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Analysis on the Train-wind Pressure applied to Screen Door in Island-type Platform of Subway (지하철의 섬식 정거장에 설치된 스크린도어에 가해지는 열차풍압 해석)

  • Kim, Jung-Yup
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.138-141
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    • 2008
  • The screen doors installed in the station of subway are subject to the train-wind pressure caused by the operation of trains. The train-wind pressure has to be correctly estimated for the design of safe structure of screen doors. As three-dimensional numerical flow analysis technology has been significantly developed, the analysis on the train-wind pressure with diverse variables such as train specifications, train speed, tunnel and station configurations, and blockage ratio can be effectively carried out with three-dimensional numerical method. In this study, computational analysis of train-induced wind in a subway tunnel employing the screen doors are carried out by using the three-dimensional numerical method with the model of the moving boundary for the run of trains. While the numerical analysis of train-wind pressure was applied on the one island-type station in the Seoul Subway Line 2, maximum pressure of 494 Pa was estimated on the screen door when two trains pass each other at the speed of 80km/h in the platform.

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Effect on measurements of anemometers due to a passing high-speed train

  • Zhang, Jie;Gao, Guangjun;Huang, Sha;Liu, Tanghong
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.549-564
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    • 2015
  • The three-dimensional unsteady incompressible Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations and k-${\varepsilon}$ double equations turbulent model were used to investigate the effect on the measurements of anemometers due to a passing high-speed train. Sliding mesh technology in Fluent was utilized to treat the moving boundary problem. The high-speed train considered in this paper was with bogies and inter-carriage gaps. Combined with the results of the wind tunnel test in a published paper, the accuracy of the present numerical method was validated to be used for further study. In addition, the difference of slipstream between three-car and eight-car grouping models was analyzed, and a series of numerical simulations were carried out to study the influences of the anemometer heights, the train speeds, the crosswind speeds and the directions of the induced slipstream on the measurements of the anemometers. The results show that the influence factors of the train-induced slipstream are the passing head car and tail car. Using the three-car grouping model to analyze the train-induced flow is reasonable. The maxima of horizontal slipstream velocity tend to reduce as the height of the anemometer increases. With the train speed increasing, the relationship between $V_{train}$ and $V_{induced\;slipstream}$ can be expressed with linear increment. In the absence of natural wind conditions, from the head car arriving to the tail car leaving, the induced wind direction changes about $330^{\circ}$, while under the crosswind condition the wind direction fluctuates around $-90^{\circ}$. With the crosswind speed increasing, the peaks of $V_X,{\mid}V_{XY}-V_{wind}{\mid}$ of the head car and that of $V_X$ of the tail car tend to enlarge. Thus, when anemometers are installed along high-speed railways, it is important to study the effect on the measurements of anemometers due to the train-induced slipstream.

Aerodynamic Characteristics of Heighter Shapes for a Tract Gust Reduction (선로상 돌풍 감소를 위한 높임침목형상의 공력특성 평가)

  • Rho, Joo-Hyhn;Kim, Jong-Yong;Ku, Yo-Cheon;Yun, Su-Hwan;Kwon, Hyeuk-Bin;Lee, Dong-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2009
  • The ballast-flying, induced by strong underbody flow of high-speed train, can damage train underbody, wheel and even cause the safety problems. For this reason, a heighter is being used to prevent ballast-flying through underbody flow reduction. In this research, flow field around a heighter is numerically simulated.. And the parametric study of various heighter geometries is performed to find out more effective heighter shape. Through these numerical studies, the relation between the heighter shape and underbody flow is found out. Also new heighter shapes are numerically investigated and their performances of underbody flow reduction are verified.

Effect of Train Shape on a Compression Wave Generated by a Train Moving into a Tunnel

  • Ogawa Takanobu;Fujii Kozo
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1995.04a
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    • pp.30-36
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    • 1995
  • An axisymmetric flow induced by a train moving into a tunnel is numerically simulated. The effect of train shape on wavefront of a compression wave created by a train is investigated parametrically using several model trains having the same nose shape but different blockage. The zonal method combined with the Fortified Solution Algorithm (FSA) is employed as a numerical algorithm to solve this moving body problem. The computational result is compared with the experimental data. Good agreement is obtained, which justifies the present computational approach. The compression waves created by the model trains are compared and the result shows that the pressure gradient of the wavefront of the compression wave becomes small in the case of small blockage even though the nose shape is same. The wavefront is not determined solely by the cross-sectional area distribution of the train nose.

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Distribution of Pollutant on the Indoor Air of Passenger Car (철도차량 객차내 오염물질의 분포경향에 관한 전산해석)

  • So, Jin-Sub;Chun, Chul-Kyun;Park, Chan-Su;Choi, Ju-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2003
  • The transfer of air pollutants between passenger room and service room in train are investigated by the computational analysis. The effects of service room temperature, inlet velocity, initial concentration and heating are studied. The flow induced by the difference of density between two rooms is found to take the major role in transfer of polluted air. Low temperature of service room enhances the polluted air flow into passenger room along the floor. Exhaust fan above the door between two rooms is not effective for this case. Strong inlet flow is found to suppress polluted air flow from service room. The heating of passenger room can promote air pollution.

