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Computational Flow Analysis on Wind Profile Change Projected to a Wind Turbine Behind Saemangeum Seawall (새만금 방조제에 의한 풍력터빈 입사풍 변화의 전산유동해석)

  • Woo, Sang-Woo;Kim, Hyun-Goo
    • New & Renewable Energy
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.6-11
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    • 2013
  • Jeollabuk-do has announced a future plan for the Saemangeum Wind Farm which includes the installation of fourteen wind turbines in a single line, located 500m back from the Saemangeum Seawall. It is anticipated as a positive effect that, for sea breeze blowing toward land, the average wind speed could be accelerated and the wind speed distribution could be uniformized by dint of the seawall, an upstream structure of the turbines. At the same time it is also anticipated as a negative effect that the strength of wind turbulence could be increased due to the flow separation generated at the back end of the seawall. According to the results of the computational fluid dynamics analysis of this paper, it has been observed that, at the 50m zone on the road surface located at the uppermost part of the Saemangeum Seawall, the average wind speed has been accelerated by approximately 6~7% and that wind shear has been decreased by 70%, but this positive effect disappears in the zone situated beyond the 100m from the back end of the seawall. It has also been observed that flow separation exists to a limited extent only below the bottom of the blade-sweeping circle and, furthermore, does not extend very far downstream of the wind. As a conclusion, it can be said that the seawall neither positively nor negatively affects the proposed Saemangeum Seawall Wind Farm layout.

A Investigation of Back Fire Control with Valve Overlap Period Change In the Same Supply Energy (동일열량공급하의 밸브오버랩기간 변화에 대한 역화억제 검토)

  • Kang, J.K.;Huynh, Thanh Cong;Noh, K.C.;Lee, J.T.
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.348-355
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    • 2007
  • To grasp a feasibility of back fire control by valve overlap period, back fire limit equivalence ratio was estimated with valve overlap period which has the same supply energy and positive intake pressure as valve overlap period $300^{\circ}\;CA$. As the result, it was shown that the smaller valve overlap period has the higher back fire limit equivalence ratio under valve overlap period $300^{\circ}\;CA$ as well as VOP $0^{\circ}\;CA$. This result means that expansion of back fire equivalence ratio by decreasing valve overlap period was caused by decrease of back flow duration of flame from in-cylinder to intake port than decrease of lower supply energy.

Study on the Flow Characteristics of Supersonic Air Intake at Mach 4 (마하4 초음속 공기 흡입구 유동 특성에 관한 연구)

  • ;;;;Shigeru , Aso
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.34 no.10
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2006
  • A Supersonic air intake model was designed for the high performance ramjet and dual-mode scramjet engine to operate at Mach 4 flight condition. The air intake was tested in the blowdown-type wind tunnel of Kyushu University to identify the internal flow characteristics corresponding to the flight parameters such as the back pressure, angle of attack and angle of yaw. Flow visualization was achieved by the Schlieren and oil flow visualization techniques. The intake performance was analyzed quantitatively based on the surface pressure and total Pressure measurements. The experimental results were compared with the computational fluid dynamics results. The present study exhibits the fundamental but rarely found experimental results of the high Mach number supersonic air intake.

Experimental Investigation on the Performance of a Cavitating Venturi According to Upstream and Back Pressure Variation (전단압과 배압 변화에 따른 캐비테이션 벤츄리 성능의 실험적 연구)

  • Ahn, Hyun Jong;Kang, Yun Hyeong;Kim, Jeong Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.12-19
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    • 2021
  • An experimental study was performed for a cavitating venturi supplying a constant rate of flow independent of downstream pressure fluctuations when providing liquid propellant. The venturi was designed and manufactured in order to figure out the performance of the cavitating venturi. Effects of the rear-end shape, upstream pressure, and back pressure on the ratio of downstream to upstream pressure of the venturi as well as the flow-rate were observed. As a result, critical pressure ratio of the venturi, which generally depends only on the configuration of the venturi, was kept at 0.74 regardless of the rear-end shape and the upstream pressure of the venturi.

