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Direct Simulations of Aerodynamic Sounds by the Finite Difference and Finite Volume Lattice Boltzmann Methods

  • Tsutahara, Michihisa;Tamura, Akinori;Motizuki, Kazumasa;Kondo, Takamasa
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.22-25
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    • 2006
  • Direct simulations of aerodynamic sound, especially sound emitted by rapidly rotating elliptic cylinder by the finite difference lattice Boltzmann method (FDLBM). Effect of pile-fabrics for noise reduction is also studied by the finite volume LBM (FVLBM) using an unstructured grid. Second order time integration and third order upwind scheme are shown to be enough for these simulations. Sound sources are detected to be doublets for both cases. For the elliptic cylinder, the doublet is generated in the interaction between the vortex and the edge. For the circular cylinders, they are generated synchronizing with the Karman vortex street, and it is also shown that the pile-fabrics covering the surface of the cylinder reduces the strength of the source.

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Material distribution optimization of 2D heterogeneous cylinder under thermo-mechanical loading

  • Asgari, Masoud
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.703-723
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    • 2015
  • In this paper optimization of volume fraction distribution in a thick hollow cylinder with finite length made of two-dimensional functionally graded material (2D-FGM) and subjected to steady state thermal and mechanical loadings is considered. The finite element method with graded material properties within each element (graded finite elements) is used to model the structure. Volume fractions of constituent materials on a finite number of design points are taken as design variables and the volume fractions at any arbitrary point in the cylinder are obtained via cubic spline interpolation functions. The objective function selected as having the normalized effective stress equal to one at all points that leads to a uniform stress distribution in the structure. Genetic Algorithm jointed with interior penalty-function method for implementing constraints is effectively employed to find the global solution of the optimization problem. Obtained results indicates that by using the uniform distribution of normalized effective stress as objective function, considerably more efficient usage of materials can be achieved compared with the power law volume fraction distribution. Also considering uniform distribution of safety factor as design criteria instead of minimizing peak effective stress affects remarkably the optimum volume fractions.

Numerical Prediction of Incompressible Flows Using a Multi-Block Finite Volume Method on a Parellel Computer (병렬 컴퓨터에서 다중블록 유한체적법을 이용한 비압축성 유동해석)

  • Kang, Dong-Jin;Sohn, Jeong-Lak
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.1 no.1 s.1
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    • pp.72-80
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    • 1998
  • Computational analysis of incompressible flows by numerically solving Navier-Stokes equations using multi-block finite volume method is conducted on a parallel computing system. Numerical algorithms adopted in this study $include^{(1)}$ QUICK upwinding scheme for convective $terms,^{(2)}$ central differencing for other terms $and^{(3)}$ the second-order Euler differencing for time-marching procedure. Structured grids are used on the body-fitted coordinate with multi-block concept which uses overlaid grids on the block-interfacing boundaries. Computational code is parallelized on the MPI environment. Numerical accuracy of the computational method is verified by solving a benchmark test case of the flow inside two-dimensional rectangular cavity. Computation in the axial compressor cascade is conducted by using 4 PE's md, as results, no numerical instabilities are observed and it is expected that the present computational method can be applied to the turbomachinery flow problems without major difficulties.

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Analysis of Boltzmann transport equation with Finite Volume Method at Spherical coordinate (유한체적법을 통한 구면 좌표계에서의 볼츠만 수송방정식의 해석)

  • Oh, Hyuck-Keun;Jin, Jae-Sik;Lee, Joon-Sik
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.1800-1805
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    • 2008
  • A "finite volume method" is proposed to predict heat transport in a spherical enclosure at micro/nanoscale with the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE). The gray version of the BTE with the relaxation time approximation has been applied. Pointing out similarity between radiative transfer equation (RTE) and BTE, the mapping process in RTE is adopted to treat the angular derivative term and linear algebraic discretization equation is derived by using the established method which is used in 2-D BTE in cartesian coordinates. The simulation results are compared to exact solution to RTE for various acoustic thicknesses and ratio of radii. The comparison shows that this method is logical and accurate, and it is possible to easily adopt various models in spherical BTE.

