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A Study on Flow Characteristics of Two-Dimensional Backward-Facing Step by CFD (CFD에 의한 2차원 후향계단에서의 재부착 유동특성에 관한 연구)

  • Choi Y. D.;Lee Y. H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1998.11a
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    • pp.127-132
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    • 1998
  • The present study is aimed to investigate flow characteristics of Two dimensional backward-facing step by numerical approach. A convection conservative difference scheme based upon SOLA algorithm is used for the solution of the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to simulate the laminar, transitional and turbulent flow conditions at which the experimental data can be available for the backward-facing step. The twenty kinds of Reynolds number are used for the calculations. In an effort to demonstrate that the reported solutions are dependent on the mesh refinement, computations are performed on seven different meshes of uniformly increasing refinement. Also to investigate the result of inflow dependence, two kinds of the inflow profile are chosen for the laminar flow. As criterion of benchmarking the result of numerical simulation, reattachment length is used for the selected Reynolds numbers.

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Improvement of Finite Element for Mindlin Plate Bending (Mindlin 평판 유한요소의 개선)

  • 김선훈;최창근
    • Computational Structural Engineering
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 1988
  • The present work is concerned with the improvement of finite element for the analysis of plate bending structures. The element formulation is based upon Mindlin plate concept. The displacement field of this element is formed by adding nonconforming modes to two rotational displacement components of a 'heterosis plate element. The element has the requisite numbers of zero eigenvalues associated with rigid body modes to avoid the spurious zero energy mode. It is shown that the results obtained by the element converged to the exact solutions very rapidly as the mesh is refined and exhibited reliable solutions through numerical studies for standard benchmark problems. This element is shown to overcome the shear locking problem completely in very thin plate situation even for irregular meshes.

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A Study on Flow Characteristics of Confined Circular Jet within Pipe (이중원관 구속제트의 유동특성에 관한 연구)

  • Seo M. S.;Choi J. W.;Lee Y. H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.136-142
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    • 1997
  • The present study is aimed to investigate flow characteristics of confined jet flow within circular pipe. Numerical method based upon revised SOLA scheme which secures conservation form of convective terms on irregular grids by interpolating the variables appearing in staggered meshes is adopted on cylindrical coordinate formation. Computation was carried out for two kinds of Reynolds number, $10^5\;and\;1.5{\times}10^5$ defined by diameter of outer pipe and time-mean driving jet velocity. Results show that periodic vortex shedding from the jet mixing layer is profound and related unsteady flow characteristics prevail over the entire region. Spatial distribution of pressure and kinetic energy, fluctuation of static wall pressure, together with radial velocity components are examined in terms of instantaneous and time-mean point of views.

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NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF MULTIPHASE FLOW BY NUFLEX (NUFLEX의 다상유동 해석)

  • Son, Gi-Hun;Suh, Young-Ho;YU, Tae-Jin;Hur, Nahm-Keon
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.95-98
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    • 2007
  • A general purpose program NUFLEX has been extended for two-phase flows with topologically complex interface and cavitation flows with liquid-vapor phase change caused by large pressure drop. In analysis of two-phase flow, the phase interfaces are tracked by employing a LS(Level Set) method. Compared with the VOF(Volume-of-Fluid} method based on a non-smooth volume-fraction function, the LS method can calculate an interfacial curvature more accurately by using a smooth distance function. Also, it is quite straightforward to implement for 3-D irregular meshes compared with the VOF method requiring much more complicated geometric calculations. Also, the cavitation process is computed by including the effects of evaporation and condensation for bubble formation and collapse as well as turbulence in flows. The volume-faction and continuity equations are adapted for cavitation models with phase change. The LS and cavitation formulation are implemented into a general purpose program for 3-D flows and verified through several test problems.

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The Fluidization of a Water Gas Shift Conversion Catalyst (水性가스 轉換反應觸媒의 流動化에 關하여)

  • Lee, Chai-Sung;Kim, Yeong U.
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.54-60
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    • 1962
  • The water gas shift conversion catalyst prepared by the American Cyanamide Co. was subjected to fluidization in a 2-in. Pyrex glass tube to obtain the basic fluidization characteristic data. The size of the catalyst charged ranged from 70 to 120 meshes and it was supported on a single layer 300-mesh wire gauze through which the fluidizing medium, the air, was passed. Following are some data and facts found by the authors: (1) The catalyst particles were porous, and their surfaces were trough and irregular. (2) The average effective particle density and the average shape factor of these particles were 152.2 lb/$ft^3$ and 0.865 respectively. (3) As the particle diameter of the catalyst increased, the minimum fluid voidage of the bed decreased slightly. (4) Just before the incipient fluidization, pressure drop suddenly fell and the bed expanded simultaneously. (5) After fluidization set in, the expansion characteristics of the catalyst bed were similar to those of sand and glass beads except intense bubbling in the catalyst bed.

