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Simulation of direct methanol fuel cells employing computational fluid dynamics (직접 메탄올 연료전지의 전산모사에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Yeong Jin;Oh In Hwan;Hong Seong An;Kim Hyeok Nyeon;Lee Tae Hui;Ha Heung Yong
    • 한국전기화학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.07a
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    • pp.189-192
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    • 2002
  • An analytical study on BMFCS was carried out by employing the computational fluid dynamics(CFD) method. In this study, the commercial CFD code Fluent(ver. 5.5) was used, and many assumptions were adopted to simplify the situation in the fuel cell. From the simulation, many valuable informations were obtained in terms of distributions of velocity, pressure, temperature, density and current density over the flow field. And thus, it was anticipated that the simulation results were very helpful in developing DMFCs by facilitate optimization of structures of electrodes and flow field of the separator.

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Analysis of Ejection System of Projectile with Compressed Air (압축공기를 이용한 발사체 방출시스템 해석)

  • Kwon, Yong-Hun;Kim, Jun-Bum;Park, Warn-Gyu;Han, Myung-Chul;Ahn, Jae-Yul;Jung, Chan-Hee
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.1488-1493
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of the present work is to develop a compressed air discharging system to eject a projectile from the underwater. For the flow analysis of compressed air tank, projectile ejection tube, and pipe system, the air is assumed as an ideal gas, undergoing 1-dimensional axisymmetric, compressible flow, the Fanno flow analysis was applied. The commercial Fluent code was used to solve 3-D Navier-Stokes equation of the internal flow within the valve. The dynamics of the projectile within the ejection tube was assumed 1-degree of freedom. The calculations were performed to four cases of valve opening area ratio, i.e., 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% opening area, at both depths of 10m and 50m. The results were shown as the figures of time variation of pressure of the compressed air tank and projectile ejection tube. The velocity and distance of the projectile were also predicted.

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Simulation of the paper drying using CFD field Model (CFD를 이용한 종이건조의 전산모사)

  • Im, Jeong-Hun;Lee, Seong-Cheol
    • Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.127-139
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    • 2004
  • The process of papermaking involves water removal on the paper machine wire, in the press section and in the dryer section. In the dryer section, liquid water in the wet web is removed mainly by evaporation. In conventional machine this is achieved by passing the web over a number of steam heated dryer rolls. A drying process of paper on a heated cylinder roll calculated based on a 1-dimensional model which concerns unsteady heat and mass transfer in the direction of paper thickness. In this study, Prediction of moisture contents average paper sheet temperature and volume fraction along a series of cylinder. Independently, developed models is compared using the same reference data. The model is implemented in CFD code, FLUENT, using user-define-function(UDFs).

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Numerical Study of Metal Particle Behaviors and Flow Characteristics in Flame Spray Process (화염 스프레이 공정에서 미세 금속 입자의 거동 및 유동 특성에 대한 수치해석 연구)

  • Shin, Dong-Hwan;Lee, Jae-Bin;Lee, Seong-Hyuk
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 2011
  • The present study conducted computational simulation for multiphase flow in the flame spray coating process with commercially available Ni-Cr powders. The flows in a flame spray gun is characterized by very complex phenomena including combustion, turbulent flows, and convective and radiative heat transfer. In this study, we used a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code of Fluent (ver. 6.3.26) to predict gas dynamics involving combustion, gas and particle temperature distributions, and multi-dimensional particle trajectories with the use of the discrete phase model (DPM). We also examined the effect of particle size on the flame spray process. It was found that particle velocity and gas temperature decreased rapidly in the radial direction, and they were substantially affected by the particle size.

Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Compressible Viscous Flow Characteristics in Axial-Flow Turbines (축류터빈 내부의 3차원 압축성 점성 유동특성에 관한 수치 시뮬레이션)

  • Chung H. T.;Jung H. N.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.03a
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    • pp.42-48
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    • 2004
  • Numerical simulation of viscous compressible flow in turbomachinery cascade involves many problems due to the complex geometry of blade but also flow phenomena. In the present study, numerical investigations have been performed to examine the three-dimensional flow characteristics inside the transonic linear turbine cascades using a commercial code, FLUENT. Multi-block H-type grids are applied to the high-turning turbine rotor blades and comparisons with the experimental data and the numerical results have been done. In addition, the effects of turbulence models on the prediction of the endwall flows are analyzed in the sense of the flow compressibility.

