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Implicit Incompressible flow solver on Unstructured Hybrid grids (비구조 혼합 격자에서 내재적 방법을 이용한 비압축성 유동해석)

  • Kim J.;Kim Y.M;Maeng J.S
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1998.11a
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    • pp.48-54
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    • 1998
  • Three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations have been solved by the node-centered finite volume method with unstructured hybrid grids. The pressure-velocity coupling is handled by the artificial compressibility algorithm and convective fluxes are obtained by Roe's flux difference splitting scheme with linear reconstruction of the solutions. Euler implicit method is used for time-integration. The viscous terms are discretised in a manner to handle any kind of grids such as tetrahedra, prisms, pyramids, hexahedra, or mixed-element grid. The numerical efficiency and accuracy of the present method is critically evaluated for several example problems.

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Mixed Convection in a Horizontal Annulus with a Rotating Cylinder (하나의 실린더가 회전하는 수평 환형 공간에서의 혼합 대류)

  • Yoo Joo-Sik;Ha Dae-Hong
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2001
  • Mixed convection in a horizontal annulus is considered, and the effect of a forced flow on the natural convective flow is investigated. The inner cylinder is hotter than the outer cylinder, and the outer cylinder is rotating with constant angular velocity with its axis at the center of the annulus. The unsteady streamfunction-vorticity equation is solved with a finite difference method. For the fluid with Pr=0.7, there appear flows with two eddies, one eddy, or no eddy according the Rayleigh and Reynolds numbers. The rotation of the outer cylinder reduces the heat transfer rate at the wall of the annulus. The oscillatory multicellular flow of a low Prandtl number fluid with Pr=0.01 can be effectively suppressed by the forced flow.

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A Numerical Investigation of Indoor Air Quality with CFD

  • Sin V. K;Sun H. I
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.207-208
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    • 2003
  • Increasing interest in indoor air quality (IAQ) control has been found because of its serious effect on human health. To evaluate IAQ, thermal comfort in terms of temperature and velocity distributions of indoor air has to be analyzed in detail. Choice of location for installation of air-conditioner in a building will affect the performance of cooling effect and thermal comfort on the occupants, which in turn will affect the indoor air quality (IAQ) of the building. In this paper, we present a discussion on the proper location of the air-conditioner in order to obtain good thermal comfort for occupant of a typical bedroom in Macao. A set of carefully designed numerical experiments is run with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software FLOVENT 3.2 [1]. Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations are solved with finite volume technique and turbulence effects upon the mean flow characteristics is modeled with the k - & model. Assumption of steady state environment is made and only convective and conductive heat transfer from the occupant and air-conditioner are being concerned.

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DEVELOPMENT OF A LARGE EDDY SIMULATION METHOD ON UNSTRUCTURED MESHES (비정렬 격자를 이용한 LES 기법 개발)

  • Lee, K.S.;Baek, J.H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.106-109
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    • 2006
  • A large eddy simulation with explicit filters on unstructured mesh is presented. Two explicit filters are adopted for reducing the aliasing error of the nonlinear convective term and measuring the level of subgrid scale velocity fluctuation, respectively. The developed subgrid scale model is basically eddy viscosity model which depends on the explicitly filtered fields and needs no additional ad hoc wall treatment such as van Driest damping function. As a validation problem, the flows around a sphere at several Reynolds numbers, including laminar and turbulent regimes, are calculated and compared to experimental data and numerical results in the literature.

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Study on Natural Convection in a Rectangular Enclosure With a Heating Source

  • Bae, Kang-Youl;Jeong, Hyo-Min;Chung, Han-Shik
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.294-301
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    • 2004
  • The natural convective heat transfer in a rectangular enclosure with a heating source has been studied by experiment and numerical analysis. The governing equations were solved by a finite volume method, a SIMPLE algorithm was adopted to solve a pressure term. The parameters for the numerical study are positions and surface temperatures of a heating source i.e., Y /H =0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 11$^{\circ}C$ $\leq$ΔT$\leq$59$^{\circ}C$. The results of isotherms and velocity vectors have been represented, and the numerical results showed a good agreement with experimental values. Based on the numerical results, the mean Nusselt number of the rectangular enclosure wall could be expressed as a function of Grashof number.

