• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.165-171
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• 2009

We developed a 'multi-point vibration acceleration method' for accurately predicting the cavitation intensity in pumps. Pressure wave generated by cavitation bubble collapse propagates and causes pump vibration. We measured vibration accelerations at several points on a casing, suction and discharge pipes of centrifugal and mixed-flow pumps. The measured vibration accelerations scattered because the pressure wave damped differently between the bubble collapse location and each sensor. In a conventional method, experimental constants are proposed without evaluating pressure propagation paths, then, the scattered vibration accelerations cause the inaccurate cavitation intensity. In our method, we formulated damping rate, transmittance of the pressure wave, and energy conversion from the pressure wave to the vibration along assumed pressure propagation paths. In the formulation, we theoretically defined a 'pressure propagation coefficient,' which is a correlation coefficient between the vibration acceleration and the bubble collapse pressure. With the pressure propagation coefficient, we can predict the cavitation intensity without experimental constants as proposed in a conventional method. The prediction accuracy of cavitation intensity is improved based on a statistical analysis of the multi-point vibration accelerations. The predicted cavitation intensity was verified with the plastic deformation rate of an aluminum sheet in the cavitation erosion area of the impeller blade. The cavitation intensities were proportional to the measured plastic deformation rates for three kinds of pumps. This suggests that our method is effective for estimating the cavitation intensity in pumps. We can make a cavitation intensity map by conducting this method and varying the flow rate and the net positive suction head (NPSH). The map is useful for avoiding the operating conditions having high risk of cavitation erosion.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.116-124
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• 2006

Poly(ethylene-co-15.3 mole% octene) ($PEO_{15}$) - 1-옥텐 2성분계 혼합물과 $PEO_{15}$와 (에틸렌 + 1-옥텐) 혼합용매로 이루어진 3성분계 혼합물의 상거동을 $160^{\circ}C$와 1,000 bar의 영역까지 측정하였다. $PEO_{15}$ - 에틸렌 - 1-옥텐 혼합물에서 에틸렌의 함량이 증가함에 따라 cloud-point 곡선이 측정되는 압력이 급격하게 높아졌다. 에틸렌 함량이 18 wt% 보다 낮을 경우, $PEO_{15}$ -에틸렌 - 1-옥텐 혼합물에서 bubble-point 곡선과 cloud-point 곡선이 모두 관측되었다. 에틸렌 함량이 증가함에 따라 $PEO_{15}$ - 에틸렌 - 1-옥텐 혼합물에서 bubble-point 곡선이 관측되는 온도범위는 좁아졌으며, $PEO_{15}$ - 에틸렌 - 1-옥텐 혼합물이 단일상으로 존재하는 온도-압력 영역이 현저히 감소하였다. 에틸렌 함량에 따라 단일상 영역이 감소하는 것은 $PEO_{15}$와 (에틸렌 + 1-옥텐) 혼합용매 사이에 작용하는 분산인력이 줄어들기 때문이다. 에틸렌을 36 wt% 보다 적게 함유한 $PEO_{15}$ - 에틸렌 - 1-옥텐 혼합물의 단일상 영역은 온도가 높아짐에 따라 감소하였다. 이와는 대조적으로 에틸렌을 50 wt% 보다 많게 함유한 $PEO_{15}$ - 에틸렌 - 1-옥텐 혼합물의 단일상 영역은 온도가 녹아짐에 따라 증가하였다. $PEO_{15}$ 용해도를 낮추는 혼합용매 사이의 극성인력과 $PEO_{15}$ 용해도를 높이는 혼합용매의 밀도는 온도가 낮아짐에 따라 증가한다. 에틸렌 함량이 50 wt% 보다 많을 경우, 혼합용매들의 극성인력 효과가 밀도 효과보다 커서 온도가 낮아짐에 따라 cloud-point 압력은 증가하였다. 에틸렌 함량이 50 wt% 보다 적을 경우, 혼합용매들의 극성인력 효과가 밀도 효과보다 작아서 온도가 낮아짐에 따라 cloud-point 압력은 감소하였다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.878-887
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• 2001

