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Analysis of newly designed CDI cells by CFD and its performance comparison

  • Kwon, Se Hwan;Rhim, Ji Won
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.115-126
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    • 2016
  • In this study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was conducted to investigate the flow pattern and to find the occurrence of dead zones in an existing capacitive deionization (CDI) cell. Newly designed cells-specifically designed to avoid dead zones-were analyzed by CFD in accordance with the flow rates of 15, 25 and 35 ml/min. Next, the separation performances between the existing and newly designed cell were compared by conducting CDI experiments in terms of salt removal efficiency at the same flow rates. Then, the computational and experimental results were compared to each other. The salt removal efficiencies of the hexagon flow channel 1 (HFC1) and hexagon flow channel 2 (HFC2) were increased 88-124% at 15 ml/min and 49-50% at 25 ml/min, respectively. There was no difference between the existing cell and the foursquare flow cell (FFC) at 35 ml/min.

Evalution of Hemolysis in Axial Flow Blood Pump with Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis (전산유체해석을 이용한 축류형 혈액펌프의 용혈평가)

  • 임상필;김동욱
    • Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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    • 2003.06a
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    • pp.256-259
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    • 2003
  • Artificial heart is divided pulsation style and nonpulsation style greatly according to flowing of blood. nonpulsation pump is advantage of miniaturization avaliable because it is simple and non-volumic-pump than pulsation pump. Non pulsation pump is derided axial flow style and centrifugal style accordig to rotating style. An axial flow blood pump can be made smaller than a centrifugal blood pump because of its higher specific speed. A hemolysis is an important factor for the development of an axial flow blood pump. It is difficult to identify the areas where hemolysis nun. Evaluation of hemolysis both in in vitro and in vivo require a long time and are costly. Computational fluid dynamics(CFD) analysis enables the engineer to predict hemolysis on a computer. The aims of this study is Computational fluid dynamics in the whole axial flow pump and to verify the accuracy of prediction results of CFD analysis compare with in vitro experimental results.

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TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTATIONAL AEROACOUSTICS SIMULATION OF SOUND GENERATED BY FLOW AROUND A CIRCULAR CYLINDER (CAA를 이용한 2D 원형 실린더 공력 소음 해석)

  • Park, I.C.;Go, Y.J.;Choi, J.S.;Kim, B.S.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.22-27
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    • 2013
  • Researches in the area of aeroacoustics have been conducted by two methods. In the first method theoretical formula or experimentation are utilized, and in the second method flow field analysis and acoustic analogy are utilized. In contrast to the first method, the second method does not need new experiments for every individual change of flow configurations and conditions, and it can predict their effects by the flow field analysis, which makes the second method preferred than the first one. In this paper numerical analysis to predict noise generated by a turbulent flow about a two dimensional circular cylinder by use of CAA (Computational Aeroacoustics) method is conducted and the results are compared to the available experimental data.

Wind Resource Assessment of the Antarctic King Sejong Station by Computational Flow Analysis (남극 세종기지의 전산유동해석에 의한 풍력자원평가)

  • Kim, Seok-Woo;Kim, Hyun-Goo
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2007
  • In accordance with Madrid and Kyoto Protocols, a 10kw wind turbine installed about 625m away from the King Sejong Station in the Antarctica has been in operation successfully. The current location of the wind turbine has different geographic surroundings from the previous candidate site considered in 2005 and that makes re-evaluation of wind resource at the current site including geographic effects necessary. Especially, strong wind flow derived by steep and complex terrain is dominant in the Antarctica so that computational flow analysis is required. The wind rose measured at the previous and current installation location are identical with strong meteorological correlation but prevailing directions of wind power density are different because of local wind acceleration due to complex terrain. Numerical analysis explains which effects brings this discordance between the two sites, and a design guideline required for additional wind turbine installation has been secured.

Wind Resource Assessment of the Antarctic King Sejong Station by Computational Flow Analysis (남극 세종기지의 전산유동해석에 의한 풍력자원평가)

  • Kim, Seok-Woo;Kim, Hyun-Goo
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.376-377
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    • 2007
  • In accordance with Madrid and Kyoto Protocols, a 10kW wind turbine installed about 625m away from the King Sejong Station in the Antarctica has been in operation successfully. The current location of the wind turbine has different geographic surroundings from the previous candidate site considered in 2005 and that makes re-evaluation of wind resource at the current site including geographic effects necessary. Especially, strong wind flow derived by steep and complex terrain is dominant in the Antarctica so that computational flow analysis is required. The wind rose measured at the previous and current installation location are identical with strong meteorological correlation but prevailing directions of wind power density are different because of local wind acceleration due to complex terrain. Numerical analysis explains which effects brings this discordance between the two sites, and a design guideline required for additional wind turbine installation has been secured.

