• Title/Summary/Keyword: Turbulent Diffusivity

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Characteristics of Turbulent Lifted Flames in Coflow Jet with Initial Temperature Variations (동축류 제트에서 초기 온도 변화에 따른 난류 부상화염 특성)

  • Kim, K.N.;Won, S.H.;Chung, S.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.32-38
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    • 2004
  • Characteristics of turbulent lifted flames in coflow jet have been investigated by varying initial temperature through the heating coflow air. In the turbulent regime, liftoff height increases linearly with fuel jet velocity and decreases nonlinearly as the coflow temperature increases. This can be attributed to the increase of turbulent propagation speed, which is strongly related to laminar burning velocity. Dimensionless liftoff heights are correlated well with dimensionless jet velocity, which are scaled with parameters determining local flow velocity and turbulent propagation speed. This implies that the turbulent lifted flames are stabilized by balance mechanism between local turbulent burning velocity and flow velocity. Blowout velocity can be obtained from the ratio of mixing time to chemical time. Comparing to previous researches, thermal diffusivity should be evaluated from the initial temperature instead of adiabatic flame temperature.

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Effects of Electrohydrodynamic Flow and Turbulent Diffusion on Collection Efficiency of an Electrostatic Precipitator with Cavity Walls

  • Park, Seok-Joo;Park, Young-Ok;Kim, Sang-Soo;McMurry, Peter H.
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.06d
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    • pp.97-103
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    • 2001
  • The effects of the electrohydrodynamic (EHD) flow and turbulent diffusion on the collection efficiency of a model ESP composed of the plates with a cavity were studied through numerical computation. The electric field and ion space charge density were calculated by the Poisson equation of the electrical potential and the current continuity equation. The EHD flow field was solved by the continuity and momentum equations of the gas phase including the electrical body force induced by the movement of ions under the electric field. The RNG $k-{\varepsilon}$ model was used to analyze the turbulent flow. The particle concentration distribution was calculated from the convective diffusion equation of the particle phase. As the ion space charge increased, the particulate collection efficiency increased because the electrical potential increased over the entire domain in the ESP. The collection efficiency decreased and then increased, i.e. had a minimum value, as the EHD circulating flow became stronger when the electrical migration velocity of the charged particle was low. However, the collection efficiency decreased with the stronger EHD flow when the electrical migration of the particle was higher relatively. The collection efficiency of the model ESP increased as the turbulent diffusivity of the particle increased when the electrical migration velocity of the particle was low. However, the collection efficiency decreased for increasing the turbulent diffusivity when the electrical migration of the particle was higher relatively.

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REYNOLDS NUMBER EFFECTS ON MASS TRANSFER IN TURBULENT PIPE FLOW: PART I. MEAN CONCENTRATION FIELD AND LOW-ORDER STATISTICS (난류 파이프 유동 내 물질전달에 대한 레이놀즈 수 영향: Part I. 평균 농도장 및 저차 난류통계치)

  • Kang, Chang-Woo;Yang, Kyung-Soo
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2012
  • Large Eddy Simulation(LES) of turbulent mass transfer in fully developed turbulent pipe flow has been performed to study the effect of Reynolds number on the concentration fields at $Re_{\tau}=180$, 395, 590 based on friction velocity and pipe radius. Dynamic subgrid-scale models for the turbulent subgrid-scale stresses and mass fluxes were employed to close the governing equations. Fully developed turbulent pipe flows with constant mass flux imposed at the wall are studied for Sc=0.71. The mean concentration profiles and turbulent intensities obtained from the present LES are in good agreement with the previous numerical and experimental results currently available. To show the effects of Reynolds number on the turbulent mass transfer, the mean concentration profile, root-mean-square of concentration fluctuations, turbulent mass fluxes, cross-correlation coefficient, turbulent diffusivity and turbulent Schmidt number are presented.

Enhancement of Turbulent Heat Transfer of the Cooling System in Nuclear Reactor by Large Scale Vortex Generation

  • Chun, Kun-Ho;Park, Jong-Seok;Choi, Young-Don
    • International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.77-84
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    • 2001
  • Experimental and computational studies were carried out to investigate the turbulent heat transfer enhancement of the cooling system in nuclear reactor by large scale vortex generation. The large scale vortex motion was generated by rearranging the inclination angels of mixing vanes to the coordinate direction. Axial development of mean and turbulent velocities in the subchannels were measured by the 2-color LDV system. Eddy diffusivity concept based on $\kappa{-}\varepsilon$ model was employed to calculate the turbulent heat and momentum transfers in the subchannel. The turbulences generated by split mixing vanes has small length scales so that they maintain only about $10D_H$ after the spacer grid. On the other hand, the turbulences generated by the large scale vortex motions continue longer and remain up to $25D_H$ after the spacer grid.