Experimental investigation has been carried out to examine the operating characteristics of a bubble pump for diffusion absorption refrigerator. The effects of heat input and delivery height on generation rate of refrigerant vapor and circulation rate of solution have been investigated. as a result heat input and delivery height increase, circulation rate of solution increases. And the smaller the tube diameter, the larger the circulation rate of solution. Pumping ratio increases to a critical point and then decrease with the increase of heat input, and it increases with the increase in delivery height. In this paper, Marcus's analytical theory was also examined. It was found that the Marcus\`s analytical theory of a bubble pump was not appropriate for a bubble pump using ammonia aqueous solution as a working fluid.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.479-491
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• 1994

Discrete vortex method was applied for simulating an active control of turbulent leading- edge separation bubble. The leading-edge separation zone was perturbed by a time-dependent sinusoidal perturbation of different frequencies and levels. In order to describe the local sinusoidal perturbation at the separation point, a source pulsation vortex technique was proposed. The present two-dimensional vortex simulations were qualitatively compared with the experimental results for a blunt circular cylinder, where perturbation was introduced along the square-cut leading edge of the cylinder $(Kiya et al.^{(6,7)}).$ It was found that the reattachment length attained a minimum point at low levels of perturbation and two minima at a moderate higher perturbation frequency. The effects of local perturbation on the evolution of leading-edge separation bubble were scrutinized by comparing the perturbed flow with the natural flow. These comparisons were made for the distributions of mean velocity and its velocity fluctuations, intermittency and wall velocity. The motions of instantaneous reattachment in the space-time domain were demonstrated, which were also compared with the experimental findings. In order to investigate the reduction mehanism of reattachment length in the separation bubble, various cross-correlations for velocity and pressure and the relevant convection velocities were evaluated. It was observed that the convection velocity was closely associated with its corresponding pulsationg frequency.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.85-89
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• 2003

In a closed square cavity filled with a liquid, a cooled the upper horizontal wall and a heated the lower horizontal wall, the flow isn't generated under the ground-based condition when Rayleigh number is lower than 1700. In such case the flow phenomena near an air bubble under a cooled horizontal wall were investigated. The temperature and the flow fields were studied by using the Thermo-sensitive Liquid-Crystal and the image processing. The qualitative analysis for the temperature and the flow fields were carried out by applying the image processing technique to the original data. Injecting bubble at the center point of upper cooled wall, the symmetry shape of two vortexes near an air bubble was observed. The bubble size increased, the size of velocity and the magnitude of velocity increased. In spite of elapsed time, a pair of two vortexes was the unique and steady-state flow in a square cavity and wasn't induce to the other flow in the surround region.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.1558-1563
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• 2004

A measurement technique for the void fraction and the bubble dynamics in gas-liquid two-phase flows has been proposed using a time-resolved two-phase PIV system. For the three-dimensional evaluation of the bubble information, both the images from the front and side views are simultaneously recorded into a high speed CCD camera by reflecting the side image into the front view with the help of a $45^{\circ}$ oriented mirror. Then, a stereo-matching technique is applied to calculate the void fraction, bubble size and shape. To obtain the rising bubble velocities, the 2-frame PTV method was applied. Consequently, the present technique shows good feasibility for the measurements of the volume fractions, mean diameters, aspect ratios and velocities of the bubbles at the three-dimensional point of view.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.174-183
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 내부 유체를 갖는 수중에 몰수된 탄성 쉘이 기포층으로 둘러싸여 있을 때의 음향 방사를 모드 이론을 이용해 연구했다. 전 방향성의 점음원이 내부 유체의 중심에 위치해 있고 음향 소음원으로서 사용되었다. 모드 해의 미지수는 매질 사이의 경계조건으로부터 계산된다. 넓은 주파수 대역에서 모드 해의 안정성을 유지하기 위해, 모드 해의 규격 기법이 사용되었다. 기포 층은 Commander와 Prosperetti의 유효 매질 이론에 기반하여, 단일 모드 분포, 균일 분포, 정규 분포, 멱함수 분포를 이용해 각각 모의되었다. 각각의 기포 분포에 대해 삽입손실이 주파수에 대해 계산되었다. 추가적으로 공극비, 탄성 쉘의 매질 특성, 탄성 쉘과 기포층의 간극의 영향에 대한 수치해석을 수행했다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2004년도 제22회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.216-227
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• 2004

