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Development of a numerical simulation tool for efficient and robust prediction of ship resistance

  • Kim, Geon-Hong;Park, Sanghoon
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.537-551
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, a two-phase flow solver $HiFoam^{(R)}$ has been developed based on the $OpenFOAM^{(R)}$ to predict resistance of a ship in calm water. The VOF method of $OpenFOAM^{(R)}$ was reviewed and a simple flux limiter was introduced to enhance the robustness of the solver. The procedure for predicting ship motion was modified by introducing Quasi-Steady Fluid-Body Interaction (QS-FBI) with least square regression to improve the efficiency. Other minor factors were considered as well in terms of the efficiency and robustness. The HiFoam was applied to KCS and JBC simulations to validate its efficiency and accuracy by comparing the results to experimental data and STAR-CCM+. The $HiFoam^{(R)}$ was also applied to various ships and it showed good agreements to the experimental data.

Steady-state Capabilities for Hydroturbines with OpenFOAM

  • Page, Maryse;Beaudoin, Martin;Giroux, Anne-Marie
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.161-171
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    • 2011
  • The availability of a high quality open source CFD simulation platform like OpenFOAM offers new R&D opportunities by providing direct access to models and solver implementation details. Efforts have been made by Hydro-Qu$\'{e}$bec to adapt OpenFOAM to hydroturbines for the development of steady-state capabilities. This paper describes the developments that have been made to implement new turbomachinery related capabilities: multiple frames of reference solver, domain coupling interfaces (GGI, cyclicGGI and mixing plane) and specialized boundary conditions. Practical use of the new turbomachinery capabilities are demonstrated for the analysis of a 195-MW Francis turbine.

Effect of the Holding Temperature and Vacuum Pressure for the Open Cell Mg Alloy Foams

  • Yue, Xue-Zheng;Hur, Bo-Young
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.309-315
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    • 2012
  • Metal foam has many excellent properties, such as light weight, incombustibility, good thermal insulation, sound absorption, energy absorption, and environmental friendliness. It has two types of macrostructure, a closed-cell foam with sealed pores and an open-cell foam with open pores. The open-cell foam has a complex macrostructure consisting of an interconnected network. It can be exploited as a degradable biomaterial and a heat exchanger material. In this paper, open cell Mg alloy foams have been produced by infiltrating molten Mg alloy into porous pre-forms, where granules facilitate porous material. The granules have suitable strength and excellent thermal stability. They are also inexpensive and easily move out from open-cell foamed Mg-Al alloy materials. When the melt casting process used an inert gas, the molten magnesium igniting is resolved easily. The effects of the preheating temperature of the filler particle mould, negative pressure, and granule size on the fluidity of the open cell Mg alloy foam were investigated. With the increased infiltration pressure, preheat temperature and granule sizes during casting process, the molten AZ31 alloy was high fluidity. The optimum casting temperature, preheating temperature of the filler particle mould, and negative pressure were $750^{\circ}C$, $400-500^{\circ}C$, and 5000-6000 Pa, respectively, At these conditions the AZ31 alloy had good fluidity and castability with the longest infiltration length, fewer defects, and a uniform pore structure.

Studies on the Water Resistance Properties of the Polyurethane Foam Silicone Foal Control Agent according to the Type of Silicone Foam Stabilizer (실리콘 정포제의 종류에 따른 폴리우레탄 폼 지수제의 내수성 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Keun-Hur;Kim, Hyun-Min;Kim, Sung-Rae;Kim, Young-Geun
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.60-66
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    • 2016
  • Polyurethane foam index a of the cell structure and the absorption change by using the foam stabilizer of six to investigate the polyurethane foam index producing the agent to the siloxane analyzed with silicon foam stabilizer with FE-SEM in accordance with the characteristics of the silicon-based foam stabilizer cell structure of the primary DC-193 on the chain ends is PO n dog bond, DC-2585, DC-5125, DC-198 has been confirmed as a close cell, silicone surfactant is combined EO n dog to a siloxane main chain terminus DC-5043 and DC-5598 that appeared to open cell structure. In addition, most absorption of the DC-5043 appeared was the size of the open cell greatest formed by the absorption of the cell structure change this absorption of the size of the close cell most detailed and uniform DC-193 appeared small household water-resistant best many showed. The performance test of the water was found to be excellent.

Investigation of Applicability of OpenFOAM for Regular Wave Modeling of Floating Vertical Plate (부유식 연직판의 규칙파 모델링을 위한 오픈폼 적용성 검토)

  • Oh, Sang-Ho;Kim, Gunwoo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.382-388
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    • 2017
  • This study performed an OpenFOAM-based numerical modeling for simulating performance of wave reduction by a floating vertical plate. Based on the Waves2FOAM library, an internal wave generation and energy dissipation with sponge layers schemes were further implemented. The performance of wave generation and dissipation was first tested with a simple two-dimensional analysis. Then, numerical simulation was carried out with the experimental data of Briggs et al. (2001) for the two regular wave cases. In general, the modeling results agreed well with the experimental data, showing better agreement than the numerical analysis by WAMIT that is included in Briggs et al. (2001).

