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Flow Characteristics in Unsteady Boundary Layer on Stator Blade of Multi-Stage Axial Compressor (다단 축류 압축기 정익 흡입면에서의 비정상 경계층 유동 특성)

  • Shin, You-Hwan;Elder, Robin L;Kim, Kwang-Ho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.28 no.10
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    • pp.1210-1218
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    • 2004
  • Experimental study was performed to investigate the flow behavior in boundary layer on the blade suction surface of a multi-stage axial flow compressor, which was focused on the third stage of the 4-stage Low Speed Research Compressor. Flow measurements in the boundary layer were obtained using a boundary layer hot wire probe, which was traversed normal to the blade suction surface at small increments by the probe traverse specially designed. Detailed boundary layer flow measurements covering most of the stator suction surface were taken and are described using time mean and ensemble averaged velocity profiles. Amplitude of the velocity fluctuation and turbulence intensity in the boundary layer flow are also discussed. At midspan, narrow but strong wake zone due to passing wake disturbances is generated in the boundary layer near the blade leading edge for the rotor blade passing period. Corner separation is observed at the tip region near the trailing edge, which causes to increase steeply the boundary layer thickness.

Large Eddy Simulation of Shock-Boundary Layer Interaction

  • Teramoto, Susumu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.03a
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    • pp.426-432
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    • 2004
  • Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) is applied for the simulation of compressible flat plate boundary with Reynolds number up to 5 X 10$^{5}$ . Numerical examples include shock/boundary layer interaction and boundary layer transition, aiming future application to the analysis of transonic fan/compressor cascades. The present LES code uses hybrid com-pact/WENO scheme for the spatial discretization and compact diagonalized implicit scheme for the time integration. The present code successfully predicted the bypass transition of subsonic boundary layer. As for supersonic turbulent boundary layer, mean and fluctuation velocity of the attached boundary, as well as the evolution of the friction coefficient and the displacement thickness both upstream and downstream of the separation region are all in good agreement with experiment. The separation point also agreed with the experiment. In the simulation of the shock/laminar boundary layer interaction, the dependence of the transition upon the shock strength is reproduced qualitatively, but the extent of the separation region is overpredicted. These numerical examples show that LES can predict the behavior of boundary layer including transition and shock interaction, which are hardly managed by the conventional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes approach, although there needs to be more effort before achieving quantitative agreement.

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Characteristics and Stability of Compositional Convection in Binary Solidification with a Constant Solidification Velocity (일정한 응고속도를 갖는 2성분 응고에서 조성 대류의 특성 및 안정성)

  • Hwang, In Gook
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.52 no.2
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    • pp.199-204
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    • 2014
  • In binary solidification compositional convection in a porous mushy layer influences the quality of the final products. We consider the mushy layer solidifying from below with a constant solidification velocity. The disturbance equations for the mushy layer are derived using linear stability theory. The basic-state temperature fields and the distribution of the porosity in the mushy layer are investigated numerically. When the superheat is large, the thickness of the mushy layer is relatively small compared to the thickness of the thermal boundary layer. With decreasing the superheat the critical Rayleigh number based on the thickness of the mushy layer increases and the mushy layer becomes stable to the compositional convection. The critical Rayleigh number obtained from the continuity conditions of temperature and heat flux at the mush-liquid interface is smaller than that from the isothermal condition at the upper boundary of the mushy layer.

