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Simulation of Axisymmetric Flows with Swirl in a Gas Turbine Combustor (Swirl이 있는 축대칭 연소기의 난류연소유동 해석)

  • Shin, Dong-Shin;Lim, Jong-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.55-66
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    • 2000
  • A general purpose program for the analysis of flows in a gas turbine combustor is developed. The program uses non-staggered grids based on finite volume method and the cartesian velocities as primitive variables. A flow inside the C-type diffuser is simulated to check the boundary fitted coordinate. The velocity profiles at cross section agree well with experimental results. A turbulent diffusion flame behind a bluff body is simulated for the combustion simulation. Simulated results show good agreement with experimental data. Finally, a turbulent flow with swirl in a gas turbine combustor was simulated. The results show two recirculating region and simulated velocity fields agree well with experimental data. The distance between two recirculating regions becomes shorter as swirl angle increases. Swirl angle changes angular momentum and streamlines in flow fields.

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The characteristic of bluff body stabilized flames for simulation of engine nacelle fires (엔진나셀화재 모사를 위한 둔각물체 안정화 화염 특성)

  • Lee, Jung-Ran;Lee, Eui-Ju
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2012.04a
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    • pp.58-61
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    • 2012
  • 엔진나셀 화재를 둔각물체에서 분사된 연료제트 화염으로 모사하여 화염안정화 및 소화특성을 조사하기 위해 실험과 수치해석을 수행하였다. 연료제트는 공기유동에 동측류인 경우와 대향류인 경우에 사각의 둔각물체에서 분사하였고, 소화약제는 이산화탄소와 질소를 사용하여 공기유동에 희석시켜주었으며 연료로는 메탄을 사용하였다. 본 실험의 결과를 해석하고 보충하기 위하여 LES(Large Eddy Simulation)을 기반으로 하는 FDS(Fire Dynamics Simulator)를 이용하여 비반응 유동장에서의 혼합특성과 둔각물체 후류의 유동특성을 살펴보았다.

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Dynamic response of a bridge deck with one torsional degree of freedom under turbulent wind

  • Foti, Dora;Monaco, Pietro
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.117-132
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    • 2000
  • Under special conditions of turbulent wind, suspension and cable-stayed bridges could reach instability conditions. In various instances the bridge deck, as like a bluff body, could exhibit single-degree torsional instability. In the present study the turbulent component of flow has been considered as a solution of a differential stochastic linear equation. The input process is represented by a Gaussian zero-mean white noise. In this paper the analytical solution of the dynamic response of the bridge has been determined. The solution has been obtained with a technique of closing on the order of the moments.

An Experimental Study on the Combustion Characteristics with Hydrogen Enrichment in a Dump Combustor (수소 혼합에 따른 덤프 연소기내의 연소 특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Dae-Hee;Hong, Jung-Goo;Shin, Hyun-Dong
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11b
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    • pp.2977-2983
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    • 2008
  • The combustion characteristics of a partially premixed flame in a dump combustor were studied to determine the effects of hydrogen enrichment in propane. Bluff-body was used for flame stabilization. Fuel mixtures containing a hydrogen mole fraction ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 were burnt at ambient pressure within a quartz chamber. Tests were carried out keeping the total reactant flow rate by adjusting the fuel and air flow rates. The fluctuations of pressure were measured by piezoelectric pressure sensor. The instantaneous flame structure and OH chemiluminescence images were described by High-speed Intensified Charged Coupled Device (HICCD) camera and Intensified Charged Coupled Device (ICCD) camera. The present results show that hydrogen enrichment in fuel changed the location of primary reaction zone from inner recirculation zone to turbulent shear layer and pressure signal. The reason is that chemical aspects take precedence over flow aspects in the hydrogen-enriched flame.

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Wind tunnel blockage effects on aerodynamic behavior of bluff body

  • Choi, Chang-Koon;Kwon, Dae-Kun
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.351-364
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    • 1998
  • In wind tunnel experiments, the blockage effect is a very important factor which affects the test results significantly. A number of investigations into this problem, especially on the blockage correction of drag coefficient, have been carried out in the past. However, only a limited number of works have been reported on the wind tunnel blockage effect on wind-induced vibration although it is considered to be fairly important. This paper discusses the aerodynamic characteristics of the square model and square model with corner cut based on a series of the wind tunnel tests with various blockage ratios and angles of attack. From the test results, the aerodynamic behavior of square models with up to 10% blockage ratio are almost the same and square models with up to 10% blockage ratio can be tested as a group which behaves similarly.

