• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.20-28
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• 2010

This paper deals with the Design and Analysis of a Controlled Diffusion Aerofoil (CDA) Blade Section for an Axial Compressor Stator and Effect of incidence angle and Mach No. on Performance of CDA. CD blade section has been designed at Axial Flow Compressor Research Lab, Propulsion Division of National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore, as per geometric procedure specified in the U.S. patent (4). The CFD analysis has been performed by a 2-D Euler code (Denton's code), which gives surface Mach No. distribution on the profiles. Boundary layer computations were performed by a 2-D boundary layer code (NALSOF0801) available in the SOFFTS library of NAL. The effect of variation of Mach no. was performed using fluent. The surface Mach no. distribution on the CD profile clearly indicates lower peak Mach no. than MCA profile. Further, boundary layer parameters on CD aerofoil at respective incidences have lower values than corresponding MCA blade profile. Total pressure loss on CD aerofoil for the same incidence range is lower than MCA blade profile.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.763-775
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• 2021

The thermal hydraulic performances of Steam Generator (SG) under both steady and transient operation conditions are of great importance for the safety and economy in nuclear power plants. In this paper, based on our self-developed SG thermal hydraulic analysis code STAF (Steam-generator Thermalhydraulic Analysis code based on Fluent), an improved new version STAF-CT (fully Coupling and Transient) is developed and introduced. Compared with original STAF, the new version code STAF-CT has two main functional improvements including "Transient" and "Fully Three Dimensional Coupling" features. In STAF-CT, a three dimensional energy transferring module is established which can achieve energy exchange computing function at the corresponding position between two sides of SG. The STAF-CT is validated against the international benchmark experiment data and the results show great agreement. Then the U-shaped SG in AP1000 nuclear power plant is modeled and simulated using STAF-CT. The results show that three dimensional flow fields in the primary side make significant effect on the energy source distribution between two sides. The development of code STAF-CT in this paper can provide an effective method for further SG high fidelity research in the nuclear reactor system.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.82-91
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• 2010

그라우팅 공법은 지하 내 구조물을 건설 시 유입되는 지하수를 억제하거나 암반의 강도를 증대시킬 목적으로 널리 이용되는 암반 개량공의 일종이다. 암반 내 불연속면을 따라 유동하는 그라우트의 유동 특성을 파악하는 것은 이러한 그라우팅 설계 및 그 효과를 예측하는데 필수적이다. 기존의 그라우트 유동 연구에서 그라우트 유동을 층류 유동으로 가정해 왔으나, 마이크로 스케일의 간극을 가지는 좁은 절리 틈새 내에서의유체 유동은 절리 거칠기의 영향을 받아 유동의 속도 단면이 거칠기 부분에서 변하기 때문에 일반적인 층류유동으로 모사하는 데 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 거칠기를 가지는 절리 내의 그라우트 유동에 절리 거칠기와 간극이 미치는 영향을 수치해석을 이용하여 조사하였다. 수치해석을 위해 전산유체유동해석 코드인 FLUENT 코드를 이용하였으며 FLUENT 코드에서 제공하는 Herschel-Bulkely 모델과 VOF(volume of fluid) 모델을 적용하여 물과 공기로 채워진 좁은 절리 틈새 내의 그라우트 유동을 모사하였다. 모사된 결과를 그라우트 유동을 위해 제시된 분석해와 기존의 실험실 그라우트 주입 실험 결과와 비교하여 FLUENT 코드의 적합성을 검증하였다. JRC와 간극 변화에 따라 일정 그라우트 주입량 유지에 필요한 주입압을 계산함으로써 마이크로 스케일의 절리 틈새 내 그라우트 유동시 채널 벽면의 거칠기 및 채널 간극의 영향을 정량화하였다.

• 에너지공학
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.149-163
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 전산유체역학(Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD) 해석코드를 사용하여 마스트집합체의 열수력적 안전성에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위해 자연대류 벤치마크 문제를 선정하여 CFD 코드의 물리모델을 선정 및 해석 능력을 검증하고 이를 이용하여 마스트집합체에 대한 자연대류 열전달 해석을 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는 Betts et al.의 사각 수직공동에서 난류 자연대류 실험결과를 대상으로 CFD 해석을 수행하여 자연대류 조건에 적용하기 위한 난류 모델로 표준 $k-{\omega}$ 모델을 선정하였다. 이렇게 도출된 난류모델을 CFD코드에 적용하여 Bates et al.에 의해 수행된 PNL(Pacific Northwest Laboratory)의 $2{\times}6$ 번들 실험과 이에 대한 Kwon et al.의 MATRA, Fluent 코드의 해석과 비교 계산을 수행하여 CFD코드의 부수로조건 자연대류 열전달 해석 능력을 검증하였다. 최종적으로 도출된 $k-{\omega}$ 난류 모델을 사용하여 마스트집합체 및 핵연료 집합체에 대한 자연대류 해석을 수행하였다. 해석 결과 수조 내부 및 부수로 내에서 안정적인 자연대류 유동이 발생함을 확인하였으며, 본 유동 조건에서 핵비등이탈비를 계산함으로써 열수력적 안전성을 정량적으로 평가하였다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집D
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• pp.915-920
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• 2001

