• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.1555-1569
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• 2000

Numerical simulation of fluid flow with moving free surface has been carried out. For the free surface flow, a VOF(Volume of Fluid)-based algorithm utilizing a fixed grid system has been investigated. In order to reduce numerical smearing at the free surface represented on a fixed grid system, a new free surface tracking algorithm based on the donor-acceptor scheme has been presented. Novel features of the proposed algorithm are characterized as two numerical tools; the orientation vector to represent the free surface orientation in each cell and the baby-cell to determine the fluid volume flux at each cell boundary. The proposed algorithm can be easily implemented in any irregular non-uniform grid systems that are usual in finite element method (FEM). Moreover, the proposed algorithm can be extended and applied to the 3-D free surface flow problem without additional efforts. For computation of unsteady incompressible flow, a finite element approximation based on the explicit fractional step method has been adopted. In addition, the SUPG(streamline upwind/Petrov-Galerkin) method has been implemented to deal with convection dominated flows. Combination of the proposed free surface tracking scheme and explicit fractional step formulation resulted in an efficient solution algorithm. Validity of the present solution algorithm was demonstrated from its application to the broken dam and the solitary wave propagation problems.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2002

In the past, ports have been mainly developed in natural harbors but nowadays ports are built wherever they can be economically justified. Therefore, construction of breakwater in area that establishment of structure is disadvantageous is risen according to the change of conditions to the location for ports. In case of building gravity breakwater in such point, need that plane shapes of more reasonable section permitting wave overtopping is necessary. One of the earliest methods for solving unsteady incompressible flow including free surfaces is the MAC(Marker And Cell) method by Harlow and Welch (1965). Recently. VOF(Volume Of Fluid) method to improve several drawbacks of MAC method is suggested by Hirt and Nichols(1981) and utilized extensively in fields of hydrodynamics. Wave overtopping phenomenon is simulated including wave breaking for permeable breakwater by numerical analysis and investigated features of wave overtopping behind structure using VOF method.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2006년도 추계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.9-10
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• 2006

A numerical method for simulating tree surface flows including the surface tension is presented. Numerical scheme is based an a fractional-step method with a finite volume formulation and the interface between liquid and gas is tracked by Volume of Fluid (VOF) method. Piecewise Linear Interface Calculation (PLIC) method is used to reconstruct the interface and the surface tension is considered using a Continuum Surface Force (CSF) model. Several free surface flow phenomena were simulated to show its effectiveness to find such phenomena.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.1230-1243
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• 1997

A numerical technique for simulating incompressible viscous flow with free surface is presented. The flow field is obtained by penalty finite element formulation. In this work, a modified volume of fluid (VOF) method which is compatible with 4-node element is proposed to track the moving free surface. This scheme can be applied to irregular mesh system, and can be easily extended to three dimensional geometries. Numerical analyses were done for two benchmark examples, namely the broken dam problem and the solitary wave propagation problem. The numerical results were in close agreement with the existing data. Illustrative examples were studied to show the effectiveness of the proposed numerical scheme.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2006년 창립20주년기념 정기학술대회 및 국제워크샵
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• pp.377-381
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• 2006

Recently, as economy grow and population increase we need to develop our coastal area and make good use of it for various purposes. That's why large structures are being installed on the sea. Some samples are petroleum storage tanks, pier of sea bridges. These are large structures which have been installed at coastal area. When we design such vertical cylinder, we should avoid too much construction expense caused by excessive designing or by lack of sufficient design. In order to prevent excessive expenditure, it is important to correctly calculate the force of waves acting on structures and predict the wave transformation. In this study, apply to VOF method based on Navier-Stokes equation and then discussed that nonlinear wave force and wave transformation. A comparison between the numerical model and existing experimental results showed nice agreement among them.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2015

Centrifugal pumps consume considerable amount of energy in various industrial applications. Therefore, improvement of the efficiency of these machines has become a major challenge. Cavitation is a phenomenon which decreases the pump efficiency and even causes structural demage. Hence, the goal of this paper is to investigate the cavitation problem in the single-stage and double-stage centrifugal pumps. The Volume of Fraction (VOF) method has been used for the numerical simulations together with Rayliegh-Plesset model for the gas-liquid two-phase flow inside the pump. In order to capture the turbulent phenomena, the standard k-${\varepsilon}$ turbulence model has been adopted, and the simulations have been done as unsteady cases. In addition, the motion of the rotating parts has been simulated using Multi Reference Frame(MRF) method. The results are presented and compared in terms of hydraulic head and NPSH for both the single-stage and double-stage pumps. The H-Q curves show the effects of cavitation on decreasing the pumps performances.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.277-286
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• 2012

