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Temperature Preconditioning for Improving Convergence Characteristics in Calculating Low Mach Number Flows, II: Navier-Stokes Equations (저속 유동 계산의 수렴성 개선을 위한 온도예조건화 II: 나비어스톡스 방정식)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.35 no.12
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    • pp.1075-1081
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    • 2007
  • The temperature preconditioning is applied to the Navier-Stokes equations. Also, a new concept of diffusion Mach numbers is introduced to modify the reference Mach number for the Navier-Stokes equations. Flows over a circular cylinder were calculated at different Reynolds numbers. It is shown that the temperature preconditioning improves the convergence characteristics of Navier-Stokes equations. Also, it is shown that the modified reference Mach number alleviates the convergence problems at locally low speed regions.

Critical Reynolds Number for the Occurrence of Nonlinear Flow in a Rough-walled Rock Fracture (암반단열에서 비선형유동이 발생하는 임계 레이놀즈수)

  • Kim, Dahye;Yeo, In Wook
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.52 no.4
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    • pp.291-297
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    • 2019
  • Fluid flow through rock fractures has been quantified using equations such as Stokes equations, Reynolds equation (or local cubic law), cubic law, etc. derived from the Navier-Stokes equations under the assumption that linear flow prevails. Therefore, these simplified equations are limited to linear flow regime, and cause errors in nonlinear flow regime. In this study, causal mechanism of nonlinear flow and critical Reynolds number were presented by carrying out fluid flow modeling with both the Navier-Stokes equations and the Stokes equations for a three-dimensional rough-walled rock fracture. This study showed that flow regimes changed from linear to nonlinear at the Reynolds number greater than 10. This is because the inertial forces, proportional to the square of the fluid velocity, increased enough to overwhelm the viscous forces. This tendency was also shown for the unmated (slightly sheared) rock fracture. It was found that nonlinear flow was caused by the rapid increase in the inertial forces with increasing fluid velocity, not by the growing eddies that have been ascribed to nonlinear flow.

A Study on the Flow around the Circular Cylinder at Low Reynolds Number (저 Reynolds수 에 있어서의 원통주위의 흐름에 관한 연구)

  • 이은선;송강섭
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.43-63
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    • 1985
  • As a circular cylinder has a comparatively simple shape and becomes a basic problem for flows around other various shapes of bodies, the problem of two-dimensional viscous flow around the circular cylinder has been investigated, both theoretically and experimentally. But not a few problems are left unsolved. It is well known that the calculations are successfully made with the approximations of Stokes or Oseen for very low Reynolds numbers, but as Reynolds number is increased, Oseen's approximations as well as Stokes's ones become more and more remote from the exact solution of the Navier-Stokes equations. Therefore, in this paper, the authors transform the Navier-Stokes equations into the finite difference equations in the steady two-dimensional viscous flow at Reynolds number up to 45, and then solve the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations numerically. Also, the authors examine the accuracy of the solution by means of flow visualization with aluminum powder. The main results are as follows; (1) The critical Reynolds number at which twin vortices begin to form in the rear of the circular cylinder is found to be 6 in the experiment and 4 in the numerical solution. (2) As Reynolds number is increased, it is proved that the ratio of the length of the twin vortices to the diameter is grown almost linearly, both experimentally and numerically. (3) Separation angle is also increased according to reynolds number. But it is found that it would converge into 101.3 degrees, both experimentally and numerically.

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Effects of Characteristic Condition Number on Convergence in Calculating Low Mach Number Flows, II : Navier-Stokes Equations (저속 유동 계산의 수렴성에 미치는 특성 조건수의 영향 II : 나비어스톡스 방정식)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.123-130
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    • 2008
  • The effects of characteristic condition number on the convergence of preconditioned Navier-Stokes equations were investigated. The two-dimensional preconditioned Navier-Stokes adopting Choi and Merkle's preconditioning and the temperature preconditioning are considered. Preconditioned Roe's FDS scheme was adopted for spatial discretization and preconditioned LU-SGS scheme was used for time integration. It is shown that the convergence characteristics of the Navier-Stokes equations are strongly affected by the characteristic condition number. Also it is shown that the optimal characteristic condition numbers for viscous flows are larger than that in inviscid flows.

Effects of Cylinder Rotation on Particle Laden Flow and Particle Deposition on a Rotating Circular Cylinder (실린더의 회전이 원형 실린더 주위의 입자 부유 유동 및 입자 부착에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Seungwoo;Kim, Dongjoo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.239-248
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    • 2017
  • It is important to understand the dispersion and deposition characteristics of particles in the flow around a circular cylinder. The rotation of a cylinder is considered as a means to modify the particle deposition in this study. We numerically investigate the effects of the rotational speed of a cylinder and the particle Stokes number on particle dispersion and deposition as well as flow characteristics. Results show that the deposition efficiency of small particles (with the Stokes number smaller than 4) decreases significantly as the rotational speed increases. However, when the Stokes number is larger than 4, the deposition efficiency increases slightly with the rotational speed of the cylinder. Meanwhile, for a given rotational speed, the increase in the Stokes number leads to an increase in deposition efficiency and deposited area.

