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Effects of vortex generators on the wind load of a flat roof: A computational study

  • Zhao, Yagebai;Deng, Xiaolong;Zhang, Hongfu;Xin, Dabo;Liu, Zhiwen
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2021
  • Vortex generators are commonly used in mechanical engineering and the aerospace industry to suppress flow separation owing to their advantages of simple structure, economic viability, and high level of efficiency. Owing to the flow separation of the incoming wind on the leading edge, a suction area is formed on the roof surface, which results in a lifting effect on the roof. In this research, vortex generators were installed on the windward surface of a flat roof and used to disturb to roof flow field and reduced suction based on flow control theory. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations were performed in this study to investigate the effects of vortex generators on reduce suction. It was determined that when the vortex generator was installed on the top of the roof on the windward surface, it had a significant control effect on reduce suction on the roof leading edge. In addition, the influence of parameters such as size, placement interval, and placement position of the vortex generator on the control effect of the roof's suction is also discussed.

Discrete Vortex Simulation of Turbulent Separated and Reattaching Flow With Local Perturbation (국소교란이 있는 난류박리 재부착유동의 이산와류 수치해석)

  • 정용만;성형진
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.479-491
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    • 1994
  • Discrete vortex method was applied for simulating an active control of turbulent leading- edge separation bubble. The leading-edge separation zone was perturbed by a time-dependent sinusoidal perturbation of different frequencies and levels. In order to describe the local sinusoidal perturbation at the separation point, a source pulsation vortex technique was proposed. The present two-dimensional vortex simulations were qualitatively compared with the experimental results for a blunt circular cylinder, where perturbation was introduced along the square-cut leading edge of the cylinder $(Kiya et al.^{(6,7)}).$ It was found that the reattachment length attained a minimum point at low levels of perturbation and two minima at a moderate higher perturbation frequency. The effects of local perturbation on the evolution of leading-edge separation bubble were scrutinized by comparing the perturbed flow with the natural flow. These comparisons were made for the distributions of mean velocity and its velocity fluctuations, intermittency and wall velocity. The motions of instantaneous reattachment in the space-time domain were demonstrated, which were also compared with the experimental findings. In order to investigate the reduction mehanism of reattachment length in the separation bubble, various cross-correlations for velocity and pressure and the relevant convection velocities were evaluated. It was observed that the convection velocity was closely associated with its corresponding pulsationg frequency.

Numerical Investigation of Cross-Flow Around a Circular Cylinder at a Low-Reynolds Number Flow Under an Electromagnetic Force

  • Kim, Seong-Jae;Lee, Choung-Mook
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.363-375
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    • 2002
  • The effect of the electromagnetic force (or Lorentz force) on the flow behavior around a circular cylinder is investigated by computation. Two-dimensional unsteady flow computation for Re=10$^2$is carried out using a numerical method of finite difference approximation in a curvilinear body-fitted coordinate system by solving the momentum equations including the Lorentz force as a body force. The effect of spatial variations of the Lorentz forcing region and forcing direction along the cylinder circumference is investigated. The numerical results show that the Lorentz force can effectively suppress the flow separation and oscillation of the lift force of circular cylinder cross-flow, leading to reduction of drag.

Flow Control of Smart UAV Airfoil Using Synthetic Jet Part 1 : Flow control in Hovering Mode Using Synthetic Jet (Synthetic jet을 이용한 스마트 무인기(SUAV) 유동제어 Part 1 : 정지 비행 모드에서 synthetic jet을 이용한 유동제어)

  • Kim, Min-Hee;Kim, Sang-Hoon;Kim, Woo-Re;Kim, Chong-Am;Kim, Yu-Shin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.37 no.12
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    • pp.1173-1183
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    • 2009
  • In order to reduce the download around the Smart UAV(SUAV) at hovering, flow control using synthetic jet has been performed. Many of the complex tilt rotor flow features are captured including the leading and trailing edge separation, and the large region of separated flow beneath the wing. In order to control the leading edge and trailing edge separation, synthetic jet is located at 0.01c, $0.3c_{flap}$, $0.95c_{flap}$. As non-dimensional frequency, the flow pattern is altered and the rate of drag reduction is changed. The results show that synthetic jets shorten the vortex period and decrease the vortex size by changing local flow structure. By using leading edge jet and trailing edge jet, download is efficiently reduced compared to no control case at hovering mode.

Flow Control of Smart UAV Airfoil Using Synthetic Jet Part 2 : Flow control in Transition Mode Using Synthetic Jet (Synthetic jet을 이용한 스마트 무인기(SUAV) 유동제어 Part 2 : 천이 비행 모드에서 synthetic jet을 이용한 유동제어)

  • Kim, Min-Hee;Kim, Sang-Hoon;Kim, Woo-Re;Kim, Chong-Am;Kim, Yu-Shin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.37 no.12
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    • pp.1184-1191
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    • 2009
  • In order to reduce the download around the Smart UAV(SUAV) at Transition mode, flow control using synthetic jet has been performed. Many of the complex tilt rotor flow features are captured including the leading and trailing edge separation, and the large region of separated flow beneath the wing. Based on the results of part 1 of the present work, synthetic jet is located at 0.01c, $0.95c_{flap}$ and it is operated with the non-dimensional frequency of 0.5, 5 to control the leading edge and trailing edge separation. Consequently, download is substantially reduced compared to with no control case at transition mode using leading edge jet only. The present results show that the overall flight performance and stability of the SUAV can be remarkably improved by applying the active flow control strategy based on synthetic jet.

