• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 1999년도 추계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.181-186
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• 1999

The effects of the frequency of upstream gust on the unsteady boundary characteristics on a downstream blade was simulated by using a Navier-Stokes code. The Navier-Stokes code is based on an unstructured finite volume method and uses a low Reynolds k-e turbulence model to close the momentum equations. The MIT flapping foil experiment set-up is used to simulate the interaction between the upstream wake and a blade. The frequency of the upstream wake is simulated by varying rate of pitching motion of the flapping airfoils. Three reduced frequencies. 3.62. 7.24. and 10.86. are simulated. As the frequency increases, the unsteady fluctuation on the surfaces of the downstream hydrofoil is shown to decrease while the upstream flapper wake has larger first harmonics of y-velocity component. The unsteady vortices are shown to interact with each other and. as a result. the upstream wake becomes undiscernible inside the inner layer. The turbulence kinetic energy shows a similar behavior. Limiting streamlines around the trailing edge of the flapper are shown to conform with the unsteady Kutta condition for a round trailing edge. while limiting streamlines around the trailing edge of the hydrofoil conforms with the unsteady Kutta condition for a sharp edge.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.1234-1245
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• 2003

An experimental study was carried out to investigate the reduced frequency effect on the near-wake of an elliptic airfoil oscillating in pitch. The airfoil was sinusoidally pitched around the center of the chord between -5$^{\circ}$and ＋25$^{\circ}$angles of attack at an airspeed of 3.4 m/s. The chord Reynolds number and reduced frequencies were 3.3 ${\times}$10$^4$, and 0.1, 0.7, respectively Phase-averaged axial velocity and turbulent intensity profiles are presented to show the reduced frequency effects on the near-wake behind the airfoil oscillating In pitch. Axial velocity defects in the near-wake region have a tendency to increase in response to a reduced frequency during pitch up motion, whereas it tends to decrease during pitch down motion at a positive angle of attack. Turbulent intensity at positive angles of attack during the pitch up motion decreased in response to a reduced frequency, whereas turbulent intensity during the pitch down motion varies considerably with downstream stations. Although the true instantaneous angle of attack compensated for a phase-lag is large, the wake thickness of an oscillating airfoil is not always large because of laminar or turbulent separation.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.273-279
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 난류 강도가 풍력발전기 후류에 미치는 영향을 살펴보기 위하여 축소된 풍력발전기 모델을 이용하여 풍동실험을 수행하였다. 실험 결과 측정 위치에 따라 풍력발전기가 가지는 특성에 따라 후류의 형태가 달라지며, 난류 강도에 따른 영향이 반드시 고려되어야 하는 것으로 나타났다. 난류 강도만을 일부 고려한 격자 난류 조건에서 등류 조건보다 기존의 후류 모델과 보다 더 잘 일치하는 경향을 보이고 있으며, 측정된 난류 강도 값을 바탕으로 수정된 후류 모델을 제안하였다. 향후 다양한 난류 특성이 고려된 합리적인 모델이 필요하다고 판단된다.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2015

The main objective of this study is to predict the wind power generation at the wind farm using various wake models. Modeling of wind farm is a prerequisite for prediction of annual energy production at the wind farm. In this study, we modeled 20 MW class Seongsan wind farm which has 10 wind turbines located at the eastern part of Jeju Island. WindSim based on the computational fluid dynamics was adopted for the estimation of power generation. The power curve and thrust coefficient with meteorology file were prepared for wind farm modelling. The meteorology file was produced based on the measured data of the Korea Wind Atlas provided by Korea Institute of Energy Research. Three types of wake models such as Jensen, Larsen, and Ishihara et al. wake models were applied to investigate the wake effects. From the result, Jensen and Ishihara wake models show nearly the same value of power generation whereas the Larsen wake model shows the largest value. New positions of wind turbines are proposed to reduce the wake loss, and to increase the annual energy production of the wind farm.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.59.2-59.2
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• 2011