Finite Element Analysis for Behavior of Porous Media Using the S-ALE Method (S-ALE를 이용한 다공질 매체 거동의 유한요소해석)

  • Park Tae-Hyo;Tak Moon-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2006.04a
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    • pp.381-388
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    • 2006
  • A porous medium is composed of solids, fluids, and gas which have different physical and chemical properties. In addition, these constituents have a relative velocity between each other. So far, in order to analyze porous media using finite element method, Lagrangian or Eulerian method has been used. However, the numerical analyses for porous media have a defect that the methods do not describe the movements of constituents. In this paper, numerical analysis for unsaturated porous media was performed in frame of ALE method which has advantages of Lagrangian and Eulerian. Namely, the Lagrangian description was used in solid phase, and the Eulerian description was used in fluid or gas phase in a porous medium Then the relationship between each other was controlled by the convective term in ALE method. Finally, the numerical results of ALE were compared with tile results of Lagrangian analysis.

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Approximate Solution of Absorption Process in an Air-Cooled Vertical Plate Absorber (공냉식 수직평판형 흡수기의 흡수과정에 대한 근사해법)

  • Jeong, E.S.
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.453-462
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    • 1994
  • An unsteady quasi one-dimensional model of momentum, heat and mass transfer in a falling film of a vertical plate absorber which is cooled by air was developed using the integral method. Energy conservation of the absorber wall is considered in the model. The model can predict absorption rate, film thickness and mean velocity as well as concentration and temperature profiles. Predictions of steady state temperature and concentration profiles for LiBr/water system for constant wall temperature condition are in good agreement with the two-dimensional finite difference method solutions. Effects of operating conditions, such as convective heat transfer coefficient between the cooling air and the absorber wall, cooling air temperature and film thickness at inlet, on absorption rate of water vapor into LiBr/water solution were shown.

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STELLAR MAGNETIC ACTIVITY AND LONG TERM LUMINOSITY VARIATIONS OF LATE TYPE STARS.: I. ON GENERALIZATION OF ${\ddot{O}}PIK'S$ CONVECTION THEORY TO A ROTATING MEDIUM

  • Park, Chang-Bum;Yun, Hong-Sik;Lee, Jeong-Woo
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.86-99
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    • 1985
  • A generalization of the original ${\ddot{O}}pik's$ cellular convection theory has been made to accomodate a rotating convective medium. With the use of the formulation, a set of rotating model envelopes of the sun and late type main sequence stars have been constructed under three different rotation periods. Their thermal structures are presented and characteristics of their convection are discussed in the context of stellar dynamo. In the present study it is noted that the rotational angular velocity increases in wards with depth, and its increase turns out to be about 6% at the bottom of the solar convection zone.

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Calculations of Compressible Flows Using a Pressure Based Method (압력장에 기초한 수치해석 방법을 이용한 압축성 유동장의 수치해석)

  • Lim H. S.;Sah J. Y.;Kang D. J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.05a
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 1996
  • A previously developed pressure based calculation procedure for incompressible flows was modified and applied to transonic and supersonic flows. It uses pressure as a primary variable in preference to density and body fitted coordinate and non-staggered grid system. The discretized momentum equations were rearranged as a system of equations with respect to covariant velocity components. Three different discretization schemes, QUICK hybrid and first order upwind, were used to approximate the convective terms and compared. Present approach was tested far two transonic flow and one supersonic flow problems. Comparison with previous results show that present approach can be used as a solver for compressible flows.

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Numerical Analysis for the Piston-Driven Intake Flows using the Finite Element Method (피스톤에 의해 유입되는 유동에 대한 유한요소법을 이용한 수치해석)

  • Choi J. W.;Park C. K.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 1999
  • The FVM(Finite Volume Method) have been used mainly for the flow analyses in the piston-cylinder. The objective of the present study is to analyze numerically the piston-driven intake flows using the FEM(Finite Element Method). The FEM algorithm used in this study is 4-step time-splitting method which requires much less execution time and computer storage than the velocity-pressure integrated method and the penalty method. And the explicit Lax-Wendroff scheme is applied to nonlinear convective term in the momentum equations to prevent checkerboard pressure oscillations. Also, the ALE(arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian) method is adopted for the moving grids. The calculated results show good agreement in comparison with those by the FVM and the experimental results by the LDA.

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