• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권7호
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• pp.2881-2892
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• 2024

Annular flow refers to a special type of two-phase flow pattern in which liquid flows as a thin film at the periphery of a pipe, tube, or conduit, and gas with relatively high velocity flows at the center of the flow section. This gas also includes dispersed liquid droplets. The liquid film flow rate continuously changes inside the tube due to two processes-entrainment and deposition. To determine the liquid holdup, pressure drop, the onset of dryout, and heat transfer characteristics in annular flow, it is important to have proper knowledge of flow characteristics. Especially a better understanding of entrainment fraction is important for the heat transfer and safe operation of two-phase flow systems operating in an annular two-phase flow regime. Therefore, the objective of this work is to develop a computational model for the simulation of the annular two-phase flow regime and assess the various existing models for the entrainment rate. In this work, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in ANSYS FLUENT has been applied to determine annular flow characteristics such as liquid film thickness, film velocity, entrainment rate, deposition rate, and entrainment fraction for various gas-liquid flow conditions in a vertical upward tube. The gas core with droplets was simulated using the Discrete Phase Model (DPM) which is based on the Eulerian-Lagrangian approach. The Eulerian Wall Film (EWF) model was utilized to simulate liquid film on the tube wall. Three different models of Entrainment rate were implemented and assessed through user-defined functions (UDF) in ANSYS. Finally, entrainment for fully developed flow was determined and compared with the experimental data available in the literature. From the simulations, it was obtained that the Bertodano correlation performed best in predicting entrainment fraction and the results were within the ±30 % limit when compared to experimental data.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.377-402
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• 2007

The paper presents quasi-static plane strain FE-simulations of strain localization in reinforced concrete beams without stirrups. The material was modeled with two different isotropic continuum crack models: an elasto-plastic and a damage one. In case of elasto-plasticity, linear Drucker-Prager criterion with a non-associated flow rule was defined in the compressive regime and a Rankine criterion with an associated flow rule was adopted in the tensile regime. In the case of a damage model, the degradation of the material due to micro-cracking was described with a single scalar damage parameter. To ensure the mesh-independence and to capture size effects, both criteria were enhanced in a softening regime by nonlocal terms. Thus, a characteristic length of micro-structure was included. The effect of a characteristic length, reinforcement ratio, bond-slip stiffness, fracture energy and beam size on strain localization was investigated. The numerical results with reinforced concrete beams were quantitatively compared with corresponding laboratory tests by Walraven (1978).

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 2015년도 제51회 KOSCO SYMPOSIUM 초록집
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• pp.83-86
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• 2015

The Laminar lifted methane jet flames diluted with helium and nitrogen in co-flow air have been investigated experimentally. The chemiluminescence intensities of $OH^{\ast}$ and $CH_2O^{\ast}$ radicals and the radius of curvature for tri-brachial flame were measured using an intensified charge coupled device (ICCD) camera, monochromator and digital video camera. The product of $OH^{\ast}$ and $CH_2O^{\ast}$ is used as a excellent proxy of heat release rate. These methane jet flames could be lifted in buoyancy and jet dominated regimes despite the Schmidt number less than unity. Lifted flames were stabilized due to buoyancy induced convection in buoyancy-dominated regime. It was confirmed that increased $OH^{\ast}$ and $CH_2O^{\ast}$ concentration caused an increase of edge flame speed via enhanced chemical reaction in buoyancy dominated regime. In jet momentum dominated regime lifted flames were observed even for nozzle exit velocities much higher than stoichiometric laminar flame speed. An increase in radius of curvature in addition to the increased $OH^{\ast}$ and $CH_2O^{\ast}$ concentration stabilizes such lifted flames.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.335-342
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• 1986

본 연구에서는 이러한 가능성을 알아 보기 위하여 오리피스판을 통하여 기액 2상흐름이 있을 때 각 상의 유량변화레 따른 순간압력강하치를 분석하고자 한다. 우선 평균압력강하치를 측정하여 식 (1)과 비교 분석하며, 교란치의 평균진폭과 교란 강도를 구하여 기공율의 변화에 따른 이러한 통계치들의 경향을 고찰한다. 그리고 순간압력강하 곡선에 대한 통계함수들, 확률밀도함수(probability density function) 와 자기상관함수(auto-correlation function)을 구하여 이 들의 통계적 성질을 구명 하고 2상 유동량의 결정에 대한 교란치의 할동도를 토의한다.

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.397-398
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• 2003

대기 중 분진을 제거하는 방식으로 여과 이론을 적용할 수 있는 경우는 섬유 여과기, 입자상 여과기, 액적에 의한 습식 세정기 그리고 기포를 이용한 분진 제거 방법 등을 들 수 있다. 이러한 여과 원리를 이용한 집진 설비를 설계하는데 있어, 액적 또는 기포 주위의 유동장을 정확히 파악하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 특히, 포집구의 크기가 작아지고 화학적으로 반응성을 갖는 고온의 함진가스가 유입되는 경우 및 저압에서 운영되는 경우에 누드센수(Knudsen number)의 영향을 무시할 수 없는데 이러한 영역을 저 누드센 영역(low Kundsen number regime)이라고 한다(Lee et al., 1978). (중략)

• 자원환경지질
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.291-297
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• 2019

