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Numerical Analysis on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of Thin Airfoil with Flapping and Pitching Motion (플래핑 운동 및 키놀이 운동을 하는 얇은 에어포일의 공력특성에 대한 수치 해석)

  • Kim, Woo-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.45-50
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    • 2013
  • In this study, lumped-vortex element method and thin airfoil theory were used to analyze aerodynamic characteristics of airfoils with relative motion that had camber lines of NACA $44{\times}{\times}$ airfoil in 2-dimensional unsteady incompressible potential flow. Velocity disturbance due to airfoil was calculated by lumped-vortex element model and force distribution on airfoil by unsteady Bernoulli's equation. Variables in relative motion were considered the period p, the amplitude of flapping $A_f$ and pitching $A_p$, and the phase difference between flapping and pitching ${\phi}_p$ and the angle of attack ${\alpha}$. Due to movement of an airfoil, dag was induced in 2-dimensional unsteady incompressible potential flow. The numerical results show that the aerodynamic characteristics of the airfoil with flapping and pitching at the same time are illustrated. Especially the mean lift coefficient became smaller, but drag coefficient became larger.

Response Analysis of Deep Ocean Risers to Vortex-Shedding by Numerical Analysis (수치해석에 의한 심해용 라이저의 와동방출 응답해석)

  • Park, Han-Il;Cho, Hyo-Je;Jung, Dong-Ho
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.3B
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    • pp.65-72
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    • 1999
  • A deep-ocean mining riser pipe is subjected to floating vessel motion as well as environmental forces arising from currents and waves. The dynamic analysis is carried out for a deep-ocean mining riser pipe by using a finite element method. The vortex shedding which excites risers in a direction perpendicular to the flow and induces transverse response is considered. It is demonstrated that transverse displacements due to vortex shedding is greatly increased in lock-in regions. The result of this study is compared with other results having good agreements.

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Numerical Study for Effects of Density-Stratification on Wake Behind a Sphere (구 후류에 미치는 유동장 밀도 성층화 영향 전산 해석)

  • Lee, Sung-Su;Yang, Kyung-Soo;Park, Chan-Wook
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.553-559
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    • 2004
  • Stratified flow past a three-dimensional obstacle such as a sphere has been a long-lasting subject of geophysical, environmental and engineering fluid dynamics. In order to investigate the effect of the stratification on the near wake, in particular, the unsteady vortex formation behind a sphere, numerical simulations of stratified flows past a sphere are conducted. The time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations are solved using a three-dimensional finite element method and a modified explicit time integration scheme. Laminar flow regime is considered, and linear stratification of density is assumed under Bossiness approximation. The computed results include the characteristics of the near wake and the unsteady vortex shedding. With a strong stratification, the separation on the sphere is suppressed and the wake structure behind the sphere becomes planar, resembling that behind a vertical cylinder.

Numerical Analysis of Tip Vortex Flow of Three-dimensional Hydrofoil using B-Spline Higher-order Boundary Element Method (B-Spline 고차 경계요소법을 이용한 3차원 수중익의 날개 끝 와류유동 수치해석)

  • Kim, Ji-Hye;Ahn, Byoung-Kwon;Kim, Gun-Do;Lee, Chang-Sup
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.189-195
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    • 2017
  • A three-dimensional higher order boundary element method based on the B-spline is presented. The method accurately models piecewise continuous bodies and induced velocity potentials using B-spline tensor product representations, and it is capable of obtaining accurate pointwise values for the potential and its derivatives, especially in the trailing edge and tip region of the lift generating body, which may be difficult or impossible to evaluate with constant panel methods. In addition, we implement a wake roll-up and examine the tip vortex formation in the near wake region. The results are compared with existing numerical results and the results of experiments performed out at the cavitation tunnel of Chungnam National University.