Preconditioned Compressible Navier- Stokes Algorithm for Low Mach Number Flows (예조건화 압축성 알고리즘에 의한 저마하수 유동장 해석기법)

  • Ko Hyun;Yoon Woong-Sup
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1998.05a
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 1998
  • Time marching algorithms applied to compressible Navier-Stokes equation have a convergence problem at low Mach number. It is mainly due to the eigenvalue stiffness and pressure singularity as Mach number approaches to zero. Among the several methods to overcome the shortcomings of time marching scheme, time derivative preconditioning method have been used successfully. In this numerical analysis, we adopted a preconditioner of K.H. Chen and developed a two-dimensional, axisymmetric Navier-Stokes program. The steady state driven cavity flow and backward facing step flow problems were computed to confirm the accuracy and the robustness of preconditioned algorithm for low Mach number flows. And the transonic and supersonic flows insice the JPL axisymmetric nozzle internal flow is exampled to investigate the effects of preconditioning at high Mach number flow regime. Test results showed excellent agreement with the experimental data.

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SIMULATION OF PARTICLE DISPERSION AND DEPOSITION IN FLOW AROUND TWO CIRCULAR CYLINDERS IN A SIDE-BY-SIDE ARRANGEMENT (병렬로 배열된 두 개의 원형 실린더 유동에서 입자의 분산과 부착 해석)

  • Hwang, Dongjun;Kim, Dongjoo
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.81-89
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    • 2016
  • Numerical simulations are carried out for the fluid flow and particle transport around two nearby circular cylinders in a side-by-side arrangement. The present study aims to understand the effects of the particle Stokes number and the spacing between two cylinders on particle dispersion and deposition characteristics. Simulations are based on an Eulerian-Lagrangian approach where the motion of particles is calculated by a Lagrangian approach based on one-way coupling. Results show that the flow structure is very different depending on the cylinder spacing, eventually affecting the overall pattern of particle dispersion significantly. It is also found that particles with smaller Stokes number tend to be distributed more uniformly in the wake of two cylinders, being located even inside the vortex cores. Meanwhile, particle deposition is analyzed in terms of the deposition efficiency and deposition location. The deposition efficiency of particles strongly depends on the Stokes number, whereas it is slightly affected by the cylinder spacing. The deposition location gets wider as the Stokes number increases, and it becomes asymmetric about the center of each cylinder as the cylinders get close.

Particle Dispersion and Fine Scale Eddies in Wall Turbulence (벽면난류에 대한 미세와 구조와 입자분산)

  • Kang, Shin-Jeong;Tanahashi, Mamoru;Miyauchi, Toshio
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.30 no.11 s.254
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    • pp.1101-1106
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    • 2006
  • To investigate a relation between fine scale eddies and particle dispersion in a near-wall turbulence, direct numerical simulations of turbulent channel flow laden particle are performed for $Re_{\tau}$=180. The motions of 0,8 million particles are calculated for several particle response times ($t_p$) which is the particle response time based on stokes’ friction law. The number density of particles has a tendency to increase with approaching the near-wall regions ($y^+$<20) except for cases of very small and large particle response times (i.e. $t_p$=0.02 and 15). Near the wall, the behavior and distribution of particles are deeply associated with the fine scale eddies, and are dependent on particle response times and a distance from the wall. The Stokes number that causes preferential distribution in turbulence is changed by a distance from the wall. The influential Stokes number based on the Burgers' vortex model is derived by using the time scale of the fine scale eddies. The influential Stokes number is also dependent on a distance from the wall and shows large value in the buffer layer.

Behavior of small particles in isotropic turbulence in the presence of gravity (중력이 존재하는 등방성 난류에서 작은 입자의 유동)

  • Cho, Seong-Gee;Yeo, Kyong-Min;Lee, Chang-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11b
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    • pp.2396-2400
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    • 2008
  • The motion of small heavy particles in homogeneous isotropic turbulence in the present of gravity is investigated using Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) at moderate Reynolds number. The Lagrangian velocity and acceleration statistics of particles and of flow for a wide range of Stokes number, defined as the ratio of the particle response time to Kolmogorov time scale of turbulence, were obtained for the direction of the gravity and normal direction, respectively. It is found that particles lose their correction faster than the case without gravity. Then, a significant increase in the average settling velocity was observed for a certain range of Stokes number. Our focus is placed on gravitational effect on very small particles. Our simulations show that as the Stokes number reduces to zero, their mean settling velocity approaches the terminal velocity in still fluid.

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Convergence Acceleration Methods for the Multigrid Navier-Stokes Computation (다중 격자 Wavier-Stokes 해석의 수렴성 증진 기법)

  • Kim Yoonsik;Kwon Jang Hyuk;Choi Yun Ho;Lee Seungsoo
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.35-38
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    • 2002
  • The convergence acceleration methods for the compressible Wavier-Stokes equations are studied ,which are multigrid method and implicit preconditioned multistage time stepping method. In this paper, the performance of implicit preconditioning methods are studied for the full-coarsening multigrid methods on the high Reynolds number compressible flow computations. The effect of numerical flux on the convergence are investigated for the inviscid and viscous calculations.

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