• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.421-428
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• 2008

In this paper, we investigated the flow of an incompressible viscous fluid past a sphere which is oscillated one-dimensionally over flow regimes including laminar flow at Reynolds number of 100, 200 and Strouhal number of up to 5000. In order to analyze flow and estimate critical Strouhal number, we introduce three-dimensional vortex element method. With this method, separation only appears in decreasing velocity region during the high Strouhal numbers. We find out that vorticity distribution around sphere is proportionl to the Strouhal number. And we can decide that low Strouhal number is below 100, high Strouhal number is above 500 from many results. Thus the critical Strouhal number(St) effected to the flow field is expected to be 100

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.397-403
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• 2007

Insect and birds in nature flap their wings to generate fluid dynamic forces that are required for locomotion. To develop a feasible flapping MAV, it is of crucially important to study the fundamental relations between flapping motion and thrust generation. In this paper, the onset conditions of the thrust generation of a heaving flat plate is investigated using a Lattice-Boltzmann method. For a fixed heaving amplitude of h/C=0.5, the effect of reduced frequency on the thrust generation is investigated. For several values of heaving amplitude(h/C=0.25, 0.325, 0.50), the effect of reduced frequency on the thrust generation is also investigated. It can be said that Strouhal number is more important rather than reduced frequency in case of thrust generation. It is found that the critical Strouhal number over which the flat plate starts to produce thrust is around 0.1. Thrust is an exponential function of the Strouhal number.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06e
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• pp.570-575
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• 2001

An experimental study is performed to investigate the characteristics of vortex shedding behind a circular cylinder with serrated fins using hot-wire anemometer. Strouhal numbers which are calculated using outer diameter of a circular cylinder with serrated fins are higher than that of a circular cylinder. Fin thickness and pitch are closely related with vortex shedding frequency and play increasing or decreasing vortex shedding after transient Reynolds numbers. Strouhal numbers using effective diameters which are proposed in this paper agree with that of a circular cylinder. After transient Reynolds number, a trend of Strouhal number can be estimated by checking the ratio of effective diameter to inner diameter.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.25 no.8
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• pp.1077-1086
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• 2001

An experimental study is performed to investigate the characteristics of vortex shedding behind a circular cylinder with serrated fins using hot-wire anemometer. Strouhal numbers which are calculated using outer diameter of a circular cylinder with serrated fins are higher than that of a circular cylinder. Fin thickness and pitch are closely related with vortex shedding frequency and play increasing or decreasing vortex shedding after transient Reynolds number. Strouhal numbers using effective diameters which are proposed in this paper agree with that of a circular cylinder. After transient Reynolds number, a trend of Strouhal number can be estimated by checking the ratio of effective diameter to inner diameter.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.31-32
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• 2005

It is known that an oscillating airfoil can produce a driving force through the generation of a reversed $K\acute{a}rm\acute{a}n$ vortex street, and this can be expected to be a new highly effective propulsion system. We have been examined various conditions such as frequency number, amplitude in NACA 0010. As Strouhal number is greater than 0.08, wake profile with velocity deficit can be transformed into the wake with velocity excess. We also presented the experimental results on the unsteady vortices structure of the heaving airfoil at various parameters.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.605-611
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• 2011

In this study, based on previous studies, the thrust generated by using flapping tandem wings is examined. We studied on the relationship between the parameters for characterizing oscillatory tandem wings (namely, the Strouhal number and Reynolds number) for thrust generation in micro flow regime. At each Reynolds number, Strouhal number, heaving amplitude, distance between tandem wings, and phase difference are varied and the flapping motions of tandem mode are calculated to find the optimum conditions for generating thrust. As a result, comparing with a single flapping mode, we found that the minimum Strouhal number for generating thrust is shifted down up to approximately 25% when the tandem flapping mode is applied.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1005-1011
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• 1999

Generation of hole-tones and the instability of circular impinging jets are investigated based on the frequency characteristics and the radiated sound field. The experiment is carried out with varying hole sizes, jet speeds and impinging distances. It is found that hole-tones occur by both the low-speed laminar jet and the high-speed turbulent jet, but not by the transient jet, while plate-tones without holes are produced only in the high-speed turbulent impinging jet. When the diameter ratio of the hole to the nozzle is nearly one, hole-tones occur most easily. At low speed, it is found that hole-tones are due to the symmetrical unstable jet and the impinging distance decreases with jet speed. And the Strouhal number and the sound pressure level increase with jet speed. At high speed, hole-tones show the same characteristics as plate-tones. It is found that the ratio of the convection speed varies with the Strouhal number and the jet speed.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.38 no.8 s.157
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• pp.691-698
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• 2005

A series of experiments has been performed to investigate the flapping motion, which has been generally considered as an intrinsic characteristic of plane flow, of the horizontal merging buoyant jet discharged into stationary ambient water. For Horizontal merging buoyant jets, the flapping motions has been observed and the average onsets of flapping motion coincided with the start of merging transition. The Strouhal number, which describes the measure of frequency of vortices on the flow boundary with respect to the local properties of the flow, varies and converges to a constant value over merging transition. Considering the merging transition and the variation of local flow properties, the characteristics of flapping motion of plane flow can be applied to merging buoyant jets.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.264-270
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• 2011

The Characteristics of the flowfield around three circular cylinders in tandem arrangement was investigated by PIV. Strouhal numbers, vorticity, velocity vectors and velocity profiles were observed at centre-to-centre space ratios of P/D=1.25~3.75, and Reynolds number of Re=$3.0{\times}10^3{\sim}5.0{\times}10^3$. As the results the Strouhal numbers measured in the rear region of 3rd the cylinder were distinguished three kind of regions with the space ratios and The flow pattern in the wake of each cylinder was different according to these regions. The time averaged flow at region of each cylinder was almost stagnated and the size of the stagnated region was small in order of 1st, 2nd and 3rd cylinder. The direction of vortex at the front and rear region of 2nd cylinder was opposed each other with the small difference(${\alpha}= {\pm}5^{\circ}$) of the attack angle ${\alpha}$.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.71-78
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• 1998

와(vortex) 박리는 고형물체가 유동내에서의 유체의 흐름을 방해할 때 발생하는 전 형적인 주기적 진동 현상이다. 본 연구에서는 삼각주형 실린더가 유동내에 유발하는 와 발 리 특성을 가시화 기법, 와에 의해 변조된 초음파의 파워 스펙트럼 및 유동관에서의 진동측 정 등을 통해 연구하였다. 가시화 관찰과 유동측정 실험 결과, 발생 와는 발생체 전면으로부 터 3d와 5d 사이에서 가장 안정성이 유지됨을 발견하였다. 넓은 레이놀즈 수(104≤Re≤106) 의 유동영역에서 액체와 기체원형유동의 측정 실험결과로부터 스트로우할(Strouhal) 수가 와발생체 폭(d)과 형상비(d/D)의 증가함수이며, 삼각주 단면의 높이에 반비례함을 알 수 있 었다. 또한 실험 결과로부터 실린더의 기하학적 치수로 삼각주형 실린더의 스트로우할 수를 예측할 수 있는 경험식을 제시하였다.