• Wind and Structures
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.115-125
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• 2022

The high-Reynolds number flow around a rectangular cylinder, having streamwise to crossflow length ratio equal to 5 is analyzed in the present paper. The flow is characterized by shear-layer separation from the upstream edges. Vortical structures of different size form from the roll-up of these shear layers, move downstream and interact with the classical vortex shedding further downstream in the wake. The corresponding mean flow is characterized by a recirculation region along the lateral surface of the cylinder, ending by mean flow reattachment close to the trailing edge. The mean flow features on the cylinder side have been shown to be highly sensitive to set-up parameters both in numerical simulations and in experiments. The results of 21 Large Eddy Simulations (LES) are analyzed herein to highlight the impact of the lateral mean recirculation characteristics on the near-wake flow features and on some bulk quantities. The considered simulations have been carried out at Reynolds number Re=DU_∞/ν=40 000, being D the crossflow dimension, U_∞ the freestream velocity and ν the kinematic viscosity of air; the flow is set to have zero angle of attack. Some simulations are carried out with sharp edges (Mariotti et al. 2017), others with different values of the rounding of the upstream edges (Rocchio et al. 2020) and an additional LES is carried out to match the value of the roundness of the upstream edges in the experiments in Pasqualetto et al. (2022). The dimensions of the mean recirculation zone vary considerably in these simulations, allowing us to single out meaningful trends. The streamwise length of the lateral mean recirculation and the streamwise distance from the upstream edge of its center are the parameters controlling the considered quantities. The wake width increases linearly with these parameters, while the vortex-shedding non-dimensional frequency shows a linear decrease. The drag coefficient also linearly decreases with increasing the recirculation length and this is due to a reduction of the suctions on the base. However, the overall variation of C_D is small. Finally, a significant, and once again linear, increase of the fluctuations of the lift coefficient is found for increasing the mean recirculation streamwise length.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.323-329
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• 2000

막결합형 활성슬러지 공정은 막오염으로 인한 플럭스 감소 때문에 시스템의 경제성과 효율성이 떨어지는 문제점을 지니고 있어 막오염에 대한 체계적인 연구가 요구되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 한외여과막과 결합된 활성슬러지 시스템을 운영하면서 막오염 유발 인자를 규명하고자 하였다. 활성슬러지 공정의 운전 초기에 급격한 플록 크기 감소와 동시에 급격한 플럭스 감소가 관찰되었다. 초기 플럭스 감소현상은 활성슬러지 플록의 입자 크기 감소로 인한 케이크 저항의 증가가 주요 원인이었다. 이것은 운전시간에 따른 각 여과 저항값을 측정하여 확인하였다. 또한, 플록 해체로 인하여 EPS 양이 운전 전보다 약 150 % 가량 증가한 것을 볼 때 EPS 양의 증가가 케이크 저항 증가의 또 다른 원인이 될 수 있음을 제시하였다.