Analysis of Cylinder Swirl Flow and Lean Combustion Characteristics of 3rd Generation LPLI(Liquid Phase LPG Injection) Engine (제3세대 LPLI 엔진 연소실내 스월유동 및 희박연소 특성 해석)

  • Kang, Kern-Yong;Lee, Jin-Wook
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.26-33
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    • 2007
  • The intake swirl motion, as one of dominant effects for an engine combustion. is very effective for turbulence enhancement during the compression process in the cylinder of 2-valve engine. Because the combustion flame speed is determined by the turbulence that is mainly generated from the mean flow of the charge air motion in intake port system. This paper describes the experimental results of swirl flow and combustion characteristics by using the oil spot method and back-scattering Laser Doppler velocimeter (LDV) in 2-valve single cylinder transparent LPG engine using the liquid phase LPG injection. For this. various intake port configurations were developed by using the flow box system and swirl ratios for different intake port configurations were determined by impulse swirl meter in a steady flow rig test. And the effects of intake swirl ratio on combustion characteristics in an LPG engine were analyzed with some analysis parameters that is swirl ratio. mean flow coefficient, swirl mean velocity fuel conversion efficiency. combustion duration and cyclic variations of indicated mean effective pressure(IMEP). As these research results, we found that the intake port configuration with swirl ratio of 2.0 that has a reasonable lean combustion stability is very suitable to an $11{\ell}$ heavy-duty LPG engine with liquid phase fuel injection system. It also has a better mean flow coefficient of 0.34 to develope a stable flame kernel and to produce high performance. This research expects to clarify major factor that effects on the design of intake port efficiently with the optimized swirl ratio for the heavy duty LPG engine.

Transient simulation and experiment validation on the opening and closing process of a ball valve

  • Han, Yong;Zhou, Ling;Bai, Ling;Xue, Peng;Lv, Wanning;Shi, Weidong;Huang, Gaoyang
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.54 no.5
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    • pp.1674-1685
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    • 2022
  • The ball valve is an important device in the pipeline transportation system of nuclear power plants. Its operational stability and safety directly affect the normal working of nuclear power plants. In this study, the transient numerical simulation of the opening and closing process of a ball valve was conducted on the basis of the flow interruption capability experiment of the ball valve by using the moving mesh method and inlet and outlet variable boundary conditions. The flow rate and pressure difference with time of the opening and closing process of the ball valve were studied. The internal flow characteristics of the ball valve under different relative openings were analyzed in conjunction with the typical back-step flow structure. Results show that the transient numerical results agree well with the experimental results. The internal flow characteristics of the ball valve are similar at the same opening during opening and closing process. At small opening, the spool and outlet channels easily form a back-step flow structure. The disappearance and generation of backflow vortices during opening and closing occur at 85% opening and 75% opening, respectively. With the decrease in opening degree, the difference in vortex core area in the flow channel of the ball valve spool in the opening and closing process gradually appears. The research results provide some reference value for the design and optimization of ball valves.

A Study on Performance Characteristics of Second Throat Exhaust Diffuser with Back Pressure (고공환경 모사용 이차목 디퓨저의 배압에 따른 성능 특성)

  • Kim, Wan Chan;Yu, I Sang;Kim, Tae Woan;Park, Jin Soo;Ko, Young Sung;Kim, Min Sang
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.41 no.9
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    • pp.563-570
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    • 2017
  • Experimental and numerical studies were performed to investigate the performance and internal flow characteristics of a supersonic second throat exhaust diffuser (STED) with back pressure ($P_a$). An ejector system was used to vary the back pressure ($P_a$) conditions. The operating gas for the STED and the ejector was high pressure nitrogen at room temperature. When the back pressure ($P_a$) at a constant nozzle inlet pressure $P_0$) decreases, the pressure recovery location moves downstream. If the pressure ratio $P_0/P_a$) is the same, even if the nozzle inlet pressures $P_0$) are different, the diffuser's internal flow pattern and starting pressure ratio ($(P_0/P_a)_{st}$) are almost the same.

Three-Dimensional Thermohydrodynamic Analysis of Journal Bearings Operating in Turbulent Region Using $kappa-varepsilon$ Model (난류상태로 운전되는 저어널베어링에서의 $kappa-varepsilon$ 모델을 이용한 3-차원 THD해석)

  • 이득우;김경웅
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 1987
  • Frictional loss in turbulent regime is abnormally increased compared with in laminar regime. Thus the consideration of temperature rise across fluid film is significant in analysis and conventional isothermal theory loses its usefulness for performance prediction. This paper proposes to the three-dimensional thermohydrodynamic analysis of finite journal bearings operating under turbulent condition using two-equation model($\kappa-\varepsilon$ model) proposed by Hassid & Poreh. The equations are solved numerically by finite difference method. We make the analysis applicable even at large eccentricity when back flow of the lubricants occurs and axial flow is no longer ignored compared to circumferential flow.