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CIP method on Triangular Meshes (비격자메쉬에서의 고차오더 대류 방정식 해결방법)

  • Heo, Nam-Bin;Ko, Hyeong-Seok
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2009
  • This paper presents a new CIP method for unstructured mesh to reduce the numerical dissipation. To reflect precise physical characteristics, CIP method updates both the physical quantity and the derivative information. The proposed method uses the Finite Volume Method(FVM) to solve the non-advection term of CIP equation. And we performed several experiments to improve the accuracy of third-order interpolation. Our result shows that our algorithm has less numerical dissipation than that of linear advection solver.

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Numerical Investigation of Aerodynamic Interference in Complete Helicopter Configurations

  • Lee, Hee-Dong;Yu, Dong-Ok;Kwon, Oh-Joon;Kang, Hee-Jung
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.190-199
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    • 2011
  • Unsteady flow simulations of complete helicopter configurations were conducted, and the flow fields and the aerodynamic interferences between the main rotor, fuselage, and tail rotor were investigated. For these simulations, a three-dimensional flow solver based on unstructured meshes was used, coupled with an overset mesh technique to handle relative motion among those components. To validate the flow solver, calculations were made for a UH-60A complete helicopter configuration at high-speed and low-speed forward flight conditions, and the unsteady airloads on the main rotor blade were compared to available flight test data and other calculated results. The results showed that the fuselage changed the rotor inflow distribution in the main rotor blade airloads. Such unsteady vibratory airloads were produced on the fuselage, which were nearly in-phase with the blade passage over the fuselage. The flow solver was then applied to the simulation of a generic complete helicopter configuration at various flight conditions, and the results were compared with those of the CAMRAD-II comprehensive analysis code. It was found that the main rotor blades strongly interact with a pair of disk-vortices at the outer edge of the rotor disk plane, which leads to high pulse airloads on the blade, and these airloads behave differently depending on the specific flight condition.

A Study of Smoke Movement in Tunnel Fires (터널내에서 화재 발생시 연기 거동에 대한 연구)

  • 김상훈;김성찬;김충익;유홍선
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.21-32
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    • 2000
  • In this study, reduced-scale experiments as the alternative to a real-scale fire test were conducted to understand fire properties in tunnel, and their results were compared with those of numerical simulation. The 1/20 scale experiments were conducted under the Froude scaling since smoke movement in tunnel is governed by buoyancy farce. A numerical simulations were on performed 3D unstructured meshes with PISO algorithm and buoyant plume models. Results showed that data was in reasonable agreement with the numerical data of smoke velocity, temperature distribution, and clear height.

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DSMC Calculation of the Hypersonic Free Stream and the Side Jet Flow Using Unstructured Meshes (비정렬 격자 직접모사법을 이용한 희박 유동과 측면 제트의 상호 작용에 관한 연구)

  • Kim M. G.;Kwon O. J.;Ahn C. S.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.03a
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    • pp.126-131
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    • 2004
  • The interaction between the hypersonic free stream and the side jet flow at high altitudes is investigated by direct simulation Monte Carlo(DSMC) method. Since there is a great difference in density between the free stream and the side jet flow, the weighting factor technique which could control the number of simulation particles, is applied to calculate these two flows simultaneously. Chemical reactions are not considered in the calculation. For validation, the corner flow passing between a pair of plates that are perpendicularly attached is solved. The side jet flow is then injected into this comer flow and solution is found for the merged flow. Results are compared with the experiments. For a more realistic rocket model, the flow past a blunted cone cylinder shape is solved. The leeward or windward jet injection is merged with this flow. The effect on the rocket surface is observed at various flow angles. The lambda effect and the wake structure are found like low attitudes. High interaction between the free stream and the side jet flow is observed when the side jet is injected in the windward direction.

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Numerical Study About Flow Control Using Blending Gurney Flap with Jet Flap (Gurney플랩과 제트 플랩을 혼용한 유동제어 기법에 관한 수치적 연구)

  • Choi, Sung-Yoon;Kwon, Oh-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.35 no.7
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    • pp.565-574
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    • 2007
  • The flow control effect of blending Gurney flap with jet flap for flow around an NACA 0012 airfoil was numerically investigated through parameter variation of each flow control mechanism on unstructured meshes. The aerodynamic force and moment variations due to flow control were examined, and the results were compared between the blending control and each individual flow control. The results showed that the blending control required less energy input to achieve the same level of lift increment than that of the jet flap, and at the same time alleviated drag increment caused by introducing the Gurney flap.

Extraction of Feature Curves from Unorganized Points (연결 정보가 없는 포인트 데이타로부터 특징선 추출 알고리즘)

  • Kim, Soo-Kyun;Kim, Sun-Jung;Kim, Chang-Hun
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.33 no.10
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    • pp.768-776
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    • 2006
  • Given an unstructured point set, we use an MLS (melting least-squares) approximation to estimate the local curvatures and their derivatives at a point by means of an approximation surface Then, we compute neighbor information using a Delaunay tessellation. feature points can then be detected as zero-crossings, and connected using curvature directions. Also this approach has a fast computation time than previous methods, which based on triangle meshes. We demonstrate our method on several large point-sampled models, rendered by point-splatting, on which the feature lines are rendered with line width determined from curvatures.

