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Modeling of Boundary Layer using Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel of UCD (UCD 대기경계층 풍동을 이용한 경계층 형성)

  • White, Bruce R.;Kim, Bong-Hwan;Kim, Dae-Seong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.118-124
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    • 2012
  • The simulation of the air flow over models in atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel is a research region based on advanced scientific technologies imposed by the necessity of studying the turbulent fluid dynamics in the proximity of the Earth's surface. In this study, the atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel of UCD is used, the mean velocities are measured by augmentation devices such as roughness blocks and spires. The experimental results of mean velocity profile are well fitted with the value of power law.

Flowrate Integration Errors of Multi-path Ultrasonic Flowmeter using Weighting Factors (가중계수에 의한 다회선 초음파 유량계의 유량적분오차)

  • Lee, Ho-June;Hwang, Shang-Yoon;Kim, Kyoung-Jin
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.12a
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    • pp.154-160
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    • 2003
  • Multi-path ultrasonic flowrate measuring technology is being received much attentions from a variety of industrial fields to exactly measure the flowmeter. Multi-path ultrasonic flowmeter has much advantage since it has no moving parts and not occurred pressure loss. It offers good accuracy, repeatability, linearity and Tum-down ratio can measure over 1:50. The present study investigates flowrate integration errors using weighting factors. A theoretical flow model uses power law to describe a fully developed velocity profiles and wall roughness changes. The methods of weighting factor simulate three configurations of measuring location of gaussian, chebyshev and tailor method. The obtained results show that many chord arrangements are not affected for wall roughness changes and can measure accurate flowrate.

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Deformation of multiple non-Newtonian drops in the entrance region

  • Kim, See-Jo;Kim, Sang-Dae;Youngdon Kwon
    • Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.75-82
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    • 2003
  • In this study, with the finite element method we numerically investigate the deformation of liquid drops surrounded by Newtonian or non-Newtonian viscous medium in the axisymmetric contraction flow. 1, 2 or 4 Newtonian or non-Newtonian drops are considered and the truncated power-law model is applied In order to describe non-Newtonian viscous behavior for both fluids. In this type of flow the drop exhibits considerably large deformation, and thus techniques of unstructured mesh generation and auto-remeshing are employed to accurately express the fluid mechanical behavior. We examine the deformation pattern of liquid drops with viscosity dependence different from that of the surrounding medium and also explain their interactions by comparing relative position or speed of drop front.

Dynamic behavior of a functionally graded plate resting on Winkler elastic foundation and in contact with fluid

  • Shafiee, Ali A.;Daneshmand, Farhang;Askari, Ehsan;Mahzoon, Mojtaba
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.53-71
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    • 2014
  • A semi-analytical method is developed to consider free vibrations of a functionally graded elastic plate resting on Winkler elastic foundation and in contact with a quiescent fluid. Material properties are assumed to be graded distribution along the thickness direction according to a power-law in terms of the volume fractions of the constituents. The fluid is considered to be incompressible and inviscid. In the analysis, the effect of an in-plane force in the plate due to the weight of the fluid is taken into account. By satisfying the compatibility conditions along the interface of fluid and plate, the fluid-structure interaction is taken into account and natural frequencies and mode shapes of the coupled system are acquired by employing energy methods. The results obtained from the present approach are verified by those from a finite element analysis. Besides, the effects of volume fractions of functionally graded materials, Winkler foundation stiffness and in-plane forces on the dynamic of plate are elucidated.

A Study on the DC to DC Converter to Improve the Performance of Power LED System (파워 LED 시스템 성능개선을 위한 DC/DC 컨버터에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Young Tae;Kim, Sei Yoon
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.85-90
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, a DC converter to improve the performance of Power LED system is discussed. The mathematical model of PWM converter power stage using 3-Terminal PWM cell is introduced for power LED system. A controller for DC converter system is used as a self-tunning regulator with a recursive least-squares algorithm. Minimum variance control method is used as a control law. Experiment results verified that proposed control system could improve the performance of Power LED system.

Analysis of Geometric Parameters for Fully Developed Laminar Flow Between Cylinders Arranged in Regular Array (정규배열내의 실린더 사이에서의 완전발달된 층류 유동의 기하학적 계수의 해석)

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    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.1037-1049
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    • 2001
  • Considerable interest has evolved in the flow of non-Newtonian fluids in channels of noncircular cross section in compact heat exchanges. Analytical solution was developed for prediction of the flow rate and maximum velocity in steady laminar flow of any incompressible, time-independent non-Newtonian fluids in straight closed and open channels of arbitrary, but axially unchanging cross section. The geometric parameters and function of shear describing the behavior of the fluid model were evaluated for fluid flow among a bundle of rods arranged in triangular and square array. Numerical values of dimensionless maximum velocities, mean velocities, pressure-drop-flow parameters and friction factors were evaluated as a function of porosity and pitch-to-radius ratio.