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Performance Predictions of the Planar-type Solid Oxide Fuel Cell with Computational Flow Analysis (I) - Isothermal Model - (유동 해석을 이용한 평판형 고체 산화물 연료전지의 성능 특성 분석 (I) - 등온 모델 -)

  • Hyun, Hee-Chul;Sohn, Jeong L.;Lee, Joon-Sik;Ro, Sung-Tack
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.635-643
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    • 2003
  • Parametric study for the analysis of performance characteristics of a planar -type solid oxide fuel cell(SOFC) using computational flow analysis is conducted. A planar -type SOFC, which is composed by two gas channels (fuel and ai.) and one set of anode-electrolyte-cathode assembly, is modeled as a two -dimensional isothermal case. Results of computational analysis of flow field including distributions of mass fractions in gas channels are used to the performance analysis of the fuel cell. Flow analysis makes it possible to consider current density distributions along the length of the cell in the process of performance analysis of the SOFC. As results of parametric study, it is found that the mole fraction of fuel at the inlet of fuel channel, operating pressure and temperature are closely related to the performance characteristics of SOFC.

Numerical Analysis of Internal Flow Distribution in Scale-Down APR+ (축소 APR+ 원자로 모형에서의 내부유동분포 수치해석)

  • Lee, Gong Hee;Bang, Young Seok;Woo, Sweng Woong;Kim, Do Hyeong;Kang, Min Gu
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.37 no.9
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    • pp.855-862
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    • 2013
  • A series of 1/5 scale-down reactor flow distribution tests had been conducted to determine the hydraulic characteristics of an APR+ (Advanced Power Reactor Plus), which were used as the input data for an open core thermal margin analysis code. In this study, to examine the applicability of computational fluid dynamics with the porous model to the analysis of APR+ internal flow, simulations were conducted using the commercial multi-purpose computational fluid dynamics software ANSYS CFX V.14. It was concluded that the porous domain approach for some reactor internal structures could adequately predict the flow characteristics inside a reactor in a qualitative manner. If sufficient computational resources are available, the predicted core inlet flow distribution is expected to be more accurate by considering the real geometry of the internal structures, especially upstream of the core inlet.

Inverse Design For a Airfoil Using Optimizing Method (최적화기법을 이용한 익형의 역설계)

  • Kim Jong-seub;Park Warn-gyu
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.126-130
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    • 1997
  • A new and efficient method is presented for design optimization, which is based on a computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The method is applied to design an airfoil configuration. The Navier-Stokes equations are solved for the viscous analysis of the flow, which provides the object function. The CFD analysis is then coupled with the optimization procedure that used a conjugate gradient method. During the one-dimensional search of the optimization procedure, an approximate flow analysis based on a first-order Taylor series expansion is used to reduce the computational cost, (This study is supported by Korean Ministry of Education through Research Fund)

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An Aerodynamic Performance Analysis of the Low-Speed Airfoils in Seperated Flow Field (박리유동장에서 저속 익형의 공기역학적 성능해석)

  • Yoo, Neung-Soo
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.15
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    • pp.153-168
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    • 1995
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a method for predicting the aerodynamic performance of the subsonic airfoils in the 2-dimensional, steady and viscous flow. For this study, the airfoil geometry is specified by adopting the longest chord line system and by considering local surface curvature. In case of the inviscid-incompressible flow, the analysis is accomplished by the linearly varying strength vortex panel method and the Karman-Tsien correction law is applied for the inviscid-compressible flow analysis. The Goradia's integral method and the Truckenbrodt integral method are adopted for the boundary layer analysis of the laminar flow and the turbulent flow respectively. Viscous and inviscid solutions are converged by the Lockheed iterative calculating method using the equivalent airfoil geometry. And the analysis of the seperated flow is performed using the Dvorak and Maskew's method as the basic method. The wake effect is also considered and its geometry expressed by the formula of Summey & Smith when no seperation occurs. A computational efficiency is verified by the comparison of the computational results with experimental data and by the shorter execution time.

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Unsteady Performance Analysis of Accelerating Compressor Cascade (가속되는 압축기 익렬의 비정상 성능해석)

  • Kim M.-H.;Choi J.-Y.;Kim K. S.;Lee G. S.;Kim Y. I.;Lim J. S.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.121-126
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    • 2001
  • An accelerating flow field through a compressor cascade is studied numerically by unsteady computational simulation. The two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations for compressible flow is used for the study of unsteady high incidence angle flow, with preconditioning scheme to cover the wide range of Mach number and $\kappa-\omega$ model for the turbulent viscous flow analysis. A DCA(double circular arc) compressor blade is accelerated artificially in this study to understand the unsteady effect by comparing the present results with the existing steady-state experimental and computational results. Also, the accelerating flow field during the starting phase of gas turbine is studied with actual experimental data for the understanding of flow field and performance characteristics at off-design condition.

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