Numerical simulation of a double dam break driven swash using an overset dynamic mesh capability of OpenFOAM (OpenFOAM overset 동격자 기법을 활용한 이중 댐 붕괴 파랑수치모형실험)

  • Ju Hee Ok;Yeulwoo Kim
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2023.05a
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    • pp.222-222
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    • 2023
  • 오픈 소스 유체역학 소프트웨어인 OpenFOAM은 다양한 유체 흐름에 적용 가능한 프로그램들로 구성되어 있다. 이 중 interFoam은 밀도가 다른 두 유체(i.e., 물, 공기) 간의 경계를 추적하는 기법을 기반으로 한 프로그램으로, 파랑의 거동 모의에 주로 쓰이고 있다. 파생형 프로그램으로는 동격자(dynamic mesh) 및 중첩 격자 기법(overset grid method)을 interFoam에 추가한 overInterDyMFoam이 있다. 두 기법을 사용하면 각각 여러 영역에서 유체흐름과 다중 물체 간의 상호작용을 효율적으로 모의할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 overInterDyMFoam을 사용하여 두 개 수문의 개방 움직임을 구현하고 생성된 파랑이 포말대(swash zone)에 접근하였을 때의 흐름 특성을 조사하였다. 수치모형실험 결과 수문 개방 속도가 댐 붕괴 파랑 흐름 전파속도에 영향을 미치는 사실을 발견하였다. 또한, 처오름과 처내림의 상호작용에 의한 난류 운동 특성을 조사하기 위해 수문 개방시간 간격을 0초~3초로 설정하였다. 수치모형실험 결과는 수리모형실험의 수면 변동 시계열과 속도 시계열 결과와 비교하여 모형의 정확성이 검증되었다.

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Statistical Reliability Analysis of Numerical Simulation for Prediction of Model-Ship Resistance (선체 저항에 대한 수치 해석의 통계적 신뢰도 분석)

  • Lee, Sang Bong;Lee, Youn Mo
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.51 no.4
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    • pp.321-327
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    • 2014
  • A wide scope of numerical simulations was performed to predict model-ship resistances by using STAR-CCM+ and OpenFOAM. The numerical results were compared with experimental measurements in towing tank to analyze statistical reliability of the present simulations. Based on the normal distribution of resistance errors in 113 cases of container carriers, tankers and very large crude-oil carriers, the confidence intervals of numerical error were estimated as [-2.64%,+2.32%] and [-1.82%, +1.87%] with 95% confidence in STAR-CCM+ and OpenFOAM, respectively. The resistance errors of liquefied natural gas carriers with single- and twin-skeg were confident in the ranges of [-2.51%,+2.64%] and [-2.29%, +1.46%], respectively. The grid uncertainty of resistance coefficients for KCS was also quantitatively analyzed by using a grid verification procedure. The grid uncertainty of OpenFOAM (5.1%) was larger than 4.4% uncertainty of STAR-CCM+ although OpenFOAM provided statistically more confident results than those of STAR-CCM+. It means that a grid system verified under a specific condition does not automatically lead to statistical reliability in general cases.

Numerical analysis of nonequilibrium plasma assisted combustion using OpenFOAM (OpenFOAM을 이용한 비평형 플라즈마 연소 수치해석)

  • Park, Yeongdo;Huh, Kang Y.
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2015.12a
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    • pp.181-182
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    • 2015
  • The nonequilibrium plasmas in which electrons have much higher energy compared to heavy species that cannot be represented with single temperature can enhance combustion reaction significantly. Therefore the nonequilibrium plasmas provide new effective mechanism to control combustion to overcome difficulties advanced combustion devices exploiting extreme operating parameters for high efficiency, lower emission.

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Numerical modelling for multicomponent diffusion in laminar hydrogen jet flame by using opensource OpenFOAM (오픈 소스 OpenFOAM을 이용한 층류 수소 제트 화염장 내의 다종 확산 수치해석 모델 개발)

  • Kim, Gunhong
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2012.11a
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    • pp.335-338
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    • 2012
  • The present study focuses mainly on modeling the ordinary diffusion flux of species. According to CHEMKIN, both the mixture-averaged approach, Fick's formula, and the full multicomponent approach are implemented in the framework of opensource OpenFOAM. Also the Stefan-Maxwell approach is coded and validated together against measurements of laminar hydrogen jet flame. In the case of viscosity and conductivity of mixture, the mixture-averaged approach is applied and thermal diffusion is not considered in this work. Results show that there are no distinct deviations in three different approaches of diffusion of species in the present hydrogen flame condition.

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Application of an Opensource OpenFoam for Unsteady Aerodynamics Analysis of an Oscillating Cylinder (진동하는 원통 비정상 공력해석을 위한 OpenFoam OverSet격자 활용)

  • Kim, GunHong;Han, Cheolhuei
    • Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.39-42
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    • 2021
  • 2차원 유동장내 수직 진동하는 원통의 Von Karman 와열 유동 현상에 대한 진동 주파수 계산 문제는 진동하는 물체의 비정상 공력 해석 연구 검증에 많이 사용하는 고전적 방법이다. 본 연구에서는 오픈소스 OpenFoam 기반의 중첩격자 기법을 사용하여 층류 유동장내의 수직방향 진동하는 원통 주변의 비정상 유동 현상과 원통 벽면에서의 공력 특성 변화를 해석하기 위한 일련의 해석 단계들과 결과를 타 연구그룹과 비교하였다. 원통 형상과 진동에 의한 와열 유동의 주기적 유동 특성과 복잡성 해석의 건전성을 확보하기 위하여 격자와 시간제어에 대한 해의 정확도에 미치는 영향을 평가하였다. 본 연구에서 수행한 해석 방법은 일관성과 신뢰성 있는 해석 결과들 보여주었으며, 향후 보다 실제적인 진동하는 에어 포일의 비정상 공력 해석 연구에 적용 가능함을 확인하였다.