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Quasi-Steady Damping Force of Electro- and magneto-Rheo logical Flow Mode Dampers using Herschel-Bulkley Model (Herschel-Bulkley 모델에 의한 전기 및 자기장 유체 댐퍼의 준안정 상태 댐핑력 해석)

  • Lee, Dug-Young;Hwang, Woo-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2000.06a
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    • pp.1298-1302
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    • 2000
  • Electrorheological(HER) and magnetorheologica(MR) fluids have a unique ability to increase the dynamic yield stress of the fluid substantially when electric or magnetic field is applied. ER and MR fluid-based dampers are typically analyzed using Bingham-plastic shear flow analysis under Quasi-steady fully developed flow conditions. An alternative perspective, supported by measurements reported in the literature, is to allow for post-yield shear thinning and shear thickening. To model these, the constant post-yield plastic viscosity in Bingham model can be replaced with a power-law model dependent on shear strain rate that is known as the Herschel-Bulkley fluid model. The objective of this paper is to predict the damping forces analytically in a typical ER bypass damper for variable electric field, or yield stress using Herschel-Bulkley analysis.

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Evaluation of Local Velocity Gradient and Total Mass transfer Time at Various Rotating Velocity by Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD를 이용한 패들교반속도에 따른 속도경사 및 총물질전달시간 산정)

  • Jun, Hang-Bae;Tian, Dong-Jie;Hong, Ki-Won;Han, Hong-Sig;Park, Byeong-Chang
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.166-174
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    • 2014
  • Velocity gradient, G, a measure of the average velocity gradient in the fluid has been applied for complete mixing of chemicals in mechanical mixing devices. G values were calculated by the power input transferred to fluid in turbulent and transient range. Chemical reactions occur so fast that total mass transfer time required for even distribution of the chemicals determine the overall reaction time. The total mass transfer time is composed of the time for complete mixing through the reactor and for diffusion of the chemicals into the eddy. Complete mixing time was calculated by CFD (computer fluid dynamics) and evaluated by tracer tests in 2 liter jars at different rotating speeds. Turbulent range, Reynolds number above 10,000 in regular 2 liter jars occurred at revolution speed above 100 rpm (revolution per minute), while laminar range occurred at revolution speed below 10 rpm. A typical range of rotating speed used in jar tests for water and wastewater treatment was between 10 and 300 rpm, which covered both transient and turbulent range. G values supplied from a commercial jar test apparatus showed big difference from those calculated with power number specially in turbulent range. Diffusion time through eddy decreased 1.5 power-law of rotating speed. Complete mixing time determined by pumping number decreased increases in rotating speed. Total mass transfer time, finally, decreases as rotating speed increases, and it becomes 1 sec at rotating speed of 1,000 rpm. Complete mixing times evaluated from tracer tests showed higher than those calculated by power number at higher rotating speed. Complete mixing times, however, calculated by CFD showed similar to those of experimentally evaluated ones.

The Analysis of a Wind Load on a Container Crane Using a Computation Fluid Dynamics

  • Kwon, Soon-Kyu;Lee, Seong-Wook;Han, Dong-Seop;Han, Geun-Jo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.325-328
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    • 2006
  • This study analyzed the fluid state around a container crane according to a wind direction when a wind load was applied to a container crane. The container crane for this research is a model of a 50-ton class used broadly in the current ports. The dimension of an external fluid field is $500m{\times}200m$. This study considered the change of a wind velocity according to an altitude in a criterion of a wind velocity, 50m/s, applying a power series law. An incident angle applied to an interval of 30 degrees in $0^{\circ}C$ ${\sim}$ $180^{\circ}C$ and this study carried out a computation fluid dynamics using a CFX 10. In this study, we indicate the wind pressure and coefficient according to the height and section figure of each member. In addition, we suggest the wind load according to a wind direction.

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Development of a High Accuracy Pure Upwind Difference Scheme (고차 정확도의 순수 상류 차분법의 개발)

  • Cho Ji Ryong
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.8-18
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    • 1999
  • In devising a numerical approximation for the convective spatial transport of a fluid mechanical quantity, it is noted that the convective motion of a scalar quantity occurs in one-way, or from upstream to downstream. This consideration leads to a new scheme termed a pure upwind difference scheme (PUDS) in which an estimated value for a fluid mechanical quantity at a control surface is not influenced from downstream values. The formal accuracy of the proposed scheme is third order accurate. Two typical benchmark problems of a wall-driven fluid flow in a square cavity and a buoyancy-driven natural convection in a tall cavity are computed to evaluate performance of the proposed method. for comparison, the widely used simple upwind scheme, power-law scheme, and QUICK methods are also considered. Computation results are encouraging: the proposed PUDS sensitized to the convection direction produces the least numerical diffusion among tested convection schemes, and, notable improvements in representing recirculation of fluid stream and spatial change of a scalar. Although the formal accuracy of PUDS and QUICK are the same, the accuracy difference of approximately a single order is observed from the revealed results.

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