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Flood Impact Pressure Analysis of Vertical Wall Structures using PLIC-VOF Method with Lagrangian Advection Algorithm

  • Phan, Hoang-Nam;Lee, Jee-Ho
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.675-682
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    • 2010
  • The flood impact pressure acting on a vertical wall resulting from a dam-breaking problem is simulated using a navier-Stokes(N-S) solver. The N-S solver uses Eulerian Finite Volume Method(FVM) along with Volume Of Fluid(VOF) method for 2-D incompressible free surface flows. A Split Lagrangian Advection(SLA) scheme for VOF method is implemented in this paper. The SLA scheme is developed based on an algorithm of Piecewise Linear Interface Calculation(PLIC). The coupling between the continuity and momentum equations is affected by using a well-known Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure-Linked Equations (SIMPLE) algorithm. Several two-dimensional numerical simulations of the dam-breaking problem are presented to validate the accuracy and demonstrate the capability of the present algorithm. The significance of the time step and grid resolution are also discussed. The computational results are compared with experimental data and with computations by other numerical methods. The results showed a favorable agreement of water impact pressure as well as the global fluid motion.

FINITE VOLUME ELEMENT METHODS FOR NONLINEAR PARABOLIC INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL PROBLEMS

  • Li, Huanrong;Li, Qian
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.35-49
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, finite volume element methods for nonlinear parabolic integrodifferential problems are proposed and analyzed. The optimal error estimates in $L^p\;and\;W^{1,p}\;(2\;{\leq}\;p\;{\leq}\;{\infty})$ as well as some superconvergence estimates in $W^{1,p}\;(2\;{\leq}\;p\;{\leq}\;{\infty})$ are obtained. The main results in this paper perfect the theory of FVE methods.

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Prediction of Cross Flow Fan Flow Using an Unstructured Finite Volume Method (비정렬 유한 체적법을 이용한 횡류홴 유동장 해석)

  • Kang, Dong-Jin;Bae, Sang-Su
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.8 no.3 s.30
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 2005
  • A Navier-Stokes code has been developed to simulate the flow through a cross flow fan. It is based on an unstructured finite volume method and uses moving grid technique to model the rotation of the fan. A low Reynolds number turbulence model is used to calculate eddy viscosity. The basic algorithm is SIMPLE. Numerical simulations over a wide range of flow rate aye carried out to validate the code. Comparison of all numerical solutions with experimental data confirms the validity of the present code. Present numerical solutions show a noticeable improvement over a previous numerical method which is based on a model of body force to simulate the rotation of the impeller.

Finite element analysis of flow with moving free surface by volume of fluid method (VOF 방법에 의한 이동하는 자유표면이 존재하는 유동의 유한요소 해석)

  • Sin, Su-Ho;Lee, U-Il
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.1230-1243
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    • 1997
  • A numerical technique for simulating incompressible viscous flow with free surface is presented. The flow field is obtained by penalty finite element formulation. In this work, a modified volume of fluid (VOF) method which is compatible with 4-node element is proposed to track the moving free surface. This scheme can be applied to irregular mesh system, and can be easily extended to three dimensional geometries. Numerical analyses were done for two benchmark examples, namely the broken dam problem and the solitary wave propagation problem. The numerical results were in close agreement with the existing data. Illustrative examples were studied to show the effectiveness of the proposed numerical scheme.

A Study on the Level-Set Scheme for the Analysis of the Free Surface Flow by a Finite Volume Method (유한체적법에 의한 자유수면 유동해석에서 Level-Set 기법에 대한 연구)

  • Il-Ryong Park;Ho-Hwan Chun
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.40-49
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    • 1999
  • A Finite Volume Method for the two-dimensional incompressible, two-fluids Navies-Stokes equation and level-set scheme are used to analyse the interface of two fluids, free-surface flow. The numerical characteristics and the applicability of level-set scheme are brief1y investigated and appraised by solving oscillating small surface wave in a water tank and dam break problems. In the numerical results, a method for improving the convergence of the solution is presented.

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Prediction of Cross Flow Fan Flow Using an Unstructured Finite Volume Method (비정렬 유한 체적법을 이용한 횡류 홴 유동장 해석)

  • Kang Dong-Jin;Bae Sang-Su
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.9 no.4 s.37
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    • pp.27-35
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    • 2006
  • A Navier-Stokes code has been developed to simulate the flow through a cross flow fan. It is based on an unstructured finite volume method and uses moving grid technique to model the rotation of the fan. A low Reynolds number turbulence model is used to calculate eddy viscosity. The basic algorithm is SIMPLE. Numerical simulations over a wide range of flow rate are carried out to validate the code. Comparison of all numerical solutions with experimental data confirms the validity of the present code. Present numerical solutions show a noticeable improvement over a previous numerical method which is based on a model of body force to simulate the rotation of the impeller.