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Fault-Tolerant Adaptive Routing : Improved RIFP by using SCP in Mesh Multicomputers (적응적 오류 허용 라우팅 : SCP를 이용한 메쉬 구조에서의 RIFP 기법 개선)

  • 정성우;김성천
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.30 no.11
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    • pp.603-609
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    • 2003
  • Adaptive routing methods are studied for effective routing in many topologies where occurrence of the faulty nodes are inevitable. Mesh topology provides simplicity in implementing these methods. Many routing methods for mesh are able to tolerate a large number of faults enclosed by a rectangular faulty block. But they consider even good nodes in the faulty block as faulty nodes. Hence, it results the degradation of node utilization. This problem is solved by a method which transmits messages to destinations within faulty blocks via multiple “intermediate nodes”. It also divides faulty block into multiple expanded meshes. With these expanded meshes, DAG(Directed Acyclic Graph) is formed and a message is able to be routed by the shortest path according to the DAG. Therefore, the additional number of hops can be resulted. We propose a method that reduces the number of hops by searching direct paths from the destination node to the border of the faulty block. This path is called SCP(Short-Cut Path). If the path and the traversing message is on the same side of outside border of the faulty block, the message will cut into the path found by our method. It also reduces the message traverse latency between the source and the destination node.

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF MULTIPHASE FLOW BY NUFLEX (NUFLEX를 이용한 다상유동의 수치해석)

  • Yu, Tae-Jin;Suh, Young-Ho;Son, Gi-Hun;Hur, Nahm-Keon
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.21-25
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    • 2007
  • A general purpose program NUFLEX has been extended for two-phase flows with topologically complex interface and cavitation flows with liquid-vapor phase change caused by large pressure drop. In analysis of two-phase flow, the phase interfaces are tracked by employing a LS(Level Set) method. Compared with the VOF(Volume-of-Fluid) method based on a non-smooth volume-fraction function, the LS method can calculate an interfacial curvature more accurately by using a smooth distance function. Also, it is quite straightforward to implement for 3-D irregular meshes compared with the VOF method requiring much more complicated geometric calculations. Also, the cavitation process is computed by including the effects of evaporation and condensation for bubble formation and collapse as well as turbulence in flows. The volume-faction and continuity equations are adapted for cavitation models with phase change. The LS and cavitation formulation are implemented into a general purpose program for 3-D flows and verified through several test problems.

Earthquake Response Analysis considering Irregular Soil Layers (불규칙한 다층 물성을 가지는 지반의 지진 응답 해석)

  • Park, Jang-Ho;Park, Jae-Gyun
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.9 no.6 s.46
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2005
  • Precise analysis of soil-structure interaction requires a proper description of soil profile. However, such approach becomes generally nearly unpractical for soil exhibiting material discontinuity and complex geometry since meshes should match that material discontinuity line. To overcome these difficulties, a different numerical integration method is adopted in this paper, which enables to integrate easily over an element with material discontinuity without regenerating mesh fellowing the discontinuity line. As a result the mesh is highly structured, loading to very regular silliness matrix. The influence of the shape of soil profile on the response is examined and it is seen that the proposed soil-structure analysis method can be easily used on soil-structure interaction problems with complicated soil profile and produce reliable results regardless of material discontinuities.

Robust surface segmentation and edge feature lines extraction from fractured fragments of relics

  • Xu, Jiangyong;Zhou, Mingquan;Wu, Zhongke;Shui, Wuyang;Ali, Sajid
    • Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.79-87
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    • 2015
  • Surface segmentation and edge feature lines extraction from fractured fragments of relics are essential steps for computer assisted restoration of fragmented relics. As these fragments were heavily eroded, it is a challenging work to segment surface and extract edge feature lines. This paper presents a novel method to segment surface and extract edge feature lines from triangular meshes of irregular fractured fragments. Firstly, a rough surface segmentation is accomplished by using a clustering algorithm based on the vertex normal vector. Secondly, in order to differentiate between original and fracture faces, a novel integral invariant is introduced to compute the surface roughness. Thirdly, an accurate surface segmentation is implemented by merging faces based on face normal vector and roughness. Finally, edge feature lines are extracted based on the surface segmentation. Some experiments are made and analyzed, and the results show that our method can achieve surface segmentation and edge extraction effectively.

Study of Characterization of Activated Carbon from Coconut Shells on Various Particle Scales as Filler Agent in Composite Materials

  • DUNGANI, Rudi;MUNAWAR, Sasa Sofyan;KARLIATI, Tati;MALIK, Jamaludin;ADITIAWATI, Pingkan;SULISTYONO, SULISTYONO
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.256-271
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    • 2022
  • Activated carbon (AC) derived from coconut shells (CS-AC) was obtained through pyrolysis at 700℃ and subsequently activated with H3PO4. AC was ground in a Wiley mill several times to form powder particles at particle scales of 80, 100, and 200 meshes. The characterization of the AC was studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and surface area analysis (SBET). The CS-AC-200 mesh resulted in a higher percentage of mesopores and surface area. This particle size had a larger surface area with angular, irregular, and crushed shapes in the SEM view. The smaller particles had smoother surfaces, less wear, and increased curing depth and ratio of the hardness of the resin composite. Based on the characterization results of the AC, it is evident that CS-AC with a 200 mesh particle size has the potential to be used as a filler in biocomposites.