• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2020

자유수면을 포함하는 파동장과 같이 단상의 경계가 시간발전에 따라 지속적으로 변화하는 경우나 액상과 기상이 혼합되는 문제에 있어서는 다상유동(multiphase flow) 문제를 적용하는 예가 증가하고 있다. 특히, 파동장과 같은 자유수면의 문제를 취급하는데 있어서는 혼합되지 않는 액상과 기상의 비압축성 뉴턴유체를 고려한 혼상류 모델이 적용되는 경우가 많다. 일반적으로 혼상류 모델은 각상의 경계면에 대한 시간기반 거동추적이 필수적이며, 궁극적으로는 계산의 정도를 좌우한다. 본 연구는 다양한 CFD 수치해석코드에 적용되고 있는 대표적인 VOF-type의 경계면 추적기법들의 이류성능을 평가하였다. 특히, 기존의 전통적인 VOF-type의 경계면 추적기법 및 이류계산에서 발생하는 수치확산을 최소화하기 위해 수치유속(numerical flux)을 제어하는 FCT 법의 효용성을 평가하고, 더불어 CIP 법을 활용한 자유수면 추적성능의 가능성을 고찰하였다. 그 결과, 본 연구에서 적용한 제한된 조건하에서는 수치확산 방지를 위해 수치확산방지 유속을 도입한 FCT-VOF 법이 가장 높은 경계면의 추적성능을 보였다. 본 연구에서 도출되는 결과는 다양한 수치해석코드에 적용되는 자유수면의 추적기법을 선택함에 있어서 중요한 기초자료로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제35권7호
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• pp.723-733
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 비정렬격자계와 체적포착법을 사용하여 표면장력이 지배적인 다상유동의 수치해석 방법을 제시하였다. 먼저 표면장력에 대한 CSF(Continuum Surface Force) 모델을 비정렬격자계에 적용할 수 있도록 수치해석 방법을 확립시켜 Myong(2009)이 개발한 비정렬격자계와 체적포착법을 사용한 수치 해석코드에 삽입하였다. 테스트 문제로 오직 표면장력만이 존재하는 평형상태의 정적(static) 액적 및 비평형상태의 동적(dynamic) 액적 문제에 적용하여, 이 해석방법의 유용성과 정확도를 평가하였다. 연구결과, 매끄러운 곡률 계산을 위해 필요한 필터로 본 연구에서 제안한 Laplacian 필터와 함께 CSF 모델로는 밀도보정(density-scaled)한 CSF 모델이 예측성능이 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 또한 표면장력 계산을 위한 이 모델을 채용한 본 수치해석방법은 표면장력이 지배적인 다상유동인 평형상태의 정적 액적 및 비평형상태의 동적 액적 문제 모두에 대해 정확성과 유용성이 입증되었다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.388-396
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• 2017

A Lagrangian approach based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to simulate large and/or sharp deformations and fragmentations of interfaces, including free surfaces, through tracing each particle with physical quantities. According to the concept of the particle-based CFD method, it is possible to apply it to both fluid particles and solid particles such as sand, gravel, and rock. However, the presence of more than two different phases in the same domain can make it complicated to calculate the interaction between different phases. In order to solve multiphase problems, particle interaction models for multiphase problems, including surface tension, buoyancy-correction, and interface boundary condition models, were newly adopted into the moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method. The newly developed MPS method was used to simulate a typical validation problem involving dam breaking. Because the soil and other particles, excluding the water, may have different viscosities, various viscosity coefficients were applied in the simulations for validation. The newly developed and validated MPS method was used to simulate the mobile beds induced by broken dam flows. The effects of the viscosity on soil particles were also investigated.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권10호
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• pp.3754-3767
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• 2023

Turbulent jet discharges in subcooled water pools are essential for safety systems in nuclear power plants, specifically in the pressure suppression pool of boiling water reactors and In-containment Refueling Water Storage Tank of advanced pressurized water reactors. The gas and liquid flow in these systems is investigated using multiphase flow analysis. This field has been extensively examined using a combination of experiments, theoretical models, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. ANSYS CFX offers two approaches to model multiphase flow behavior. The non-homogeneous Eulerian-Eulerian Model has been used in this work; it computes global information and is more convenient to study interpenetrated fluids. This study utilized the Large Eddy Simulation Model as the turbulence model, as it is better suited for non-stationary and buoyant flows. The CFD results of this study were validated with experimental data and theoretical results previously obtained. The figures of merit dimensionless penetration length and the dimensionless buoyancy length show good agreement with the experimental measurements. Correlations for these variables were obtained as a function of dimensionless numbers to give generality using only initial boundary conditions. CFD numerical model developed in this research has the capability to simulate the behavior of non-condensable gases discharged in water.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.162-176
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• 2022