Although there are many activities on the construction of wind farm to produce amount of power from the wind, in practice power productions are not as much as its expected capabilities. This is because a lack of both the prediction of wind resources and the aerodynamic analysis on turbines with far wake effects. In far wake region, there are velocity deficits and increases of the turbulence intensity which lead to the power losses of the next turbine and the increases of dynamic loadings which could reduce system's life. The analysis on power losses and the increases of fatigue loadings in the wind farm is needed to prevent these unwanted consequences. Therefore, in this study velocity deficits have been predicted and aerodynamic analysis on turbines in the far wake is carried out from these velocity profiles. Ainslie's eddy viscosity wake model is adopted to determine a wake velocity and aerodynamic analysis on wind turbines is predicted by the numerical methods such as blade element momentum theory(BEMT) and vortex lattice method(VLM). The results show that velocity recovery is more rapid in the wake region with higher turbulence intensity. Since the velocity deficit is larger when the turbine has higher thrust coefficient, there is a huge aerodynamic power loss at the downstream turbine.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.571-576
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• 2011

점성 액체를 사용한 모사된 GTL공정(직경 0.102 m ${\times}$ 높이 1.5 m)에서 기포에 의해 발생되는 wake의 특성을 고찰하였다. 기체의 유속(0.04 ~ 0.12 m/s)과 액상의 점도(0.001 ~ 0.050 $Pa{\cdot}s$)가 wake의 특성 즉 상승속도, 빈도수, 크기 그리고 체류량에 미치는 영향을 전기저항 탐침법에 의해 결정하였다. 상승하는 단일기포들뿐만 아니라 다중기포의 후면에 형성된 wake 상들도 탐침에 의해 측정된 전기 전도도 요동자료로부터 효과적으로 검침되었다. 유속이 조절되는 압축 여과공기와 CMC 수용액을 각각 분산기체상과 연속액상으로 사용하였다. 실험결과 wake 상의 상승속도와 크기는 기체의 유속 또는 액상의 점도가 증가함에 따라 증가하였다. wake 상의 체류량과 빈도수는 기체의 유속이 증가함에 따라 증가하였는데, 이는 기체유속의 증가에 따라 공정에 유입되는 기체의 양이 증가하기 때문이다. 그러나, 액상의 점도가 증가함에 따라 기포의 크기와 wake의 크기가 증가하기 때문에 wake의 상의 체류량과 빈도수 값은 wake 상의 액상의 점도가 증가함에 따라 감소하였다. Wake 상 체류량의 기체의 체류량에 대한 비율은 0.25~0.48의 범위였으며, 이 비율은 액체점도가 증가함에 따라 증가하였으나 기체의 유속이 증가함에 따라 감소하였다. 본 연구의 실험범위에서 wake 상의 특성들은 운전변수의 상관식으로 잘 나타낼 수 있었다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.525-532
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• 2020

This work numerically investigates the effects of Reynolds number Re_D (= 100 - 150), cross-sectional aspect ratio AR = ( 0.25 -1.0), and attack angle α (= 0° - 90°) on the forces, Strouhal number, and wake of an elliptical cylinder, where Re_D is based on the freestream velocity and cylinder cross-section height normal to the freestream flow, AR is the ratio of the minor axis to the major axis of the elliptical cylinder, and α is the angle between the cylinder major axis and the incoming flow. At Re_D = 100, two distinct wake structures are identified, namely 'Steady wake' (pattern I) and 'Karman wake followed by a steady wake (pattern II)' when AR and α are varied in the ranges specified. When Re_D is increased to 150, an additional wake pattern, 'Karman wake followed by secondary wake (pattern III)' materializes. Pattern I is characterized by two steady bubbles forming behind the cylinder. Pattern II features Karman vortex street immediately behind the cylinder, with the vortex street transmuting to two steady shear layers downstream. Inflection angle α_i = 32°, 37.5° and 45° are identified for AR = 0.25, 0.5 and 0.75, respectively, where the wake asymmetry is the greatest. The α_i effectively distinguishes the dependence on α and AR of force and vortex shedding frequency at either Re_D. In Pattern III, the Karman street forming behind the cylinder is modified to a secondary vortex street. At a given AR and α, Re_D = 150 renders higher fluctuating lift and Strouhal number than Re_D = 100.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2017

