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An ALE Finite Element Method for Baffled Fuel Container in Yawing Motion

  • Cho, Jin-Rae;Lee, Hong-Woo;Yoo, Wan-Suk;Kim, Min-Jeong
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.460-470
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    • 2004
  • A computational analysis of engineering problems with moving domain or/and boundary according to either Lagrangian or Eulerian approach may encounter inherent numerical difficulties, the extreme mesh distortion in the former and the material boundary indistinctness in the latter. In order to overcome such defects in classical numerical approaches, the ALE(arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian) method is widely being adopted in which the finite element mesh moves with arbitrary velocity. This paper is concerned with the ALE finite element formulation, aiming at the dynamic response analysis of baffled fuel-storage container in yawing motion, for which the coupled time integration scheme, the remeshing and smoothing algorithm and the mesh velocity determination are addressed. Numerical simulation illustrating theoretical works is also presented.

A method of event data stream processing for ALE Middleware (ALE 미들웨어를 위한 이벤트 데이터 처리 방법)

  • Noh, Young-Sik;Lee, Dong-Cheol;Byun, Yung-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.12 no.9
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    • pp.1554-1563
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    • 2008
  • As the interests on RFID technologies increase, a lot of research activities on RFID middleware systems to handle the data acquired by RFID readers are going on actively. Meanwhile, even though various kinds of RFID middleware methodologies and related techniques have been proposed, the common data type which is dealt with in those systems is an EPC code, mainly. Also, there are few researches of the implementation of collecting the stream data queued from RFID readers endlessly and without blocking, classifying the data into some groups according to usage, and sending the resulting data to specific applications. In this paper, we propose the method of data handling in RFID middleware to efficiently process an EPC event stream data using detail filtering, checking of data modification, creation of data set to transfer, data grouping, and various kinds of RFID data format transform. Our method is based on a de facto international standard interface defined in the ALE middleware specification by EPCglobal, and application and service users can directly set various kinds of conditions to handle the stream data.

ALE based Fluid-Structure-Interaction Simulation of Solid Propellant Rocket (고체 로켓 내부 그레인 유체-구조-연소 통합 해석)

  • Han, Sang-Ho;Choi, Hee-Sung;Min, Dae-Ho;Hwang, Chan-Gyu;Kim, Chong-Am
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.173-176
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    • 2009
  • The Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian(ALE, in short) method is the new description of continum motion, which combines the advantages of the classical kinematical descriptions, i.e. Lagrangian and Eulerian description, while minimizing their respective drawbacks. In this paper, the ALE description is adapted to simulate fluid-structure interaction problems. An automatic re-mesh algorithm and a fluid-structure coupling process are included to analyze the interaction and moving motion during the 2-D axisymmetric solid rocket interior FSI phenomena simulation.

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Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) Formulations of Saturated Porous Media (포화 다공질 매체의 Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) 정식화)

  • 박대효;정소찬
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.235-242
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    • 2003
  • The solids and the fluids in porous media have a relative velocity to each other. Due to physically and chemically different material properties and their relative velocity, the behavior of saturated porous media is extremely complicated. Thus, in order to describe and clarify the deformation behavior of saturated porous media, constitutive models for deformation of porous media coupling several effects such as flow of the fluids or thermodynanical change need to be developed in frame of Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) description. The aim of ALE formulations is to maximize the advantages of Lagrangian and Eulerian elements, and to minimize the disadvantages. Therefore, this method is appropriate for the analysis of porous media that are considered for the behavior of the solids and the fluids. In this work, governing equations of porous media based on ALE description are obtained from governing equations in frame of updated Lagrangian description. Then, weak forms of these equations are derived using arbitrary weighting functions.

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ALE-Based FSI Simulation of Solid Propellant Rocket Interior (ALE 기반의 고체 로켓 내부 유체-구조 연계 해석)

  • Han, Sang-Ho;Choi, H.S.;Min, D.H.;Kim, C.;Hwang, Chan-Gyu
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.510-513
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    • 2008
  • The traditional computational fluid or structure dynamics analysis approaches have contributed to solve many delicate engineering problems. But for the most of recent engineering problems which are influenced by fluid-structure interaction effect strongly, traditional individual approaches have limited analysis abilities for the exact simulation. Owing to above-mentioned reason, nowadays fluid-structure interaction analysis has become a matter of concern and interest. FSI analysis require several unprecedented techniques for the combining individual analysis tool into integrated analysis tool. The Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian(ALE, in short) method is the new description of continum motion,which combines the advantages of the classical kinematical descriptions, i.e. Lagrangian and Eulerian description, while minimizing their respective drawbacks. In this paper, the ALE description is adapted to simulate fluid-structure interaction problems. An automatic re-mesh algorithm and a fluid-structure coupling process are included to analyze the interaction and moving motion during the 2-D axisymmetric solid rocket interior FSI phenomena simulation.

