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SHAPE OPTIMIZATION OF COMPRESSOR BLADES USING 3D NAVIER-STOKES FLOW PHYSICS

  • Lee K. D.;Chung J.;Shim J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2001
  • A CFD-based design method for transonic axial compressor blades was developed based on three-dimensional Navier-Stokes flow physics. The method employs a sectional three-dimensional (S3D) analysis concept where the three-dimensional flow analysis is performed on the grid plane of a span station with spanwise flux components held fixed. The S3D analysis produced flow solutions nearly identical to those of three-dimensional analysis, regardless of the initialization of the flow field. The sectional design based on the S3D analysis can include three-dimensional effects of compressor flows and thus overcome the deficiencies associated with the use of quasi-three-dimensional flow physics in conventional sectional design. The S3D design was first used in the inverse triode to find the geometry that produces a specified target pressure distribution. The method was also applied to optimize the adiabatic efficiency of the blade sections of Rotor 37. A new blade was constructed with the optimized sectional geometries at several span stations and its aerodynamic performance was evaluated with three-dimensional analyses.

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Numerical analysis of flow characteristics with intake port and valve design (흡기포트 및 밸브 형상에 따른 정상 유동 특성)

  • Lee, Sang-Jin;Kim, Seong-Cheol;Kim, Duk-Sang;Ohm, In-Yong;Cho, Yong-Seok
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.11b
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    • pp.921-927
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    • 2001
  • Steady flow bench test is a practical, powerful and widely used test in most engine manufacturers to give a design concept of a new engine. In order to use steady data as a performance index, it is necessary to build some database, which can correlate the port characteristics with engine data. However, it is very hard to investigate all port and valve shapes with experimental tools. The steady flow scheme is relatively simple and its results are bulk ones such as flow rate and momentum of flow. Therefore a CFD code can be easily applied to the port evaluation. In this study, the steady flow test was simulated through two and three-dimensional analysis on intake port design for comparing with experimental data and confirming the feasibility of applying analytic method. For this purpose, the effect of valve curvature on flow rate was estimated by a CFD code. There results were compared with those of real steady flow tests. As a result, the 2-D analysis described the phenomena qualitatively well, and also the results of 3-D analysis were almost consistent with experimental data.

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Computational Structural Dynamic Analysis of a Gyrocopter Using CFD Coupled Method (CFD기법을 연계한 자이로콥터의 전산구조동역학 해석)

  • Kim Hyun-Jung;Jung Se-Un;Park Hyo-Keun;Yang Chang-Hak;Kim Dong-Hyun
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.19 no.3 s.73
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    • pp.295-302
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    • 2006
  • In this study, computational structural dynamic analyses of a gyrocopter have been conducted considering unsteady dynamic hub-loads due to rotating blades. 3D CATIA models with detailed mechanical parts we constructed and virtually assembled into the complete aircraft configuration. The dynamic loading generated by rotating blades in the forward flight condition are calculated by a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code such as FLUENT. Modal based transient and frequency response analyses are used to efficiently investigate vibration characteristics of the gyrocopter. Free vibration analysis results for different fuel and pilot conditions, frequency responses and transient responses for critical flight conditions are also presented in detail.

Numerical Simulations of Cavitation Flow in Volumetric Gear Pump (회전 용적형 기어펌프의 캐비테이션 유동 해석)

  • Lee, Jung-Ho;Lee, Sang-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.28-34
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    • 2011
  • A volumetric gear pump is often used in extensive industrial applications to provide both high pressure and sufficiently high flow rate by physical displacement of finite volume of fluid with each revolution. Template mesh function in commercial CFD software, PumpLinx, by which 3-D meshes in the complex region between rotor and housing can be readily generated was employed for 3-D flow simulations. For cavitation analysis full cavitation model was included in 3-D simulations. The results showed high pulsation in pressure and flowrate which is implicated in pump vibration and noise. A model test for cavitation visualization was conducted and the results showed good qualitative agreement with numerical prediction.

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF A RANGE HOOD SIROCCO FAN BY CFD FLOW ANALYSIS (렌지후드의 성능개선을 위한 시로코 팬 주위의 유동해석)

  • Han, B.Y.;Park, J.W.;Lee, M.S.;Park, H.K.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.159-165
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    • 2008
  • A sirocco fan is widely used for discharging pollutants of a kitchen space since it is able to generate a relatively high air flow rate considering its small size and makes less noise than a axial fan or a centrifugal fan. However, it has a problem because its efficiency is low, and power consumption is larger. Performance of a sirocco fan is influenced by various factors such as number of the fan blades, diameter of the fan, geometry of the fan, geometry of its housing, revolution frequency, static pressure condition, and etc. This research investigated the effect on the performance of geometry of the housing. For CFD analysis, we used a commercial code, SC/Tetra, and used a sliding mesh method to give the same condition as an actual state. Verification of the CFD results is done by comparison of experimental data and numerical one about the suction flow rate, and it is confirmed that two results are well consistent. After we changed the shape of housing according to Archimedes' screw, we observed that suction efficiency is improved by 10.7% maximum.

