained by using the ATHOS3-MOD1 code and the flow-induced vibration(FIV) analysis has been conducted by using the PIAT(program for Integrity assessment of SG tube) code. The KSNP steam generator has the concentrated plugging zone at the vicinity of the stay cylinder inside the SG. To investigate the cause of the concentrated tube plugging zone, the FIV analysis has been performed for various column and row number of the steam generator tubes. From the results of FIV analysis the stability ratio due to the fluid-elastic instability and vibrational amplitude due to the turbulent excitation in the concentrated plugged zone have a trend of larger values than those of the outer concentrated tube Plugging zone.