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An Immersed Boundary Method for Simulation of Density-Stratified Flows (밀도 성층 유동 해석을 위한 가상 경계법)

  • Yoon Dong-Hyeog;Yang Kyung-Soo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.29 no.8 s.239
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    • pp.940-947
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    • 2005
  • An immersed boundary method for simulation of density-stratified flows has been developed and applied to computation of viscous flows past three different types of obstacle under table density stratification, namely laminar flows past a vertical barrier, a cosine hill, and a sphere, respectively. Density forcing is introduced on the body surface or inside the body. Significant changes in flow characteristics are observed depending on Fr. The numerical results are in good agreement with other authors' experimental and numerical results currently available, and shed light on computation of density-stratified flows in complex geometries.

A Study on Thermal-hydraulic Characteristics for Nuclear Fuel Rod Bundle (핵연료 집합체에서의 열유동 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Yoo, S.Y.;Chung, M.H.;Kim, M.W.;Choi, YJ.;Kim, H.K.
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.11b
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    • pp.3-8
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    • 2001
  • For the successful design of nuclear reactor, it is very important to investigate thermal-hydraulic characteristics of fuel rod bundle. Fluid flow and heat transfer in the non-circular cross-section of nuclear fuel rod bundle are different from those found in common circular tube. And complex three dimensional flow including secondary and vortex flow, is formed around the bundles. The purpose of this research is to examine how geometries and flow conditions affect heat transfer in fuel rod bundle. Design data for nuclear fuel rod bundle and structure are surveyed, and $3{\times}3$ sub-channel model is adopted in this study. Computational results are compared with the heat transfer data measured by naphthalene sublimation method, and numerical analysis and evaluation are performed at various design conditions and flow conditions.

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Development of a Bellows Design Software Based on EJMA (EJMA에 기초한 벨로우즈 설계 소프트웨어의 개발)

  • Koh, Byung-Kab
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.150-157
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    • 2008
  • Bellows are commonly used in piping systems to absorb expansion and contraction in order to reduce stress. Unlike most piping components, bellows consist of a thin-walled shell of revolution with a corrugated meridian, in order to provide the flexibility needed to absorb mechanical movements. It is a composite shell structure consisting of at least one toroidal shell, an annular plate or conical shell. It is difficult to analyze the behavior of bellows because of its complex geometry. Simplified formulas for variable mechanical behaviors of bellows are provided by a standard called EJMA. An automatic design software for bellows is programming by using VBA(Visual Basic for Application) based on EJMA. Bellows engineers can effectively make a decision for bellows geometries because this software provides graphically design results in its post-processor. Bellows design software is expected to give quite a good guidance to practical design. The characteristics of bellows are also investigated through the automatic design process in bellows design software.

Flow-Induced Vibration Analysis of 2-DOF System Using Unstructured Euler Code (비정렬 오일러 코드를 이용한 2자유도계 시스템의 유체유발 진동해석)

  • Kim, Dong-Hyun;Park, Young-Min;Lee, In;Kwon, O-Jun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.675-680
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    • 2001
  • In this study, a fluid/structure coupled analysis system using computational fluid dynamics and computational structural dynamics has been developed. The unsteady flow fields are predicted using unstructured Euler code. Coupled time-integration method (CTIM) was applied to computer simulation of the flow-induced vibration phenomena. To investigate the interaction effect of shock motions, 2-DOF airfoil systems have been studied in the subsonic and transonic flow region. Also, aeroelastic analyses for the airfoil with an arbitrary object are performed to show the analysis capability and interference effects for the complex geometries. The present results show the flutter stabilities and characteristics of aeroelastic responses with moving shock effects.

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Octree Generation and Clipping Algorithm using Section Curves for Three Dimensional Cartesian Grid Generation (삼차원 직교 격자 생성을 위한 단면 커브를 이용한 옥트리 생성과 셀 절단 알고리듬)

  • Kim, Dong-Hun;Shin, Ha-Yong;Park, Se-Youn;Yi, Il-Lang;Kwon, Jang-Hyuk;Kwon, Oh-Joon
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.450-458
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    • 2008
  • Recently, Cartesian grid approach has been popular to generate grid meshes for complex geometries in CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) because it is based on the non-body-fitted technique. This paper presents a method of an octree generation and boundary cell clipping using section curves for fast octree generation and elimination of redundant intersections between boundary cells and triangles from 3D triangular mesh. The proposed octree generation method uses 2D Scan-Converting line algorithm, and the clipping is done by parameterization of vertices from section curves. Experimental results provide octree generation time as well as Cut-cell clipping time of several models. The result shows that the proposed octree generation is fast and has linear relationship between grid generation time and the number of cut-cells.