기체와 액체의 유동 및 고체의 변형을 동시에 고려할 수 있는 혼상류모델을 이용하여 파동장을 해석하는 경우, 서로 다른 비혼합의 유체 경계면의 시간변형을 고정도로 추적하는 것이 대단히 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 경계면의 추적에 있어서 VOF(Volume of Fluid)법으로 대표되는 경계면 형상의 재구축이 필요한 Geometrical-type의 경계추적법의 대신에 Algebraic-type의 경계추적법인 THINC(Tangent of Hyperbola for INterface-Capturing)법을 적용하였다. THINC법은 경계면에 대한 형상의 구축이 필요하지 않으므로 VOF법에 비해 비교적 간단한 알고리즘을 가지며, 기존의 Navier-Stokes solver에로 적용성이 용이한 장점을 갖는다. 본 연구에서는 THINC법의 기본적인 이류특성을 고찰하고, 혼상류수치모델인 TWOPM(one-field Model for immiscible TWO-Phase flows)과 결합한 수치모델을 파동장에 적용하여 비혼합 혼상류에서 경계면의 추적능을 검토하였다. 그 결과, 혼상류의 경계면 추적에 있어서 상대적으로 간단한 알고리즘의 THINC법이 기존의 VOF법과 유사한 정도를 갖는 해석법이라는 것을 확인할 수 있었고, 따라서 향후 기포의 연행을 동반하는 쇄파 및 쇄파력의 해석 등에 그의 적용성이 기대된다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.104-112
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• 1998

The mold filling process has been a central issue in the development of numerical methods to solve the casting processes. A mold filling which is inherently transient free surface fluid flow, is important because the quality of casting highly depends on such phenomenon, Most of the existing numerical schemes to solve mold filling process have severe limitations in time step restrictions or Courant criteria since explicit time integration is used. Therefore, a large computation time is required to analyze casting processes. In this study, the well known SOLA-VOF method has been modified implicitly to simulate the mold filling process. Solutions to example filling problems show that the proposed method is more efficient in computation time than the original SOLA -VOF method.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.47-55
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• 1997

Dynamic characteristics of the short circuit mode are investigated using the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method. When the initial molten drop volume, contact area and wire feed rate are given, rate change of the molten bridge profiles, pressure and velocity distributions are predicted. The electromagnetic force with proper boundary conditions are included in the formulation to consider the effects of welding current. It is found that the molten metal is transferred to the weld pool mainly due to the pressure difference caused by the curvatures in the initial stage, and electromagnetic force becomes dominant factor in the final stage of short circuit transfer. Necking occurs at the contact position between the molten drop and weld pool, and the initial molten drop volume and welding current have significant effects on break-up time.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2020

자유수면을 포함하는 파동장과 같이 단상의 경계가 시간발전에 따라 지속적으로 변화하는 경우나 액상과 기상이 혼합되는 문제에 있어서는 다상유동(multiphase flow) 문제를 적용하는 예가 증가하고 있다. 특히, 파동장과 같은 자유수면의 문제를 취급하는데 있어서는 혼합되지 않는 액상과 기상의 비압축성 뉴턴유체를 고려한 혼상류 모델이 적용되는 경우가 많다. 일반적으로 혼상류 모델은 각상의 경계면에 대한 시간기반 거동추적이 필수적이며, 궁극적으로는 계산의 정도를 좌우한다. 본 연구는 다양한 CFD 수치해석코드에 적용되고 있는 대표적인 VOF-type의 경계면 추적기법들의 이류성능을 평가하였다. 특히, 기존의 전통적인 VOF-type의 경계면 추적기법 및 이류계산에서 발생하는 수치확산을 최소화하기 위해 수치유속(numerical flux)을 제어하는 FCT 법의 효용성을 평가하고, 더불어 CIP 법을 활용한 자유수면 추적성능의 가능성을 고찰하였다. 그 결과, 본 연구에서 적용한 제한된 조건하에서는 수치확산 방지를 위해 수치확산방지 유속을 도입한 FCT-VOF 법이 가장 높은 경계면의 추적성능을 보였다. 본 연구에서 도출되는 결과는 다양한 수치해석코드에 적용되는 자유수면의 추적기법을 선택함에 있어서 중요한 기초자료로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.