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Emulation of Variable Wind Speed and Turbulance Effect in a Wind Turbine Simulator (가변 풍속과 터뷸런스를 고려한 가변속 풍력 발전 시스템 시뮬레이터 개발)

  • Song, Seung-Ho;Kim, Dong-Yong;Kim, In-Sun;Kyong, Nam-Ho
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.290-296
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    • 2006
  • Control algorithms and implementation issues for a wind turbine simulator are presented for realistic emulation of variable wind characteristics using a lab-scale motor and generator set. When the average wind speed nd turbulence level is given, the torque reference of prime mover is decided through various blocks, such as random wind speed generator, blade characteristic curves, and tower effect compensation. The variable nature of wind can be implemented and tested by not only the computer simulation but also the hardware-in-loop-simulator (HILS). Some application examples of HILS include the development and test of turbine control software for more efficient and stable operation. Feasibility of the proposed simulator has verified by computer simulations and experiment.

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Steady and Unsteady Operating Characteristics of Supersonic Exhaust Diffuser for Altitude Simulation (고도모사용 초음속디퓨져의 정상 및 천이작동특성)

  • Park, Byung-Hoon;Ki, Wan-Do;Lim, Ji-Hwan;Yoon, Woong-Sup
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.344-352
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    • 2006
  • Evacuation performance, starting transient, and plume blowback at diffuser breakdown of a straight cylindrical supersonic exhaust diffuser with no externally supplied secondary flow are investigated. Pressure records in the transitional periods are measured by a small-scale cold-gas simulator. Flow-fields evolving in the diffuser-type ejector are solved by preconditioned Favre-averaged Navier-Stokes equations with a low-Reynolds number $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence model edited for turbulence compressibility effects. The present RANS method is properly validated with measured static wall pressure distributions and evacuation level at steady operation as well as the pressure records during the transition regime.

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THE ORIGIN OF LARGE SCALE GALACTIC MAGNETIC FIELDS

  • SUBRAMANIAN K.
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.29 no.spc1
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    • pp.155-158
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    • 1996
  • Magnetic fields correlated on several kiloparsec scales are seen in spiral galaxies. Their origin could be due to the winding up of a primordial cosmological field or due to amplification of a small seed field by a turbulent galactic dynamo. Both options have difficulties: There is no known battery mechanism for producing the required primordial field. Equally the turbulent dynamo may self destruct before being able to produce the large scale field, due to excess generation of small scale power. The current status of these difficulties is discussed. The resolution could depend on the nature of the saturated field produced by the small scale dynamo. We argue that the small scale fields do not fill most of the volume of the fluid and instead concentrate into intermittent ropes, with their peak value of order equipartition fields, and radii much smaller than their lengths. In this case these fields neither drain significant energy from the turbulence nor convert eddy motion of the turbulence on the outer scale to wave like motion. This preserves the diffusive effects needed for the large scale dynamo operation.

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A Numerical Investigation of Indoor Air Quality with CFD

  • Sin V. K;Sun H. I
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.207-208
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    • 2003
  • Increasing interest in indoor air quality (IAQ) control has been found because of its serious effect on human health. To evaluate IAQ, thermal comfort in terms of temperature and velocity distributions of indoor air has to be analyzed in detail. Choice of location for installation of air-conditioner in a building will affect the performance of cooling effect and thermal comfort on the occupants, which in turn will affect the indoor air quality (IAQ) of the building. In this paper, we present a discussion on the proper location of the air-conditioner in order to obtain good thermal comfort for occupant of a typical bedroom in Macao. A set of carefully designed numerical experiments is run with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software FLOVENT 3.2 [1]. Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations are solved with finite volume technique and turbulence effects upon the mean flow characteristics is modeled with the k - & model. Assumption of steady state environment is made and only convective and conductive heat transfer from the occupant and air-conditioner are being concerned.

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Numerical Study on Flow Field in the Cylinder of an Axisymmetric Engine (축대칭엔진 실린더 내의 유동장에 관한 수치해석적 연구)

  • 김영환;유정열;강신형
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.467-474
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    • 1993
  • Viscous flow and heat transfer phenomena in an axisymmetric cylinder which models a diesel engine have been numerically studied. In order to search for a way to minimize numerical diffusion, the effectiveness and the appropriateness of two selected numerical schemes for convective terms in the governing equations have been tested. They are Linear Upwind Difference Scheme and Hybrid Scheme. Using a standard k-.epsilon. turbulence model, the calculation has been carried out basically up to 180.deg. of crank angle. As a result, it was shown from comparison with previous experimental data that Linear Upwind Difference Scheme is less influenced than Hybrid Scheme by the numerical diffusion and it was suggested that these effects of numerical diffusion can be more significant than those due to turbulence modeling.