In Lead-based reactor (LBR) severe accident, the meltdown and migration inside the reactor core will lead to fuel fragment concentration, which may further cause re-criticality and even core disintegration. Accurately predicting the migration and solidification behavior of melt in LBR severe accidents is of prime importance for safety analysis of LBR. In this study, the Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) method is validated and used to simulate the migration and solidification behavior. Two main surface tension models are validated and compared. Meanwhile, the MPS method is validated by the L-plate solidification test. Based on the improved MPS method, the migration and solidification behavior of melt in LBR severe accident was studied furthermore. In the Pb-Bi coolant, the melt flows upward due to density difference. The migration and solidification behavior are greatly affected by the surface tension and viscous resistance varying with enthalpy. The whole movement process can be divided into three stages depending on the change in velocity. The heat transfer of core melt is determined jointly by two heat transfer modes: flow heat transfer and solid conductivity. Generally, the research results indicate that the MPS method has unique advantage in studying the migration and solidification behavior in LBR severe accident.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.623-638
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• 2012

The volume of fluid (VOF) model of FLUENT and the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) are used to simulate two-phase flows. Both methods are validated for static and dynamic bubble test cases and then compared to experimental results. The VOF method does not reduce the spurious currents of the static droplet test and does not satisfy the Laplace law for small droplets at the acceptable level, as compared with the LBM. For single bubble flows, simulations are executed for various Eotvos numbers, Morton numbers and Reynolds numbers, and the results of both methods agree well with the experiments in the case of low Eotvos numbers. For high Eotvos numbers, the VOF results deviated from the experiments. For multiple bubbles, the bubble flow characteristics are related by the wake of the leading bubble. The coaxial and oblique coalescence of the bubbles are simulated successfully and the subsequent results are presented. In conclusion, the LBM performs better than the VOF method.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권7호
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• pp.1386-1395
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• 2020

High fidelity nuclear reactor fuel assembly simulation using CFD method is an effective way for the structure design and optimization. The validated models and user practice guidelines play critical roles in achieving reliable results in CFD simulations. In this paper, the international benchmark MATiS-H is studied carefully and the best user practice guideline is achieved for the rod bundles simulation. Then a 5 × 5 rod bundles model in the advanced pressurized water reactor (PWR) is established and the detailed three-dimensional thermal-hydraulic characteristics are investigated. The influence of spacer grids and mixing vanes on the flow and hear transfer in rod bundles is revealed. As the coolant flows through the spacer grids and mixing vanes in the rod bundles, the drastic lateral flow would be induced and the pressure drop increases significantly. In addition, the heat transfer is enhanced remarkably due to the strong mixing effects. The calculation results could provide meaningful guidelines for the design of advanced PWR fuel assembly.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.64-71
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• 2016

Void fraction is an important parameter in the oil industry. This quantity is necessary for volume rate measurement in multiphase flows. In this study, the void fraction percentage was estimated precisely, independent of the flow regime in gas-liquid two-phase flows by using ${\gamma}-ray$ attenuation and a multilayer perceptron neural network. In all previous studies that implemented a multibeam ${\gamma}-ray$ attenuation technique to determine void fraction independent of the flow regime in two-phase flows, three or more detectors were used while in this study just two NaI detectors were used. Using fewer detectors is of advantage in industrial nuclear gauges because of reduced expense and improved simplicity. In this work, an artificial neural network is also implemented to predict the void fraction percentage independent of the flow regime. To do this, a multilayer perceptron neural network is used for developing the artificial neural network model in MATLAB. The required data for training and testing the network in three different regimes (annular, stratified, and bubbly) were obtained using an experimental setup. Using the technique developed in this work, void fraction percentages were predicted with mean relative error of <1.4%.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2009년 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.277-282
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• 2009

A temperature equation which is derived from an enthalpy transport equation by using an assumption of a constant specific heat is very attractive for analyses of heat and fluid flows. It can be used for an analysis of a solid-fluid conjugate heat transfer, and it does not need a numerical method to find temperature from a temperature-enthalpy relation. But its application is limited because of the assumption. A new method is derived in this study, which is a temperature-explicit formulation of the energy equation. The enthalpy form of the energy equation is used in the method. But the final discrete form of the equation is expressed with temperature. It can be used for a solid-fluid conjugate heat transfer and multiphase flows. It is found by numerical tests that it is very efficient and as accurate as the standard enthalpy formulation.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2011

The present study conducted computational simulation for multiphase flow in the flame spray coating process with commercially available Ni-Cr powders. The flows in a flame spray gun is characterized by very complex phenomena including combustion, turbulent flows, and convective and radiative heat transfer. In this study, we used a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code of Fluent (ver. 6.3.26) to predict gas dynamics involving combustion, gas and particle temperature distributions, and multi-dimensional particle trajectories with the use of the discrete phase model (DPM). We also examined the effect of particle size on the flame spray process. It was found that particle velocity and gas temperature decreased rapidly in the radial direction, and they were substantially affected by the particle size.