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An Unstructured Mesh Technique for Rotor Aerodynamics

  • Kwon, Oh-Joon
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.24-25
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    • 2006
  • An unstructured mesh method has been developed for the simulation of steady and time-accurate flows around helicopter rotors. A dynamic and quasi-unsteady solution-adaptive mesh refinement technique was adopted for the enhancement of the solution accuracy in the local region of interest involving highly vortical flows. Applications were made to the 2-D blade-vortex interaction aerodynamics and the 3-D rotor blades in hover. The interaction between the rotor and the airframe in forward flight was investigated by introducing an overset mesh technique.

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Mesh Stability Study for the Performance Assessment of a Deep Geological Repository Using APro

  • Hyun Ho Cho;Hong Jang;Dong Hyuk Lee;Jung-Woo Kim
    • Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.283-294
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    • 2023
  • APro, developed in KAERI for the process-based total system performance assessment (TSPA) of deep geological disposal systems, performs finite element method (FEM)-based multiphysics analysis. In the FEM-based analysis, the mesh element quality influences the numerical solution accuracy, memory requirement, and computation time. Therefore, an appropriate mesh structure should be constructed before the mesh stability analysis to achieve an accurate and efficient process-based TSPA. A generic reference case of DECOVALEX-2023 Task F, which has been proposed for simulating stationary groundwater flow and time-dependent conservative transport of two tracers, was used in this study for mesh stability analysis. The relative differences in tracer concentration varying mesh structures were determined by comparing with the results for the finest mesh structure. For calculation efficiency, the memory requirements and computation time were compared. Based on the mesh stability analysis, an approach based on adaptive mesh refinement was developed to resolve the error in the early stage of the simulation time-period. It was observed that the relative difference in the tracer concentration significantly decreased with high calculation efficiency.

2-D Magnetostatic Field Analysis Using Adaptive Boundary Element Method (적응 경계요소법을 이용한 2형원 정자계 해석)

  • 고창섭;정현교;한송엽
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.243-249
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    • 1991
  • Adaptive mesh refinement scheme is incorporated with the boundary element analysis in order to get accurate solution with relatively fewer unnowns for magnetostatic field analysis. A new andsimple posteriori local error estimate is also presented. The local error is defined as an integraktion over the element of the difference between solutions from quadratic interpolation functions and linear interpolation functions and is used as the criterion for mesh refinement. Case study with a singular point reveals that adaptive meshes are more efficient in accuracy of solutions than uniform meshs generated by dividing al the elements evenly. The adaptive meshes give much better rate of convergence in global errors than the uniform meshes.

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Development of a 2-dimensional Flow Solver using Hybrid Unstructured and Adaptive Cartesian Meshes (비정렬 및 적응 직교격자를 이용한 2차원 혼합격자계 유동해석 코드 개발)

  • Jung, M.K.;Kwon, O.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.294-301
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    • 2011
  • A two-dimensional hybrid flaw solver has been developed for the accurate and efficient simulation of steady and unsteady flaw fields. The flow solver was cast to accommodate two different topologies of computational meshes. Triangular meshes are adopted in the near-body region such that complex geometric configurations can be easily modeled, while adaptive Cartesian meshes are, utilized in the off-body region to resolve the flaw more accurately with less numerical dissipation by adopting a spatially high-order accurate scheme and solution-adaptive mesh refinement technique. A chimera mesh technique has been employed to link the two flow regimes adopting each mesh topology. Validations were made for the unsteady inviscid vol1ex convection am the unsteady turbulent flaws over an NACA0012 airfoil, and the results were compared with experimental and other computational results.

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Three dimensional transition solid elements for adaptive mesh gradation

  • Choi, Chang-Koon;Lee, Nam-Ho
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.61-74
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    • 1993
  • A new three-dimensional transition solid element was presented for the automated three-dimensional adaptive h-refinement or the local mesh refinement where the steep stress gradient exists. The proposed transition element was established by adding variable nodes(element nodes) to basic 8-node for an effective connection between the refined region and the coarse region with minimum degrees of freedom possible. To be consistent in accuracy with 8-node solid element with nonconforming modes, this transition element was also improved through the addition of the modified nonconforming modes. Numerical examples show that the performance of the element and the applicability to 3D adaptations are satisfactory.