Measurement of Inward Turbulent Flows in a Rotating with Square Cross-Section $90^{\circ}$ Duct (회전하는 정사각단면 $90^{\circ}$ 곡덕트 내 내향 난류유동 측정)

  • Kim, Dong-Chul;Chun, Kun-Ho;Choi, Young-Don
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2000.11b
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    • pp.627-632
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    • 2000
  • Developing turbulent flows in a rotating 90 degree bend with square cross-section were measured by a hot-wire anemometer. The six orientation hot-wire technique was applied to measured the distributions of 3 mean velocities and 6 Reynolds stress components. Effects of Coriolis and centrifugal forces caused by the curvature and rotation of bend on the mean motion and turbulence structures were experimentally investigated Productive addition of Coriolis and centrifugal forces to the outward radial direction in the entrance region of bend increases the secondary flow intensity according to the rotational speeds. However, after 45 degree of bend, centrifugal force due to the rotation of bend may promote the break down of counter rotating vortex pair into multi-cellular pattern, thereby decreasing the production rate of turbulence energy and Reynolds stresses.

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Effect of Incidence Angle on the Wake Turbulence of a Turbine Rotor Blade (입사각이 터빈 동익의 후류 난류유동에 미치는 영향)

  • Chang, Sung-Il;Lee, Sang-Woo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.29 no.8 s.239
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    • pp.887-894
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    • 2005
  • This paper describes effects of incidence angle on the wake turbulent flow of a high-turning turbine rotor blade. For three incidence angles of -5, 0 and 5 degrees, energy spectra as well as profiles of mean velocity magnitude and turbulence intensity at mid-span are reported in the wake. Vortex shedding fiequencies are obtained from the energy spectra. The result shows that as the incidence angle changes from -5 to 5 degrees, the suction-side wake tends to be widened and the deviation angle is increased. Strouhal numbers based on the shedding fiyequencies have a nearly constant value, regardless of the tested incidence angles.

Effect of taper on fundamental aeroelastic behaviors of super-tall buildings

  • Kim, Yong Chul;Tamura, Yukio;Yoon, Sung-Won
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.527-548
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    • 2015
  • Aeroelastic wind tunnel experiments were conducted for conventional and tapered super-tall building models to investigate the effect of taper on fundamental aeroelastic behaviors in various incident flows. Three incident flows were simulated: a turbulent boundary-layer flow representing urban area; a low-turbulent flow; and a grid-generated flow. Results were summarized focusing on the effect of taper and the effect of incident flows. The suppression of responses by introducing taper was profound in the low-turbulence flow and boundary-layer flow, but in the grid-generated flow, the response becomes larger than that of the square model when the wind is applied normal to the surface. The effects of taper and incident flows were clearly shown on the normalized responses, power spectra, stability diagrams and probability functions.

MHD turbulence in expanding/collapsing media

  • Park, Jun-Seong;Ryu, Dong-Su;Cho, Jung-Yeon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.74.2-74.2
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    • 2010
  • We investigate driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence by including the effects of expansion and collapse of background medium. The main goal is to quantify the evolution and saturation of strength and characteristic lengths of magnetic fields in expanding and collapsing media. Our findings are as follows. First, with expansion and collapse of background medium, the magnetic energy density per comoving volume does not saturate; either it keeps decreasing or increasing with time. The magnetic energy density relative to the kinetic energy density strongly depends on the expanding or collapsing rate. Second, at scales close to the energy injection (or driving) scale, the slope of magnetic field power spectrum shallows with expansion but steepens with collapse. Third, various characteristic lengths, relative to the energy injection scale, decrease with expansion but increase with collapse. We discuss the astrophysical implications of our findings.

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Wind pressures on different roof shapes of a finite height circular cylinder

  • Ozmen, Y.;Aksu, E.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.25-41
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    • 2017
  • The effects of finite cylinder free end shape on the mean and fluctuating wind pressures were investigated experimentally and numerically by using three different roof shapes: flat, conical and hemispherical. The pressure distributions on the roofs and the side walls of the finite cylinders partially immersed in a simulated atmospheric boundary layer have been obtained for three different roof shapes. Realizable $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence model was used for numerical simulations. Change in roof shapes has caused significant differences on the pressure distributions. When compared the pressure distributions on the different roofs, it is seen from the results that hemispherical roof has the most critical pressure field among the others. It is found a good agreement between numerical and experimental results.