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Numerical and Experimental Study on the Wake Flow of a Butterfly-Type Valve (원관내 버터플라이 밸브 후류에 대한 수치해석 및 실험적 연구)

  • Shim, Jo-Seph;Huh, Hyeung-Suk;Suh, Young-Kweon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.220-224
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, flow in the wake region of a butterfly valve is studied numerically and experimentally. The disk angle of the valve is fixed as $30^{\circ}$ and the free stream velocity as 0.13m/s in the experiment. Numerical analysis is performed in similitude of the experiment. The standard LES model is used to represent the turbulence effect in the commercial code Fluent 5.5. It is shown that the numerical result is similar to the experimental result for the wake flow of a butterfly-type valve.

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2D Computational Analysis of Overtopping Wave Energy Convertor

  • Liu, Zhen;Hyun, Beom-Soo;Jin, Ji-Yuan
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2009
  • An Overtopping Wave Energy Convertor (OWEC) is an offshore wave energy convertor used for collecting overtopping waves and converting the water pressure head into electric power through hydro turbines installed in a vertical duct affixed to the sea bed. A numerical wave tank based on the commercial computational fluid dynamics code Fluent is established for the corresponding analysis. The Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equation and two-phase VOF model are utilized to generate the 2D numerical linear propagating waves, which are validated by the overtopping experiment results. Calculations are made for several incident wave conditions and shape parameters for the overtopping device. Both the incident wave periods and heights have evident effects on the overtopping performance of the OWEC device. The computational analysis demonstrates that the present overtopping device is more compatible with longer incident wave periods.

Investigation on the Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Double Plate Steel Rudder for Small Fishing Boat (소형 어선용 이중강판 방향타의 유체역학적 특성 조사)

  • An, N.H.;Park, H.S.
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.24-29
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    • 2012
  • In this study, the numerical simulation has been performed to investigate the hydrodynamic evaluation between double plate steel rudder and newly designed foil type rudder for small fishing boat. The simulations are carried out in 2 speed ranges with 7 variations of flow's angle of attack which is at intervals of about 5 degree respectively. As the well-known commercial code, FLUENT and CATIA are used as the solver. The simulation results show that new designed foil type rudder is better than conventional double plate rudder in terms of Lift and Drag of running boat in the water.

Aerodynamic Performance Improvement by Divergent Trailing Edge Modification to a Supercritical Airfoil

  • Yoo, Neung-Soo
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.15 no.10
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    • pp.1434-1441
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    • 2001
  • A computational study has been performed to determine the effects of divergent trailing edge (DTE) modification to a supercritical airfoil in transonic flow field. For this, the computational result with the original DLBA 186 supercritical airfoil was compared to that of the modified DLBA 283. A wavier-Stokes code, Fluent 5. 1, was used with Spalart-Allmaras's one-equation turbulence model. Results in this study showed that the reduction in drag due to the DTE modification is associated with weakened shock and delayed shock appearance. The decrease in drag due to the DTE modification is greater than the increase in base drag. The effect of the recirculating flow region on lift increase was also observed. An airfoil with DTE modification achieved the same lift coefficient at a lower angle of attack while giving a lower drag coefficient. Thus, the lift-to-drag ratio increases in transonic flow conditions compared to the original airfoil. The lift coefficient increases considerably whereas the lift slope increases just a little due to DTE modification.

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Characteristics of Low Frequency Aero-acoustic Noise Radiation for a Wind Turbine Generator of NREL Phase VI (NREL Phase VI 풍력발전기 저주파 소음방사 특성)

  • Mo, Jang-Oh;Kim, Byoung-Yun;Ryu, Byeng-Nam;Lee, Young-Ho
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.504-507
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this work is to predict the low frequency aero-acoustic noise generated from the horizontal axis wind turbine, NREL Phase VI using large eddy simulation and Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings model provided in the commercial code, FLUENT. Calculated aerodynamic performances such as shaft torque and power are compared with experimentally measured value. Performance results show a good agreement with experimental data within about 0.8%. If the distance by two times is changed from 32D to 64D toward the downstream region, sound pressure level is reduced by about 6.4dB.

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