A Study on Turbulence Stimulation Effect of Studs for Boundary Layer Over a Flat Plate (평판 경계층에 대한 스터드의 난류촉진 영향 연구)

  • Lee, Joon-Hyoung;Jeong, So-Won;Hwang, Seunghyun
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.59 no.1
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    • pp.18-28
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    • 2022
  • The turbulence stimulation effect of studs for boundary layer over a flat plate was investigated through the flow measurement in KRISO cavitation tunnel. For the test, Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) and three flat plate models were used: (1) flat plate without studs; (2) flat plate with one stud row; (3) flat plate with two stud rows. The dimension and location of stud rows and the inflow speed were selected considering test conditions for standard-sized model ships in KRISO towing tank. The boundary layer characteristics of test models were analyzed and compared in terms of mean velocity profiles, turbulence intensity profiles, boundary layer thickness, and shape factor. In the case of the flat plate without studs, transition from laminar to turbulent flow occurred around Rex=3.83 ~ 5.19 × 105. In the case of flat plates with stud rows, the flow rapidly changed into turbulent flow right after passing the first stud row. In the state where turbulence was already developed, the second stud row slightly increased the turbulence intensity near the top of the stud, but did not significantly affect the boundary layer characteristics such as mean velocity distribution, boundary layer thickness, and shape factor.

Sliding Mode Control with Nonlinear Interpolation in Variable Boundary Layer

  • Kim, Yookyung;Jeon, Gijoon
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.35.1-35
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    • 2002
  • $\textbullet$ Sliding mode control (SMC) with nonlinear interpolation in variable boundary layer (VBL) is proposed $\textbullet$ A sigmoid function is used for nonlinear interpolation in VBL. $\textbullet$ The Parameter of the sigmoid function is tuned by fuzzy controller $\textbullet$ The choice of parameter for the sigmoid function is guided by FC. $\textbullet$ The parameter is continuously updated as boundary layer thickness varies. $\textbullet$ The proposed method hasbetter tracking performance than the conventional linear interpolation $\textbullet$ To demonstrate its performance the proposed control algorithm is applied to a nonlinear system.

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Error Reduction of Sliding Mode Control Using Sigmoid-Type Nonlinear Interpolation in the Boundary Layer

  • Kim, Yoo-Kyung;Jeon, Gi-Joon
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.523-529
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    • 2004
  • Sliding mode control with nonlinear interpolation in the boundary layer is proposed. A modified sigmoid function is used for nonlinear interpolation in the boundary layer and its parameter is tuned by a fuzzy controller. The fuzzy controller that takes both the sliding variable and a measure of chattering as its inputs tunes the parameter of the modified sigmoid function. Owing to the decreased thickness of the boundary layer and the tuned parameter, the proposed method has superior tracking performance than the conventional linear interpolation method.

Boundary Layer Mesh Generation for Three-Dimensional Geometries with Thin Thickness (얇은 두께의 3차원 형상에 경계층 요소 생성)

  • Kwon Ki Youn;Chae Soo-Won;Lee Byung Chai
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.29 no.5 s.236
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    • pp.671-679
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    • 2005
  • A method of generation boundary layer mesh has been presented. This paper describes the generation of semi-unstructured prismatic/tetrahedral meshes for three-dimensional geometries with thin thickness. By of fretting of surface triangle elements prismatic/tetrahedral meshes are generated and using the node relocation method of this research intersected meshes can be efficiently improved. Finally tetrahedral meshes are automatically generated at the rest of the domain. Sample meshes are constructed to demonstrate the mesh generating capability of the proposed algorithm.

A CFD Prediction of a Micro Critical Nozzle Flow (마이크로 임계노즐 유동의 CFD 예측)

  • Kim, Jae-Hyung;Woo, Sun-Hun;Kim, Heuy-Dong
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.11b
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    • pp.652-657
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    • 2001
  • Computational work using the axisymmetric, compressible, Navier-Stokes Equations is carried out to predict the discharge coefficient of mass flow through a micro-critical nozzle. Several kinds of turbulence models and wall functions are employed to validate the computational predictions. The computed results are compared with the previous experimented ones. The present computations predict the experimental discharge coefficients with a reasonable accuracy. It is found that the standard $k-\varepsilon$ turbulence model with the standard wall function gives a best prediction of the discharge coefficients. The displacement thickness of the nozzle wall boundary layer is evaluated at the nozzle throat and is well compared to a prediction obtained by an empirical equation. The resulting displacement thickness of the wall boundary layer is about 2% to 0.6% of the diameter of the nozzle throat for the Reynolds numbers of 2000 to 20000.

