• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.513-523
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• 2014

A fluid transport technique is a key issue for the development of microfluidic systems. In this study, the movement of a droplet on horizontal hydrophilic/hydrophobic surfaces, which is a new concept to transport droplets without external power sources that was recently proposed by the author, was simulated using an in-house solution code(PowerCFD). This code employs an unstructured cell-centered method based on a conservative pressure-based finite-volume method with interface capturing method(CICSAM) in a volume of fluid(VOF) scheme for phase interface capturing. The droplet transport mechanism is examined through numerical results that include velocity vectors, pressure contours, and total kinetic energy inside and around the droplet.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2013.04a
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• pp.377-381
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• 2013

익형의 형상이 대칭인 NACA00xx 시리즈의 두께 비 변화에 따른 익형의 공력 특성을 조사하였다. 익형주위의 유동을 2D-압축성 유동으로 가정하여 비선형 유동방정식인 2D-Comp-2.0 solver를 사용하여 수치해석을 수행하였다. 주어진 두께 비에 대한 mesh study를 수행하고 수치해석의 결과는 Fluent 6.3의 수치해석 결과와 비교 분석하였다. 또한 선택 된 최적의 mesh size를 이용하여 익형의 두께비에 따른 양력계수와 항력계수를 비교 분석 하였다. 수치해석 결과로부터 익형의 두께비가 증가할수록 양력계수와 항력계수는 증가하였으며, 또한 받음각의 크기에 따른 익형의 공력특성은 받음각이 증가할수록 양력계수와 항력계수는 증가하였다. 일반적으로 익형의 두께비가 증가하면 shock wave의 강도는 증가하고, shock wave의 위치는 익형의 끝단으로 이동한다. 본 연구에서는 NACA00xx 시리즈의 공력특성에 대한 이해뿐만 아니라 Edison CFD 코드를 이용하여 얼마나 우리가 정확하게 공력해석을 수행할 수 있는지에 중점을 두었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.1000-1002
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• 2017

Here, the unsteady Navier-Stokes solver has been developed using implicit dual time stepping method. The implicit dual time stepping method introduced the pseudo time step for solving the new residual including the steady state residual and real time derivative. For the validation of code, Stokes 2nd problem, the laminar flow on the oscillating flat plate was selected and compare the calculating results with analytic solutions. The calculating velocity profile and skin friction has a good agreement with analytic solutions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.216-217
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• 2018

소형 활주선의 경우, 대형 저속선 대비 항주자세의 변화가 크기 때문에 CFD 해석시 저항성능과 운동성능 결과에 오차가 발생할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 Warped 2 선형을 대상으로 상용 CFD 코드인 STAR-CCM+ v9.04를 사용한 CFD해석을 수행하여, 이를 모형시험 결과와 비교하여 오차를 확인하였고, 또한 오차의 원인을 분석했을 때, 선체 하부의 Numerical ventilation 현상과 Spray 영역에 문제가 있다고 판단하였다. 추후 연구에서는 오차 해결 방법으로 VOF Phase replacement 기법과 Spray 영역에 대한 격자 최적화 방법을 연구하고자 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.359-370
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• 2015

The present study aims to numerically investigate the behavior of liquid droplet driven by capillarity force imbalance on horizontal surfaces ranging from hydrophilic to hydrophobic, under various conditions. The droplet behavior has been simulated using an in-house solution code(PowerCFD), which employs an unstructured cell-centered method based on a conservative pressure-based finite-volume method with interface capturing method(CICSAM) in a volume of fluid(VOF) scheme for phase interface capturing. The detailed droplet behavior was obtained under various conditions for droplets with different initial shapes, contact angles and surface tension forces(or Bond number). The mechanism of droplet transport was examined using the numerical results on the droplet shapes.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.65-68
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 XFOIL을 사용하여 설계된 30% 두께를 가지며 팁에서의 두께가 코드의 1.5%인 풍력터빈용 에어포일의 공력 특성을 해석하였다. 받음각에 따른 양력 항력 곡선 및 양항비를 XFOIL에서 얻어낸 결과와 EDISON_CFD 해석 결과를 상호 비교 하였다. EDISON_CFD에서의 해석을 위한 격자의 형태를 격자균일성을 생각하여 큰 타원과 작은 타원을 합쳐 만들었다. 수치 기법으로 Roe의 FDS를 선택하여 데이터를 수집하였다. 그 결과로 나타낸 압력계수와 양항비 그래프를 보면 선형 구간에서 양력은 XFOIL 해석 결과와 잘 일치하는 결과를 보여주었다. 그러나 항력에서 약1.5배 정도 EDISON_CFD의 결과가 크게 나옴으로써 양항비의 차이를 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 실속이후에서는 XFOIL의 신뢰도가 떨어지는 경향이 있어 특히 실속이후에서는 CFD의 해석결과가 필요한 것으로 보인다.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.149-163
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• 2015

In this study, we conducted study on the confirmation of thermal-hydraulic safety for Mast assembly with Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) analysis. Before performing the natural convection analysis for the Mast assembly by using CFD code, we validated the CFD code against two benchmark natural convection data for the evaluation of turbulence models and confirmation of its applicability to the natural convection flow. From the first benchmark test which was performed by Betts et al. in the simple rectangular channel, we selected standard k-omega turbulence model for natural convection. And then, calculation performance of CFD code was also investigated in the sub-channel of rod bundle by comparing with PNL(Pacific Northwest Laboratory) experimental data and prediction results by MATRA and Fluent 12.0 which were performed by Kwon et al.. Finally, we performed main natural convection analysis for fuel assembly inside the Mast assembly by using validated turbulence model. From the calculation, we observed stable natural circulation flow between the mast assembly and pool side and evaluated the thermal-hydraulic safety by calculating the departure from nucleate boiling ratio.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.275-281
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• 2016

Subcooled boiling under low pressure was numerically investigated using computational fluid dynamics(CFD). The wall boiling model was used for simulating the subcooled boiling; this model requires sub-models consisting of bubble departure diameter, nucleation site density and bubble departure frequency. The CFD code CFX provides the default models based on experimental data. Because these models are mostly developed under high pressure conditions, it would not be predicted well in low pressure conditions. Thus in this study, CFD validation for subcooled boiling under low pressure was analyzed. The numerical results were compared with experimental data from published paper. Simulations were performed with mass flux ranging from 250 to $750kg/m^2s$, heat flux ranging from 0.37 to $0.77MW/m^2$ and constant outlet pressure of 0.11 MPa. Employing the empirical correlation developed under low pressures could increase the accuracy of numerical analysis.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2020

The application of multiphase flows is increasingly being applied to analyze phenomena such as single phase flows where the fluid boundary changes continuously over time or the problem of mixing a liquid phase and a gas phase. In particular, multiphase flow models that take into account incompressible Newtonian fluids for liquid and gas are often applied to solve the problems of the free water surface such as wave fields. In general, multi-phase flow models require time-based the surface tracking of each fluid's phase boundary, which determines the accuracy of the final calculation of the model. This study evaluates the advection performance of representative VOF-type boundary tracking techniques applied to various CFD numerical codes. The effectiveness of the FCT method to control the numerical flux to minimize the numerical diffusion in the conventional VOF-type boundary tracking method and advection calculation was mainly evaluated. In addition, the possibility of tracking performance of free surface using CIP method (Yabe and Aoki, 1991) was also investigated. Numerical results show that the FCT-VOF method introducing an anti-diffusive flux to precent excessive diffusion is superior to other methods under the confined conditions in this study. The results from this study are expected to be used as an important basic data in selecting free surface tracking techniques applied to various numerical codes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.148.2-148
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• 1999