• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.110-120
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• 2009

Generally the fluid flows within the centrifugal impeller passage as a decelerating flow with an adverse pressure gradient along the stream wise path. This flow tends to be in a state of instability with flow separation zones on the suction surface and on the front shroud. Hence several experimental attempts were earlier made to assess the efficacy of using boundary layer fences to trip the flow in the regions of separation and to make the flow align itself into stream wise direction so that the losses could be minimized and overall efficiency of the diffusion process in the fan could be increased. With the development of CFD, an extensive numerical whole field analysis of the effect of boundary layer fences in discrete regions of suspected separation points is possible. But it is found from the literature that there have been no significant attempts to use this tool to explore numerically the utility of the fences on the flow field. This paper attempts to explore the effect of boundary layer fences corresponding to various geometrical configurations on the impeller as well as on the diffuser. It is shown from the analysis that the fences located on the impellers near the trailing edge on pressure side and suction side improves the static pressure recovery across the fan. Fences provided at the radial mid-span on the pressure side of the diffuser vane and near the leading edge and trailing edge of the suction side of diffuser vanes also improve the static pressure recovery across the fan.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.53-61
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• 1999

Two-dimensional, unsteady, incompressible and compressible Navier-Stokes codes are developed for the computation of the viscous turbulent flow over high-lift airfoils. The compressible code involves a conventional upwind-differenced scheme for the convective terms and LU-SGS scheme for temporal integration. The incompressible code with pseudo-compressibility method also adopts the same schemes as the compressible code. Three two-equation turbulence models are evaluated by computing the flow over single and multi-element airfoils. The compressible and incompressible codes are validated by predicting the flow around the RAE 2822 transonic airfoil and the NACA 4412 airfoil, respectively. In addition, both the incompressible and compressible code are used to compute the flow over the NLR 7301 airfoil with flap to study the compressible effect near the high-loaded leading edge. The grid systems are efficiently generated using Chimera overlapping grid scheme. Overall, the κ-ω SST model shows closer agreement with experiment results, especially in the prediction of adverse pressure gradient region on the suction surfaces of high-lift airfoils.

• 융복합기술연구소 논문집
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2015

Air intakes are an essential component of aircraft engines. They are mainly used to offer uniform airflows to engine faces. Fighter aircraft have to mask the engine face inside the fuselage in order to reduce the Radar Cross Section(RCS). Therefore, offset intakes like a S-Duct are one of promising components for this purpose. During a fight, it is unavoidable that the flow will enter the intakes at some face angles other than zero. In this case, the performance of the aircraft engine will be influenced to the angle of incidence. In this study, the CFD analysis of the semi-circular S-Duct with AR(0.5,0) is performed to investigate the influence of the angle of incidence on the performance of the S-Duct using a distortion coefficient. To consider the adverse pressure gradient, a $k-{\omega}$ SST turbulence model is employed. The secondary flow and flow separation are observed for all computational cases. It is found that the positive incidence angle produces the best performances.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.86-94
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• 1999

충격파가 초음속 수소-공기 제트화염의 화염 안정한계에 미치는 영향을 충격파의 강도와 위치를 변화시키면서 연구하였다. 이러한 목적으로 마하수 2.5의 초음속 연소기 벽면에 쐐기를 부착시켜 경사 충격파를 발생시켰다. 본 실험은 충격파가 초음속 화염에 미치는 영향을 연구한 최초의 실험연구이다. 쉬릴렌 가시화 사진과 벽면 정압, 화염 안정 한계를 측정하였으며 충격파가 없는 경우와 비교하였다. 보염 재순환 영역에 충격파를 적절히 간섭시킴으로써 화염 안정 한계가 대폭 개선되었다. 화염 안정한계가 대폭 향상된 이유는 충격파에 의해 발생한 역압력구배로 화염안정화에 중요한 아음속 재순환 영역의 크기가 증대된 때문으로 여겨진다.

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 유체기계공업학회 2006년 제4회 한국유체공학학술대회 논문집
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• pp.191-194
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• 2006

In this paper, we present a detailed mechanism of drag reduction by dimples and roughness on a sphere by measuring the streamwise velocity above the dimpled and roughened surfaces, respectively. Dimples cause local flow separation and trigger the shear layer instability along the separating shear layer, resulting in generation of large turbulence intensity. With this increased turbulence, the flow reattaches to the sphere surface with high momentum near the wall and overcomes strong adverse pressure gradient formed in the rear sphere surface. As a result, dimples delay main separation and reduce drag significantly. The present study suggests that generation of a separation bubble, i.e. a closed-loop streamline consisting of separation and reattachment, on a body surface is an important flow-control strategy for drag reduction on a bluff body such as the sphere and cylinder. In the case of roughened sphere, the boundary layer flow is directly triggered by roughness and changes to a turbulent flow. Due to this change, the drag significantly decreases. As the Reynolds number further increases, transition to turbulence occurs earlier on the sphere surface. Because of faster growth of turbulent boundary layer by roughness, earlier transition thickens the boundary layer, resulting in earlier separation and drag increase with increasing Reynolds number

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2004년도 제22회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.825-830
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• 2004

