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Numerical simulation of cavitating flow past cylinders

  • Park, Warn-Gyu;Koo, Tae-Kyoung;Jung, Chul-Min;Lee, Kurn-Chul
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.327-333
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    • 2008
  • The cavitating flow simulation is of practical importance for many engineering systems, such as marine propellers, pump impellers, nozzles, injectors, torpedoes, etc. The present work has developed a base code for simulating cavitating flows past cylinders and hydrofoils. The governing equation is the Navier-Stokes equation based on homogeneous mixture model. The momentum and energy equation is in the mixture phase while the continuity equation is solved in liquid and vapor phase, separately. The solver employs an implicit preconditioning algorithm in curvilinear coordinates. The computations have been carried out for the cylinders with spherical, 1- and 0-caliber forebody and hydrofoil of ALE and NACA cross-section and, then, compared with experiments and other numerical results. Fairly good agreements with experiments and numerical results have been achieved. The present base code has shown the feasibility to solve the cavitating flow past supercavitating torpedo after the improvement for compressibility effects and interactions with hot exhaust gas of propulsive rocket.

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Numerical simulation of cavitating flow past cylinders

  • Park, Warn-Gyu;Koo, Tae-Kyoung;Jung, Chul-Min;Lee, Kurn-Chul
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.327-333
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    • 2008
  • The cavitating flow simulation is of practical importance for many engineering systems, such as marine propellers, pump impellers, nozzles, injectors, torpedoes, etc. The present work has developed a base code for simulating cavitating flows past cylinders and hydrofoils. The governing equation is the Navier-Stokes equation based on homogeneous mixture model. The momentum and energy equation is in the mixture phase while the continuity equation is solved in liquid and vapor phase, separately. The solver employs an implicit preconditioning algorithm in curvilinear coordinates. The computations have been carried out for the cylinders with spherical, 1- and 0-caliber forebody and hydrofoil of ALE and NACA cross-section and, then, compared with experiments and other numerical results. Fairly good agreements with experiments and numerical results have been achieved. The present base code has shown the feasibility to solve the cavitating flow past supercavitating torpedo after the improvement for compressibility effects and interactions with hot exhaust gas of propulsive rocket.

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Computational study on turbulent flows inside the duct of marine waterjet propulsor (선박 워터제트 추진기 덕트 내부의 난류유동 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Park Il-Ryong;Kim Wu-Joan;Ahn Jong-Woo;Kim Ki-Sup
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.181-184
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    • 2002
  • CFD calculations are carried out to investigate the turbulent flow characteristics inside the duct of marine waterjet propulsors. The Reynolds-averaged Wavier-Stokes equations are solved using a finite-volume method. Standard $k-{\varepsilon}$ model and realizable $k-{\varepsilon}$ model are evaluated with an existing experimental data. Multi-block grid topology is adopted to describe the details of complex duct geometry. The present numerical methods are applied to the preliminary duct design of new waterjet propulsor system. Four different influx conditions are simulated to find out pressure and velocity distribution inside the intake duct. Attention is also paid upon the possible flow separation inside the waterjet duct. It is found that CFD tools can be used for the initial evaluation of inflow condition into the impeller of waterjet propulsor system.

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A Study on the Vortex Generators of Plastic Plate Heat Exchangers (플라스틱 판형 열교환기의 와류발생기에 관한 연구)

  • Oh Yunyoung;Yoo Seongyeon;Ko Sungho
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.107-110
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    • 2002
  • The present study deals with CFD analysis of 'The vortex generators on plastic plate heat exchanger'. When a vortex generator is placed on the heat transfer surface, the flow gets more complex because it entails complicated three-dimensional flows such as separation, reattachment, and recirculation. CFX-5.4, a commercial code utilizing unstructured mesh, has been used as a computational method for solving RANS(Reynolds-Averaged Wavier-Stokes) equations, and the applied turbulence model is $k-{\varepsilon}$ model. In addition, those computational analyses were implemented under various conditions , with or without the vortex generator between two plates, the number, form and the size of vortex generator, and different attack of angle. From the calculated temperature, velocity and pressure distribution, vorticity, wall heat flux and so on under those conditions, this study shows the effect of vortex on heat transfer.

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A Numerical Study on the Performance of a Two-Stage Ejector-Diffuser System

  • Kong, Fanshi;Kim, Heuy Dong
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.548-553
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    • 2015
  • The conventional ejector-diffuser system makes use of high pressure primary stream to propel the secondary stream through pure shear action for the purposes of transport or compression of fluid. It has been widely used in many industrial applications such as seawater desalination, solar refrigeration, marine engineering, etc. The present study is performed numerically to study the performance of a two-stage ejector-diffuser system. The detailed flow phenomenon of the ejector-diffuser system has been critically predicted by means of the numerical approach using compressible Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. The axi-symmetric supersonic ejector-diffuser flow has been solved by a fully implicit finite volume scheme with a two-equation k-omega turbulence model. The numerical results are validated with existing experimental data. Detailed flow physics and their contributions on ejector performance are detected to compare both single-stage and two-stage ejectors. The performance improvement on the ejector-diffuser system is discussed in terms of the mass flux ratio and the coefficient of power.

