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Numerical Simulation of Wind Pressures on a High-rise Building by Auto-mesh System

  • Tang, Yuanzhe;Cao, Shuyang
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.255-264
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    • 2019
  • This paper describes large eddy simulation of wind pressures on a square cylinder in a uniform flow and a high-rise building immersed in an atmospheric turbulent boundary layer. For the atmospheric boundary layer case, the inflow turbulence is generated by a numerical wind tunnel. In the numerical simulation, particular attention is devoted to the performance of an auto hexahedral non-structural mesh. Both simulations are performed for three grid systems: an auto hexahedral non-structured grid, a structured Cartesian grid and a non-structured triangular prism grid, and for three grid numbers. The present study shows that the auto hexahedral unstructured mesh achieves the best simulation results for wind pressures on the square cylinder and the high-rise building. When the grid number is sufficiently large, the differences among the results obtained from the three investigated grid systems are not significant. However, the advantage of the auto hexahedral unstructured mesh becomes clear when the grid number decreases, because it enables a balanced distribution of orthogonal grids. The results described in this paper demonstrate that the auto hexahedral non-structured mesh has good potential applicability to simulation of urban flows.

The Numerical Simulation of Flow Field and Heat Transfer around 3-D Tube Banks (3차원 튜브 뱅크 주위의 난류 유동장 및 열전달에 대한 수치 해석적 연구)

  • Park, S.K.;Kim, K.W.;Ryou, H.S.;Choi, Y.K.
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.375-385
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    • 1996
  • Turbulent flow and heat transfer characteristics around staggered tube banks were studied using the 3-D Navier-Stokes equations and energy equation governing a steady incompressible flow, which were reformulated in a non-orthogonal coordinate system with cartesian velocity components and discretized by the finite volume method with a non-staggered variable arrangement. The predicted turbulent kinetic energy using RNG $k-{\varepsilon}$ model was lower than that of standard $k-{\varepsilon}$ model but showed same result for mean flow field quantities. The prediction of the skin friction coefficient using RNG $k-{\varepsilon}$ model showed better trend with experimental data than standard $k-{\varepsilon}$ model result. The inclined flow showed higher velocity and skin friction coefficient than transverse flow because of extra strain rate ($\frac{{\partial}w}{{\partial}y}$). Also, this was why the inclined flow showed higher local heat transfer coefficient than the transverse flow.

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Fast Real-Time Cardiac MRI: a Review of Current Techniques and Future Directions

  • Wang, Xiaoqing;Uecker, Martin;Feng, Li
    • Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.252-265
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    • 2021
  • Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) serves as a clinical gold-standard non-invasive imaging technique for the assessment of global and regional cardiac function. Conventional cardiac MRI is limited by the long acquisition time, the need for ECG gating and/or long breathhold, and insufficient spatiotemporal resolution. Real-time cardiac cine MRI refers to high spatiotemporal cardiac imaging using data acquired continuously without synchronization or binning, and therefore of potential interest in overcoming the limitations of conventional cardiac MRI. Novel acquisition and reconstruction techniques must be employed to facilitate real-time cardiac MRI. The goal of this study is to discuss methods that have been developed for real-time cardiac MRI. In particular, we classified existing techniques into two categories based on the use of non-iterative and iterative reconstruction. In addition, we present several research trends in this direction, including deep learning-based image reconstruction and other advanced real-time cardiac MRI strategies that reconstruct images acquired from real-time free-breathing techniques.

VISCOUS FLOW CALCULATIONS OF HELICOPTER MAIN ROTOR SYSTEM IN FORWARD FLIGHT (전진 비행하는 헬리콥터 주로터 시스템의 점성 유동 해석)

  • Jung, M.S.;Kwon, O.J.;Kang, H.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2009
  • In the present study, viscous flow calculations of helicopter main rotor system in forward flight were made by using an unstructured hybrid mesh solver. Each rotating blade relative to the cartesian frame was simulated independently by adopting unstructured overset mesh technique. For the validation of the present method, calculations for the Caradonna-Tung non-lifting forward flight and the AH-1G main rotor system in forward flight were made. Additional computation was made for the UH-60A rotor in forward flight. Reasonable agreements were obtained between the present results and the experiment.

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Simulation of axisymmetric flows with swirl in a gas turbine combustor (Swirl이 있는 축대칭 연소기의 난류연소유동 해석)

  • Shin, Dong-Shin;Lim, Jong-Soo
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.05a
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    • pp.117-121
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    • 2000
  • We developed a general purpose program for the analysis of flows in a gas turbine combustor. The program uses non-staggered grids based on finite volume method and the cartesian velocities as primitive variables. We calculated a flow inside the C-type diffuser to check the boundary fitted coordinate. The velocity profiles at cross section agree well with experimental results. We calculated turbulent diffusion flame behind a bluff body for the combustion simulation. Simulation shows two recirculating region like experimental results. Simulated velocity, turbulent kinetic energy, temperature and concentration distribution agree well with experimental data. Finally, simulation of axisymmetric flows with swirl shows two recirculating region like experimental results.

