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AUTOMATED TRIANGULAR SURFACE GRID GENERATION ON CAD SURFACE DATA (CAD 형상 데이터를 이용한 물체 표면 삼각형 격자의 자동 생성 기법)

  • Lee, B.J.;Kim, B.S.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.103-107
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    • 2007
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD in short) approach is now playing an important role in the engineering process recently. Generating proper grid system for the region of interest in time is prerequisite for the efficient numerical calculation of flow physics using CFD approach. Grid generation is, however, usually considered as a major obstacle for a routine and successful application of numerical approaches in the engineering process. CFD approach based on the unstructured grid system is gaining popularity due to its simplicity and efficiency for generating grid system compared to the structured grid approaches. In this paper an automated triangular surface grid generation using CAD surface data is proposed According to the present method, the CAD surface data imported in the STL format is processed to identify feature edges defining the topology and geometry of the surface shape first. When the feature edges are identified, node points along the edges are distributed. The initial fronts which connect those feature edge nodes are constructed and then they are advanced along the CAD surface data inward until the surface is fully covered by triangular surface grid cells using Advancing Front Method. It is found that this approach can be implemented in an automated way successfully saving man-hours and reducing human-errors in generating triangular surface grid system.

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On the artificially-upstream flux splitting method

  • Sun M.;Takayama K.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.156-157
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    • 2003
  • A simple method is proposed to split the flux vector of the Euler equations by introducing two artificial wave speeds. The direction of wave propagation can be adjusted by these two wave speeds. This idea greatly simplifies the upwinding, and leads to a new family of upwind schemes. Numerical flux function for multi-dimensional Euler equations is formulated for any grid system, structured or unstructured. A remarkable simplicity of the scheme is that it successfully achieves one-sided approximation for all waves without recourse to any matrix operation. Moreover, its accuracy is comparable with the exact Riemann solver. For 1-D Euler equations, the scheme actually surpasses the exact solver in avoiding expansion shocks without any additional entropy fix. The scheme can exactly resolve stationary contact discontinuities, and it is also freed of the carbuncle problem in multi­dimensional computations.

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An Implicit Unstructured Finite Element Method for Diffraction of Water Waves by Two-Dimensional Floating Breakwaters (부유체 주위의 2차원 회절 문제를 위한 내율적 비정렬 격자 유한요소해법)

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    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.90-101
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    • 1997
  • A hybrid element method is presented for two-dimensional diffraction problem of water waves. In this method, only a limited fluid domain close to irregular bodies is discretized into conventional finite elements, while the remaining infinite domain is treated as one element with analytical representations of high accuracy. A finite element grid is automatically generated by using Dealunay triangulation based on the Bowyer's algorithm and a linear system of equations is approximately solved with the ILU-CGS algorithm. To validate the present scheme, Computational results are compared with the existing experimental data and other numerical solutions.

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Inverse Radiation Analysis of a Two-Dimensional Irregular Geometry Using Unstructured Triangular Meshes (비정렬 삼각 격자를 이용한 2 차원 비직교 형상에서의 역복사 해석)

  • Yi, Kyung-Joo;Baek, Seung-Wook;Kim, Man-Young
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.561-567
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    • 2011
  • The inverse radiation analysis of a two-dimensional irregular configuration using unstructured triangular meshes is presented. In this study, an enclosure filled with an absorbing, emitting and scattering medium with diffusely emitting and reflecting opaque boundaries is considered. The finite volume method is applied to solve the radiative transfer equation in order to simulate the measured incident radiation values which are used as input data for the inverse analysis. The conjugate gradient method is adopted for the estimation of wall emissivities by minimizing the objective function at each iteration step. To verify the performance of the unstructured grid system, we compare the results with those using a structured grid system for the two-dimensional lopsided shape. The effect of measurement errors on the estimation accuracy is also investigated.