A Study on an Ion Wind Created by a Wire Electrode and Parallel Plates Assembly (와이어 전극과 평행판에서 발생되는 이온풍 특성 연구)

  • 안영철;황필재;이재근
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.318-323
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    • 2004
  • When a strong electric field is applied between a sharply curved electrode and a blunt surface, the corona may result in a gas movement in the electrode gap which is directed toward the blunt surface. That is called the corona wind. It enhances heat and mass transfer between the surface and the surrounding gas. Moreover such enhancement causes no noise or vibration, which can be applied in complex, isolated geometries, and allows simple control of surface temperatures. This paper examines the relationship between the corona wind and the relative humidity. The facility consists of high voltage power supply thin tungsten wire, plate electrode, multimeter, microammeter and flow meter. Gas velocity is a linear function of voltage, relative humidity and is proportional to the square root of the current. The maximum velocities for the positive and negative corona discharge are 1.9 m/s (2.74 CMM/m), 1.5 m/s(2.15 CMM/m), respectively.

Zeroth-Order Shear Deformation Micro-Mechanical Model for Periodic Heterogeneous Beam-like Structures

  • Lee, Chang-Yong
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2015
  • This paper discusses a new model for investigating the micro-mechanical behavior of beam-like structures composed of various elastic moduli and complex geometries varying through the cross-sectional directions and also periodically-repeated along the axial directions. The original three-dimensional problem is first formulated in an unified and compact intrinsic form using the concept of decomposition of the rotation tensor. Taking advantage of two smallness of the cross-sectional dimension-to-length parameter and the micro-to-macro heterogeneity and performing homogenization along dimensional reduction simultaneously, the variational asymptotic method is used to rigorously construct an effective zeroth-order beam model, which is similar a generalized Timoshenko one (the first-order shear deformation model) capable of capturing the transverse shear deformations, but still carries out the zeroth-order approximation which can maximize simplicity and promote efficiency. Two examples available in literature are used to demonstrate the consistence and efficiency of this new model, especially for the structures, in which the effects of transverse shear deformations are significant.

A study on Analysis Technique of Design Parameters for Brushless DC motor (Brushless DC motor의 설계 Parameter 분석 기법에 관한 연구)

  • Maeng, Kyung-Ho;Park, Chang-Soon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.6-8
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    • 2004
  • Recently, it is increasing to use more Brushless DC Motor with high energy density permanent magnet and semiconductor control unit for complementing the mechanical defect of Brushed DC Motors. For designing of BLDC Motors are required complex parameters like as rated characteristic, Geometries, B-H curve of magnet and steel materials, winding factor, etc. Moreover, design and manufacturing are difficult because of additional control circuits. Generally, Design parameters are gotten by analysis of Motor which is used. And the design parameters are used to design a new motor. But getting the design parameters through the eyes and experience is limited and it takes a long time. In this paper a method is proposed to efficiently analyze motor design parameters through the No load and Load Test, Back EMF Test, Simulation Analysis and Patent Analysis Method for existing BLDC Motor for a cooling Fan in Vehicle.

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Substructure/fluid subdomain coupling method for large vibroacoustic problems

  • El Maani, Rabii;El Hami, Abdelkhalak;Radi, Bouchaib
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.65 no.4
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    • pp.359-368
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    • 2018
  • Dynamic analysis of complex and large structures may be costly from a numerical point of view. For coupled vibroacoustic finite element models, the importance of reducing the size becomes obvious because the fluid degrees of freedom must be added to the structural ones. In this paper, a component mode synthesis method is proposed for large vibroacoustic interaction problems. This method couples fluid subdomains and dynamical substructuring of Craig and Bampton type. The acoustic formulation is written in terms of the velocity potential, which implies several advantages: coupled algebraic systems remain symmetric, and a potential formulation allows a direct extension of Craig and Bampton's method to acoustics. Those properties make the proposed method easy to implement in an existing finite element code because the local numerical treatment of substructures and fluid subdomains is undifferentiated. Test cases are then presented for axisymmetric geometries. Numerical results tend to prove the validity and the efficiency of the proposed method.

Plow Analysis for Radiating Fluid with Density Variation affected by Overheat Ratio (과열비에 따른 유체밀도 변화를 고려한 복사유체 유동 해석)

  • Han C. Y.;Chae J. W.;Park E. S.;Nam M. G.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.04a
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    • pp.75-78
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    • 2005
  • A numerical investigation has been performed to discuss the radiation-affected steady-laminar natural convection in an enclosure under a large temperature difference. Due to inherent nature of this study, the Boussinesq approximation is no longer valid. Therefore the radiating fluid in an enclosure is treated as a ideal gas. To examine the effects of thermal radiation on thermo-fluid dynamic behaviors in complex geometries, two incomplete partitions are introduced. Based on the results of this study, the dispositions of incomplete partitions with radiatively participating medium are found to incur a distinct difference in fluid-dynamic as well as thermal behavior.

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