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Laboratory Studies on Three-Dimensional Morphology in a Narrow Wave Tank (3차원 해저지형변환에 관한 조파 수조에서의 실험적 연구)

  • Oh, Tae-Myoung;Robert G. Dean
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.375-388
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    • 1994
  • When conducting movable bed tests in a narrow wave tank, the hydrodynamics and morphology are assumed to be two-dimensional; hence, any three-dimensional patterns such as cross-tank variations of the profiles are neglected or averaged to represent the mean profiles at the measuring time. In this paper, six movable bed tests were carried out with a fairly fine sand to investigate (1) whether or not three-dimensional features can occur in relatively narrow wave tanks, and (2) various possible interrelationships and causes of the three-dimensionality. These movable bed studies suggested that there was a relatively slow feedback between the hydrodynamics and the morphology that led to initiation and growth of 3-D morphological features, resulting in cross-tank profile variations under certain stages of profile development, especially when the profile approached an equilibrium with overall stability.

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Stability of Inclined Premixed Planar Flames (기울어진 예혼합 평면화염의 안정성)

  • Lee, Dae-Keun;Kim, Moon-Uhn;Shin, Hyun-Dong
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.97-106
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    • 2004
  • Stability of laminar premixed planar flames inclined in gravitational field which generate vorticity is asymptotically examined. The flame structure is resolved by a large activation energy asymptotics and a long wave approximation. The coupling between hydrodynamics and diffusion processes is included and near-unity Lewis number is assumed. The results show that as the flame is more inclined from the horizontal plane it becomes more unstable due to not only the decrease of stabilizing effect of gravity but also the increase of destabilizing effect of rotational flow. The obtained dispersion relation involves the Prandtl number and shows the destabilizing effect of viscosity. The analysis predicts that the phase velocity of unstable flame wave depends on not only the flame angle but also the Lewis number. For relatively short wave disturbances, still much larger than flame thickness, the most unstable wavelength is nearly independent on the flame angle and the flame can be stabilized by gravity and diffusion mechanism.

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Submerged Membrane Beakwaters II: A Rahmen Type System Composed of Horizontal and Vertical Membranes

  • Kee S.T.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.150-159
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    • 2004
  • In the present paper, the hydrodynamics properties of a Rahmen type flexible porous breakwater with dual fixed-pontoon system interacting with obliquely or normally incident small amplitude waves are numerically investigated. This system is composed of dual vertical porous membranes hinged a the side edges of dual fixed pontoons, and a submerged horizontal membrane that both ends are hinged at the steel frames mounted pontoons. The dual vertical membranes are extended downward and hinged at bottom steal frame fixed into seabed. The wave blocking and dissipation mechanism and its effects of permeability, Rahmen type membrane and pontoon geometry, pre-tensions on membranes, relative dimensionless wave number, and incident wave headings are thoroughly examined.

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Stability of Inclined Premixed Planar Flames (기울어진 예혼합 평면화염의 안정성)

  • Lee, Dae-Keun;Kim, Moon-Uhn;Shin, Hyun-Dong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.9-21
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    • 2004
  • Stability of laminar premixed planar flames inclined in the gravitational field is asymptotically examined. The flame structure is resolved by a large activation energy asymptotics and a long wave approximation. The coupling between hydrodynamics and diffusion processes is included and near-unity Lewis number is assumed. The results show that as the flame is more inclined from the horizontal plane it becomes more unstable due to not only the decrease of stabilizing effect of gravity but also the increase of destabilizing effect of rotational flow. The obtained dispersion relation involves the Prandtl number and shows the destabilizing effect of viscosity. The analysis predicts that the phase velocity of unstable flame wave depends on not only the flame angle but also the Lewis number. For relatively short wave disturbances, still much larger than flame thickness, the most unstable wavelength is nearly independent on the flame angle and the flame can be stabilized by gravity and diffusion mechanism.

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Submerged Membrane Breakwaters I: A Rahmen Type System Composed of Horizontal and Vertical Membranes (수중 유연막 방파제 I : 수평-수직 유연막으로 구성된 라멘형 시스템)

  • 기성태
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.7-14
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    • 2002
  • in the present paper, the hydrodynamics properties of a Rahmen type flexible porous breakwater interacting with obliquely or normally incident small amplitude waves are numerically investigated. This system is composed of dual vertical porous membranes hinged at th side edges of a submerged horizontal membrane. The dual vertical membranes are extended downward and hinged at seabed. The effects of permeability, Rahmen type membrane breakwater geometry pre-tensions on membranes, relative dimensionless wave number, and incident Wave headings are thoroughly examined.

