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Analysis and active control for wind induced vibration of beam with ACLD patch

  • Li, Jinqiang;Narita, Yoshihiro
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.399-417
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    • 2013
  • The structural vibration suppression with active constrained layer damping (ACLD) was widely studied recently. However, the literature seldom concerned with the vibration control on flow-induced vibration using active constrained layer. In this paper the wind induced vibration of cantilevered beam is analyzed and suppressed by using random theory together with a velocity feedback control strategy. The piezoelectric material and frequency dependent viscoelastic layer are used to achieve effective active damping in the vibration control. The transverse displacement and velocity in time and frequency domains, as well as the power spectral density and the mean-square value of the transverse displacement and velocity, are formulated under wind pressure at variable control gain. It is observed from the numerical results that the wind induced vibration can be significantly suppressed by using a small outside active voltage on the constrained layer.

A Study on Numerical Analysis for Heat Transfer and Flow Characteristics in a Ribbed Tube (열교환기 내 리브드 튜브의 열전달 및 유체유동에 관한 수치 해석적 연구)

  • Jeon, Jeong-Do;Jeon, Eon-Chan;Jeung, Hui-Gyun;Lee, Chi-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.134-139
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    • 2011
  • This study was conducted on the characteristics of fluid flow and heat transfer in the ribbed tube used for a steam power plant. It was assumed that the air is incompressible and therefore, its density is not variable according to temperature. In addition, the gravity was ignored. A commercial code of computational fluid dynamics was used and standard k-$\epsilon$ model was used together with the energy equation included to calculate heat transfer. As Reynolds No. was low at the velocity distribution in the axial direction, the air reached hydro-dynamically fully developed region shortly but high Reynolds No. yielded late full hydro-dynamic development. The velocity distribution and non-dimensional temperature distribution were all physically reasonable and thus had a good agreement with the experimental result.

Rotating Flows in Eccentric Cylinders (편심환내의 회전 유동)

  • Sim, Woo-Gun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 1997
  • A numerical method based on the spectral collocation method is developed for the steady rotating flows in eccentric annulus. Steady flows between rotating cylinders are of interest on lubrication in large rotating machinery. Steady rotating flow is generated by the rotating inner cylinder with constant angular velocity. The governing equations for laminar flow are simplified from Navier-Stokes equations by neglecting the non-linear convection terms. Integrating the pressure round the rotating cylinder based on the half Sommerfeld method, the load on the cylinder is evaluated with eccentricity. The attitude angle and Sommerfeld variable are calculated from the load. It is found that those values are influenced by the eccentricity. The attitude and Sommerfeld reciprocal are decreased with eccentricity. As expected, the effect of the annular gap ratio on them is negligible.

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Numerical analysis of turbulent recirculating flow in swirling combustor by non-orthogonal coordinate transformation (비직교 좌표변환에 의한 선회연소기내 난류재순환유동의 수치해석)

  • 신종근;최영돈
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.1158-1174
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    • 1988
  • A numerical technique is developed for the solution of fully developed turbulent recirculating flow in the passage of variable area using the non-orthogonal coordinate transformation. In the numerical analysis, primitive pressure-velocity finite difference equations were solved by SIMPLER algorithm with 2-equation turbulence model and algebraic stress model (ASM). QUICK scheme on the differencing of convective terms which is free from the inaccuracies of numerical diffusion has been applied to the variable grids and the results compared with those from HYBRID scheme. In order to test the effect of streamline curvatures on turbulent diffusion Lee and Choi streamline curvature correction model which has been obtained by modifying the Leschziner and Rodi's model is testes. The ASM was also employed and the results are compared to those from another turbulence model. The results show that difference of convective differencing schemes and turbulence models give significant differences in the prediction of velocity fields in the expansion region and outlet region of the combustor, however show little differences in the parallel flow region.

A Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Axisymmetric Turbulent Flow in a Reciprocating Engine Including Port/Valve Assembly (축대칭 왕복엔진의 비정상 난류유동에 대한 수치해석)

  • 조진행;유홍선;최영기
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.139-149
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    • 1994
  • A numerical simulation of unsteady axisymmetric turbulent flow was performed for a reciprocating engine including port/valve assembly. The governing equations based on a nonorthogonal coordinate formulation with Cartesian velocity components were used and discretised by the finite volume method with non-staggered variable arrangements. The modified $\kappa-\xi$. turbulence model which included the effect of compressibility was used. The results of twodimensional transient calculation for the axisymmetric configuration were compared with the experimental data. Although slightly low rms velocity was predicted compared to the experimental data, predicted velocity distributions at the valve exit and in-cylinder region showed good agreements with the experimental data. The flow at the valve exit was separated at the same valve lift position with the experimental data. Two vortices incylinder region were generated during the initial intake process. The clockwise main vortex became strong and moved upward to the top wall. The counter-clockwise second vortex became weak and stick to the upper left corner of the cylinder. After middle intake process, new vortex adjacent to upper cylinder wall appeared by the piston motion and therefore, the in-cylinder flow was formed into three vortices. The cylinder pressure just before bottom dead center of piston was higher than inlet pressure and then the reverse flow occured at the valve exit. The in-cylinder flow characteristics were strongly dependent on piston motion, but insensitive to valve motion.