단열을 통한 유체의 유동은 선형유동이 우세하다는 가정아래 Navier-Stokes 방정식에서 유도된 Stokes 방정식, Reynolds 식(또는 local cubic law), cubic law 와 같은 방정식을 이용하여 해석되고 있다. 하지만 이러한 방정식은 선형 흐름에 국한되며, 비선형 유동영역에 적용하게 되면 오류가 발생한다. 본 연구에서는 레이저 계측기를 이용하여 정밀하게 측정한 3차원 단열 자료와 Navier-Stokes 방정식과 Stokes 방정식을 지배방정식으로 한 수치모델링을 수행함으로써 비선형 유동이 일어나는 현상과 임계 레이놀즈수를 제시하였다. 레이놀즈수가 10이상이 되면 유속의 제곱에 비례하는 관성력이 점성력을 충분히 압도할 정도로 커지면서 지하수 유동이 선형영역에서 비선형 유동영역으로 전환되는 것으로 분석되었다. 이는 평균 간극과 거친 정도가 다른 두 단열에서 모두 동일하게 나타났다. 비선형 유동의 발생기작은 소용돌이 구조의 발생과 성장에 의한 것으로 알려져 있지만, 본 연구결과 단순히 소용돌이 구조가 비선형 유동을 일으키는 아니라 유속이 증가하면서 관성력의 영향이 훨씬 큰 영향을 끼치게 되어 비선형 유동이 발생하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.21-35
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• 2017

Hydrogen peroxide is being considered as a monopropellant in micropropulsion systems for the next generation of miniaturized satellites ('nanosats') due to its high energy density, modest specific impulse and green characteristics. Efforts at the University of Vermont have focused on the development of a MEMS-based microthruster that uses a novel slug flow monopropellant injection scheme to generate thrust and impulse-bits commensurate with the intended micropropulsion application. The present study is a computational effort to investigate the initial decomposition of the monopropellant as it enters the catalytic chamber, and to compare the impact of the monopropellant injection scheme on decomposition performance. Two-dimensional numerical studies of the monopropellant in microchannel geometries have been developed and used to characterize the performance of the monopropellant before vaporization occurs. The results of these studies show that monopropellant in the lamellar flow regime, which lacks a non-diffusive mixing mechanism, does not decompose at a rate that is suitable for the microthruster dimensions. In contrast, monopropellant in the slug flow regime decomposes 57% faster than lamellar flow for a given length, indicating that the monopropellant injection scheme has potential benefits for the performance of the microthruster.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2005년도 학술발표회(2)
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• pp.842-845
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• 2005

A method for the numerical simulation of two-dimensional free-surface flow resulting from the propagation of regular gravity waves over topography with arbitrary bottom shape is presented. The method is based on the numerical solution of the Euler equations subject to the fully nonlinear free-surface boundary conditions and the appropriate bottom, inflow and outflow conditions using a hybrid finite-differences and spectral-method scheme. The formulation includes a boundary-fitted transformation, and is suitable for extension to incorporate large-eddy simulation (LES) and large-wave simulation (LWS) terms for turbulence and breaking wave modeling, respectively. Results are presented for the simulation of the free-surface flow over two different bottom topographies, with constant slope values of 1:10 and 1:20, two different inflow wave lengths and two different inflow wave heights. An absorption outflow zone is utilized and the results indicate minimum wave reflection from the outflow boundary. Over the bottom slope, lengths of waves in the linear regime are modified according to linear theory dispersion, while wave heights remain more or less unchanged. For waves in the nonlinear regime, wave lengths are becoming shorter, while the free surface elevation deviates from its initial sinusoidal shape.

• 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국가시화정보학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.18-21
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• 2004

Lock-on characteristics of the flow around a circular cylinder performing a rotationally oscillation with a relatively high forcing frequency have been investigated experimentally using flow visualization and hot-wire measurements. Dominant parameters are Reynolds number (Re), amplitude of oscillation $(\theta_A)$, and frequency ratio $F_R=f_f\;/\;f_n$, where $f_f$ is the forcing frequency and if is the natural frequency of vortex shedding. Experiments were carried out under the conditions of $Re=4.14\times10^3,\;\pi/15\leq\theta_A\leq\pi/3$, and $F_R=1.0$. The effects of this active control technique on the lock-on flow regime of the cylinder wake were evaluated through wake velocity measurements and spectral analysis of hot-wire signals. The rotary oscillation modified the flow structure of near wake significantly. The lock-on phenomenon was found to occur in the range of frequency encompassing the natural vortex shedding frequency. In addition, when the amplitude of oscillation is less than a certain value, the lock-on phenomenon was occurred only at $F_R=1.0$. The lock-on range expanded and vortex formation length decreased as the amplitude of oscillation increases. The rotary oscillation generated small-scale vortex structure just near the cylinder surface.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.34-44
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• 1985

본 연구의 주목적은 (1) 전극의 모양, 크기 및 재질, (2) 유동형태, 그리고 (3) 유전경계 (dielectric boundray)에 대한 전극의 상대적 위치 등이 캐패시턴스변환기를 이용한 기포율 측정과 유동영역 결정에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가를 연구하는 데에 있다. 실험 결과로부터 정적인 상태하에서 annular flow와 층류계 (stratified flow system)에 대하여, 측정한 상대 캐패시턴스(relative capacitance)와 기포율과의 상관 관계를 구하였다. 그리고, 이 결과를 이론적 예측치와 비교하였다. 이 연구 결과로부터 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 즉 (1) annular flow와 stratified flow의 경우 모두 strip-type의 전극이 ring-type의 전극보다 더 민감하다. (2) 전극의 크기는 상대적 캐패시턴스 대 (1-$\alpha$)곡선에 아무런 영창을 미치지 않는다. (3)전극의 위치는 stratified flow에 대해서는 중요하나 annular flow에 대해서는 아무런 영향이 없다.