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Numerical Study of Thermal Choking Process in a Model SCRamjet Combustor (모델 스크램제트 연소기 내의 열적 질식 과정 수치 연구)

  • Lee, B.R.;Moon, G.W.;Jeung, I.S.;Choi, J.Y.
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.12a
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    • pp.83-91
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    • 2000
  • A numerical study was carried out to investigate the 'unstart' process of thermally-choked combustion in model scramjet engines. The combustion mechanism of supersonic combustor will be compared with the experimental results obtained from the T3 free-piston shock tunnel at ANU (Australian National University) and the high enthalpy supersonic wind tunnel at UT (University of Tokyo). For the numerical simulation of supersonic combustion. multi-species Navier-Stokes equations were considered. and detailed chemistry reaction mechanism of $H_2$-Air were adopted. The governing equations were solved by Roe's FDS method and LU-SGS method with MUSCL scheme. In this study. it is found that the thermal choking process could result from excessive heat release due to combustion. In detail, sufficient heat release could be generated at local region of very high temperature increased by reflection of shock waves or vortex sheets. Accordingly the flow of downstream of the combustor fell to subsonic field propagated upstream along the combustor. Sometimes the subsonic flow field propagated into isolator could generate precombustion shock waves in the isolator.

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The Characteristic Modes and Structures of Bluff-Body Stabilized Flames in Supersonic Coflow Air

  • Kim, Ji-Ho;Yoon, Young-Bin;Park, Chul-Woung;Hahn, Jae-Won
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.386-397
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    • 2012
  • The stability and structure of bluff-body stabilized hydrogen flames were investigated numerically and experimentally. The velocity of coflowing air was varied from subsonic velocity to a supersonic velocity of Mach 1.8. OH PLIF images and Schlieren images were used for analysis. Flame regimes were used to classify the characteristic flame modes according to the variation of the fuel-air velocity ratio, into jet-like flame, central-jet-dominated flame, and recirculation zone flame. Stability curves were drawn to find the blowout regimes and to show the improvement in flame stability with increasing lip thickness of the fuel tube, which acts as a bluff-body. These curves collapse to a single line when the blowout curves are normalized by the size of the bluff-body. The variation of flame length with the increase in air flow rate was also investigated. In the subsonic coflow condition, the flame length decreased significantly, but in the supersonic coflow condition, the flame length increased slowly and finally reached a near-constant value. This phenomenon is attributed to the air-entrainment of subsonic flow and the compressibility effect of supersonic flow. The closed-tip recirculation zone flames in supersonic coflow had a reacting core in the partially premixed zone, where the fuel jet lost its momentum due to the high-pressure zone and followed the recirculation zone; this behavior resulted in the long characteristic time for the fuel-air mixing.

A Study on the Pressure Oscillations in the High-Subsonic Cavity Flows over a Curved Wall (곡면 벽을 지나는 고아음속 공동 유동에서 발생하는 압력 진동에 관한 연구)

  • Ye, A Ran;Lee, Ik In;Kim, Jeong Soo;Kim, Heuy Dong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.77-83
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    • 2016
  • A considerable amount of researches has been performed to investigate the flow characteristics produced in the cavity system over straight wall. However, many practical applications of the cavity flows are found on curved walls, which are strongly subject to the centrifugal force effects. No work has been made on the cavity flows on the curved wall to date. In the present study, a computational fluid dynamics method has been applied to investigate the cavity flows over curved walls at Mach numbers in range of 0.4 to 0.8. The aspect ratio of the cavity was fixed at L/H=3, but the radius of curvature of the curved wall is changed in considering the real engineering practice. The results reveal that the pressure oscillations in the curved walls are stronger than those in the straight wall. It is found that the ratio of curvature of the curved wall significantly affects the unsteady flow characteristics inside the cavity.

