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Numerical Analysis of a Tip Leakage Vortex in an Axial Flow Fan (축류홴 익단누설와류의 수치적 해석)

  • Jang, Choon-Man;Kim, Kwang-Yong
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.12a
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    • pp.404-411
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    • 2003
  • Three-dimensional vortical flow and separated flow topology near the casing wall in an axial flow fan having two different tip clearances have been investigated by a Reynolds-averaged Wavier-Stokes (RANS) flow simulation. The simulation shows that the tip leakage vortex formed close to the leading edge of the blade tip on suction side grows in the streamwise direction. On the casing wall, a separation line is formed upstream of the leakage vortex center due to the interference between the leakage vortex and main flow. The reverse flow is observed between the separation line and the attachment line generated downstream of the trailing edge, and increased with enlarging tip clearance. The patterns of a leakage velocity vector including a leakage flow rate are also analyzed according to two tip clearances. It is noted that the understanding of the distribution of a limiting streamline on the casing wall is very important to grasp the characteristics of the vortical flow in the axial flow fan.

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Lattice-Boltzmann Simulation of Fluid Flow around a Pair of Rectangular Cylinders

  • Taher, M.A.;Baek, Tae-Sil;Lee, Yeon-Won
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.62-70
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, the fluid flow behavior past a pair of rectangular cylinders placed in a two dimensional horizontal channel has been investigated using Lattice-Boltzmann Method(LBM). The LBM has built up on the D2Q9 model and the single relaxation time method called the Lattice-BGK(Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook)model. Streamlines, velocity, vorticity and pressure contours are provided to analyze the important characteristics of the flow field for a wide range of non dimensional parameters that present in our simulation. Special attention is paid to the effect of spacing(d) between two cylinders and the blockage ratio A(=h/H), where H is the channel height and h is the rectangular cylinder height. for different Reynolds numbers. The first cylinder is called upstream cylinder and the second one as downstream cylinder. The downstream fluid flow fields have been more influenced by its blockage ratios(A) and Reynolds numbers(Re) whereas the upstream flow patterns(in front of downstream cylinder) by the gap length(d) between two cylinders. Moreover, it is observed that after a certain gap, both upstream and downstream flow patterns are almost similar size and shape. The simulation result has been compared with analytical solution and it is found to be in excellent agreement.

Two-way fluid-structure interaction simulation for steady-state vibration of a slender rod using URANS and LES turbulence models

  • Nazari, Tooraj;Rabiee, Ataollah;Kazeminejad, Hossein
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.2
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    • pp.573-578
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    • 2019
  • Anisotropic distribution of the turbulent kinetic energy and the near-field excitations are the main causes of the steady state Flow-Induced Vibration (FIV) which could lead to fretting wear damage in vertically arranged supported slender rods. In this article, a combined Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Computational Structural Mechanic (CSM) approach named two-way Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) is used to investigate the modal characteristics of a typical rod's vibration. Performance of an Unsteady Reynolds-Average Navier-Stokes (URANS) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) turbulence models on asymmetric fluctuations of the flow field are investigated. Using the LES turbulence model, any large deformation damps into a weak oscillation which remains in the system. However, it is challenging to use LES in two-way FSI problems from fluid domain discretization point of view which is investigated in this article as the innovation. It is concluded that the near-wall meshes whiten the viscous sub-layer is of great importance to estimate the Root Mean Square (RMS) of FIV amplitude correctly as a significant fretting wear parameter otherwise it merely computes the frequency of FIV.

Pressure Distributions of a Screw-type Centrifugal Pump Operating in Air-Water Two-Phase Flow (기액 이상류시의 스크류식 원심펌프의 압력분포)

  • Kim, You-Taek;Choi, Min-Seon;Lee, Young-Ho
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.4 no.3 s.12
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2001
  • It is reported recently that the pump head deterioration near the best efficiency point, from single-phase flow to the choke due to air entrainment became less in a screw-type centrifugal pump than in a general centrifugal pump. Moreover, at a narrow tip clearance, the pump head became partially higher in two-phase flow than that in single-phase flow. However, the internal pressure fluctuations on this pump due to air entrainment have not been studied yet. For that reason, we have examined the influences of void fraction, flow coefficient and impeller tip clearance on pressure fluctuations in the casing. The void fraction became larger, the influence of tip clearance on pressure distribution became less.

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Numerical Analysis of Cavitation Flow Around Hydrofoils (3차원 수중익형 주위의 캐비테이션 유동 전산해석)

  • Kim, S.H.;Koo, T.K.;Park, W.G.;Kim, D.H.
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.7-13
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    • 2008
  • The cavitating flow simulation is of practical importance for many engineering systems, such as pump, turbine, nozzle, Infector, etc. In the present work, a solver for two-phase flows has been developed and applied to simulate the cavitating flows past hydrofoils. The governing equation is the two-phase Navier-Stokes equation, comprised of the continuity equation of liquid and vapor phase. The momentum and energy equation is in the mixture phase. The solver employs an implicit, dual time, preconditioned algorithm using finite difference scheme in curvilinear coordinates. An experimental data and other numerical data were compared with the present results to validate the present solver. It is concluded that the present numerical code has successfully accounted for two-phase Navier-Stokes model of cavitation flow.