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Dynamics of the Macpherson Strut Motor-Vehicle Suspension System in Point and Joint Coordinates

  • Attia, Hazem-Ali
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.1287-1296
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    • 2003
  • In this paper the dynamic analysis of the Macpherson strut motor-vehicle suspension system is presented. The equations of motion are formulated using a two-step transformation. Initially, the equations of motion are derived for a dynamically equivalent constrained system of particles that replaces the rigid bodies by applying Newton's second law The equations of motion are then transformed to a reduced set in terms of the relative joint variables. Use of both Cartesian and joint variables produces an efficient set of equations without loss of generality For open chains, this process automatically eliminates all of the non-working constraint forces and leads to an efficient solution and integration of the equations of motion. For closed loops, suitable joints should be cut and few cut-joints constraint equations should be included for each closed chain. The chosen suspension includes open and closed loops with quarter-car model. The results of the simulation indicate the simplicity and generality of the dynamic formulation.

MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTERPOLATIONS FOR THE HIGH ORDER SCHEMES IN ADAPTIVE GRIDS (적응 격자 고차 해상도 해법을 위한 다차원 내삽법)

  • Chang, S.M.;Morris, P.J.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.11 no.4 s.35
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, the authors developed a multidimensional interpolation method inside a finite volume cell in the computation of high-order accurate numerical flux such as the fifth order WEND (weighted essentially non-oscillatory) scheme. This numerical method starts from a simple Taylor series expansion in a proper spatial order of accuracy, and the WEND filter is used for the reconstruction of sharp nonlinear waves like shocks in the compressible flow. Two kinds of interpolations are developed: one is for the cell-averaged values of conservative variables divided in one mother cell (Type 1), and the other is for the vertex values in the individual cells (Type 2). The result of the present study can be directly used to the cell refinement as well as the convective flux between finer and coarser cells in the Cartesian adaptive grid system (Type 1) and to the post-processing as well as the viscous flux in the Navier-Stokes equations on any types of structured and unstructured grids (Type 2).

Cost-Effective Design of Autonomous Chess Playing Robot for AI Research Platform (AI 연구 플랫폼을 위한 저비용 체스 로봇 설계)

  • Faraooq, Sehar Shahazad;Khalil, Hafiz M.W.;Arif, Adeel
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2012.06b
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    • pp.447-449
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    • 2012
  • This paper present an intelligent microcontroller based chess playing robot which can play a board game against opponent and calculate its moves in a non-idealized environment. In this work, for the sake of simplicity task is accomplished by using Cartesian coordinate system. Chess playing system has been designed in such a way that it provides an interface between user and robot to control chess movements using RS232. Various algorithms are implemented for interfacing hardware in C++ language. Our main goal is to design a cost effective and highly accurate robot system that consumes minimal power to complete its task.

Simulation of Axisymmetric Flows with Swirl in a Gas Turbine Combustor (Swirl이 있는 축대칭 연소기의 난류연소유동 해석)

  • Shin, Dong-Shin;Lim, Jong-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.55-66
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    • 2000
  • A general purpose program for the analysis of flows in a gas turbine combustor is developed. The program uses non-staggered grids based on finite volume method and the cartesian velocities as primitive variables. A flow inside the C-type diffuser is simulated to check the boundary fitted coordinate. The velocity profiles at cross section agree well with experimental results. A turbulent diffusion flame behind a bluff body is simulated for the combustion simulation. Simulated results show good agreement with experimental data. Finally, a turbulent flow with swirl in a gas turbine combustor was simulated. The results show two recirculating region and simulated velocity fields agree well with experimental data. The distance between two recirculating regions becomes shorter as swirl angle increases. Swirl angle changes angular momentum and streamlines in flow fields.

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Advanced Methods in Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Arterial Phase Imaging of the Liver

  • Kim, Yoon-Chul
    • Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2019
  • Dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging plays an important role in non-invasive detection and characterization of primary and metastatic lesions in the liver. Recently, efforts have been made to improve spatial and temporal resolution of DCE liver MRI for arterial phase imaging. Review of recent publications related to arterial phase imaging of the liver indicates that there exist primarily two approaches: breath-hold and free-breathing. For breath-hold imaging, acquiring multiple arterial phase images in a breath-hold is the preferred approach over conventional single-phase imaging. For free-breathing imaging, a combination of three-dimensional (3D) stack-of-stars golden-angle sampling and compressed sensing parallel imaging reconstruction is one of emerging techniques. Self-gating can be used to decrease respiratory motion artifact. This article introduces recent MRI technologies relevant to hepatic arterial phase imaging, including differential subsampling with Cartesian ordering (DISCO), golden-angle radial sparse parallel (GRASP), and X-D GRASP. This article also describes techniques related to dynamic 3D image reconstruction of the liver from golden-angle stack-of-stars data.