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A Study on the Numerical Analysis of the Viscous Flow for a Full Ship Model (비대선 모형에 대한 점성유동의 수치해석연구)

  • 박명규;강국진
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.13-22
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    • 1995
  • This paper presents the numerical analysis results of the viscous flow for a full ship model. The mass and momentum conservation equations are used for governing equations, and the flow field is discretized by the Finite-Volume Method for the numerical calculation. An algebraic grid and elliptic grid generation techniques are adopted for generation of the body-fitted coordinates system, which is suitable to ship's hull forms. Time-marching procedure is used to solve the three-dimensional unsteady problem, where the convection terms are approximated by the QUICK scheme and the 2nd-order central differencing scheme is used for other spatial derivatives. A Sub-Grid Scale turbulence model is used to approximate the turbulence, and the wall function is used at the body surface. Pressure and velocity fields are calculated by the simultaneous iteration method. Numerical calculations were accomplished for the Crude Oil Tanker(DWT 95,000tons, Cb=0.805) model. Calculation results are compared to the experimental results and show good agreements.

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Analysis of Thermal flow Field Uing Equal Order Linear Finite Element and Fractional Step Method (동차선형 유한요소와 Fractional Step방법을 이용한 열유동장의 해석)

  • ;;Yoo, Jung Yul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.19 no.10
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    • pp.2667-2677
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    • 1995
  • A new numerical algorithm using equal order linear finite element and fractional step method has been developed which is capable of analyzing unsteady fluid flow and heat transfer problems. Streamline Upwind Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) method is used for the weighted residual formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations. It is shown that fractional step method, in which pressure term is splitted from the momentum equation, reduces computer memory and computing time. In addition, since pressure equation is derived without any approximation procedure unlike in the previously developed SIMPLE algorithm based FEM codes, the present numerical algorithm gives more accurate results than them. The present algorithm has been applied preferentially to the well known bench mark problems associated with steady flow and heat transfer, and proves to be more efficient and accurate.

Study on the flow and noise characteristic analysis for cooling fan in a server computer (서버용 냉각팬의 유동 및 소음 특성 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Lim, Tae-Gyun;Jeon, Wan-Ho;Hong, Hyun-Ki
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2014.10a
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    • pp.773-778
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    • 2014
  • Recently both high performance and low noise for a cooling fan used in a server computer have been required. In this study, we measured the noise characteristics for a small cooling fan used in a computer or in a server, and compared the computational data to measured ones. SC/Tetra V10 and FlowNoise V4.3 was used for the unsteady flow field and the aeroacoustic analysis, respectively. The aeroacoustic analysis results have the good agreement with measured data within 3% errors in overall SPL. In the noise spectrum, we could find the peak tonal noise at lower frequency than 1st BPF, and confirm that the reason is caused by the asymmetry of bell mouth shape.

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Numerical Investigation of CuO-Water Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer across a Heated Square Cylinder

  • Bouazizi, Lotfi;Turki, Said
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.382-393
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    • 2016
  • Flow over a bluff body is an attractive research field in thermal engineering. In the present study, laminar flow over a confined heated square cylinder using CuO-Water nanofluid is considered. Unsteady two-dimensional Navier-Stokes and energy equations are solved numerically using finite volume method (FVM). Recent correlations for the thermal conductivity and viscosity of nanofluids, which are function of nanoparticle volume fraction, temperature and nanoparticle diameter, have been employed. The results of numerical solution are obtained for Richardson number, nanoparticle volume fractions and nanoparticle diameters ranges of 0-1, 1-5% and 30-100 nm respectively for a fixed Reynolds number of Re = 150. At a given volume concentration, the investigations reveal that the decreasing in size of nanoparticles produces an increase in heat transfer rates from the square cylinder and a decrease in amplitude of the lift coefficient. Also, the increment of Nusselt number is more pronounced at higher concentrations and higher Richardson numbers.

The Numerical Analysis of Jeju Harbor Flow Considering Effect of Seasonal Wind

  • Kim, Nam-Hyeong;Park, Ji-Hun;Kang, Hyun-Woo
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.31 no.9
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    • pp.793-799
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    • 2007
  • The effect of seasonal wind on the tidal circulation in Jeju harbor was examined by using a numerical shallow water model. A finite element for analyzing shallow water flow is presented. The Galerkin method is employed for spatial discretization. Two step explicit finite element scheme is used to discretize the time function, which has advantage in problems treating large numbers of elements and unsteady state. The numerical simulation is compared with three cases; Case 1 does not consider the effect of wind, Case 2 and Case 3 consider the effect of summer and winter seasonal wind, respectively. According to result considering effect of seasonal wind, velocity of current vector shows slightly stronger than that of case 1 in the flow field. It can be concluded that the present method is a useful and effective tool in tidal current analysis.

