• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.881-888
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• 2017

In general, the choking phenomenon occurs by flow acceleration for a turbine at high pressure ratio condition. In choking condition, total pressure ratio increases without mass flow rate variation. It is hard to predict choking characteristics by using conventional meanline analysis which used mass flow inlet boundary condition. In the present study, the algorithm for predicting choking point is developed to solve the problem. Moreover, performance estimation algorithm after choking is presented by reflecting the flow behaviour of flow expansion at choked nozzle or rotor. The analysis results are compared with 3D CFD analysis and experimental data to validate present method.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.20-28
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• 2018

In general, the choking phenomenon occurs due to the flow acceleration of a turbine under high pressure-ratio. During choking, the total pressure ratio increases without any variation in the mass flow rate. It is difficult to predict choking characteristics by using conventional meanline analysis, which utilizes mass flow inlet boundary condition. In this study, an algorithm for predicting the choking point is developed to solve this problem. In addition, a performance estimation algorithm is presented to estimate the performance after choking, based on the flow behavior of flow expansion at the choked nozzle or rotor. The analysis results are compared with 3D CFD analysis and experimental data to validate this method.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.1173-1182
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• 1998

A throughflow analysis program for axial flow turbines is constructed, which can handle not only the two-dimensional multi-streamline (streamline curvature) method but also the one-dimensional mean line method. Calculations are performed for single stage and multi-stage axial flowturbines. For a wide operating range, the performance and flow field calculated by the present streamline curvature method are close enough to the test data. It is also revealed for the single stage turbine that the present analysis leads to far better correspondence with the experiment than other researchers" throughflow analyses. A special focus is put on the comparison of the results between the streamline curvature analysis and the mean line analysis. It is found that the mean line analysis can not predict the performance for highly off-designed conditions as accurately as the streamline curvature method, which shows the importance of considering the spanwise variation of loss and flow.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.74-79
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• 2017

The fire extinguishing performance of hybrid nozzle systems is improved by injecting an extinguishing agent concentrically into the target site and, in this study, water mist is used as a water curtain to confine the droplets of the agent. In this study, we numerically investigated the effect of the foundation angle and injection pressure on the performance of a hybrid nozzle by evaluating the mean radius of the volume fractions of the agent and water mists. An experiment involving a water mist nozzle was carried out to validate the numerical method and then the droplet behaviors, e.g., stochastic collision, coalescence and breakup, were calculated with 2-way interaction Discrete Particle Modeling (DPM) in the steady state for the hybrid nozzle system. The mean radius of the water mists increased by about 40 %, whereas that of the agent decreased by about 21 %, when the injection pressure was increased from 30 bar to 60 bar. In addition, the mean radius of the agent increased by about 24 % as the foundation angle of the hybrid nozzle head increased from $30^{\circ}$ to $60^{\circ}$. As a result, it can be inferred that the injection angle and pressure are important factors for hybrid water mist designs.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.141-148
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• 2009

Axial-flow compressor is one of the most important parts of gas turbine units with axial turbine and combustor. Therefore, precise prediction of performance is very important for development of new compressor or modification of existing one. Meanline analysis is a simple, fast and powerful method for performance prediction of axial-flow compressors with different geometries. So, Meanline analysis is frequently used in preliminary design stage and performance analysis for given geometry data. Much correlations for meanline analysis have been developed theoretically and experimentally for estimating various types of losses and flow deviation angle for long time. In present study, meanline analysis program was developed to estimate compressor losses, incidence angles, deviation angles, stall and surge conditions with many correlations. Performance prediction of one stage axial compressors is conducted with this meanline analysis program. The comparison between experimental and numerical results show a good agreement. This meanline analysis program can be used for various types of single stage axial-flow compressors with different geometries, as well as multistage axial-flow compressors.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.265-279
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• 1986