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Numerical and experimental analysis of aerodynamics and aeroacoustics of high-speed train using compressible Large Eddy Simulation (압축성 대와류모사를 이용한 고속열차의 공력 및 공력소음의 수치적/실험적 분석)

  • Kwongi Lee;Cheolung Cheong;Jaehwan Kim;Minseung Jung
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.95-102
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    • 2024
  • Due to technological advances, the cruising speed of high-speed trains is increasing, and aerodynamic noise generated from the flow outside the train has been an important consideration in the design stage. To accurately predict the flow-induced noise, high-resolution generation of sound sources in the near field and low-dissipation of sound propagation in the far field are required. This should be accompanied by a numerical grid and time resolution that can properly consider both temporal and spatial scales for each component of the real high-speed train. To overcome these challenges, this research simultaneously calculates the external flow and acoustic fields of five high-speed train cars of real-scale and at operational running speeds using a threedimensional unsteady Large Eddy Simulation technique. To verify the numerical analysis, the measurements of the wall pressure fluctuation and numerical results are compared. The Ffowcs Williams and Hawking equation is used to predict the acoustic power radiated from the high-speed train. This research is expected to contribute to noise reduction based on the analysis of the aerodynamic noise generation mechanism of high-speed trains.

A Study of Reduction of Underbody Train Gust by a Heighter (하이터를 이용한 하부 열차풍 감소에 대한 연구)

  • Ku Yo-Cheon;Kim Jong-Yong;Yun Su-Hwan;Rho Joo-Hyun;Lee Dong-Ho;Kwon Hyeok-Bin
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.1241-1247
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    • 2005
  • The ballast-flying, induced by strong underbody train gust, may damage train underbody, wheel and even cause the safety problems. For this reason, a heighter is being used to prevent the ballast-flying phenomenon through underbody now reduction. In this research, flow field around a heighter is numerically simulated. And the parametric study of various heighter shapes is performed to find out more effective heighter shape. Also the ballast-flying probabilities are calculated for various ballast types and train speeds.

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Aerodynamics of High Speed Trains Passing by Each Other

  • FUJII Kozo;OGAWA Takanobu
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1995.04a
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    • pp.5-29
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    • 1995
  • A three-dimensional flow field induced by two trains passing by each other inside a tunnel is studied based on the numerical simulation of the three-dimensional compressible Euler/Navier-Stokes equations formulated in the finite difference approximation. Domain decomposition method with the FSA(fortified solution algorithm) interface scheme is used to treat this moving-body problem. The computed resluts show basic characteristic of the flow field created when two trains passing by each other. History of the pressure distributions and the aerodynamic forces acting on the trains are mailnly discussed. The results indicate that the phenomenon is complicated due to the interaction of the flow induced by two trains. Strong side force occurs between the two trains when the front portion of the opposite train passes by. It fluctuates rapidly and maximum suction force occurs when two trains are aligned side by side. The results also indicate the effectiveness of the present numerical method for moving boundary problems.

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Study of Shock Tube for Wave Phenomenon in High Speed Railway Tunnel(1) - On the characteristics of Compression Wave - (고속철도 터널에서 발생하는 파동현상에 관한 충격파관의 연구(1) - 압축파의 특성에 대하여 -)

  • ;松尾一泰
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.18 no.10
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    • pp.2686-2697
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    • 1994
  • When a railway train enters a tunnel at high speed, a compression wave is formed in front of the train and propagates along the tunnel. The compression wave subsequently emerges from the exit of the tunnel, which causes an impulsive noise. In order to estimate the magnitudes of the noises and to effectively minimize them, the characteristics of the compression wave propagating in a tunnel must be understood. In the present paper, the experimental and analytical investigations on the attenuation and distortion of the propagating compression waves were carried out using a model tunnel. This facility is a kind of open-ended shock tube with a fast-opening gate valve instead of a general diaphragm. One-dimensional flow model employed in the present study could appropriately predict the strength of the compression wave, Mach number and flow velocity induced by the compression wave. The experimental results show that the strength of a compression wave decreases with the distance from the tunnel entrance. The decreasing rate of the wave strength and pressure gradient in the wave is strongly dependent on the strength of the initial compression wave at the tunnel entrance.

Rotor dynamic analysis of a tidal turbine considering fluid-structure interaction under shear flow and waves

  • Lass, Andre;Schilling, Matti;Kumar, Jitendra;Wurm, Frank-Hendrik
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.154-164
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    • 2019
  • A rotor dynamic analysis is mandatory for stability and design optimization of submerged propellers and turbines. An accurate simulation requires a proper consideration of fluid-induced reaction forces. This paper presents a bi-directional coupling of a bond graph method solver and an unsteady vortex lattice method solver where the former is used to model the rotor dynamics of the power train and the latter is used to predict transient hydrodynamic forces. Due to solver coupling, determination of hydrodynamic coefficients is obsolete and added mass effects are considered automatically. Additionally, power grid and structural faults like grid fluctuations, eccentricity or failure could be investigated using the same model. In this research work a fast, time resolved dynamic simulation of the complete power train is conducted. As an example, the rotor dynamics of a tidal stream turbine is investigated under two inflow conditions: I - shear flow, II - shear flow + water waves.