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Comparisons of Aerodynamic Loss Generated by a Squealer-Tip Turbine Rotor Blade with That by a Plane-Tip One (평면팁과 스퀼러팁 터빈 동익의 압력손실 특성 비교)

  • Chae, Byoung-Joo;Lee, Sang-Woo
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.161-164
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    • 2006
  • Three-dimensional flow and aerodynamic loss in the tip-leakage flow region of a high-turning first-stage turbine rotor blade with a squealer tip have been measured with a straight miniature five-hole probe for the tip gap-to-chord ratio, h/e, of 2,0%. This squealer tip has a indent-to-chord ratio, $h_{st}/c$, of 5.5%. The results are compared with those for a plane tip ($h_{st}/c\;=\;0.0%$). The squealer tip tends to reduce the mass flow through the tip gap and to suppress the development of the tip-leakage vortex. Therefore, it delivers lower aerodynamic loss in the near-tip region than the plane tip does. At the mid-span, however, the aerodynamic loss has nearly the same value for the two different tips.

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Three-Dimensional Flow and Aerodynamic Loss Downstream of a Turbine Rotor Blade with a Squealer Tip (스퀄러팁 터빈 동익 하류에서의 3차원 유동 및 압력손실)

  • Chae, Byoung-Joo;Lee, Sang-Woo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.30 no.9 s.252
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    • pp.913-920
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    • 2006
  • Three-dimensional flow and aerodynamic loss in the tip-leakage flow region of a high-turning first-stage turbine rotor blade with a squealer tip have been measured with a straight miniature five-hole probe for the tip gap-to-chord ratio, h/c, of 2.0%. This squealer tip has a indent-to-chord ratio, $h/{st}/c$, of 5.5%. The results are compared with those for a plane tip $(h_{st}/c=0.0%)$. The squealer tip tends to reduce the mass flow through the tip gap and to suppress the development of the tip-leakage vortex. Therefore, it delivers lower aerodynamic loss in the near-tip region than the plane tip does. At the mid-span, however, the aerodynamic loss has nearly the same value for the two different tips.

Numerical Study on Tip Clearance Effect on Performance of a Centrifugal Compressor (익단간극이 원심압축기 성능에 미치는 영향에 관한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Eum, Hark-Jin;Kang, Shin-Hyoung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.389-397
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    • 2003
  • Effect of tip leakage flow on through flow and performance of a centrifugal compressor impeller was numerically studied using CFX-TASC flow. Seven different tip clearances were used to consider the influence of tip clearance on performance. Secondary flow and loss factor were evaluated to understand the loss mechanism inside the impeller due to tip leakage flow. The calculated results were circumferentially averaged along the passage and at the impeller exit for quantitative discussion. Tip clearance effect on Performance could be decomposed into inviscid and viscous components using one dimensional equation. The inviscid component is related with the specific work reduction and the viscous component is related with the additional entropy generation. Two components affected Performance equally. while efficiency drop was mainly influenced by viscous loss. Performance and efficiency drop due to tip clearance were proportional to the ratio of tip clearance to exit blade height. A simple model suggested in the present study predict performance and efficiency drop quite successfully.

Modeling of Deviation Angle and Pressure Loss due to Rotor Tip Leakage Flow in Axial Turbines (축류터빈의 동익에서 끝간격 누설유동에 의한 편향각과 압력손실의 모형화)

  • 윤의수;오군섭;정명균
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 1998.04a
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    • pp.13-13
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    • 1998
  • A simple model of the tip leakage flow models of the rotor downstream flow is developed, based on Lakshminarayana's theoretical concept on the tip clearance flow and the experimental data published in open literature. And new spanwise distribution models of deviation angle and pressure loss coefficient due to the tip leakage flow are formulated for use in association with the streamline curvature method as a through flow analysis. Combining these new models and previous deviation and loss models due to secondary flow, a robust streamline curvature method is established for flow analysis of single-stage, subsonic axial turbines with wide ranges of turning angle, aspect ratio and blading type. At the exit from rotor rows, the flow variables are mixed radially according to a spanwise transport equation. The proposed streamline curvature method is tested against a forced vortex type turbine as well as a free vortex type one. The results show that the spanwise variations of flow angle, axial velocity and loss coefficients at rotor exit are predicted with good accuracy, being comparable to a steady three-dimensional Navier-Stokes analysis. This simple and fast flow analysis is found to be very useful for the turbine design at the initial design phase.

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Effects of Squealer Rim Height on Aerodynamic Losses Downstream of a High-Turning Turbine Rotor Blade

  • Lee, Sang-Woo;Chae, Byoung-Joo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.160-167
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    • 2008
  • The effects of squealer rim height on three-dimensional flows and aerodynamic losses downstream of a high-turning turbine rotor blade have been investigated for a typical tip gap-to-chord ratio of h/c=2.0%. The squealer rim height-to-chord ratio is changed to be $h_{st}/c$=0.00(plane tip), 1.37, 2.75, 5.51, and 8.26%. Results show that as $h_{st}/c$ increases, the tip leakage vortex tends to be weakened and the interaction between the tip leakage vortex and the passage vortex becomes less severe. The squealer rim height plays an important role in the reduction of aerodynamic loss when $h_{st}/c{\leq}2.75%$. In the case of $h_{st}/c{\geq}5.51%$, higher squealer rim cannot provide an effective reduction in aerodynamic loss. The aerodynamic loss reduction by increasing $h_{st}/c$ is limited only to the near-tip region within a quarter of the span from the casing wall.

