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Ratio of Mixing Effects due to Wind, Surface Cooling, and Tide on West Coast of Korea in December, 1998

  • Park, Yong-Kyu;Lee, Byung-Gul
    • Environmental Sciences Bulletin of The Korean Environmental Sciences Society
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.249-253
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    • 2000
  • Data obtained from a cruise from 4~12 December, 1998 was analyzed to estimate the mixing effects of wind, surface cooling, and tide. A band denoting a mixing area with a temperature difference of less than 1$^{\circ}C$ between the sea surface and the bottom extended 40~60 km from the coast into the open sea, following 125$^{\circ}$ 30\` E in longitude. This band was divided into two areas; a well-mixed area close to the coast and a stratified region in the open sea. The mixing effect due to the wind was only 2%, yet the mixing effect due to the tides was about 68%. This indicates that surface cooling and tides were the major factors involved in the mixing mechanism on the west coast during the cooling season.

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MIXING PROCESS FLOW ANALYSIS OF PDM AND HYDRAULIC MIXING BASIN SYSTEM USING CFD (CFD를 이용한 펌프확산 및 수리낙차 방식의 혼화공정 흐름 분석)

  • Lee, S.W.;Chang, S.M.;Cho, Y.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2017
  • The mixing of water and chemicals is an important process in the water purification plant. In this paper, we compare PDM(pump diffusion mixer) and hydraulic mixer at the basin in the mixing process. The proper flow rates are predicted and compared in both mixers using CFD technique. As a result, the flow rate of purifier chemical liquid should be 5% of that of water for the optimal performance of mixing process. The characteristics of the two mixing methods are compared with each other for strong and weak points on the operation of the purification system, discussed in the view point of CFD simulations.

CHAOTIC MIXING IN SQUARE CAVITY FLOW (정사각형 캐비티 유동의 혼돈적 혼합 특성)

  • Le, T.H.V;Kang, S.;Suh, Y.K.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.53-57
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    • 2007
  • The quality of chaotic mixing in square cavity flow was studied numerically by CFD simulation and particle tracking technique. The chaotic mixing was generated by using time-periodic electro-osmotic flow. Finite Volume Method (FVM) was employed to get the stretching and folding field in cavity domain. With adjusting the initial condition of concentration distribution, the best values of modulation period and Peclet number which gave us good mixing performance was determined precisely. From $Poicar{\acute{e}}section$and Lyapunov exponents for characteristic trajectories we find that mixing performance also depends on modulation period. The higher value of modulation period, the better mixing performance wag achieved in this case. Furthermore, the results for tracking particle trajectories were also compared between using of Bilinear Interpolation and Higher-order scheme. The values of modulation period for obtaining best mixing effect were matched between using FVM and particle tracking techniques.

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Development and Application of Static Mixer (스태틱 믹서 개발 및 응용)

  • Yang, Hei-Cheon
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.506-513
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    • 2007
  • One of the most widely used static mixers is Sulzer type mixer. However the structure of the element is so complicated that the mixing efficiency is better than others, whereas the pressure drop is larger than the others. Therefore new elements are necessary to reduce the pressure drop and to minimize the decrease of the mixing efficiency compared with the Sulzer ones. The objectives of this study are to develop new static mixer and to perform the experimental investigation in order to evaluate the performance of the new one, and to investigate the applicability of the one in an inline coagulant mixing system for water treatment, The pressure drops of the new static mixer elements were about 4-12% lower than that of the Sulzer SMX one, and the mixing efficiency of the Sulzer SMX one was about 2-5% higher than that of the new ones. The inline coagulant mixing system with a new static mixer element performed significantly better than the traditional mechanical mixing system for turbidity removal.

Integrated function evaluation of efficient micromixer and application to glucose-catalysts reaction (효율적인 Micromixer의 통합된 기능 평가 및 Glucose-Catalysts 반응에 적용)

  • Kim, Duck-Joong;Baek, Ju-Yeoul;Lee, Sang-Hoon
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.291-296
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, the PDMS based micromixer having 3-dimension triangular structure has been developed for the reaction of samples in the micro volume. The mixing efficiency was measured according to the change of Reynolds number (Re: 0.08, 0.8, 8, 16) and channel height (100, 200, $300{\mu}m$). Total length of mixing region is 7.4 mm and the measured mixing efficiencies at the outlet were over 85 %. Within the mixing length 2.4 mm, the mixing efficiencies were more than 70 % at any Reynolds numbers, and this indicates the strong mixing has occurred inside the mixing channel due the triangular structures. By employing these 2 mixers, we have fabricated the microreactor to detect the glucose-catalysts reaction. The microreactor showed good reactivity of glucose and enzymes with the small amount of sample solution.

