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A Study on the Analysis of Temperature Field of Bubbly Flow Using Thermo-sensitive Liquid Crystals (감온액정을 이용한 기포유동의 온도장 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Bae, Dae-Seok
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.27 no.11
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    • pp.1572-1578
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    • 2003
  • Particle Image Thermometry(PIT) with liquid crystal tracers is used for visualizing and analysis of the bubbly flow in a vertical temperature gradient. Quantitative data of the temperature were obtained by applying the color-image processing to a visualized image, and neural-network was applied to the color-to-temperature calibration. This paper describes the method, and presents the transient mixing temperature patterns of the bubbly flow.

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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Optimization of the Mixing Flow in an Agitated Tank

  • Yoo, Dal-Hyun;Yang, Si-Young;Choi, Youn-Kyu
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.151-157
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    • 2005
  • In the chemical, mineral and electronics industries, mechanically stirred tanks are widely used for complex liquid and particle mixing processes. In order to understand the complex phenomena that occur in such tanks, it is necessary to investigate flow field in the vessel. Most difficulty on the numerical analysis of stirred tank flow field focused particularly on free surface analysis. In order to decrease the dead zone and improve the flow efficiency of a system with free surface, this paper presents a new method that overcomes free surface effects by properly combining the benefits of using experiment and 3-D CFD. This method is applied to study the mixing flow in an agitated tank. From the results of experimental studies using the PIV (particle image velocimetry) system, the distribution of mixing flow including free surface are obtained. And these values that are expressed as a velocity vector field have been patched for simulating the free surface. The results of velocity distribution obtained by 3-D CFD are compared with those of experimental results. The experimental data and the simulation results are in good agreement.

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A Numerical Analysis for Prediction of Flow Rate of the Motor Cooling Fan (전동기 냉각팬의 유량예측을 위한 수치해석)

  • Lee, Sang-Hwan;Kang, Tae-In;Ahn, Chel-O;Seo, In-Soo;Lee, Chang-Joon
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.12a
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    • pp.670-677
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    • 2005
  • In this study, we analyzed the three dimensional unsteady flow field around the motor cooling fan using the unsteady lifting surface theory. We obtained the flow rate for various geometries of fan from the calculated results of velocity field. For the data of design parameter and rotating speed(rpm) of the fan, we can predict the flow rate of the motor cooling fan with thin thickness through numerical analysis without the experimental data of the free stream velocity which is a boundary condition of flow field. the numerical results showed the flow rate within 10% of error in comparison with experimental results. The radial fans, which are often used as internal motor fan were also investigated with the same procedure.

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Comparison between CFD Analysis and Experiments According to Various PEMFC Flow-field Designs

  • Lee, Kang-In;Lee, Se-Won;Park, Min-Soo;Cho, Yong-Hun;Cho, Yoon-Hwan;Chu, Chong-Nam;Sung, Yung-Eun
    • Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2009
  • Flow-field design has much influence over the performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) because it affects the pressure magnitude and distribution of the reactant gases. To obtain the pressure magnitude and distribution of reactant gases in five kinds of flow-field designs, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was performed. After the CFD analysis, a single cell test was carried out to obtain the performance values. As expected, the pressure differences due to different flow-field configurations were related to the PEMFC performance because the actual performance results showed the same tendency as the results of the CFD analysis. A large pressure drop resulted in high PEMFC performance. The single serpentine configuration gave the highest performance because of the high pressure difference magnitudes of the inlet/outlet. On the other hand, the parallel flow-field configuration gave the lowest performance because the pressure difference between inlet and outlet was the lowest.

