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Analysis of the performances of the CFD schemes used for coupling computation

  • Chen, Guangliang;Jiang, Hongwei;Kang, Huilun;Ma, Rui;Li, Lei;Yu, Yang;Li, Xiaochang
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.53 no.7
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    • pp.2162-2173
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    • 2021
  • In this paper, the coupling of fine-mesh computational fluid dynamics (CFD) thermal-hydraulics (TH) code and neutronics code is achieved using the Ansys Fluent User Defined Function (UDF) for code development, including parallel meshing mapping, data computation, and data transfer. Also, some CFD schemes are designed for mesh mapping and data transfer to guarantee physical conservation in the coupling computation. Because there is no rigorous research that gives robust guidance on the various CFD schemes that must be obtained before the fine-mesh coupling computation, this work presents a quantitative analysis of the CFD meshing and mapping schemes to improve the accuracy of the value and location of key physical prediction. Furthermore, the effect of the sub-pin scale coupling computation is also studied. It is observed that even the pin-resolved coupling computation can also create a large deviation in the maximum value and spatial locations, which also proves the significance of the research on mesh mapping and data transfer for CFD code in a coupling computation.

EFFICIENT COMPUTATION OF COMPRESSIBLE FLOW BY HIGHER-ORDER METHOD ACCELERATED USING GPU (고차 정확도 수치기법의 GPU 계산을 통한 효율적인 압축성 유동 해석)

  • Chang, T.K.;Park, J.S.;Kim, C.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.52-61
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    • 2014
  • The present paper deals with the efficient computation of higher-order CFD methods for compressible flow using graphics processing units (GPU). The higher-order CFD methods, such as discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods and correction procedure via reconstruction (CPR) methods, can realize arbitrary higher-order accuracy with compact stencil on unstructured mesh. However, they require much more computational costs compared to the widely used finite volume methods (FVM). Graphics processing unit, consisting of hundreds or thousands small cores, is apt to massive parallel computations of compressible flow based on the higher-order CFD methods and can reduce computational time greatly. Higher-order multi-dimensional limiting process (MLP) is applied for the robust control of numerical oscillations around shock discontinuity and implemented efficiently on GPU. The program is written and optimized in CUDA library offered from NVIDIA. The whole algorithms are implemented to guarantee accurate and efficient computations for parallel programming on shared-memory model of GPU. The extensive numerical experiments validates that the GPU successfully accelerates computing compressible flow using higher-order method.

A Fundamental Study of Thermal-Fluid Flow Analysis using High Performance Computing under the GRID (그리드 환경하에서 고성능 컴퓨팅을 이용한 열유동 해석 기법에 관한 기초연구)

  • Hong, Seung-Do;Lee, Dae-Sung;Lee, Jae-Ryong;Ha, Man-Yeong;Lee, Sang-San
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.928-933
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    • 2003
  • For simulation of three-dimensional turbulent flow with LES and DNS takes much time and expense with current available computing resources. It is nearly impossible to simulate turbulent flow with high Reynolds number. So, the emerging alternative is the Grid computing for needed computation power and working environment. In this study, the CFD code was parallelized to adapt it for the parallel computing under the Grid environment. In the first place, the Grid environment was built to connect the PC-Cluster facilities belong to the different institutions using communication network system. And CFD applications were calculated to check the performance of the parallel code developed for the Grid environment. Although it is a fundamental study, it brings about a important meaning as first step in research of the Grid.

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Parallel Computation of a Flow Field Using FEM and Domain Decomposition Method (영역분할법과 유한요소해석을 이용한 유동장의 병렬계산)

  • Choi Hyounggwon;Kim Beomjun;Kang Sungwoo;Yoo Jung Yul
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.55-58
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    • 2002
  • Parallel finite element code has been recently developed for the analysis of the incompressible Wavier-Stokes equations using domain decomposition method. Metis and MPI libraries are used for the domain partitioning of an unstructured mesh and the data communication between sub-domains, respectively. For unsteady computation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, 4-step splitting method is combined with P1P1 finite element formulation. Smagorinsky and dynamic model are implemented for the simulation of turbulent flows. For the validation performance-estimation of the developed parallel code, three-dimensional Laplace equation has been solved. It has been found that the speed-up of 40 has been obtained from the present parallel code fir the bench mark problem. Lastly, the turbulent flows around the MIRA model and Tiburon model have been solved using 32 processors on IBM SMP cluster and unstructured mesh. The computed drag coefficient agrees better with the existing experiment as the mesh resolution of the region increases, where the variation of pressure is severe.