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Validation of the Turbulent Burning Velocity Based on Asymptotic Zone Conditional Transport in Turbulent Premixed Combustion (영역조건평균에 기초한 난류예혼합 화염 전파 속도식 유도 및 검증)

  • Lee, Dong-Kyu;Huh, Kang-Y.
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2008
  • An analytical expression for the turbulent burning velocity is derived from the asymptotic zone conditional transport equation at the leading edge. It is given as a sum of laminar and turbulent contributions, the latter of which is given as a product of turbulent diffusivity in unburned gas and inverse scale of wrinkling at the leading edge. It was previously shown that the inverse scale is equal to four times the maximum flame surface density in the wrinkled flamelet regime [1]. The linear behavior between $U_T$ and u' shows deviation with the inverse scale decreasing due to the effect of a finite flamelet thickness at higher turbulent intensities. DNS results show that $U_T/S^0_{Lu}$ may be given as a function of two dimensionless parameters, $u'/S^0_{Lu}$ and $l_t/\delta_F$, which may be transformed into another relationship in terms of $u'/S^0_{Lu}$, and Ka. A larger $l_t/{\delta}_F$ or a smaller Ka leads to a smaller scale of wrinkling, hence a larger turbulent burning velocity in the limited range of $u'/S^0_{Lu}$. Good agreement is achieved between the analytical expression and the turbulent burning velocities from DNS in both wrinkled and thickened-wrinkled flame regimes.

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A CORRELATION FOR SINGLE PHASE TURBULENT MIXING IN SQUARE ROD ARRAYS UNDER HIGHLY TURBULENT CONDITIONS

  • Jeong, Hae-Yong;Ha, Kwi-Seok;Kwon, Young-Min;Chang, Won-Pyo;Lee, Yong-Bum
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.38 no.8
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    • pp.809-818
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    • 2006
  • The existing experimental data related to the turbulent mixing factor in rod arrays is examined and a new definition of the turbulent mixing factor is introduced to take into account the turbulent mixing of fluids with various Prandtl numbers. The new definition of the mixing factor is based on the eddy diffusivity of energy. With this definition of the mixing factor, it was found that the geometrical parameter, ${\delta}_{ij}/D_h$ correlates the turbulent mixing data better than Sid, which has been used frequently in existing correlations. Based on the experimental data for a highly turbulent condition in square rod arrays, a correlation describing turbulent mixing dependent on the parameter ${\delta}_{ij}/D_h$ has been developed. The correlation is insensitive to the Re number and it takes into account the effect of the turbulent Prandtl number. The proposed correlation predicts a reasonable mixing even at a lower S/d ratio.

Mechanism of a Spray Transport on Intake Manifold Walls (흡기매니폴드내 벽면으로의 연료수송)

  • Lee, G.Y.;Jeon, H.S.;Park, K.S.
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.28-34
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    • 1996
  • Study on the mechanism of droplet transport and the droplet eddy diffusivity in the intake manifold of internal conbustion engine with carburetor has been carried out in this paper The theory and experiments were studied and performed respectively, to elucidate the mechanism and to measure typical rates of deposition, on the walls of a straight type intake manifold, of water droplets suspended in a turbulent air streams. Accordingly, the results are that Mechanism of a spray transport to the walls is caused by the fluctuation component of radial velocity. Deposition rate of a spray on the walls is mainly dependent upon air velocity and mean diameter of spray, and Droplet eddy diffusivity in the intake manifold is around $80\sim105cm^2/sec$.

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Evaluation of Turbulent Flame Speed Model for Turbulent Premixed Combustion Flow around Bluff Body (보염기 주위의 난류 예혼합 연소에 관한 난류화염 속도 모델의 평가)

  • Park, Nam-Seob;Ko, Sang-Cheol
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.82-88
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    • 2011
  • The objective of this study is to investigate the validity of the dynamic sub-grid G-equation model to a complex turbulent premixed combustion such as bluff body stabilized turbulent premixed flames for the considering of the realistic engineering application. In this study, a new turbulent flame speed model, introduced by the sub-grid turbulent diffusivity and the flame thickness, is also proposed and is compared with an usual model using sub-grid turbulent intensity and with the experimental data. The calculated results can predict the velocity and temperature of the combustion flow in good agreement with the experiment data.