A Study on the Flow Characteristics Around an Axial Fan of Rotary Burner (로터리 버너의 축류형 팬 주위 유동특성 연구)

  • Ko, D.G.;Cho, D.J.;Yoon, S.J.
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2003
  • The flow analysis of the axial fan of rotary burner was performed by SIMPLE(Semi Implicit Method for Pressure Linked Equations) algorithm and finite volume mothod performed in the case of 3-D, incompressible, turbulent flow. In this study, the coordinate transformation was adapted for the complex geometry of axial fan, and the standard $k-{\varepsilon}$ model and wall function method were used for analysis of turbulent flow. Multi-block grid system was used for flow field and divided into four domains such as the inlet, outlet, flow field of rotating vane, and tip clearance. Fan rotation was simulated by rotational motion using MRF(Multiple Rotating Reference Frame) in steady, incompressible state flow.

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Active Flow Control Technology for Vortex Stabilization on Backward-Facing Step (와류 안정화를 위한 후향계단 유동 능동제어기법)

  • Lee, Jin-Ik
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.246-253
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    • 2013
  • This paper addresses the technology of active flow control for stabilizing a flow field. In order for flow field modeling from the control point of view, the huge-data set from CFD(computational fluid dynamics) are reduced by using a POD(Proper Orthogonal Decomposition) method. And then the flow field is expressed with dynamic equation by low-order modelling approach based on the time and frequency domain analysis. A neural network flow estimator from the pressure information measured on the surface is designed for the estimation of the flow state in the space. The closed-loop system is constructed with feedback flow controller for stabilizing the vortices on the flow field.

CFD for Y-type Constant Flowrate Valve Design (Y형 세대별 정유량 밸브 개발에서의 CFD의 활용)

  • Kwon, U-Cheol;Lee, Byeong-Huee
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.12a
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    • pp.488-491
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    • 2004
  • Numerical analysis of the three dimensional turbulent flow field in a complex valve shape is carried out to confirm the flow field whether the designed valve shape is good or not. The simulation of the incompressible flow in a constant flowrate control valve is performed by using the commercial code, FLUENT/UNS 6.0. The results of flow field show the designed valve has some problems, therefore these will be good data for new valve design.

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Analysis of the Gas Flow Field of Primary Combustion Chamber with the Conditions of Secondary Air Injection (2차 공기 주입 조건 변화에 따른 소형 소각로 내부의 유동장 분석)

  • Choi, Byung-Dae;Kim, Sung-Joon
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.22 no.A
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2002
  • This analysis is aimed to find out how the conditions of secondary air injection affects the residence time and the turbulence energy of flue gas and flow field in a small incinerator. A commercial code, PHOENICS, is used to simulate the flow field of an Incinerator. The computational grid system is constructed in a cartesian coordinate system In this numerical experiment, an independent numerical variable is the conditions of secondary air injection and dependants are the residence time of flue gas and the mean value of turbulence energy in a primary combustion chamber. The flow field and the distribution of turbulence energy are analysed to evaluate the residence time of flue gas and the turbulence energy The computational results say that the tangential injection of secondary air make the residence time much longer than the radial injection and that the radial injection of secondary make turbulence much stronger than the tangential injection.

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A Numerical Analysis for Two-phase Turbulent Flow in the Neutral Atmosphere (중립 대기 상태에서 이상 난류유동에 관한 수치적 연구)

  • Kang, Seung-Kyu;Yoon, Joon-Yong;Lee, Do-Hyung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.772-778
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    • 2002
  • A numerical analysis of turbulent gas-particle two-phase flow is performed in conjunction with the experiments of Fackrell & Robins and Raupach & Legg that considered ground-level source and/or elevated source flat plate flow. K-$\omega$ turbulence model is used in order to analyze fully turbulent flow field and the concentration equation with settling velocity is adopted for the concentration field. The model of Einstein and Chien is applied that couples the velocity field and the concentration field. Turbulent eddy viscosity is re-evaluated in this model. The present numerical results have good agreement between the simulation and the experimental data for the mean flow velocities and particle concentrations. While the previous study shows about 27% error in the vicinity of the source of particle concentration, the .present study allows about 14% error. A new turbulent gas-particle flow model developed by this study is able to cut down error by 13% at a near source.