Variable-Node Element for Adaptive Finite Element Analysis of Stokes Flow around Structure (구조물 주변의 Stokes 흐름에 대한 적응적 유한요소 해석을 위한 변절점 요소)

  • 최창근;유원진;정근영
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 1996.10a
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    • pp.168-175
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    • 1996
  • This paper deals with the variable-node element for fluid flow and the adaptive h-version mesh refinement algorithm. The transient element has been formulated by the Galerkin approach in which the pressure term is replaced with the penalty function. The present element having variable mid-side node and is suitable for constructing a locally refined mesh avoiding the use of the highly distorted elements. A modified Gauss quadrature is needed to integrate the element matrices to solve the trouble associated with the discontinuity of derivatives of shape functions. Several numerical examples show that the proposed element can be effectively used in the h-version adapt ive mesh refinement

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Numerical Comparisons Between URANS and Hybrid RANS/LES at a High Reynolds Number Flow Using Unstructured Meshes

  • You, Ju-Yeol;Kwon, Oh-Joon
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2010
  • In the present study, the turbulent flow fields around a circular cylinder at $Re=3.6{\times}10^6$ were investigated based on an unstructured mesh technique, and the comparisons between URANS(S-A, SST) and hybrid RANS/LES(DES, SAS) methods for the simulation of high Reynolds number flow have been conducted. For this purpose, unsteady characteristics of vortex shedding and time-averaged quantities were compared. A quasi-steady solution-adaptive mesh refinement was also made for the URANS and hybrid RANS/LES approaches. The results showed that the simple changes in the turbulent length scale or source term of turbulent models made the flow fields less dissipative and more realistic in hybrid RANS/LES methods than the URANS approaches.

2-D Magnetostatic Field Analysis Using Adaptive Boundary Element Method (적응 경계요소법을 이용한 2차원 정자장 해석)

  • Koh, Chang-Seop;Jeon, Ki-Eock;Hahn, Song-Yop;Jung, Hyun-Kyo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1990.11a
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    • pp.23-27
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    • 1990
  • Adaptive mesh refinement scheme is incorporated with the Boundary Element Method (BEM) in order to get accurate solution with relatively fewer unknowns for the case of magnetostatic field analysis and A new and simple posteriori local error estimation method is presented. The local error is defined as integration over the element of the difference between solutions acquired us ing second order and first order interpolation function and is used as the criterion for mesh refinement at given grid. Case study for two dimensional problems with singular point reveals that meshes are concentrated on the neighbor of singular point and the error is decreased gradually and the solutions calculated on the domain are converged to the analytic solution as the number of unknowns increases. The adaptive mesh gives much better rate of convergence in global errors than the uniform mesh.

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p-Adaptive Mesh Refinement of Plate Bending Problem by Modified SPR Technique (수정 SPR 기법에 의한 휨을 받는 평판문제의 적응적 p-체눈 세분화)

  • Jo, Jun-Hyung;Lee, Hee-Jung;Woo, Kwang-Sung
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.481-486
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    • 2007
  • The Zienkiewicz-Zhu(Z/Z) error estimate is slightly modified for the hierarchical p-refinement, and is then applied to L-shaped plates subjected to bending to demonstrate its effectiveness. An adaptive procedure in finite element analysis is presented by p-refinement of meshes in conjunction with a posteriori error estimator that is based on the superconvergent patch recovery(SPR) technique. The modified Z/Z error estimate p-refinement is different from the conventional approach because the high order shape functions based on integrals of Legendre polynomials are used to interpolate displacements within an element, on the other hand, the same order of basis function based on Pascal's triangle tree is also used to interpolate recovered stresses. The least-square method is used to fit a polynomial to the stresses computed at the sampling points. The strategy of finding a nearly optimal distribution of polynomial degrees on a fixed finite element mesh is discussed such that a particular element has to be refined automatically to obtain an acceptable level of accuracy by increasing p-levels non-uniformly or selectively. It is noted that the error decreases rapidly with an increase in the number of degrees of freedom and the sequences of p-distributions obtained by the proposed error indicator closely follow the optimal trajectory.

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AN ADAPTIVE MULTIGRID TECHNIQUE FOR OPTION PRICING UNDER THE BLACK-SCHOLES MODEL

  • Jeong, Darae;Li, Yibao;Choi, Yongho;Moon, Kyoung-Sook;Kim, Junseok
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.295-306
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we consider the adaptive multigrid method for solving the Black-Scholes equation to improve the efficiency of the option pricing. Adaptive meshing is generally regarded as an indispensable tool because of reduction of the computational costs. The Black-Scholes equation is discretized using a Crank-Nicolson scheme on block-structured adaptively refined rectangular meshes. And the resulting discrete equations are solved by a fast solver such as a multigrid method. Numerical simulations are performed to confirm the efficiency of the adaptive multigrid technique. In particular, through the comparison of computational results on adaptively refined mesh and uniform mesh, we show that adaptively refined mesh solver is superior to a standard method.