A spent fuel problem has prevented the nuclear power from claiming to be a completely clean energy source. The nuclear transmutation technology to incinerate the long lived radioactive nuclides and produce energy during the incineration process is believed to be one or the best solutions. HYPER(Hybrid Power Extraction Reactor) is the accelerator driven transmutation system which is being developed by KAERI(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute). Some major feature of HYPER have been developed and employed. On-power fueling concepts are employed to keep system power constant with minimum variation of accelerator power. A hollow cylinder-type metal fuel is designed for the on-line refueling concept. Lead-bismuth(Pb-Bi) is adopted as a coolant and Spallation target material. HYPER is a subcritical reactor which needs an external neutron source. 1GeV proton beam is irradiated to Lead-bismuth(Pb-Bi) target inside HYPER, and spallation neutrons are produced. When proton beams are irradiated, much heat is also deposited in the Pb-Bi target and beam window which separates Pb-Bi and accelerator vacuum. Therfore, an effective cooling is needed for HYPER target. In this paper, we performed the thermal-hydraulic analysis of HYPER target using FLUENT code, and also calculated thermal and mechanical stress of the beam window using ANSYS code.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2005년도 추계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.21-26
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• 2005

Gas Chromatography (GC) is a wisely technique used for the separation and analysis of liquid and gas sample. Separation of the sample vapors is achieved via their differential migration through a capillary column with an insert carrier gas. The identity and quantity of each vapor in the mixer can be determined from its retention time in the column and a particular property of the gas, such as thermal conductivity, which can be related to the concentration of sample vapor in the carrier gas. Therefore, the flow characteristics in the spiral gas chromatographic column are numerically investigated in this study. Especially, different pressure drop between the front and the rear of GC column with various flow rates is estimated the governing equations are derived from making using of three-dimensional Naver-Stokes equation with incompressible and laminar model due to the nature of low Reynolds number flow. Using a commercial code, FLUENT, the pressure and flow fields in GC column are calculated with various flow rates. The characteristics of thermal cycling which is one of the most important factors affecting the column efficiency and analysis time is also estimated. Furthermore, numerical analyses are also carried out by using commercial code, ANSYS, with various values of power, which is applied to the heating element located at lower GC column.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제23권11호
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• pp.1453-1463
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• 1999

An electromagnetic flowmeter, based on a magnetic induction principle; provides an obstructionless flowmeter that essentially averages the velocity distribution over the pipe cross-sectional area. To predict the installation effects, the flowmeter installed near $90^{\circ}$ elbow is simulated by using a commercial code FLUENT(ver. 4.48) for the laminar flow field and a code developed through this study for magnetic field. The installation effects of the flowmeter are estimated by varying a number of the dependent parameters such as the radius of the elbow(Rc=1D, 1.5D, 2D, 3D), the location, Reynolds number and the direction of electrodes plane(${\varphi}$). It was found that all these factors affect the performance of the electromagnetic flowmeter significantly. The longer installation distance from the elbow is not always optimal to minimize the error, and also there exists an optimal location to install the EMF for a minimum error. Especially the flow signal with the electrodes plane direction of ${\varphi}=45^{\circ}$ is shown to yield smallest measurement error regardless of the Reynolds number and the curvature of elbow.

• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.32-36
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• 2012

This paper presents a comparison of potential and viscous computational codes for the water entry problem. A po-tential code was developed which adopted the boundary element method to solve the problem. A nonlinear free surface boundary condition was integrated to find new locations of free surface. The dynamic boundary condition was simplified by taking constant potential values for every time steps. The simplified dynamic boundary condition was applied in the new position of the free surface not at the mean level, which is the usual practice for linearized theory. The commercial code FLUENT was used to solve the water entry problem from the viscosity point of view. The movement of the air-liquid interface is traced by distribution of the volume fraction of water in a computational cell. The pressure coefficients were compared with each other, while experimental results published by other researchers were also examined. The characteristics of each method were discussed to clarify merits and limitations when they were applied to the water entry problems.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.296-301
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• 2003

A study on the engineering design and numerical thermo-hydraulic analysis for KSTAR TF coil structure cooling system has been conducted. The numerical analyses have been done to verify the engineering design of cooling using the commercial code, FLUENT and in-house code for calculating helium properties which varies with cooling tube's heat transfer. Through the engineering design process based on the steady heat balance concepts, the circular stainless steel tube with inner diameter of 4 mm for TF coil has been selected as cooling tube. From normal operation mode analysis results, total 28 cooling tubes were finally chosen. Also, three dimensional cool down analysis for TF coil with designed cooling tube was satisfied with next three design criteria. First is cooling work termination within a month, second is maximum temperature difference within 50 K in TF coil structure and third is exit helium pressure above 2 bar. Consequently, these cool down scenario results can afford to adopt as operating scenario data when KSTAR facilities operate.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.1997-2002
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• 2007

The reformer is one of the most important chemical processes for the production of high purity hydrogen from fossil fuel. This study compares zero-dimensional model with CFD models for reaction analysis of methane-steam reformer. The zero-dimensional model is an empirical equation, however CFD model uses reactions of Arrhenius type. Because the reaction coefficients of the steam-methane catalytic reforming have not been reported before in the form of Arrhenius type, the present study aims to find the appropriate reaction coefficients. The used CFD code is Fluent 6.2 version. Several models are compared for the case of various operating temperature, mass of catalyst and steam to methane ratio.