Performance Analysis on a Hydrogen Recirculation Ejector for Fuel Cell Vehicle (연료전지 수소재순환 이젝터 성능 해석)

  • NamKoung, Hyuck-Joon;Moon, Jong-Hoon;Jang, Seock-Young;Hong, Chang-Oug;Lee, Kyoung-Hoon
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.256-259
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    • 2008
  • Ejector system is a device to transport a low-pressure secondary flow by using a high-pressure primary flow. Ejector system is, in general, composed of a primary nozzle, a mixing section, a casing part for suction of secondary flow and a diffuser. It can induce the secondary flow or affect the secondary chamber pressure by both shear stress and pressure drop which are generated in the primary jet boundary. Ejector system is simple in construction and has no moving parts, so it can not only compress and transport a massive capacity of fluid without trouble, but also has little need for maintenance. Ejectors are widely used in a range of applications such as a turbine-based combined-cycle propulsion system and a high altitude test facility for rocket engine, pressure recovery system, desalination plant and ejector ramjet etc. The primary interest of this study is to set up an applicable model and operating conditions for an ejector in the condition of sonic and subsonic, which can be extended to the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. Experimental and theoretical investigation on the sonic and subsonic ejectors with a converging-diverging diffuser was carried out. Optimization technique and numerical simulation was adopted for an optimal geometry design and satisfying the required performance at design point of ejector for hydrogen recirculation. Also, some ejectors with a various of nozzle throat and mixing chamber diameter were manufactured precisely and tested for the comparison with the calculation results.

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Influences of Mach Number and Flow Incidence on Aerodynamic Losses of Steam Turbine Blade

  • Yoo, Seok-Jae;Ng, Wing Fai Ng
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.456-465
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    • 2000
  • An experiment was conducted to investigate the aerodynamic losses of high pressure steam turbine nozzle (526A) subjected to a large range of incident angles ($-34^{\circ}\;to\;26^{\circ}$) and exit Mach numbers (0.6 and 1.15). Measurements included downstream Pitot probe traverses, upstream total pressure, and end wall static pressures. Flow visualization techniques such as shadowgraph and color oil flow visualization were performed to complement the measured data. When the exit Mach number for nozzles increased from 0.9 to 1.1 the total pressure loss coefficient increased by a factor of 7 as compared to the total pressure losses measured at subsonic conditions ($M_2<0.9$). For the range of incidence tested, the effect of flow incidence on the total pressure losses is less pronounced. Based on the shadowgraphs taken during the experiment, it' s believed that the large increase in losses at transonic conditions is due to strong shock/ boundary layer interaction that may lead to flow separation on the blade suction surface.

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A study of high-power density laser welding process considering surface tension and recoil pressure (표면장력과 후압을 고려한 고에너지밀도 레이저 용접공정 해석)

  • Ha, Eung-Ji;Kim, Woo-Seung
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.1190-1195
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    • 2004
  • In this study, numerical investigation has been performed on the evolution of key-hole geometry during high-energy density laser welding process. Unsteady phase-change heat transfer and fluid flow with the surface tension and recoil pressure are simulated. To model the overheated surface temperature and recoil pressure considering subsonic/sonic vapor flow, the one-dimensional vaporization models proposed by Ganesh and Knight are coupled over liquid-vapor interface. It is shown that the present model predicts well both the vaporization physics and the fluid flow in the thin liquid layer over the other model.

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HIGH-ORDER ACCURATE SIMULATIONS OF BLADE-VORTEX INTERACTION USING A DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD ON UNSTRUCTURED MESHES (비정렬 격자계에서 고차정확도 불연속 갤러킨 기법을 이용한 블레이드-와류 간섭 현상 모사)

  • Lee, H.D.;Kwon, O.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.57-70
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    • 2008
  • A high-order accurate Euler flow solver based on a discontinuous Galerkin finite-element method has been developed for the numerical simulations of blade-vortex interaction phenomena on unstructured meshes. A free vortex in freestream was investigated to assess the vortex-preserving property and the accuracy of the present flow solver. Blade-vortex interaction problems in subsonic and transonic freestreams were simulated by adopting a multi-level solution-adaptive dynamic mesh refinement/coarsening technique. The results were compared with those of other numerical and experimental methods. It was shown that the present discontinuous Galerkin flow solver can preserve the vortex structure for significantly longer vortex convection time and can accurately capture the complex unsteady blade-vortex interaction flows, including generation and propagation of acoustic waves.

