• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.2686-2697
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• 1994

When a railway train enters a tunnel at high speed, a compression wave is formed in front of the train and propagates along the tunnel. The compression wave subsequently emerges from the exit of the tunnel, which causes an impulsive noise. In order to estimate the magnitudes of the noises and to effectively minimize them, the characteristics of the compression wave propagating in a tunnel must be understood. In the present paper, the experimental and analytical investigations on the attenuation and distortion of the propagating compression waves were carried out using a model tunnel. This facility is a kind of open-ended shock tube with a fast-opening gate valve instead of a general diaphragm. One-dimensional flow model employed in the present study could appropriately predict the strength of the compression wave, Mach number and flow velocity induced by the compression wave. The experimental results show that the strength of a compression wave decreases with the distance from the tunnel entrance. The decreasing rate of the wave strength and pressure gradient in the wave is strongly dependent on the strength of the initial compression wave at the tunnel entrance.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.10 no.4 s.31
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• pp.59-65
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• 2005

A numerical analysis was made to investigate the simple silencer for high pressure blast flow fields. Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations were solved for an axisymmetric computational domain constructed by multi block grids. A blast flow field without the silencer was also calculated to validate the present numerical method. The effect of pressure diminution for the silencer was calculated by comparing with and without silencer at the atmosphere region. It was found that the tested silencer could achieve 89.4 percent pressure diminution.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.91-94
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• 2004

A numerical analysis was made to investigate the intensity diminution of a simple silencer for high pressure blast flow fields. Reynolds-Averaged Wavier-Stokes equations were solved for an axisymmetric computational domain constructed by multi block Chimera grids. A blast flow field without the silencer was also calculated to validate the present numerical method. The evolution of high pressure blast flow fields was observed by depicting calculated contours of pressure and Mach number. It was found that the tested silencer could achieve 76 percent intensity diminution.