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Recycling of Suspended Particulates by Atmospheric Boundary Depth and Coastal Circulation (대기경계층과 연안순환에 의한 부유입자의 재순환)

  • Choe, Hyo
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.721-731
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    • 2004
  • The dispersion of suspended particulates in the coastal complex terrain of mountain-inland basin (city)-sea, considering their recycling was investigated using three-dimensional non-hydrostatic numerical model and lagrangian particle model (or random walk model). Convective boundary layer under synoptic scale westerly wind is developed with a thickness of about I km over the ground in the west of the mountain, while a thickness of thermal internal boundary layer (TIBL) is only confined to less than 200m along the eastern slope of the mountain, below an easterly sea breeze circulation. At the mid of the eastern slop of the mountain, westerly wind confronts easterly sea breeze, which goes to the height of 1700 m above sea level and is finally eastward return flow toward the sea. At this time, particulates floated from the ground surface of the city to the top of TIBL go along the eastern slope of the mountain in the passage of sea breeze, being away the TIBL and reach near the top of the mountain. Then those particulates disperse eastward below the height of sea-breeze circulation and widely spread out over the coastal sea. Total suspended particulate concentration near the ground surface of the city is very low. On the other hand, nighttime radiative cooling produces a shallow nocturnal surface inversion layer (NSIL) of 200 m thickness over the inland surface, but relatively thin thickness less than 100m is found near the mountain surface. As synoptic scale westerly wind should be intensified under the association of mountain wind along the eastern slope of mountain to inland plain and further combine with land-breeze from inland plain toward sea, resulting in strong wind as internal gravity waves with a hydraulic jump motion bounding up to about 1km upper level in the atmosphere in the west of the city and becoming a eastward return flow. Simultaneously, wind near the eastern coastal side of the city was moderate. Since the downward strong wind penetrated into the city, the particulate matters floated near the top of the mountain in the day also moved down along the eastern slope of the mountain, reaching the. downtown and merging in the ground surface inside the NSIL with a maximum ground level concentration of total suspended particulates (TSP) at 0300 LST. Some of them were bounded up from the ground surface to the 1km upper level and the others were forward to the coastal sea surface, showing their dispersions from the coastal NSIL toward the propagation area of internal gravity waves. On the next day at 0600 LST and 0900 LST, the dispersed particulates into the coastal sea could return to the coastal inland area under the influence of sea breeze and the recycled particulates combine with emitted ones from the ground surface, resulting in relatively high TSP concentration. Later, they float again up to the thermal internal boundary layer, following sea breeze circulation.

Design and Wind Tunnel Tests of a Natural Laminar Flow Airfoil (자연층류 익형 설계 및 시험)

  • Lee, Yung-Gyo;Kim, Cheol-Wan;Shim, Jae-Yeul;Kim, Eung-Tae;Lee, Dae-Sung
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.354-357
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    • 2008
  • Drag reduction is one of main concerns for commercial aircraft companies than ever because fuel price has been tripled in ten years. In this research, Natural Laminar Flow airfoil is designed and tested to reduce drag at cruise condition, $c_l$=0.3, Re=3.4${\times}$10$^6$ and M=0.6. NLF airfoil is characterized by delayed transition from laminar to turbulent flow, which comes from maintaining favorable pressure gradient to downstream. Transition is predicted by solving Boundary Layer equations in viscous boundary layer and by solving Euler Equation outside the boundary layer. Once boundary layer thickness and momentum thickness are obtained, $e^N$-method is used for transition point prediction. As results, KARI's NLF airfoil is designed and shows better characteristics than NLF-0115. The characteristics are tested and verified at low Reynolds numbers, but at high Reynolds numbers, laminar flow characteristics are not obtainable because of fully turbulent flow over airfoil surfaces. Precious experiences, however, relating NLF airfoil design, subsonic and transonic tests are acquired.

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