A Study on Estimation of inner and Wall Pressure Distribution by 3-Dimensional velocity Measurement using PIV (PIV를 이용한 3차원 속도계측에 의한 유동장의 공간 및 벽면압력 분포 추정에 관한연구)

  • 이영호
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.468-480
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    • 1998
  • A flow measurement system which is able to measure the instantaneous three-dimensional velocity components and the pressure distribution of fluid flows is developed using a digital image processing system and the stereoscopic photogrammetry. This system consists of two TV cameras a digital image processor and a 32-bit microcomputer. The capability of the developed system is verified by a preliminary test in which three-dimensional displancements of moving particles arranged on a rotating plate are tracked automatically. The constructed system is through the measurement and spatial pressure distribution is also obtained. The measurement uncertainty of this system is evaluated quantitatively. The present technique is applicable to the measurement of an unsteady fluid phenomenon especially to the measurement of three-dimensional velocity field of a complex flow.

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Aerodynamic Analysis of Helicopter Rotor by Using a Time-Domain Panel Method

  • Kim, J.K.;Lee, S.W.;Cho, J.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.638-642
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    • 2008
  • Computational methods based on the solution of the flow model are widely used for the analysis of lowspeed, inviscid, attached-flow problems. Most of such methods are based on the implementation of the internal Dirichlet boundary condition. In this paper, the time-domain panel method uses the piecewise constant source and doublet singularities. The present method utilizes the time-stepping loop to simulate the unsteady motion of the rotary wing blade. The wake geometry is calculated as part of the solution with no special treatment. To validate the results of aerodynamic characteristics, the typical blade was chosen such as, Caradonna-Tung blade and present results were compared with the experimental data and the other numerical results in the single blade condition and two blade condition. This isolated rotor blade model consisted of a two bladed rotor with untwisted, rectangular planform blade. Computed flow-field solutions were presented for various section of the blade in the hovering mode.

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Characteristics of Tumble Flow in Cylinder of 4 Valve Gasoline Engine by Using Particle Tracking Method (입자 추적법을 이용한 4 밸브 가솔린 기관의 실린더 내 텀블 유동 특성)

  • Lee, Chang-sik;Chon, Mun-soo;Chung, Sung-hwan
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.23 no.9
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    • pp.1178-1184
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    • 1999
  • The in-cylinder flow field of gasoline engine comprises unsteady compressible turbulent flows caused by the intake port, combustion chamber geometry and the change of the spatial shape. Thus the quantitative analysis of the in-cylinder bulk flow plays an important role in the improvement of engine performances and the reduction of exhaust emission. The influences of tumble intensifying valve (TIV) and swirl intensifying valve (SIV), and various intake-flow conditions are compared with the tumble ratio obtained by the measured results of the in-cylinder gas flow. In order to obtain the quantitative analysis of the in-cylinder gas flows of gasoline engine this investigation applied the particle tracking method to the analysis of gas flow characteristics. Various intake conditions such as tumble and swirl intensifying valve, the deactivated condition of one valve among two intake valves, and the other factors of gas flow are considered.

Air Layer Effect on the Performance Improvement of a Cross-Flow Hydro Turbine

  • Choi, Young-Do;Shin, Byeong-Rog;Lee, Young-Ho
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is not only to investigate the effects of air layer in the turbine chamber on the performance and internal flow of the cross-flow turbine, but also to suggest a newly developed air supply method. Field test is performed in order to measure the output power of the turbine by a new air supply method. CFD analysis on the performance and internal flow of the turbine is conducted by an unsteady state calculation using a two-phase flow model in order to embody the air layer effect on the turbine performance effectively. The result shows that air layer effect on the performance of the turbine is considerable. The air layer located in the turbine runner passage plays the role of preventing a shock loss at the runner axis and suppressing a recirculation flow in the runner. The location of air suction hole on the chamber wall is very important factor for the performance improvement. Moreover, the ratio between air from suction pipe and water from turbine inlet is also significant factor of the turbine performance.

A Particle Tracking Method for the Lagrangian-Eulerian Finite Element Method in 3-D Subsurface System (3차원 지표하 시스템에서 Lagrangian-Eulerian 유한요소법에 대한 입자추적 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Jae-Young;Kang, Mee-A
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.205-215
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    • 2009
  • The conventional numerical models to analyze flow in subsurface porous media under the transient state usually generate numerical oscillation and unstability due to local flux domain for critical cases such as infiltration into initially dry soil during rainfall period. In this case, it is required refined mesh and small time step, but it decrease efficiency of computation. In this study, numerical unstability in discontinuity domain is removed by applying particle tracking algorithm to simulate unsteady subsurface flow with inflow boundary condition. Finally the hybrid LE FEM improving numerical stability is proposed. The hypothetical domains with unsteady uniform and nonuniform flow field were used to demonstrated algorithm verification. In comparison with analytic solution, we obtained reasonable results and conducted simulation of hypothetical 3-D recharge/pumping area. The proposed algorithm can simulate saturated/unsaturated porous media with more practical problems and will greatly contribute to accuracy and stability of numerical computation.