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A new ALE formulation for sloshing analysis

  • Aquelet, N.;Souli, M.;Gabrys, J.;Olovson, L.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.423-440
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    • 2003
  • Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian finite element methods gain interest for the capability to control mesh geometry independently from material geometry, the ALE methods are used to create a new undistorted mesh for the fluid domain. In this paper we use the ALE technique to solve fuel slosh problem. Fuel slosh is an important design consideration not only for the fuel tank, but also for the structure supporting the fuel tank. "Fuel slosh" can be generated by many ways: abrupt changes in acceleration (braking), as well as abrupt changes in direction (highway exit-ramp). Repetitive motion can also be involved if a "sloshing resonance" is generated. These sloshing events can in turn affect the overall performance of the parent structure. A finite element analysis method has been developed to analyze this complex event. A new ALE formulation for the fluid mesh has been developed to keep the fluid mesh integrity during the motion of the tank. This paper explains the analysis capabilities on a technical level. Following the explanation, the analysis capabilities are validated against theoretical using potential flow for calculating fuel slosh frequency.

Free Surface Analysis in Pipe Flows using the ALE Method (ALE를 이용한 관내 유동의 자유경계면 해석)

  • You, Jung-Doo;Tak, Moon-Ho;Park, Tae-Hyo
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.748-751
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    • 2011
  • 일반적으로 물체의 거동을 해석하기 위해 고체영역에서는 Lagrangian 기법이 유체영역에서는 Eulerian 기법이 수치해석에 적용된다. Lagranian 기법은 서로 다른 물질의 경계와 자유표면에 대한 거동을 쉽게 추적할 수 있는 반면 물체의 대변형시 해석의 정확성이 떨어지는 단점이 있다. 또한 Eulerian 기법은 물질이동만을 고려하여 변형의 제한이 없는 장점을 가지고 있지만 이동하는 경계에 대해서 조건을 변화 시켜야하는 어려움이 있다. 따라서 이 두기법의 장단점을 서로 보안하기 위해 ALE(Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian)기법이 제안되었으며 이를 적용한 유체-구조물의 상호작용 해석에 대하여 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 ALE기법을 이용한 자유경계면에 대한 새로운 알고리즘이 제안된다.

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DEVELOPMENT OF CFD PROGRAM BASED ON A UNSTRUCTURED POLYHEDRAL GRID AND ITS APPLICATION TO FLOW AROUND A OSCILLATING CIRCULAR CYLINDER (비정렬 다면체 격자계 기반 유동 해석 프로그램의 개발 및 진동하는 실린더 주변 유동에의 적용)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyuk;Kang, Seong-Won;Hur, Nahm-Keon
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.483-487
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    • 2011
  • In the present study, a CFD program based on a finite volume method was developed by using an unstructured polyhedral grid system for the accurate simulation with the complex geometry of computational domain. To simulate the transient flow induced by the moving solid object, the program used a fractional step method and a ALE (Algebric Lagrangian-Eulerian) method. The grid deformation for the moving of solid object were performed with a spring analogy based on the center coordinate of each computational grid. To verify the present program with these methodologies, the numerical results of the flow around the fixed and oscillating circular cylinder were compared with the previous numerical results.

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Finite Element Formulation using Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Method for Saturated Porous Media

  • Park, Taehyo;Jung, Sochan
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.375-382
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    • 2003
  • Porous media consist of physically and chemically different materials and have an extremely complicated behavior due to the different material properties of each of its constituents. In addition, the internal structure of porous media has generally a complex geometry that makes the description of its mechanical behavior quite complex. Thus, in order to describe and clarify the deformation behavior of porous media, constitutive models for deformation of porous media coupling several effects such as flow of fluids of thermodynamical change need to be developed in frame of Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) description. The aim of ALE formulations is to maximize the advantages of Lagrangian and Eulerian methods, and to minimize the disadvantages. Therefore, this method is appropriate for the analysis of porous media that are considered for the behavior of solids and fluids. First of all, governing equations for saturated porous media based on ALE description are derived. Then, weak forms of these equations are obtained in order to implement numerical method using finite element method. Finally, Petrov-Galerkin method Is applied to develop finite element formulation.

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