Study on the effect of corrosion defects on VIV behavior of marine pipe using a new defective pipe element

  • Zhang, He;Xu, Chengkan;Shen, Xinyi;Jiang, Jianqun
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.552-568
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    • 2020
  • After long-term service in deep ocean, pipelines are usually suffered from corrosions, which may greatly influence the Vortex-Induced Vibration (VIV) behavior of pipes. Thus, we investigate the VIV of defective pipelines. The geometric nonlinearity due to large deformation of pipes and nonlinearity in vortex-induced force are simulated. This nonlinear vibration system is simulated with finite element method and solved by direct integration method with incremental algorithm. Two kinds of defects, corrosion pits and volumetric flaws, and their effects of depth and range on VIV responses are investigated. A new finite element is developed to simulate corrosion pits. Defects are found to aggravate VIV displacement response only if environmental flow rate is less than resonance flow rate. As the defect depth grows, the stress responses increase, however, the increase of the defect range reduces the stress response at corroded part. The volumetric flaws affect VIV response stronger than the corrosion pits.

An Experimental and Numerical Study on the Fracture Behavior of Air conditioner Impellers (에어컨 임펠러의 파손 거동에 관한 실험 및 수치적 연구)

  • Koh, Byung-Kab;Lee, Sung-Chul
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.10 no.12
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    • pp.3533-3539
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    • 2009
  • An air conditioner impeller has been used to suck the warm air and to blow the chilled air by the centrifugal force induced from the rotation of it. To check the possibility of the fracture due to resonance, both numerical and experimental approach was carried out. For the structural analysis, the commercial code ANSYS based on the Finite Element Method was employed. The possibility of the fracture is the resonance between the natural frequency of impeller and characteristic frequency due to the aerodynamic forces. Experiment was carried out to see the natural frequency and numerical analysis based on the Vortex Element Method is performed to get the characteristic frequency. Comparing the natural frequencies that are calculated as described, we believe that resonance occurs.

A Numerical Study on the Bubble Noise and the Tip Vortex Cavitation Inception

  • Park, Jin-Keun;Georges L. Chahine
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.13-33
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents a numerical study on tip vortex cavitation inception predictions based on non-spherical bubble dynamics including splitting and jet noise emission. A brief summary of the numerical method and its validation against a laboratory experiment are presented. The behavior of bubble nuclei is studied in a tip vortex flow field at two Reynolds numbers, provided by a viscous flow solver. The bubble behavior is simulated by an axisymmetric potential flow solver with the effect of surrounding viscous flow taken into account using one way coupling. The effects of bubble nucleus size and Reynolds number are studied. An effort to model the bubble splitting at lower cavitation numbers is also described.

New Free Wake Method Development for Unsteady Aerodynamic Load on HAWT Blade and Experimental Analysis (풍력블레이드 비정상 공력하중 해석을 위한 자유후류기법 개발 및 실험적 연구)

  • Shin Hyungki;Park Jiwoong;Kim Hogeon;Lee Soogab
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.33-36
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    • 2005
  • A critical issue in the field of the rotor aerodynamics is the treatment of the wake. The wake is of primary importance in determining overall aerodynamic behavior, especially, a wind turbine blade includes the unsteady air loads problem. In this study, the wake generated by blades are depicted by a free wake model to analyse unsteady loading on blade and a new free wake model named Finite Vortex Element(FVE hereafter) is devised in order to include a wake-tower interact ion. In this new free wake model, blade-wake-tower interaction is described by cutting a vortex filament when the filament collides with a tower. This FVE model is compared with a conventional free wake model and verified by a comparison with NREL and SNU wind tunnel model. A comparison with NREL and SNU data shows validity and effectiveness of devised FVE free wake model and an efficient.

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A Study of Generation of Coherent Vortex in Late Wake (잔류내 응집 구조 와류의 생성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee Sungsu
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.443-446
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    • 2002
  • Wake downstream of an object in the stratified flow has been of long-standing interest in fluid dynamics because of its similarity to geophysical flow over topographical terrains and more recently, concerns about the wake left behind a body moving through the ocean thermocline. Decades of studies of geophysical flow have unveiled that the flow downstream of obstacles in stratified flow consists of attached wake and strong internal waves, or separated, fluctuating wake and persistent late wakes, all of which depend on the flow conditions. Among unique and interesting characteristics of the stratified flow past obstacles is the generation of coherent vortex structure in the late wake far downstream of the object. Without the density stratification, the flow field downstream becomes undisturbed after relatively fast diminishing of the near wake. However, no matter how small the stratification is, the flow field downstream self-develops coherent vortex structures even after diminishing of the near wake. This paper present a computational approach to simulate the generation mechanism of the coherent vortex and analysis of the vortical structure.

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