PREDICTION OF FREE SURFACE FLOW ON CONTAINMENT FLOOR USING A SHALLOW WATER EQUATION SOLVER

  • Bang, Young-Seok;Lee, Gil-Soo;Huh, Byung-Gil;Oh, Deog-Yeon;Woo, Sweng-Woong
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.41 no.8
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    • pp.1045-1052
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    • 2009
  • A calculation model is developed to predict the transient free surface flow on the containment floor following a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) of pressurized water reactors (PWR) for the use of debris transport evaluation. The model solves the two-dimensional Shallow Water Equation (SWE) using a finite volume method (FVM) with unstructured triangular meshes. The numerical scheme is based on a fully explicit predictor-corrector method to achieve a fast-running capability and numerical accuracy. The Harten-Lax-van Leer (HLL) scheme is used to reserve a shock-capturing capability in determining the convective flux term at the cell interface where the dry-to-wet changing proceeds. An experiment simulating a sudden break of a water reservoir with L-shape open channel is calculated for validation of the present model. It is shown that the present model agrees well with the experiment data, thus it can be justified for the free surface flow with accuracy. From the calculation of flow field over the simplified containment floor of APR1400, the important phenomena of free surface flow including propagations and interactions of waves generated by local water level distribution and reflection with a solid wall are found and the transient flow rates entering the Holdup Volume Tank (HVT) are obtained within a practical computational resource.

Numerical Simulation of Dam-Break Problem with Cut-cell Method (분할격자를 이용한 댐붕괴파의 수치해석)

  • Kim, Hyung-Jun;Yoo, Je-Seon;Lee, Seung-Oh;Cho, Yong-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.1752-1756
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    • 2008
  • A simple, accurate and efficient mesh generation technique, the cut-cell method, is able to represent an arbitrarily complex geometry. Both structured and unstructured grid meshes are used in this method. First, the numerical domain is constructed with regular Cartesian grids as a background grid and then the solid boundaries or bodies are cut out of the background Cartesian grids. As a result, some boundary cells can be contained two numerical conditions such as the flow and solid conditions, where the special treatment is needed to simulate such physical characteristics. The HLLC approximate Riemann solver, a Godunov-type finite volume method, is employed to discretize the advection terms in the governing equations. Also, the TVD-WAF method is applied on the Cartesian cut-cell grids to stabilize numerical results. Present method is validated for the rectangular dam break problems. Initially, a conventional grid is constructed with the Cartesian regular mesh only and then applied to the dam-break flow simulation. As a comparative simulation, a cut-cell grids are applied to represent the flow domain rotated with arbitrary angles. Numerical results from this study are compared with the results from the case of the Cartesian regular mesh only. A good agreement is achieved with other numerical results presented in the literature.

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The Influence of Meshing Strategies on the Propeller Simulation by CFD

  • Bahatmaka, Aldias;Kim, Dong-Joon
    • Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.78-85
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    • 2018
  • This paper presents a study of the effects of the free surface to marine propeller including the mesh effect of the models. In the present study, we conduct the numerical simulation for propeller performance employing the openwater test. The numerical simulations compare the meshing strategies for the propeller and show the effects on both thrust and torque. OpenFOAM is applied to solve the propeller problem and then open water performances of KCS propeller (KP505) are estimated using a Reynold-averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS) solver and the turbulence of the $K-{\omega}$ SST model. Unstructured meshes are used in the numerical simulation employing hexahedral meshing for mesh generation. The arbitrary mesh interfacing (AMI) and multiple rotating frame (MRF) are compared to define the best meshing strategy. The meshing strategies are evaluated through 3 classifications, i.e., coarse, medium, and fine mesh. Thus, the propeller can be performed utilizing the best mesh strategy. The computational results are validated by comparison with the experimental results. The $K_T$, $K_Q$, and efficiency of the propeller are compared to an experimental result and for all of the meshing strategies. Thus, the simulations show the influence of meshing in order to perform the propeller performances.

Numerical Study of Flow Control of Dynamic Stall Using Continuous Blowing/Suction (정적 Blowing/Suction을 이용한 동실속 유동 제어에 관한 수치적 연구)

  • Choi S. Y.;Kwon O. J.;Kim J. M.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.115-119
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    • 2004
  • The effect of a continuous blowing or suction on an oscillating 2-D NACA0012 airfoil was investigated numerically for the dynamic stall control. The influence of control parameter variation was also studied in the view point of aerodynamic characteristics. The result showed that the blowing control kept a higher lift drag ratio before stall angle but the dynamic stall angle was not exceed to without control result. As the slot position was closer to leading edge, the positive control effect becomes greater. The stronger jet and the smaller jet angel made more favorable roles on the control performance. In the cases of the suction, the overall control features were similar to those of the blowing, but dynamic stall angle was increased, i.e. suction was more effective to control dynamic stall. It was also founded that the suction control was showed better control effect as the slot position moves to trail edge within thirty percentage of chord length. In the simulation for the jet strength and the jet angle control, the same tendencies were observed to those of blowing cases.

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