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HIGH-ORDER ACCURATE SIMULATIONS OF BLADE-VORTEX INTERACTION USING A DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD ON UNSTRUCTURED MESHES (비정렬 격자계에서 고차정확도 불연속 갤러킨 기법을 이용한 블레이드-와류 간섭 현상 모사)

  • Lee, H.D.;Kwon, O.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.57-70
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    • 2008
  • A high-order accurate Euler flow solver based on a discontinuous Galerkin finite-element method has been developed for the numerical simulations of blade-vortex interaction phenomena on unstructured meshes. A free vortex in freestream was investigated to assess the vortex-preserving property and the accuracy of the present flow solver. Blade-vortex interaction problems in subsonic and transonic freestreams were simulated by adopting a multi-level solution-adaptive dynamic mesh refinement/coarsening technique. The results were compared with those of other numerical and experimental methods. It was shown that the present discontinuous Galerkin flow solver can preserve the vortex structure for significantly longer vortex convection time and can accurately capture the complex unsteady blade-vortex interaction flows, including generation and propagation of acoustic waves.

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Wavenumber analyses of panel vibrations induced by transonic wall-bounded jet flow from an upstream high aspect ratio rectangular nozzle

  • Hambric, Stephen A.;Shaw, Matthew D.;Campbell, Robert L.
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.515-528
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    • 2019
  • The structural vibrations of a flat plate induced by fluctuating wall pressures within wall-bounded transonic jet flow downstream of a high-aspect ratio rectangular nozzle are simulated. The wall pressures are calculated using Hybrid RANS/LES CFD, where LES models the large-scale turbulence in the shear layers downstream of the nozzle. The structural vibrations are computed using modes from a finite element model and a time-domain forced response calculation methodology. At low flow speeds, the convecting turbulence in the shear layers loads the plate in a manner similar to that of turbulent boundary layer flow. However, at high nozzle pressure ratio discharge conditions the flow over the panel becomes transonic, and the shear layer turbulence scatters from shock cells just downstream of the nozzle, generating backward traveling low frequency surface pressure loads that also drive the plate. The structural mode shapes and subsonic and transonic surface pressure fields are transformed to wavenumber space to better understand the nature of the loading distributions and individual modal responses. Modes with wavenumber distributions which align well with those of the pressure field respond strongly. Negative wavenumber loading components are clearly visible in the transforms of the supersonic flow wall pressures near the nozzle, indicating backward propagating pressure fields. In those cases the modal joint acceptances include significant contributions from negative wavenumber terms.

A hybrid numerical flux for supersonic flows with application to rocket nozzles

  • Ferrero, Andrea;D'Ambrosio, Domenic
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.387-404
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    • 2020
  • The numerical simulation of shock waves in supersonic flows is challenging because of several instabilities which can affect the solution. Among them, the carbuncle phenomenon can introduce nonphysical perturbations in captured shock waves. In the present work, a hybrid numerical flux is proposed for the evaluation of the convective fluxes that avoids carbuncle and keeps high-accuracy on shocks and boundary layers. In particular, the proposed flux is a combination between an upwind approximate Riemann problem solver and the Local Lax-Friedrichs scheme. A simple strategy to mix the two fluxes is proposed and tested in the framework of a discontinuous Galerkin discretisation. The approach is investigated on the subsonic flow in a channel, on the supersonic flow around a cylinder, on the supersonic flow on a flat plate and on the flow in a overexpanded rocket nozzle.