A Study on the Characteristics of WindHydro - a Floating Wind Turbine Simulation Code (부유식 풍력발전 해석 프로그램 WindHydro 특성 연구)

  • Song, Jinseop;Rim, Chae Whan;Lee, Sungkyun
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.37.1-37.1
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    • 2011
  • A floating wind turbine dynamic simulation program, 'WindHydro', is newly developed. In order to investigate the characteristics of the program, a series of loading cases are simulated such as (1) wind only case, (2) free decay cases with initial displacement, (3) wave only case (4) wind and wave case. The simulations are carried out for the 5-MW OC3-Hywind model which has a spar buoy and catenary mooring lines. As a result, the reliability of WindHydro is verified in most viewpoints although additional study is still necessary to clear out some uncertainty of the program.

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Construction and Application of the Hydraulic Scale Model for the Analysis of Sediment Transport by Tsumani (지진해일에 의한 토사이동 해석을 위한 수리모형장치 제작 및 적용성 평가)

  • Youm, Min Kyo;Lee, Baek Gun;Min, Byung Il;Lee, Jung Lyul;Suh, Kyung-Suk
    • Journal of Radiation Industry
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    • v.7 no.2_3
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    • pp.201-207
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    • 2013
  • Soil liquefaction by tsunami or wave induced currents can cause serious damages to coastlines and coastal infrastructures. Although liquefaction caused by regular waves over sea beds has been extensively investigated, studies of tsunami-induced liquefaction near coastal area have been relatively rare. In this work, the hydraulic scale model has been designed and constructed to investigate the variations of wave height and sediment transport by tsunami. The distorted hydraulic scale model based on the Froude similarity was adopted to represent hydrodynamics and sediment transport in a coastal area. The scale model was composed of control box, screw axis, wave paddle and rotating coastal structure.

An optimization framework of a parametric Octabuoy semi-submersible design

  • Xie, Zhitian;Falzarano, Jeffrey
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.711-722
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    • 2020
  • An optimization framework using genetic algorithms has been developed towards an automated parametric optimization of the Octabuoy semi-submersible design. Compared with deep draft production units, the design of the shallow draught Octabuoy semi-submersible provides a floating system with improved motion characteristics, being less susceptible to vortex induced motions in loop currents. The relatively large water plane area results in a decreased natural heave period, which locates the floater in the wave period range with more wave energy. Considering this, the hull design of Octabuoy semi-submersible has been optimized to improve the floater's motion performance. The optimization has been conducted with optimized parameters of the pontoon's rectangular cross section area, the cone shaped section's height and diameter. Through numerical evaluations of both the 1st-order and 2nd-order hydrodynamics, the optimization through genetic algorithms has been proven to provide improved hydrodynamic performance, in terms of heave and pitch motions. This work presents a meaningful framework as a reference in the process of floating system's design.

A genetic algorithms optimization framework of a parametric shipshape FPSO hull design

  • Xie, Zhitian;Falzarano, Jeffrey
    • Ocean Systems Engineering
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.301-312
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    • 2021
  • An optimization framework has been established and applied to a shipshape parametric FPSO hull design. A single point moored (SPM) shipshape floating system suffers a significant level of the roll motion in both the wave frequencies and low wave frequencies, which presents a coupling effect with the horizontal weathervane motion. To guarantee the security of the operating instruments installed onboard, a parametric hull design of an FPSO has been optimized with improved hydrodynamics performance. With the optimized parameters of the various hull stations' longitudinal locations, the optimization through Genetic Algorithms (GAs) has been proven to provide a significantly reduced level of the 1st-order and 2nd-order roll motion. This work presents a meaningful framework as a reference in the process of an SPM shipshape floating system's design.

An improved solid boundary treatment for wave-float interactions using ISPH method

  • Zheng, Xing;Lv, Xipeng;Ma, Qingwei;Duan, Wenyang;Khayyer, Abbas;Shao, Songdong
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.329-347
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    • 2018
  • The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method has proved to have great potentials in dealing with the wave-structure interactions. Compared with the Weakly Compressible SPH (WCSPH) method, the ISPH approach solves the pressure by using the pressure Poisson equation rather than the equation of state. This could provide a more stable and accurate pressure field that is important in the study of wave-structure interactions. This paper improves the solid boundary treatment of ISPH by using a high accuracy Simplified Finite Difference Interpolation (SFDI) scheme for the 2D wave-structure coupling problems, especially for free-moving structure. The proposed method is referred as the ISPH_BS. The model improvement is demonstrated by the documented benchmark tests and laboratory experiment covering various wave-structure interaction applications.