• 제목/요약/키워드: Computational fluid Dynamics

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Numerical study of fluid behavior on protruding shapes within the inlet part of pressurized membrane module using computational fluid dynamics

  • Choi, Changkyoo;Lee, Chulmin;Park, No-Suk;Kim, In S.
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • 제25권4호
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    • pp.498-505
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    • 2020
  • This study analyzes the velocity and pressure incurred by protruding shapes installed within the inlet part of a pressurized membrane module during operation to determine the fluid flow distribution. In this paper, to find the flow distribution within a module, it investigates the velocity and pressure values at cross-sectional and outlet planes, and 9 sections classified on outlet plane using computational fluid dynamics. From the Reynolds number (Re), the fluid flow was estimated to be turbulent when the Re exceeded 4,000. In the vertical cross-sectional plane, shape 4 and 6 (round-type protrusion) showed the relatively high velocity of 0.535 m/s and 0.558 m/s, respectively, indicating a uniform flow distribution. From the velocity and pressure at the outlet, shape 4 also displayed a relatively uniform fluid velocity and pressure, indicating that fluid from the inlet rapidly and uniformly reached the outlet, however, from detailed data of velocity, pressure and flowrate obtained from 9 sections at the outlet, shape 6 revealed the low standard deviations for each section. Therefore, shape 6 was deemed to induce the ideal flow, since it maintained a uniform pressure, velocity and flowrate distribution.

New Cooling System Design of BLDC Motor for Electric Vehicle Using Computation Fluid Dynamics Modeling

  • Vu, Duc Thuan;Hwang, Pyung
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • 제29권5호
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    • pp.318-323
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    • 2013
  • Overheating in electrical motors results in detrimental effects such as degradation of the insulation materials, demagnetization of magnets, increases in Joule losses, and decreases in motor efficiency and lifetime. Thus, it is important to find ways to dissipate heat from the motor and to keep the motor operating at its most efficient temperature. In this study, a new design to guide air flow through a given brushless direct current (BLDC) motor is developed and the design is analyzed, specifically by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The results showed that the temperature distribution in the three proposed models is lower than that in the original model, although the speed of the cooling fan in the original model reaches a very high value of $15{\times}10^3$ rpm. The results also showed that CFD can be effectively used to simulate the heat transfer of BLDC motors.

Biomedical Engineering Research on Circulatory Disorders

  • Yoo Jung-Yul;Park, Jae-Hyung;Suh Sang-Ho;Shim Eun-Bo;Rhee Kye-Han;Shin, Se-Hyun;Cho, Young-I.;Kim, C. Sean;Roh, Hyung-Woon
    • International Journal of Vascular Biomedical Engineering
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    • 제2권1호
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2004
  • Circulatory disease is the number two cause of death next to cancer in Korea, while the cardiovascular disease alone is the number one cause of death in the US. In the present article, some background, current status and future prospects of biomedical engineering esearch on circulatory disorders are discussed in terms of the origin of atherosclerosis, computational fluid dynamics and medical imaging techniques, clinical treatments and fluid dynamics, advances in stents, hemodynamic analysis of artificial heart, and artificial blood. In particular, the importance of close collaboration of medicine and fluids engineering is emphasized.

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사각형 탱크 내에서의 2차원 슬로싱에 대한 전산유체 역학적 연구 (Computational Fluid Dynamics Study on Two-Dimensional Sloshing in Rectangular Tank)

  • 곽영균;고성호
    • 대한기계학회논문집B
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    • 제27권8호
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    • pp.1142-1149
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    • 2003
  • The present study describes a numerical analysis for simulation of the sloshing of flows with free-surface which contained in a rectangular tank moving in harmonic or pitching motion. The VOF function, representing the volume fraction of a cell occupied by the fluid, is calculated for each cells, which gives the location of the free-surface filling any some fraction of cells with fluid. The time-dependent changes of free-surface height are used for visualization subject to several conditions such as fluid height, horizontal acceleration, sinusoidal motion, and viscosity. The free-surface heights were used for comparing wall-force, which is caused by sloshing of flows. Damping effects by baffles were extensively investigated for various conditions in terms of baffle shape and position.

Calculation of Temperature Rise in Gas Insulated Busbar by Coupled Magneto-Thermal-Fluid Analysis

  • Kim, Hong-Kyu;Oh, Yeon-Ho;Lee, Se-Hee
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • 제4권4호
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    • pp.510-514
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    • 2009
  • This paper presents the coupled analysis method to calculate the temperature rise in a gas insulated busbar (GIB). Harmonic eddy current analysis is carried out and the power losses are calculated in the conductor and enclosure tank. Two methods are presented to analyze the temperature distribution in the conductor and tank. One is to solve the thermal conduction problem with the equivalent natural convection coefficient and is applied to a single phase GIB. The other is to employ the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool which directly solves the thermal-fluid equations and is applied to a three-phase GIB. The accuracy of both methods is verified by the comparison of the measured and calculated temperature in a single phase and three-phase GIB.

유압 완층기 내에서의 오일 유동에 대한 CFD 해석 (A CFD Analysis of the Oil Flow in a Hydraulic Shock Absorber)

  • 박경택;박태조
    • 유공압시스템학회논문집
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    • 제5권1호
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    • pp.20-26
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    • 2008
  • Various types of hydraulic shock absorbers are widely used in many fields because of its numerous advantages. However, in order to design adequate damping characteristics, accurate flow data near the orifices are required essentially. In this paper, a commercial computational fluid dynamics(CFD) code, FLUENT is adopted to investigate the flow characteristics near orifices of a shock absorber. Static pressure and velocity vector distributions, fluid path lines are presented for compression/tension strokes and various piston speeds. In order to validate the result of analysis, the numerically obtained damping forces are compared with those of analytical estimations obtained by modified Bernoulli equation. The results reported herein will provide better understanding of the detailed flow fields within shock absorber, and the CFD analysis method proposed in this paper can be used in the design of other types of hydraulic shock absorber.

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