NUMERICAL SIMULATION ON A VOLUTE OF STRAIGHT CONICAL DUCT TYPE BY MULTI-BLOCK GRID (다중 블록 격자를 이용한 원뿔 직관 모양의 벌류트 유동의 수치해석)

  • Bae, H.;Kang, H.G.;Yoon, J.S.;Park, K.C.;Chang, K.S.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.11 no.1 s.32
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2006
  • Numerical investigation of a centrifugal compressor volute having a modified straight conical duct hill been made. Three-dimensional Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations with $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence equation are solved To avoid coordinate singularity at the central axis of the duct, multi-block H-type grid is generated on the circular cross-sections of the volute and stretched toward the solid wall boundary. We obtained numerical results with three different mass flow rates at the volute inlet, namely, with the inlet conditions that give small, medium and large mass flow rates at the outlet of the conical duct. Agreement with the experimental results is observed.

Design Optimization of an Impingement Jet on Concave Surface for Enhancement of Heat Transfer Performance (곡면에서의 열전달성능 향상을 위한 충돌제트의 최적설계)

  • Heo, M.W.;Lee, K.D.;Kim, K.Y.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.100-103
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    • 2011
  • In the present work, a numerical study of fluid flow and heat transfer on the concave surface with impinging jet has been performed by solving three-dimensional Reynods-averaged Naver-Stokes(RANS) equations. The constant temperature condition was applied to the concave impingement surface. The inclination angle of jet nozzle and the distance between jet nozzles are chosen as design variables under equivalent mass flow rate of working fluid into cooling channel, and area averaged Nusselt number on concave impingement surface is set as the objective function. Thirteen training points are obtained by Latin Hypercube sampling method, and the PEA model is constructed by using the objective function values at the trainging points. And, the sequential quadratic programming is used to search for the optimal paint from the PBA model. Through the optimization, the optimal shape shows improved heat transfer rate as compared to the reference geometry.

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CAVITATION FLOW ANALYSIS OF 2-D HYDROFOIL USING A HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURE MODEL ON UNSTRUCTURED MESHES (비정렬 격자계에서 균질혼합 모델을 이용한 2차원 수중익형 주위의 캐비테이션 유동 해석)

  • An, S.J.;Kwon, O.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.20-24
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, numerical simulation of cavitation flow for modified NACA66 hydrofoil was made by using the multi-phase RANS equation based on pseudo-compressibility. The Homogeneous mixture model comprised of the mixture continuity, mixture momentum and liquid volume fraction equations was utilized. A vertex-centered finite-volume method was used in conjunction 2nd-order Roe's FDS to discretize the inviscid fluxes. The viscous fluxes were computed based on central differencing The Spalart-Allmaras one equation model was employed for the closure of turbulence. Reasonable agreements were obtained between the calculation results and the experiment for pressure coefficients on the hydrofoil surface.

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Numerical Study on Effects of Geometrical Variables on Performance of A Centrifugal Compressor (원심압축기의 성능에 미치는 형상변수들의 영향에 대한 수치적 연구)

  • Kim, Jin-Hyuk;Kim, Kwang-Yong
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.152-155
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, the effect of modification of geometric variables on the performance of a centrifugal compressor blade has been studied numerically. The compressor contains six main blades and six splitter blades. Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations with shear stress turbulence (SST) model are discretized by finite volume approximations and solved on hexahedral grids for flow analysis. The design variables from blade lean angle at tip and middle of the blade have been modified. The isentropic blade efficiency and pressure have been predicted with the variation of the variables. Frozen rotor simulation is performed and adiabatic wall condition has been used. One of the six blades of compressor has been used for simulation to reduce the computational load. Optimum number of meshes has been selected by grid-dependency test, and this is used for all the simulations with changing geometric variables. The detailed flow analysis results have been reported as well as the effects of the variables.

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Optimization of A Rotor Profile in An Axial Compressor Using Response Surface Method (반응표면법을 이용한 축류 압축기의 동익형상 최적설계)

  • Song, You-Joon;Lee, Jeong-Min;Kim, Youn-Jea
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.16-20
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    • 2016
  • Design optimization of a transonic compressor rotor(NASA rotor 37) was carried out using response surface method(RSM) which is one of the optimization methods. A numerical simulation was conducted using ANSYS CFX by solving three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes(RANS) equations. Response surfaces that were based on the results of the design of experiment(DOE) techniques were used to find an optimal shape of blade which has the maximum aerodynamic performance. Two objective functions, viz., the adiabatic efficiency and the loss coefficient were selected with three design configurations to optimize the blade shape. As a result, the efficiency of the optimized blade is found to be increased.