The treatment of rotor wake has been a critical issue in the field of the rotor aerodynamics. This paper presents a new free wake model for the unsteady analysis for a wind turbine. A blade-wake-tower interaction is major source of unsteady aerodynamic loading and noise on the wind turbine. However, this interaction can not be considered in conventional free wake model. Thus, the free wake model named Finite Vortex Element (FVE hereafter) was devised in order to consider the interaction effects. In this new free wake model, the wake-tower interaction was described by dividing one vortex filament into two vortex filaments, when the vortex filament collided with a tower. Each divided vortex filaments were remodeled to make vortex ring and horseshoe vortex to satisfy Kelvin's circulation theorem and Helmholtz's vortex theorem. This model was then used to predict aerodynamic load and wake geometry for the horizontal axis wind turbine. The results of the FVE model were compared with those of the conventional free wake model and the experimental results of SNU wind tunnel test and NREL wind tunnel test under various inflow velocity and yaw condition. The result of the FVE model showed better correlation with experimental data. It was certain that the tower interaction has a strong effect on the unsteady aerodynamic load of blades. Thus, the tower interaction needs to be taken into account for the unsteady load prediction. As a result, this research shows a potential of the FVE for an efficient and versatile numerical tool for unsteady loading analysis of a wind turbine.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.582-587
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• 2011

점성액체 기포탑에서 기포, wake 및 연속액상들의 체류량 특성을 고찰하였다. 기포탑의 직경(0.051, 0.076, 0.102 and 0.152 m ID), 기체 유속(0.02~0.16 m/s) 그리고 연속액상의 점도(0.001~0.050 $Pa{\cdot}s$)가 기포, wake 및 연속액상의 체류량에 미치는 영향을 검토하였다. 기포, wake 그리고 연속액상들은 이중 전기 저항탐침방법에 의하여 성공적으로 구별할 수 있었다. 압축된 여과공기와 물 또는 CMC 수용액을 각각 기체와 연속액상으로 사용하였다. 기포탑에서 기포와 wake 상들을 연속적으로 검침하기위해 자료수집장치(DT 2805 Lab Card)와 컴퓨터를 사용하였다. 탐침 써키트로부터 수집된 아날로그 자료는 디지털 자료로 변환되었으며, 이들 자료를 이용하여 기포탑에서 상승하는 단일기포 뿐만이 아니라 다중기포들의 후면에서 wake 상을 검침할 수 있었다. 기포와 wake 상의 체류량은 각각 기포탑의 직경과 연속액상의 점도가 증가함에 따라 감소하였으나 연속액상의 체류량은 증가하였다. 그러나, 기포와 wake의 체류량은 각각 기체 유속이 증가함에 따라 증가한 반면 연속액상의 체류량은 감소하였다. wake 상 체류량에 대한 기포 체류량의 비율은 기포탑의 직경 또는 기체의 유속이 증가함에 따라 감소한 반면 연속액상의 점도가 증가함에 점성액체 기포탑에서 기포, wake 그리고 연속액상의 체류량은 본 연구의 실험범위에서 다음과 같은 실험변수의 상관식으로 나타낼 수 있었다. ${\varepsilon}_B=0.043D^{-0.18}U_G^{0.56}{\mu}_L^{-0.13}$, ${\varepsilon}_W=0.003D^{-0.85}U_G^{0.46}{\mu}_L^{-0.10}$, ${\varepsilon}_C=1.179D^{0.09}U_G^{-0.13}{\mu}_L^{0.04}$.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.404-413
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• 2013

In the present study, a towed underwater particle image velocimetry (PIV) system was validated in uniform flow and used to investigate the free-surface effects on the turbulent wake of a simple surface-piercing body. The selected test model was a cylindrical geometry formed by extruding the Wigley hull's waterplane shape in the vertical direction. Due to the constraints of the two-dimensional (2D) PIV system used for the present study, the velocity field measurements were done separately for the vertical and horizontal planes. Using the measured data at several different locations, it was possible to identify the free-surface effects on the turbulent wake in terms of the mean velocity components and turbulence quantities. In order to provide an accuracy level of the data, uncertainty assessment was done following the International Towing Tank Conference standard procedure.