Numerical Investigation of CuO-Water Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer across a Heated Square Cylinder

  • Bouazizi, Lotfi;Turki, Said
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.382-393
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    • 2016
  • Flow over a bluff body is an attractive research field in thermal engineering. In the present study, laminar flow over a confined heated square cylinder using CuO-Water nanofluid is considered. Unsteady two-dimensional Navier-Stokes and energy equations are solved numerically using finite volume method (FVM). Recent correlations for the thermal conductivity and viscosity of nanofluids, which are function of nanoparticle volume fraction, temperature and nanoparticle diameter, have been employed. The results of numerical solution are obtained for Richardson number, nanoparticle volume fractions and nanoparticle diameters ranges of 0-1, 1-5% and 30-100 nm respectively for a fixed Reynolds number of Re = 150. At a given volume concentration, the investigations reveal that the decreasing in size of nanoparticles produces an increase in heat transfer rates from the square cylinder and a decrease in amplitude of the lift coefficient. Also, the increment of Nusselt number is more pronounced at higher concentrations and higher Richardson numbers.

An Experimental Study on the Wake behind a Round Cylinder with Swirling Flow in the Horizontal Circular Tube (선회가 있는 수평원통관에서 원형실린더의 후류에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Chang Tae-Hyun
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.417-425
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    • 2005
  • An experimental study is performed on the turbulent swirling flow behind a crcular cylinder using 2-D PIV technique. The Reynolds numbers investigated are 10.000, 15,000. 20.000 and 25.000. The mean velocity vector, time mean axial velocity, turbulence intensity, kinetic energy and Reynolds shear stress behind the cylinder are measured before and behind the cylinder along the test tube. A comparison is included without swirling flow behind a circular and square cylinder. The recirculation zones are shown unsymmetric profiles.

Analysis of Flow Characteristics Behind an Edged Backward Facing Step (모서리진 후향 계단의 유동특성 분석)

  • Han, Cheolheui
    • Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.33-35
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    • 2014
  • Investigation of flow characteristics behind a edged backward facing step is important for selecting appropriate positions of building constructions in the desert area. In the present study, the effect of edge angles on the flow characteristics is investigated using a commercial software CFD-ACE+. When the edge angle is less than 30 degree, reattachment length decreases, whereas when the edge angle is larger than 30 degrees, reattachment angle increases. It can be concluded that the flow patterns behind an edged backward facing step is classified as the two, streamlined and bluffed bodies. Appropriate edge angles have an effect of increasing the momentum toward the wall, which can reduce the reattachment length. It can be said that present results can be utilized for diverse industrial applications that includes the backward facing step.

Large eddy simulation of a square cylinder flow: Modelling of inflow turbulence

  • Tutar, M.;Celik, I.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.511-532
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    • 2007
  • The present study aims to generate turbulent inflow data to more accurately represent the turbulent flow around a square cylinder when the inflow turbulence level is significant. The modified random flow generation (RFG) technique in conjunction with a previously developed LES code is successfully adopted into a finite element based fluid flow solver to generate the required inflow turbulence boundary conditions for the three-dimensional (3-D) LES computations of transitional turbulent flow around a square cylinder at Reynolds number of 22,000. The near wall region is modelled without using wall approximate conditions and a wall damping coefficient is introduced into the calculation of sub-grid length scale in the boundary layer of the cylinder wall. The numerical results obtained from simulations are compared with each other and with the experimental data for different inflow turbulence boundary conditions in order to discuss the issues such as the synthetic inflow turbulence effects on the 3-D transitional flow behaviour in the near wake and the free shear layer, the basic mechanism by which stream turbulence interacts with the mean flow over the cylinder body and the prediction of integral flow parameters. The comparison among the LES results with and without inflow turbulence and the experimental data emphasizes that the turbulent inflow data generated by the present RFG technique for the LES computation can be a viable approach in accurately predicting the effects of inflow turbulence on the near wake turbulent flow characteristics around a bluff body.

Mechanism of Drag Reduction by Dimples and Roughness on a Sphere (구에 설치한 딤플과 표면 거칠기에 의한 항력 감소 메커니즘)

  • Choi, Jin;Jeon, Woo-Pyung;Choi, Hae-Cheon
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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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

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