A Study of Turbulence Generation Characteristics of Large Scale Vortex Flow Mixing Vane of Nuclear Fuel Rod Bundle (핵연료 집합체에서의 대형 이차 와류 혼합날개의 난류생성 특성에 관한 연구)

  • An Jeong-Soo;Choi Yong-Don
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.18 no.10
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    • pp.811-818
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    • 2006
  • Mixing vanes have been installed in the space grid of nuclear fuel rod bundle to improve turbulent heat transfer. Split mixing vanes induce the vortex flow in the cooling water to swirl in sub-channel of fuel assembly. But, The swirling flow decays rapidly so that the heat transfer enhancing effect limited to short length after the mixing vane. In the present study, the large scale vortex flow (LSVF) is generated by rearranging the mixing vanes to the coordinated directions. This LSVF mixing vanes generate the most strong secondary flow vortices which maintain about $35D_h$ after the spacer grid. The streamwise vorticity generated by LSVF sustain two times more than that split mixing vane.

Effect of Mixing Section Resonance Mode on Dynamic Combustion Characteristics in a Swirl-Stabilized Combustor (스월-안정화 연소기에서 혼합기 공진모드가 동적 연소특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Han, Sunwoo;Lee, Shinwoo;Hwang, Donghyun;Ahn, Kyubok
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.18-25
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    • 2022
  • Hot-firing tests were performed to experimentally confirm the effect of the eigenmode in the fuel-air mixing section on combustion instability by changing mixing section length, inlet mean velocity, equivalence ratio, and swirler geometry. A premixed gas composed of air and ethylene was supplied to the combustion chamber through an mixing section and an axial swirler. As the mixing section length increased, the inlet velocity perturbation decreased, but the combustion instability increased more. It was found that the resonance frequency of the first longitudinal mode in the mixing section shifted to the third longitudinal mode as the length of the mixing section increased. The results implied that the transition of the resonace frquency by changing the length of the mixing section might cause combustion instability.

Effect of Mechanical Mixing Intenstiy on Composting (교반강도가 퇴비화에 미치는 영향)

  • Hwang, Seon-Suk;Hwang, Eui-Young;Namkoong, Wan
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.47-57
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    • 1995
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of mechanical mixing intensity on composting. The major parameters investigated were the mixing intensity and initial moisture content. Laboratory scale composting reactors with mixing equipment were used in this study. Wastes used for the study were raw nightsoil sludge, nightsoil sludge after vacuum evaporation treatment and pig manure. When moisture contents were 60% and 63%, amount of organic material degraded in the continuous mixing reactors was higher than that in the intermittent mixing reactors. Compost produced from reactors with continuous mixing had better texture than that obtained from reactors with intermittent mixing. When moisture content was 68%, organic waste was kneaded rather than mixed in the continuous mixing reactors. Amount of organic material degraded in the continuous mixing reactors also was lower than that in the intermittent mixing reactors.

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CFD ANALYSIS FOR THERMAL MIXING CHARACTERISTICS OF A FLOW MIXING HEADER ASSEMBLY OF SMART (SMART 유동혼합헤더집합체 열혼합 특성 해석)

  • Kim, Y.I.;Bae, Y.M.;Chung, Y.J.;Kim, K.K.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.84-91
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    • 2015
  • SMART adopts, very unique facility, an FMHA to enhance the thermal and flow mixing capability in abnormal conditions of some steam generators or reactor coolant pumps. The FMHA is important for enhancing thermal mixing of the core inlet flow during a transient and even during accidents, and thus it is essential that the thermal mixing characteristics of flow of the FMHA be understood. Investigations for the mixing characteristics of the FMHA had been performed by using experimental and CFD methods in KAERI. In this study, the temperature distribution at the core inlet region is investigated for several abnormal conditions of steam generators using the commercial code, FLUENT 12. Simulations are carried out with two kinds of FMHA shapes, different mesh resolutions, turbulence models, and steam generator conditions. The CFD results show that the temperature deviation at the core inlet reduces greatly for all turbulence models and steam generator conditions tested here, and the effect of mesh refinement on the temperature distribution at the core inlet is negligible. Even though the uniformity of FMHA outlet hole flow increases the thermal mixing, the temperature deviation at the core inlet is within an acceptable range. We numerically confirmed that the FMHA applied in SMART has an excellent mixing capability and all simulation cases tested here satisfies the design requirement for FMHA thermal mixing capability.