Anomaly Removal for Efficient Conformance Test (효율적인 프로토콜 적합성 시험을 위한 변칙성 제거)

  • Lee, Hyeon-Cheol;Heo, Gi-Taek
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.750-757
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    • 1999
  • The protocol conformance testing is to check whether an implementation of a protocol conforms to its specification. And it is important to improve the interoperability of protocol and the efficiency of cost. In general, protocol is composed of the control flow representing observable behaviors and the data flow representing internally used variables. Until now, research for generation of test suite has been realized only consideration the control flow of protocol or separation control flow from data flow. Case of considering control flow, contents of test was simple and definite. Length of test was short. But it was of little application, and it didn't manage each kind errors in data flow. Therefore, we must generate test case that can manage control and data flow. So, anomaly of variable must be removed for efficient conformance testing. Therefore in this dissertation, we proposed algorithm which can remove anomaly of variable for efficient conformance testing. And it showed that anomaly of variable was got rid of applying this algorithm to real protocol.

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A Study of the Control of Plume-Induced Flow over a Missile Afterbody (Missile Afterbody에서 Plume-Induced Flow의 제어에 관한 연구)

  • ;Young-Ki Lee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.45-48
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    • 2003
  • The plume interference is a complex phenomenon, consisting of plume-induced boundary layer separation, separated shear layer, multiple shock waves, and their interactions. The base knowledge of plume interference effect on powered missiles and flight vehicles is not yet adequate to get an overall insight of the flow physics in plume-freestream flow field. Computational studies are performed to better understand the flow physics of the plume-induced shock and separation for Simple, Rounded, Porous-extension test model configurations. The present study simulates highly underexpanded exhaust plume effect on missile body at the transoni $c^ersonic speeds. In order to investigate the plume-induced separation phenomenon, Simple, Rounded and Porous-extension plate are attacked to the missile afterbody. The computational result shows that the rounded afterbody and the porous-extension wall attached at the missile base can alleviate the plume-induced shock wave and separation phenomenon and improve the control of the missile body.dy.

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Fabrication and Performance Evaluation of a Micro Separation Chip of Magnetic Beads Using Magnetophoretic Flow (자기영동을 이용한 자성입자 분리 마이크로 칩 제작 및 성능평가)

  • Go, Jeung-Sang
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.392-397
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    • 2007
  • We developed a microfluidic platform able to control the trap and release of magnetic beads used for separation of a specific biomolecules. The magnetic beads can be trapped and released conditionally by controlling the difference between the Stokes force induced by the fluid flow and magnetic force resulting from a permanent magnet. The permanent magnet of CoNiP alloy is electroplated. It is characterized to have the 1369 Oe of coercivity, 1762 Gauss of remanence, and 0.603MGOe of (BH)max. Through the experimental and numerical investigation, the magnetic beads are trapped under the flow velocity of 17 ${\mu}m/s$ and are released perfectly above the velocity of 174 ${\mu}m/s$.

Emission Control of Fine Dust from Gas-Solid Cyclone (PoC 부착 싸이클론의 미세분진 유출 제어에 관한 연구)

  • 조영민
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.201-210
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    • 1999
  • Cyclones have been extensively used in the industry for removing fine particles from the gaseous streams, based on simplicity in design and construction in association with low cost and flexibility to operate in extreme and harsh environments. However, industrial cyclones are typically not very efficient for particles smaller than 10μm. In this work, in order to improve the separation efficiency of reverse flow cyclones, a simple device named Post Cyclone(Poc) in installed on the top of an existing cyclone. Thereby the residual swirl present at the outlet (vortex finder) of a conventional cyclone has been used to capture the escaped dust from the cyclone in the PoC. The performance of PoC was closely evaluated by changing configuration of the PoC and operation condition. In addition, the dust behaviour in th PoC was investigated based on the hypothesis of residual vortex.

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Priority-based Scheduling Policy for OpenFlow Control Plane

  • Kasabai, Piyawad;Djemame, Karim;Puangpronpitag, Somnuk
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.733-750
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    • 2019
  • Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a new network paradigm, allowing administrators to manage networks through central controllers by separating control plane from data plane. So, one or more controllers must locate outside switches. However, this separation may cause delay problems between controllers and switches. In this paper, we therefore propose a Priority-based Scheduling policy for OpenFlow (PSO) to reduce the delay of some significant traffic. Our PSO is based on packet prioritization mechanisms in both OpenFlow switches and controllers. In addition, we have prototyped and experimented on PSO using a network simulator (ns-3). From the experimental results, PSO has demonstrated low delay for targeted traffic in the out-of-brand control network. The targeted traffic can acquire forwarding rules with lower delay under network congestion in control links (with normalized load > 0.8), comparing to traditional OpenFlow. Furthermore, PSO is helpful in the in-band control network to prioritize OpenFlow messages over data packets.