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Cooling Performance Analysis of Regeneratively Cooled Combustion Chamber (재생냉각 연소실의 냉각성능 해석)

  • Cho, Won-Kook;Seol, Woo-Seok;Cho, Gwang-Rae
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.67-72
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    • 2004
  • A regenerative cooling system has been designed through empirical 1-D analysis for a liquid rocket engine of 30-ton-level thrust. The hot-gas-side wall temperature from 1-D analysis shows 100K difference compared to 3D CFD analysis. Two variations of design with same cooling performance are suggested for different maximum channel widths i.e., 4mm and 2mm. The coolant pressure drop of the latter design is higher by 20%. The maximum liner temperature is about 700K when TBC and the thermal resistance of carbon deposit are considered. So film cooling is recommended to increase the cooling capacity as the present cooling capacity is insufficient

Development of Simple Example of CFD Course in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum (I) (Laminar Pipe Flow) (기계공학교육과정에서의 전산유체동역학의 기초예제개발 (I) (수평 원관의 층류 유동))

  • Lee, Sung-Riong;Cho, Seok-Swoo
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.7
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    • pp.72-80
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    • 2018
  • With the ever increasing advances in computers and their computing power, computational fluid dynamics(CFD) has become an essential engineering tool in the design and analysis of engineering applications. Accordingly, many universities have developed and implemented a course on CFD for undergraduate students. On the other hand, many professors have used industrial examples supplied by computational analysis software companies as CFD examples. This makes many students think of CFD as difficult and confusing. This paper presents a simple CFD example used in the department of mechanical design engineering of Kangwon National University and shows its effectiveness. Most students answered that a simple CFD example is more comprehensive than an industrial example. Therefore, it is necessary to develop simple computational analysis problems in the engineering education field.

The Outlet Temperature Prediction of In-Situ Thermal Response Test using CFD Analysis (CFD 해석을 이용한 현장 열응답 시험의 출구온도 예측)

  • Sim, Yong-Sub;Lee, Hee-Sang
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.28-35
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    • 2016
  • The in-situ thermal response test for the design of a ground heat exchanger of geothermal heat pumps have difficulty in predicting the outlet temperature according to the variation of conditions due to the expense and time. This paper suggests a 3-D CFD analysis method to predict the heat transfer performance of vertical type ground heat exchanger, which is mostly used in national, and the outlet temperature and the slope of two in-situ thermal response tests were compared to test the proposed CFD reliability. The results of CFD analysis showed that the outlet temperature was predicted to within $0.5^{\circ}C$ of the actual value and the slope was predicted to within 1.6%. The reliability of the CFD analysis method was confirmed using this process, and the outlet temperature prediction of the two in-situ thermal response tests was obtained by changing ${\pm}20%$ of the flow rate and the effective thermal conductivity conditions, respectively. The results of CFD analysis showed that the outlet temperature of Case 1 was 28.0 (-20%) and $29.6^{\circ}C$ (+20%) for the flow rate variation and $29.6^{\circ}C$ (-20%) and $28.0^{\circ}C$ (+20%) for the effective thermal conductivity variation, and the outlet temperature of Case 2 was 28.4 (-20%) and $29.8^{\circ}C$ (+20%) for the flow rate variation and $29.7^{\circ}C$(-20%) and $28.4^{\circ}C$(+20%) for the effective thermal conductivity variation.

Flow Variation Analysis of Cavity Depending on Aspect Ratio using EDISON_CFD (EDISON_CFD를 이용한 세장비에 따른 공동의 유동 변화 분석)

  • Ha, Heon-U
    • Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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    • 2013.04a
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    • pp.349-353
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    • 2013
  • 공동주위의 유동에 대한 연구결과를 보면 개방형 공동(L/D<10)과 밀폐형 공동(L/D>13)으로 구별하는 데 개방형 공동은 앞전에서 발생한 자유전단층이 뒷전 부근에 재부착하여 공동을 완전히 연결하므로, 자유전단층과 외부유동과의 상호작용으로 발생하는 심한 압력변화에 의해 진동현상이 나타나게 된다. 이것은 큰 소음을 유발하고, 구조물의 고장 혹은 파괴의 원인이 되기도 하고, 공력 성능 및 안정성에 해를 주고 민감한 계기를 손상 시킬 수도 있다. 본 논문에서는 공동을 연구하기 위해 EDISON_CFD를 사용하여 공동의 시뮬레이션하기 위해 격자를 구성하고 세장비를 각각 1/5, 1/3, 1/2, 1, 2, 5 로 변화를 주어 M=1.5 일 때 밀도, 압력, 마하수와 유동구조를 세장비에 따라 결과를 비교, 분석한다.

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Optimization of a Savonius hydrokinetic turbine for performance improvement: A comprehensive analysis of immersion depth and rotation direction

  • Mafira Ayu Ramdhani;Il Hyoung Cho
    • Ocean Systems Engineering
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.141-156
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    • 2024
  • The turbine system converts the kinetic energy of water flow to electricity by rotating the rotor in a restricted waterway between the seabed and free surface. A turbine system's immersion depth and rotation direction are significantly critical in the turbine's performance along with the shape of the rotor. This study has investigated the hydrodynamic performance of the Savonius hydrokinetic turbine (SHT) according to the immersion depth and rotation direction using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The instantaneous torque, torque coefficient, and power coefficients are calculated for the immersion ratios Z/D ranging [0.25, 3.0] and both clockwise (CW) and counterclockwise (CCW) rotations. A flow visualization around the rotor is shown to clarify the correlation between the turbine's performance and the flow field. The CFD simulations show that the CCW rotation produces a higher power at shallow immersion, while the CW rotation performs better at deeper immersion. The immersion ratio should be greater than the minimum of Z/D=1.0 to obtain the maximum power production regardless of the rotation direction.