Performance of an Active Stimulating Device Using a Rope Kite or Array in the Cod End to Reduce Juvenile by-catch

  • Kim, Yong-Hae
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.182-189
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    • 2010
  • An active stimulating device (ASD) using a rope apparatus may operated by the flow of turbulence inside a cod end, generating variable stimuli in addition to flow-related effects to minimize the by-catch of juvenile fishes. Preliminary testing involved a hydrodynamic effect inside the cod end with a rotating rope kite or conical rope array to generate variable stimuli (visual stimuli, water flow, or physical contact with fish) to change fish position. The experimental rope kite offered more choice in rotating period and range of sweeping action; adjusting the towing line or flow velocity helped to drive fish toward the net panel and encouraged escape. The conical shape of the rope array in the cod end helped to clear a path for fish by disturbing the rigging and providing more contrast between objects, preventing an optomotor response. This enabled more black porgy to be herded toward the net at an early stage of towing. Therefore, either a conical rope array or a rotating rope kite can be used as an effective ASD to prevent juvenile by-catch.

Systematic influence of different building spacing, height and layout on mean wind and turbulent characteristics within and over urban building arrays

  • Jiang, Dehai;Jiang, Weimei;Liu, Hongnian;Sun, Jianning
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.275-289
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    • 2008
  • Large eddy simulations have been performed within and over different types of urban building arrays. This paper adopted three dimensionless parameters, building frontal area density (${\lambda}_f$) the variation degree of building height (${\sigma}_h$), and the staggered degree of building range ($r_s$), to study the systematic influence of building spacing, height and layout on wind and turbulent characteristics. The following results have been achieved: (1) As ${\lambda}_f$ decrease from 0.25 to 0.18, the mean flow patterns transfer from "skimming" flow to "wake interference" flow, and as ${\lambda}_f$ decrease from 0.06 to 0.04, the mean flow patterns transfer from "wake interference" flow to "isolated roughness" flow. With increasing ${\lambda}_f$, wind velocity within arrays increases, and the vortexes in front of low buildings would break, even disappear, whereas the vortexes in front of tall buildings would strengthen and expand. Tall buildings have greater disturbance on wind than low buildings do. (2) All the wind velocity profiles and the upstream profile converge at the height of 2.5H approximately. The decay of wind velocity within the building canopy was in positive correlation with ${\lambda}_f$ and $r_s$. If the height of building arrays is variable, Macdonald's wind velocity model should be modified through introducing ${\sigma}_h$, because wind velocity decreases at the upper layers of the canopy and increases at the lower layers of the canopy. (3) The maximum of turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) always locates at 1.2 times as high as the buildings. TKE within the canopy decreases with increasing ${\lambda}_f$ and $r_s$ but the maximum of TKE are very close though ${\sigma}_h$ varies. (4) Wind velocity profile follows the logarithmic law approximately above the building canopy. The Zero-plane displacement $z_d$ heighten with increasing ${\lambda}_f$, whereas the maximum of and Roughness length $z_0$ occurs when ${\lambda}_f$ is about 0.14. $z_d$ and $z_0$ heighten linearly with ${\sigma}_h$ and $r_s$, If ${\sigma}_h$ is large enough, $z_d$ may become higher than the average height of buildings.

Study of Pressure and Flux Pulsation to Design Optimum Valve-Plate Notch and Pulsation-Variables Analysis of Swash-Plate-Type Piston Pump (가변 사판식 피스톤펌프의 맥동 변수 분석 및 최적 밸브플레이트 노치 설계를 위한 압력 및 유량맥동에 관한 연구)

  • Bae, Jun-Hyeong;Chung, Won-Jee;Jang, Jun-Ho;Yoon, Young-Hwan;Jeon, Ju-Yeol
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.244-250
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    • 2015
  • We propose a simulation technique to estimate the reduction effect of the pressure/flow pulsation by analysis of the pulsation variables and notch shape of the valve plate of a swash-plate-type variable piston pump. First, using SimulationX$^{(R)}$, we perform a theoretical kinematic analysis according to the variable swash-plate angle and rotational velocity in order to design a single-piston pump. In designing the notch shape of the valve plate of the swash-plate-type variable piston pump as one of the pulsation variables, we investigate the effect of the pulsation by comparing two notch types (circular type and V type). Then, we extend our analysis to a nine-piston pump model. This paper not only confirms the effect of the pressure/flow pulsation according to pulsation variables but can also be applied to the development of a SimulationX$^{(R)}$-based simulation technique for notch-shape optimization for a swash-plate-type variable piston pump.

A Study on the Injection Flow with Viscoelastic Effect (점탄성 효과를 가진 사출 유동에 관한 연구)

  • Jeon, Eon-Chan;Park, Jung-Woo;Kim, Soo-Yong;Lee, Chul-Jang;Ahn, Kwang-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.25-29
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, we design internal space in plunger-type low pressure vacuum injection molding machine from numerical study. And we study characteristic of viscoelastic flow for searching injection molding condition. Then the flow analysis was performed using the CAE S/W. The result shows optimal value of nozzle and hole in injection chamber. And we investigated qualitatively relationship between injection pressure and injection mass flow with variable shear rate

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Obstacle Avoidance for a Mobile Robot Using Optical Flow (광류 정보를 이용한 이동 로봇의 장애물 회피 항법)

  • Lee, Han-Sik;Baek, Jun-Geol;Jang, Dong-Sik
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.25-35
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents a heuristic algorithm that a mobile robot avoids obstacles using optical flow. Using optical flow, the mobile robot can easily avoid static obstacles without a prior position information as well as moving obstacles with unknown trajectories. The mobile robot in this paper is able to recognize the locations or routes of obstacles, which can be detected by obtaining 2-dimensional optical flow information from a CCD camera. It predicts the possibilities of crash with obstacles based on the comparison between planned routes and the obstacle routes. Then it modifies its driving route if necessary. Driving acceleration and angular velocity of mobile robot are applied as controlling variables of avoidance. The corresponding simulation test is performed to verify the effectiveness of these factors. The results of simulation show that the mobile robot can reach the goal with avoiding obstacles which have variable routes and speed.