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Integrated CFD on Atomization Process of Lateral Flow in Injector Nozzle

  • Ishimoto, Jun
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.7-8
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    • 2006
  • The governing equations for high-speed lateral atomizing injector nozzle flow based on the LES-VOF model in conjunction with the CSF model are presented, and then an integrated parallel computation are performed to clarify the detailed atomization process of a high speed nozzle flow and to acquire data which is difficult to confirm by experiment such as atomization length, liquid core shapes, droplets size distributions, spray angle and droplets velocity profiles. According to the present analysis, it is found that the atomization rate and the droplets-gas two-phase flow characteristics are controlled by the turbulence perturbation upstream of the injector nozzle, hydrodynamic instabilities at the gas-liquid interface, shear stresses between liquid core and periphery of the jet. Furthermore, stable and a high-resolution computation can be attained in the high density ratio (pl/ pg = 554) conditions conditions by using our numerical method.

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Parallel Finite Element Simulation of the Incompressible Navier-stokes Equations (병렬 유한요소 해석기법을 이용한 유동장 해석)

  • Choi H. G.;Kim B. J.;Kang S. W.;Yoo J. Y.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.8-15
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    • 2002
  • For the large scale computation of turbulent flows around an arbitrarily shaped body, a parallel LES (large eddy simulation) code has been recently developed in which domain decomposition method is adopted. METIS and MPI (message Passing interface) libraries are used for domain partitioning and data communication between processors, respectively. For unsteady computation of the incompressible Wavier-Stokes equation, 4-step splitting finite element algorithm [1] is adopted and Smagorinsky or dynamic LES model can be chosen fur the modeling of small eddies in turbulent flows. For the validation and performance-estimation of the parallel code, a three-dimensional laminar flow generated by natural convection inside a cube has been solved. Then, we have solved the turbulent flow around MIRA (Motor Industry Research Association) model at $Re = 2.6\times10^6$, which is based on the model height and inlet free stream velocity, using 32 processors on IBM SMP cluster and compared with the existing experiment.

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A Basic Study of Thermal-Fluid Flow Analysis Using Grid Computing (그리드 컴퓨팅을 이용한 열유동 해석 기법에 관한 기초 연구)

  • Hong, Seung-Do;Ha, Yeong-Man;Cho, Kum-Won
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.604-611
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    • 2004
  • Simulation of three-dimensional turbulent flow with LES and DNS lakes much time and expense with currently available computing resources and requires big computing resources especially for high Reynolds number. The emerging alternative to provide the required computing power and working environment is the Grid computing technology. We developed the CFD code which carries out the parallel computing under the Grid environment. We constructed the Grid environment by connecting different PC-cluster systems located at two different institutes of Pusan National University in Busan and KISTI in Daejeon. The specification of PC-cluster located at two different institutes is not uniform. We run our parallelized computer code under the Grid environment and compared its performance with that obtained using the homogeneous computing environment. When we run our code under the Grid environment, the communication time between different computer nodes takes much larger time than the real computation time. Thus the Grid computing requires the highly fast network speed.

An optimum design study of interlacing nozzle by using Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • Juraeva Makhsuda;Ryu Kyung-Jin;Kim Sang-Dug;Song Dong-Joo
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.395-397
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    • 2006
  • Air interlacing serves to protect the yarn against damage, strengthens inter-filament compactness or cohesion, and ensures fabric consistency. The air interlacing nozzle is used to introduce intermittent nips to a filament yarn so as to improve its performance in textile processing. The effect of various interlacing nozzle geometries on the interlacing process was studied. The geometries of interlacing nozzles with single or multiple air inlets located across the width of yarn channels are investigated. The basis case is the yarn channel, with a perpendicular main air inlet in the middle. Other cases have main air inlets, slightly inclined double sub air inlets, The yarn channel cross sectional shapes are either semicircular or rectangular shapes. The compressed impinging jet from the main air inlet hole hits the opposing bottom wall of the yarn channel, is divided into two branches, joins with the compressed air coming out from sub air inlet at the bottom and creates two free jets at both ends of the yarn channel. The compressed air movement in the cross-section consists of two opposing directional vortices. The CFD-FASTRAN flow parallel solver was used to perform steady simulations of impinging jet flow inside of the interlace nozzles. The vortical structure and the flow pattern such as pressure contour, particle traces, velocity vector plots inside of interlace nozzle geometry are discussed in this pater.

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