Free surface flow of a Two-Layer fluid over a bump - Hydraulic Fall (방해물에 기인한 이층유체의 자유 계면에서의 변화 - Hydraulic Fall)

  • Choi J. W.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.129-137
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    • 1997
  • We consider long nonlinear waves in the two-layer flow of an inviscid and incompressible fluid bounded above by a free surface and below by a rigid boundary. The flow is forced by a bump on the bottom. The derivation of the forced KdV equation fails when the density ratio h and the depth ratio ρ yields a condition 1+hρ=(2-h)((1-h)²+4ρh)/sup 1/2/. To overcome this difficulty we derive a forced modified KdV equation by a refined asymptotic method. Numerical solutions are given and hydraulic fall solution of a two layer fluid is expressed analytically in the case that derivation of the forced KdV(FKdV) equaition fails.

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Numerical simulation of non-isothermal flow in oil reservoirs using a two-equation model

  • dos Santos Heringer, Juan Diego;de Souza Debossam, Joao Gabriel;de Souza, Grazione;Souto, Helio Pedro Amaral
    • Coupled systems mechanics
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.147-168
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    • 2019
  • This work aims to simulate three-dimensional heavy oil flow in a reservoir with heater-wells. Mass, momentum and energy balances, as well as correlations for rock and fluid properties, are used to obtain non-linear partial differential equations for the fluid pressure and temperature, and for the rock temperature. Heat transfer is simulated using a two-equation model that is more appropriate when fluid and rock have very different thermal properties, and we also perform comparisons between one- and two-equation models. The governing equations are discretized using the Finite Volume Method. For the numerical solution, we apply a linearization and an operator splitting. As a consequence, three algebraic subsystems of linearized equations are solved using the Conjugate Gradient Method. The results obtained show the suitability of the numerical method and the technical feasibility of heating the reservoir with static equipment.

Computation of Dynamic Fluid-Structure Interaction in a 2-Dimensional Laminar Channel Flow Divided by a Plate (판으로 나뉘어진 2차원 충류 채널유동에서 동적 유체-구조물 상호작용 수치해석)

  • Namkoong, Kak;Choi, Hyoung-Gwon;Yoo, Jung-Yul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.26 no.12
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    • pp.1738-1746
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    • 2002
  • In the FSI (Fluid-Structure Interaction) problems, two different governing equations are to be solved together. One is fur the fluid and the other for the structure. Furthermore, a kinematic constraint should be imposed along the boundary between the fluid and the structure. We use the combined formulation, which incorporates both the fluid and structure equations of motion into a single coupled variational equation so that it is not necessary to calculate the fluid force on the surface of structure explicitly when solving the equations of motion of the structure. A two-dimensional channel flow divided by a Bernoulli-Euler beam is considered and the dynamic response of the beam under the influence of channel flow is studied. The Navier-Stokes equations are solved using a P2P1 Galerkin finite element method with ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian) algorithm. The internal structural damping effect is not considered in this study and numerical results are compared with a previous work fer steady case. In addition to the Reynolds number, two non-dimensional parameters, which govern this fluid-structure system, are proposed. It is found that the larger the dynamic viscosity and density of the fluid are, the larger the damping of the beam is. Also, the added mass is found to be linearly proportional to the density of the fluid.

Hall Effect on Unsteady Couette Flow. with Heat Transfer Under Exponential Decaying Pressure Gradient

  • Attia HazemAIi
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.11
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    • pp.2053-2060
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    • 2005
  • The unsteady Couette flow of an electrically conducting, V1SCOUS, incompressible fluid bounded by two parallel non-conducting porous plates is studied with heat transfer taking the Hall effect into consideration. An external uniform magnetic field and a uniform suction and injection are applied perpendicular to the plates while the fluid motion is subjected to an exponential decaying pressure gradient. The two plates are kept at different but constant temperatures while the Joule and viscous dissipations are included in the energy equation. The effect of the ion slip and the uniform suction and injection on both the velocity and temperature distributions is examined.

The rheology of two-dimensional systems

  • Fuller, G.;Yim, K.S.;Brooks, C.;Olson, D.;Frank, C.
    • Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.321-328
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    • 1999
  • This paper discusses the rheology of complex interfaces comprised of amphiphilic materials that are susceptible to flow-induced orientation and deformation. The consequence of the coupling of the film micro-structure to flow leads to nonlinear rheology and surface fluid dynamics. Experimental methods designed to determine the mechanical rheological material functions of fluid-fluid interfaces as well as local, molecular and morphological responses are presented. These include a newly developed interfacial stress rheometer, flow ultraviolet dichroism, and Brewster-angle microscopy. These techniques are applied to a number of complex interfaces ranging from low molecular weight amphiphiles to polymer monolayers. Nonlinear flow phenomena ranging from two-dimensional nematic responses to highly elastic surface flows that manifest surface normal stress differences and elongational viscosities are described.

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