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Numerical Prediction of the Flow Characteristics of a Micro Shock Tube

  • Arun Kumar, R.;Suryan, Abhilash;Kim, Heuy-Dong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.178-181
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    • 2011
  • Recently, micro shock tube is being extensively used in various fields of engineering applications. The flow characteristics occurring in the micro shock tube may be significantly different from that of conventional macro shock tube due to very low Reynolds number and Knudsen number effects which are, in general, manifested in such flows of rarefied gas, solid-gas two-phase, etc. In these situations, Navier-Stokes equations cannot properly predict the micro shock tube flow. In the present study, a two-dimensional CFD method has been applied to simulate the micro shock tube, with slip velocity and temperature jump boundary conditions. The effects of wall thermal conditions on the unsteady flow in the micro shock tube were also investigated. The unsteady behaviors of shock wave and contact discontinuity were, in detail, analyzed. The results obtained show much more attenuation of shock wave, compared with macro-shock tubes.

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Numerical Study of Slot Injection in Supersonic combustor (초음속 연소기내부의 측면제트분사에 대한 수치적 연구)

  • 김종록;김재수
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.108-113
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    • 2003
  • The numerical research has been done for the transverse jet behind a rearward- facing step in turbulent supersonic flow without chemical reaction. The purpose of transverse jet is used to improve mixing of the fuel in the combustor. Two- dimensional unsteady flowfields generated by slot injection into supersonic flow are numerically simulated by the integration of Navier-Stokes equation with two-equation k - $\varepsilon$ turbulence model. Numerical methods are used high-order upwind TVD scheme. Eight cases are computed, comprising slot momentum flux ratios and slot position at downstream of the step. The flow is very similar to the cavity flow, because the jet is like an obstacle. Therefore, the numerical results show the periodic phenomenon.

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UNSTEADY SUPERSONIC INLET DIFFUSER FLOWS WITH SINUSOIDAL PRESSURE OSCILLATIONS

  • Jong Yun Oh
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 1996.11a
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    • pp.107-116
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    • 1996
  • Numerical simulations have been conducted to characterize unsteady flow structures in an axisymmetric supersonic inlet diffuser with sinusoidal pressure oscillations at the diffuser exit. The formulation is based on the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations and turbulence closure is achieved using a two-layer model with a too-Reynolds-number scheme for the near-wall treatment. The governing equations are formulated in an integral form, and are discretized by the four-stage Runge-Kutta scheme for temporal terms and the Harten-Yee upwind TVD scheme for convective terms. Results indicated that the inlet shock characteristics are significantly modified by acoustic oscillations originating from the combustor. The characteristics of shock/boundarv-layer interactions (such as the size of separation bubble, terminal shock shape, and vorticity intensity) are also greatly iufluenced by the shock oscillation due to acoustic waves.

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A Quasi-Steady Method for Unsteady Flows over Surfaces with Structural Deformation (구조 변형이 있는 평면 위의 비정상 유동해석을 위한 준-정상 기법)

  • Kim, Minsoo;Lee, Namhun;Lee, Hak-Tae;Lee, Seungsoo;Kim, Heon-Ju
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we present and verify an aerodynamic reduced-order model (ROM) based on a quasi-steady flow method to reduce the computational cost of supersonic aeroelastic analysis. For supersonic flows, especially when the characteristic time scale of the flow is small compared to that of the structural motion, the unsteadiness of flow can be negligible, and quasi-steady solutions can be used instead of the unsteady solutions for the aeroelastic analysis. Kriging method is used to build the ROM of the aerodynamics. The surface solutions from the ROM are used as the boundary conditions for the structural analysis at each time-step. The ROM is validated against the unsteady solutions.

A Study on Transient Characteristics of Flow Caused by Heat Addition in Supersonic Nozzle (초음속 노즐 내부 유동장의 가열에 의한 천이 특성에 대한 연구)

  • Chung, Jin-Do;Kim, Jang-Woo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.29 no.1 s.232
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    • pp.80-86
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    • 2005
  • This study presents numerical solutions of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations for supersonic unsteady flow in a convergent-divergent nozzle with heat addition. The TVD scheme in generalized coordinates is employed in order to calculate the moving shock waves caused by thermal choking. We discuss on transient characteristics, start and unstart phenomena, fluctuations of specific thrust caused by thermal choking and viscous effects. We prove that the control of separation of boundary layer is the most important key problem to prevent the thermal choking.