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A Study on Multi-story Building Users' Opinions about the Installation of Emergency Plumbing Equipment for Preventing the Spread of Water Leakage (다층건물 사용자의 누수확대 방지용 비상배수설비 설치에 대한 의견 연구)

  • Yeon, Cheol-Soo;Seo, Jin-Hyeong
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.59-66
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the necessity of 'emergency plumbing equipment for preventing the spread of water leakage'. It reviews social and economic costs when there is spread of water leakage and finds out that those are enormous. Expansion of water leakage causes conflicts between neighbors, economic loss and inconvenience from damages on facilities like elevator and power failure. Next, it examines the inability of existing plumbing equipment when it comes to spread of water leakage. Newly defined 'Surface Leakage' means rapid leak in the surface, and 'Internal Leakage' means seeping out slowly and gradually buried in the pipeline. It will also be analyzed by separating the concept of a leak in the two concepts of a 'Surface Leakage' and 'Internal Leakage'. It proposes emergency plumbing equipment for preventing the spread of water leakage as a solution for the expansion of water leakage. It explains general concepts of emergency plumbing equipment for preventing the spread of water leakage. It will also examine the effectiveness of the user by performing a survey of 420 multi-level building their opinion on the effects of an emergency plumbing equipments to prevent the spread of water leakage.

Effects of the Low Reynolds Number on the Loss Characteristics in a Transonic Axial Compressor

  • Choi, Min-Suk;Oh, Seong-Hwan;Ko, Han-Young;Baek, Je-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.202-212
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    • 2008
  • A three-dimensional computation was conducted to understand effects of the low Reynolds number on the loss characteristics in a transonic axial compressor, Rotor67. As a gas turbine becomes smaller in size and it is operated at high altitude, the operating condition frequently lies at low Reynolds number. It is generally known that wall boundary layers are thickened and a large separation occurs on the blade surface in axial turbomachinery as the Reynolds number decreases. In this study, it was found that the large viscosity did not affect on the bow shock at the leading edge but significantly did on the location and the intensity of the passage shock. The passage shock moved upstream towards leading edge and its intensity decreased at the low Reynolds number. This change had large effects on the performance as well as the internal flows such as the pressure distribution on the blade surface, tip leakage flow and separation. The total pressure rise and the adiabatic efficiency decreased about 3% individually at the same normalized mass flow rate at the low Reynolds number. In order to analyze this performance drop caused by the low Reynolds number, the total pressure loss was scrutinized through major loss categories such as profile loss, tip leakage loss, endwall loss and shock loss.

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Development of Leakage-free Automatic Discharge Connect in a Submersible Pump. (수중펌프의 Leakage-free 자동탈착장치 개발)

  • Choi, Young-Seok;Lee, Kyoung-Yong;Lee, Chang-Han;Lee, Jong-Hun
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.12a
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 2002
  • ADC(Automatic Discharge Connector) is commonly used for the easy maintenance of the submersible pumps. However, the small gap between the flange of the base plate and that of the pipe due to the head rise, the flow momentum change and the mis-installation makes leakage flow that may be a great loss to the pumping system. In this study, the performance degradation was predicted with the simple leakage flow model through the gap. The newly developed ADC was tested and the leakage performance was compared with the old one and also no-leakage piping system. The newly developed ADC reduced the leakage flow in a satisfactory way in comparison with the old model.

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Development of Leakage-free Automatic Discharge Connector in a Submersible Pump. (수중펌프의 Leakage-free 자동탈착장치 개발)

  • Choi, Young-Seok;Lee, Kyoung-Yong;Lee, Chang-Han;Lee, Jong-Hun
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.6 no.2 s.19
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    • pp.23-28
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    • 2003
  • ADC (Automatic Discharge Connector) is commonly used for the easy maintenance of the submersible pumps. However, the small gap between the flange of the base plate and that of the pipe due to the head rise, the flow momentum change and the mis-installation make a leakage flow that may be a great loss to the pumping system. In this study, the performance degradation was predicted with the simple leakage flow model through the gap. The newly developed ADC was tested, and the leakage performance was compared with the old one and also no-leakage piping system. The newly developed ADC reduced the leakage flow in a satisfactory way in comparison with the old model.

Study on the characteristics of night flow components for leakage management in district metered area (배수구역별 누수관리를 위한 야간유량성분 특성연구)

  • Koo, Ja-Yong;Jang, Kwang-Ho;Kim, Min-Cheol
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.871-879
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    • 2009
  • The Korea has high population density, so the precipitation per capita is only one tenth to world average. The water resource in Korea is insufficient. But the leakage in the water distribution system is about 25%, and it is lower than other countries where water utilities are managed well. The pipelines' management also is getting worse because the leakage in the pipelines lower the ground density surrounding pipes. So, managing the leakage in the water distribution system is very important in the view of increasing the water resources and doing the efficient management of the pipeline system. Accordingly this study aimed to conduct a cause-analysis with scientific approaches considering key local factor related to water loss of distribution system and derive better performance indicators which are able to evaluate the real state of water loss management reasonably. Also this research aimed to develop a methodology capable of judging condition of infrastructure of water distribution system.