DEVELOPMENT OF 2-D UNSTRUCTURED HYBRID GRID GENERATION PROGRAM USING JAVA APPLET (자바 애플릿을 이용한 2차원 혼합형 비정렬 격자 생성 프로그램의 개발)

  • Lee, J.H.;Cho, K.W.;Kim, B.S.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.65-70
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    • 2009
  • In this paper a hybrid grid generation program for general 2-D region is introduced. The program is developed by using JAVA programming language, and it can be used either as an application program on a local computer or as an applet in the network environment. The hybrid grid system for a 2-D problem means a combination of triangular cells and quadrilateral cells, and it can offer both of the high flexibility of triangular cells and the high accuracy and efficiency of structured-type quadrilateral cells. To accommodate a quadrilateral-cell region and a triangular-cell region into one computational domain, it is importance to take good care of the interface between two different regions so that overall good grid quality can be maintained. In this research advancing layer method(ALM) augmented by elliptic smoothing method is used for the quadrilateral-cell region and advancing front method(AFM) is used for the triangular-cell region. A special treatment technique for the interface between those two regions is also developed. The interface treatment technique is basically to prevent the propagation of small cell size due to ALM method into the triangular region and maintain the smooth transition of cell-size scale between two different regions. By applying current technique high-quality hybrid grids for general 2-D regions can be easily generated, and typical grid generation results and flow solutions are demonstrated.

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A THREE-DIMENSIONAL UNSTRUCTURED FINITE VOLUME METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF DROPLET IMPINGEMENT IN ICING (비정렬 격자 기반의 결빙 액적 해석을 위한 유한체적 기법)

  • Jung, K.Y.;Jung, S.K.;Myong, R.S.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2013
  • Ice accretion on the solid surface is an importance factor in assessing the performance of aircraft and wind turbine blade. Changes in the external shape due to ice accretion can greatly deteriorate the aerodynamic performance. In this study, a three-dimensional upwind-type second-order positivity-preserving finite volume CFD scheme based on the unstructured mesh topology is developed to simulate two-phase flow in atmospheric icing condition. The code is then validated by comparing with NASA IRT experimental data on the sphere. The present results of the collection efficiency are found to be in close agreement with experimental data and show improvement near the stagnation region.

Numerical heat transfer analysis methodology for multiple materials with different heat transfer coefficient in unstructured grid for development of heat transfer analysis program for 3 dimensional structure of building (건물의 3차원 구조체에 대한 전열해석 프로그램 개발 중 서로 다른 열전도율을 갖는 복합재질 3차원 구조의 비정렬 격자에 대한 전산해석 방법)

  • Lee, Juhee;Jang, Jinwoo;Lee, Hyeonkyun;Lee, Youngjun;Lee, Kyusung
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.81-87
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: Heat transfers phenomena are described by the second order partial differential equation and its boundary conditions. In a three-dimensional structure of a building, the heat transfer phenomena generally include more than one material, and thus, become complicate. The analytic solutions are useful to understand heat transfer phenomena, but they can hardly be applied in engineering or design problems. Engineers and designers have generally been forced to use numerical methods providing reliable results. Finite volume methods with the unstructured grid system is only the suitable means of the analysis for the complex and arbitrary domains. Method: To obtain an numerical solution, a discretization method, which approximates the differential equations, and the interpolation methods for temperature and heat flux between two or more materials are required. The discretization methods are applied to small domains in space and time, and these numerical solutions form the descretized equations provide approximated solutions in both space and time. The accuracy of numerical solutions is dependent on the quality of discretizations and size of cells used. The higher accuracy, the higher numerical resources are required. The balance between the accuracy and difficulty of the numerical methods is critical for the success of the numerical analysis. A simple and easy interpolation methods among multiple materials are developed. The linear equations are solved with the BiCGSTAB being a effective matrix solver. Result: This study provides an overview of discretization methods, boundary interface, and matrix solver for the 3-dimensional numerical heat transfer including two materials.

Numerical study of base flow of afterbodies for launch vehicle in supersonic turbulent flow (초음속 난류 유동장내의 발사체 후방 동체형상에 따른 기저유동의 수치적 계산)

  • Park Nam-Eun;Roh Hyung-Hun;Kim Jae-Soo
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.35-41
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    • 2002
  • The projectile afterbodies for zero-lift drag reduction has been analyzed using the Navier-Stokes equations with the κ-εturbidence model. The numerical method of a second order upwind scheme has been used on an unstructured adaptive grid system. Base drag reduction methods that have been found effective on axisymmetric bodies are boattailing, base bleed, base combustion, locked vortex afterbodies and multistep afterbodies. In this paper, turbulence flow and pressure charateristics have been studied for geometries of multistep afterbodies. The important geometrical and flow parameters relevant to the design of such afterbodies have been identified by step number, length and height. The flow over multistep aftoerbodies or base have many kinds of compressible flow characteristics including expansion waves at the trailing edge, recompression waves, separation and recirculating flow in the base region, shear flow and wake flow. The numerical results have been compared and analyzed with the experimental data. The flow characteristics have been clearly shown.