Flow Dynamics in a Supersonic Diffuser at Minimum Starting Condition to Simulate Rocket's High Altitude Test on the Ground

  • Yeom, Hyo-Won;Yoon, Sang-Kyu;Sung, Hong-Gye;Kim, Yong-Wook;Oh, Seung-Hyup
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.442-447
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    • 2008
  • A numerical analysis has been conducted to investigate and characterize the unsteadiness of flow structure and oscillatory vacuum pressure inside of a supersonic diffuser equipped to simulate the high-altitude rocket test on the ground. A physical model of concern includes a rocket motor, a vacuum chamber, and a diffuser, which have axisymmetric configurations, using nitrogen gas as a driving fluid. Emphasis is placed on investigating physical phenomena of very complex and oscillatory flow evolutions in the diffuser operating at very close to the starting condition, i.e. minimum starting condition, which is one of major important parameters in diffuser design points of view.

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DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-ORDER ADAPTIVE DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD FOR UNSTEADY FLOW SIMULATION (비정상 유동 해석을 위한 고차정확도 격자 적응 불연속 갤러킨 기법 개발)

  • Lee, H.D.;Choi, J.H.;Kwon, O.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.534-541
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    • 2010
  • A high-order accurate Euler flow solver based on a discontinuous Galerkin method has been developed for the numerical simulation of unsteady flows on unstructured meshes. A multi-level solution-adaptive mesh refinement/coarsening technique was adopted to enhance the resolution of numerical solutions efficiently by increasing mesh density in the high-gradient region. An acoustic wave scattering problem was investigated to assess the accuracy of the present discontinuous Galerkin solver, and a supersonic flow in a wind tunnel with a forward facing step was simulated by using the adaptive mesh refinement technique. It was shown that the present discontinuous Galerkin flow solver can capture unsteady flows including the propagation and scattering of the acoustic waves as well as the strong shock waves.

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DETACHED EDDY SIMULATION OF BASE FLOW IN SUPERSONIC MAINSTREAM (초음속 유동장에서 기저 유동의 Detached Eddy Simulation)

  • Shin, J.R.;Won, S.H.;Choi, J.Y.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.104-110
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    • 2008
  • Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) is applied to an axisymmetric base flow at supersonic mainstream. DES is a hybrid approach to modeling turbulence that combines the best features of the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes RANS) and large-eddy simulation (LES) approaches. In the Reynolds-averaged mode, the model is currently based on either the Spalart-Allmaras (S-A) turbulence model. In the large eddy simulation mode, it is based on the Smagorinski subgrid scale model. Accurate predictions of the base flowfield and base pressure are successfully achieved by using the DES methodology with less computational cost than that of pure LES and monotone integrated large-eddy simulation (MILES) approaches. The DES accurately resolves the physics of unsteady turbulent motions, such as shear layer rollup, large-eddy motions in the downstream region, small-eddy motions inside the recirculating region. Comparison of the results shows that it is necessary to resolve approaching boundary layers and free shear-layer velocity profiles from the base edge correctly for the accurate prediction of base flows. The consideration of an empirical constant CDES for a compressible flow analysis may suggest that the optimal value of empirical constant CDES may be larger in the flows with strong compressibility than in incompressible flows.

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DETACHED EDDY SIMULATION OF BASE FLOW IN SUPERSONIC MAINSTREAM (초음속 유동장에서 기저 유동의 Detached Eddy Simulation)

  • Shin, J.R.;Won, S.H.;Choi, J.Y.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.104-110
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    • 2008
  • Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) is applied to an axisymmetric base flow at supersonic mainstream. DES is a hybrid approach to modeling turbulence that combines the best features of the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and large-eddy simulation (LES) approaches. In the Reynolds-averaged mode, the model is currently based on either the Spalart-Allmaras (S-A) turbulence model. In the large eddy simulation mode, it is based on the Smagorinski subgrid scale model. Accurate predictions of the base flowfield and base pressure are successfully achieved by using the DES methodology with less computational cost than that of pure LES and monotone integrated large-eddy simulation (MILES) approaches. The DES accurately resolves the physics of unsteady turbulent motions, such as shear layer rollup, large-eddy motions in the downstream region, small-eddy motions inside the recirculating region. Comparison of the results shows that it is necessary to resolve approaching boundary layers and free shear-layer velocity profiles from the base edge correctly for the accurate prediction of base flows. The consideration of an empirical constant CDES for a compressible flow analysis may suggest that the optimal value of empirical constant CDES may be larger in the flows with strong compressibility than in incompressible flows.

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