A numerical analysis based on two-dimensional and three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations has been carried out for double-circular-arc (DCA) compressor cascades. Two types of double-circular-arc cascades were used in this analysis. The appropriate turbulence model for compressor analysis was selected among the conventional turbulence models such as Baldwin-Lomax, k-$\varepsilon$ and k-$\varepsilon$ models. The results of current study were compared with available experimental data at various incidence angles. The 2-D and 3-D computational codes based on SIMPLE/PWIM algorithm for collocated grid and hybrid scheme for the convective terms were the main features of numerical tools. As commonly known, turbulence modeling is very important for the prediction of cascade flows, which are extremely complex with separation and reattachment by adverse pressure gradient. For selection of turbulence model, 2-D analysis was performed. And then, k-$\varepsilon$ turbulence model with wall function chosen as the reasonable turbulence model for 3-D calculation was used to increase the efficiency of computation times. A reasonable result of 3-D flow pattern passing through the double-circular-arc cascade was obtained.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.616-624
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 사각채널내에 주유속 방향에 가로지르게 배치된 반원 리브의 난류 유동에 대한 유동 특성과 열전달 증대에 관해 수치해석적으로 살펴보았다. 사각채널의 종횡비는 5이고, 수력직경 대비 리브 높이비는 0.07, 사각채널 높이 대비 리브 높이비는 0.117로서 리브 높이 대비 리브 피치비가 8~14인 리브를 주기적으로 배열하여 연구를 수행하였다. 난류 모델의 선정은 실제 현상과 근접한 벽 근처 유동 특성과 열전달을 위해 SST k-${\omega}$ 난류 모델과 v2-f 난류 모델을 이용하였다. 수치해석의 결과는 실험에 의 해 관찰된 난류 유동 특성, 열전달 및 마찰계수의 결과를 잘 예측함을 보여준다. 본 결과에서 난류 운동 에너지가 재순환류 영역의 확산과 밀접한 관련이 있음을 알 수 있고 v2-f 난류 모델이 SST k-${\omega}$ 난류 모델에 비해 실험결과를 더 잘 예측하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2016

터보기계 내부 유동장은 역압력구배, 고속 유동으로 인해 매우 복잡하며, 이를 해석하기 위해 보다 정교한 난류 모델이 요구된다. 유동 해석을 위해 대수모델, 2-방정식 와점도 모델 등이 널리 사용되고 있으나, 매우 복잡한 유동을 모사하는데 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 복잡한 유동에서의 예측성능이 우수하다고 알려진 Durbin의 V2-F난류 모델을 자체 개발 코드인 T-Flow에 적용하였으며, 채널 및 압축기 캐스캐이드 유동 해석 결과를 이용하여 난류 모델을 검증하였다. 또한 저속 압축기 동익 해석을 통해 터보기계 내부 유동에서의 적용 가능성을 판단하였다. 그 결과, V2-F난류 모델은 1-방정식, 2방정식 난류 모델보다 우수한 블레이드 표면 압력 분포 예측성능을 보였다.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.283-293
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• 2015

The effect of the inlet swirling flow in a hydraulic turbine draft tube is a very complex phenomenon, which has been extensively investigated both theoretically and experimentally. In fact, the finding of the optimal flow distribution at the draft tube inlet in order to get the best performance has remained a challenge. Thus, attempting to answer this question, it was assumed that through an automatic optimization process a Genetic Algorithm would be able to manage a parameterized inlet velocity profile in order to achieve the best flow field for a particular draft tube. As a result of the optimization process, it was possible to obtain different draft-tube flow structures generated by the automatic manipulation of parameterized inlet velocity profiles. Thus, this work develops a qualitative and quantitative analysis of these new draft tube flow field structures provoked by the redesigned inlet velocity profiles. The comparisons among the different flow fields obtained clearly illustrate the importance of the flow uniformity at the end of the conduit. Another important aspect has been the elimination of the re-circulating flow area which used to promote an adverse pressure gradient in the cone, deteriorating the pressure recovery effect. Thanks to the evolutionary optimization strategy, it has been possible to demonstrate that the optimized inlet velocity profile can suppress or mitigate, at least numerically, the undesirable draft tube flow characteristics. Finally, since there is only a single swirl number for which the objective function has been minimized, the energy loss factor might be slightly affected by the flow rate if the same relation of the axial-tangential velocity components is maintained, which makes it possible to scale the inlet velocity field to different operating points.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.326-335
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• 2014

터보블로워는 상대적으로 적은 체적유량에서 높은 압력이 요구되는 곳에 사용되는 대표적인 유체기계로서 다양한 산업에 응용되어 사용된다. 본 연구에서는 고속으로 회전하는 소형 2단 터보블로워의 정압상승 메커니즘을 이해하기위해, 1단 임펠러 영역과 터보블로워 전체 영역에 대해서 상용툴인 ANSYS 14.5를 이용하여 CFD해석을 수행하였다. CFD 해석과정에는 역압력 구배에 의한 유동박리 예측에 적합한 k-${\omega}$ SST 난류 모델을 적용하였다. 터보블로워의 전산해석 결과는 KS B 6311 및 KS A 0612에 따른 성능시험방법을 통하여 해석기법이 타당함을 검증하였다. CFD 해석결과 터보블로워의 압력상승은 선형적으로 나타나지 않으며, 안내깃에서의 손실과 케이싱과 임펠러 간극에서 손실이 발생하는 것으로 분석되었다. 소형 2단 터보블로워를 공력성능을 예측하기 위해서는 전체 유동영역에 대한 전산 해석이 필요하며, 실험과 전산해석의 오차에 대해 고려된 전산해석 결과가 선정되어야 한다.