Ra=$10^{6}$, Pr=5에서 관열전도율과 두께가 변화할 때의 단일수평관에서의 자연대류 열전달에 관하여 유한차분법을 이용하여 해석적으로 연구하였다. .delta.$_{w}$ /d$_{o}$ =0.1에서 관열전도율이 높을수록 높은 온도와 높은 국소 누셀트 수를 나타 내며, .theta.=20。에서의 원주방향속도는 (r-r$_{o}$ )=0.08에서 최대가 되며 반경방향속 도는 (r-r$_{o}$ )=0.14에서 최대가 된다. 관외벽온도는 관 두께가 증가함에 따라 거의 유사하게 감소한다. $K_{w}$ /K$_{f}$ =75에서 각도변위가 증가함게 따라 국소 누셀트수는 현저히 증가하나 관 두께가 증가함에 따라서는 감소한다. .delta.$_{w}$ / d$_{o}$ =0.1에서 평균 누셀트수와 평균 온도는 무차원 열전도율이 증가함에 따라 $K_{w}$ /K$_{f}$ ＞15에서는 평균 누셀트 수는 서서히 증가하고 평균 온도는 거의 같 은 값을 가지며 지수함수로 표시할 수 있었다. $K_{w}$ /K$_{f}$ =75,50에서 평균 누 셀트수와 온도는 무차원 관 두께가 증가함에 따라 거의 직선적으로 감소되며 선형 함 수로 나타낼 수 있었다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.207-214
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• 2015

The preliminary design of a radial inflow turbine using R134a as the working fluid at 5 kW of power for application to ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is performed to obtain the trends for the efficiency and geometrical dimensions of the turbine. Using input conditions that included a turbine inlet temperature of $25^{\circ}C$, an outlet static pressure of 4.9 bar, and a mass flow rate of 1.16 kg/s, the results of a mean flow analysis show the major dimensions of the turbine, along with an angular velocity of 12,820 rpm. Based on these results, a three-dimensional turbine model is constructed for a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. The flow characteristics inside the turbine, including the volute and nozzle, are investigated using the CFD software ANSYS CFX. For a pertinent number of nozzle guide vanes, ranging from 10 to 15, the turbine efficiency was higher than 80%, with the highest efficiency shown by a nozzle with 15 guide vanes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.141-144
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• 2008

Atomization characteristics and spatial distribution of the spray emanating from an injector of liquid-propellant thruster are investigated by using dual-mode phase Doppler anemometry (DPDA). Spray characteristic parameters such as the mean velocity, Sauter mean diameter (SMD), and velocity fluctuation are measured at various locations along the spray axis as well as on the radial direction. Those data are quantified in radial profile and also used to scrutinize the correlation between diameter and turbulence intensity of spray droplets. For the better visual grasp, dynamic behavior of spray droplets along the spray stream is presented through the velocity vectors projected on the plane of geometric axis of nozzle orifice and radial coordinate.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.181-188
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• 1999

재료의 표면을 pulsed laser로 가열할 때, 유한한 두께를 가지는 반무한 평판의 온도분포를 해석하여 열확산계수, 재료의 두께, 열원의 주기, 그리고 열원의 반경이 온도분포에 미치는 영향을 알아보았다. Pulsed laser에 의하여 가열되는 불투명 고체의 시간에 따른 온도는 전체적으로 증가하지만 열원의 주기와 동일한 주기를 가지고 일정한 온도차를 가지는 전체온도와 평균온도의 차, Tac가 존재한다. 열확산계수가 증가하면 재료 내부로 에너지의 확산이 활발하기 때문에 Tac는 커진다. 재료의 두께가 열확산길이보다 얇은 경우에는 두께변화에 따라서 온도가 민감하게 변하지만, 열확산길이보다 재료의 두께가 두꺼울 때는 두께의 변화에 관계없이 거의 일정한 온도가 나타난다. 열원의 단속주파수가 증가하면 한 주기당 에너지가 작아지므로 Tac의 크기는 작아진다. 열원의 반경이 커지면 단위면적당 에너지가 감소하므로 Tac의 크기는 삼각파, 싸인파, 사각파 순으로 크게 나타난다. 따라서 열원의 파형을 측정하여 이를 적용하는 것이 바람직하다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.35-42
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• 2008

Instrumented sharp indentation test is a well-directed method to measure hardness and elastic modulus. The sharp indenter such as Berkovich and conical indenters have a geometrical self-similarity in theory, but the self-similarity ceases to work in practice due to inevitable indenter tip-blunting. In this study we analyzed the load-depth curves of conical indenter with finite tip-radius via finite element method. Using the numerical regression data obtained from Kick's law, we first confirmed that loading curvature is significantly affected by tip radius as well as material properties. We then established a new method to evaluate Young's modulus, which successfully provides the value of elastic modulus with an average error of less than 2%, regardless of tip-radius and material properties of both indenter and specimen.