A new cavitating model by using bubble size distribution based on bubbles-mass has been proposed. Both liquid and vapor phases are treated with Eulerian framework as a mixture containing minute cavitating bubbles. In addition vapor phase consists of various sizes of vapor bubbles, which are distributed to classes based on their mass. The bubble number-density for each class was solved by considering the change of the bubble-mass due to phase change as well as generation of new bubbles due to heterogeneous nucleation. In this method, the bubble-mass is treated as an independent variable, and the other dependent variables are solved in spatial coordinates and bubble-mass coordinate. Firstly, we employed this method to calculate bubble nucleation and growth in stationary super-heated liquid nitrogen, and bubble collapse in stationary sub-cooled one. In the case of bubble growth in super-heated liquid, bubble number-density of the smallest class based on its mass is increased due to the nucleation. These new bubbles grow with time, and the bubbles shift to larger class. Therefore void fraction of each class is increased due to the growth in the whole class. On the other hand, in the case of bubble collapse in sub-cooled liquid, the existing bubbles are contracted, and then they shift to smaller class. It finally becomes extinct at the smallest one. Secondly, the present method is applied to a cavitating flow around NACA00l5 foil. Liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen are employed as working fluids. Cavitation number, $\sigma$, is fixed at 0.15, inlet velocities are changed at 5, 10, 20 and 50m/s. Inlet temperatures are 90K in case of liquid nitrogen, and 90K and 1l0K in case of liquid oxygen. 110K of oxygen is corresponding to the 90K of nitrogen because of the same relative temperature to the critical one, $T_{r}$=$T/T_c^{+}$. Cavitating flow around the NACA0015 foils was properly analyzed by using bubble size distribution. Finally, the method is applied to a cavitating flow in an inducer of the LE-7A hydrogen turbo-pump. This inducer has 3 spiral foils. However, for simplicity, 2D calculation was carried out in an unrolled channel at 0.9R cross-section. The channel moves against the fluid at a peripheral velocity corresponding to the inducer revolutions. Total inlet pressure, $Pt_{in}$, is set at l00KPa, because cavitation is not generated at a design point, $Pt_{in}$=260KPa. The bubbles occur upstream of the foils and collapse between them. Cavitating flow in the inducer was successfully predicted by using the bubble size distribution.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1071-1075
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• 2003

In a closed square cavity filled with a liquid, a cooled the upper horizontal wail and a heated the lower horizontal wall, the flow isn't generated under the ground-based condition when Rayleigh number is lower than 1700. In such case the flow phenomena near an air bubble under a cooled horizontal wall were investigated. The temperature and the flow fields were studied by using the Thermo-sensitive Liquid-Crystal and the image processing. The qualitative analysis for the temperature and the flow fields were carried out by applying the image processing technique to the original data. Injecting bubble at the center point of upper cooled wall, the symmetry shape of two vortexes near an air bubble was observed. The bubble size increased, the size of velocity and the magnitude of velocity increased. In spite of elapsed time, a pair of two vortexes was the unique and steady-state flow in a square cavity and wasn't induce to the other flow in the surround region.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.226-233
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• 2022

In the present work, a phase-field model was developed to investigate the influence of recrystallization on bubble evolution during irradiation. Considering the interaction between bubbles and grain boundary (GB), a set of modified Cahn-Hilliard and Allen-Cahn equations, with field variables and order parameters evolving in space and time, was used in this model. Both the kinetics of recrystallization characterized in experiments and point defects generated during cascade were incorporated in the model. The bubble evolution in recrystallized polycrystalline of U-Mo alloy was also investigated. The simulation results showed that GB with a large area fraction generated by recrystallization accelerates the formation and growth of bubbles. With the formation of new grains, gas atoms are swept and collected by GBs. The simulation results of bubble size and distribution are consistent with the experimental results.