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A Study of Hood-Type Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Embedded to Highway Median Strip (도로 중앙분리대용 후드장식형 수직축풍력발전기 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Jo;Lim, Jae-Kyoo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.24-34
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    • 2013
  • This paper introduces the study of hood-type wind turbine embedded on highway median strip. Recently, many studies are being made to apply to small wind turbine in city. This study is wind turbine producing electricity generated from the wind by running cars. In order to analyze wind generated by running cars, we measured experiments using running cars and buses. Also, using CFD and interpreter program, we analysis wind turbines performance and applied to the twist-sabonius blade. This wind turbine attached to safety lamp on the road is produced to use electricity generated through the wind tunnel experiment. In this paper results, this wind turbine system is expected to produce the power source installed the heat ray and safety lamps on the road.

Design and Performance Evaluation of Superstructure Modification for Air Drag Reduction of a Container Ship (공기저항 저감을 위한 컨테이너선 상부구조물 형상설계 및 성능평가)

  • Kim, Yoonsik;Kim, Kwang-Soo;Jeong, Seong-Wook;Jeong, Seung-Gyu;Van, Suak-Ho;Kim, Jin
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.52 no.1
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    • pp.8-18
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    • 2015
  • Reduction of the fuel oil consumption and corresponding greenhouse gas exhausted from ships is an important issue for today's ship design and shipping. Several concepts and devices on the superstructure of a container ship were suggested and tested in the wind tunnel to estimate the air drag reduction. As a preliminary performance evaluation, air drag contributions of each part of the superstructure and containers were estimated based on RANS simulation respectively. Air drag reduction efficiency of shape modification and add-on devices on the superstructure and containers was also estimated. Gap-protectors between containers and a visor in front of upper deck were found to be most effective for drag reduction. Wind tunnel tests had been carried out to confirm the drag reduction performance between the baseline(without any modification) configuration and two modified superstructure configurations which were designed and chosen based on the computation results. The test results with the modified configurations show considerable aerodynamic drag reduction, especially the gap-protectors between containers show the largest reduction for the wide range of heading angles. RANS computations for three configurations were performed and compared with the wind tunnel tests. Computation result shows the similar drag reduction trend with experiment for small heading angles. However, the computation result becomes less accurate as heading angle is increasing where the massively separated flow is spread over the leeward side.

Analytical and experimental research on wind-induced vibration in high-rise buildings with tuned liquid column dampers

  • Liu, Ming-Yi;Chiang, Wei-Ling;Chu, Chia-Ren;Lin, Shih-Sheng
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.71-90
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    • 2003
  • In recent years, high-strength, light-weight materials have been widely used in the construction of high-rise buildings. Such structures generally have flexible, low-damping characteristics. Consequently, wind-induced oscillation greatly affects the structural safety and the comfort of the building's occupants. In this research, wind tunnel experiments were carried out to study the wind-induced vibration of a building with a tuned liquid column damper (TLCD). Then, a model for predicting the aerodynamic response in the across-wind direction was generated. Finally, a computing procedure was developed for the analytical modeling of the structural oscillation in a building with a TLCD under the wind load. The model agrees substantially with the experimental results. Therefore, it may be used to accurately calculate the structural response. Results from this investigation show that the TLCD is more advantageous for reducing the across-wind vibration than the along-wind oscillation. When the across-wind aerodynamic effects are considered, the TLCD more effectively controls the aerodynamic response. Moreover, it is also more useful in suppressing the acceleration than the displacement in biaxial directions. As s result, TLCDs are effective devices for reducing the wind-induced vibration in buildings. Parametric studies have also been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the TLCD in suppressing the structural oscillation. This study may help engineers to more correctly predict the aerodynamic response of high-rise buildings as well as select the most appropriate TLCDs for reducing the structural vibration under the wind load. It may also improve the understanding of wind-structure interactions and wind resistant designs for high-rise buildings.

Aerodynamic Resistance and Eddy Diffusivity above the Plug Stand under Artificial Light (인공광하에서 공정묘 개체군상의 공기역학적 저항 및 확산계수)

  • 김용현;고재풍수
    • Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.152-159
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    • 1996
  • Experiment was performed in a newly developed wind tunnel with light system to determine the aerodynamic resistance and eddy diffusivity above the plug stand under artificial light. Maximum air temperature appeared near the top of the plug stand under artificial light. Since Richardson number was ranged from -0.07 to +0.01, the atmosphere above the plug stand in wind tunnel was in an unstable or near- neutral stability state. The average aerodynamic resistance at rear region of plug stand was 25 % higher than that at middle region. Eddy diffusivity($K_{M}$) linearly increased with the increasing air current speed. $K_{M}$ at air current speed of 0.9 m.$s^{-1}$ was about two times as many as that at air current speed of 0.3 m.$s^{-1}$. And average $K_{M}$ at the rear region was 15% lower than that at the middle region. These results indicated that the diffusion of heat and mass along the direction of air current inside the plug stand was different. It might cause the lack of uniformity in the growth and quality of plug seedlings. The wind tunnel developed in this study would be useful to investigate the effects of air current speed on microclimates and the growth of plug seedlings under artificial light in a semi- closed ecosystem.

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Experimental Study on Wall Pressure Fluctuations in the Turbulent Boundary Layer on a Flat-Plate (평판 난류경계층에서의 벽 압력섭동에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Lee, Seungbae;Kim, Hooi-Joong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.722-733
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    • 1999
  • The wall pressure fluctuations of a turbulent boundary layer over a flat plate have been investigated in an anechoic wind tunnel facility. The anechoic wind tunnel consists of acoustically-lined duct, muffler, and splitter-type silencer for noise suppression and vanes for reducing head losses involved. To improve spectra characteristics in high frequency range, a 1/8" pressure-type microphone sensor, which has a pin-holed cap of various diameters, was employed in this experiment. It was shown that the pin-holed microphone sensor with a dimensionless diameter $d^+$ of 7.1 resolved the high frequency pressure fluctuations most effectively among ones with various pin-hole diameters. The measured wall pressure spectra in terms of three types of scaling parameters were in good agreement with other experimental and numerical results. The pressure events of high amplitude were found to contribute to total fluctuating pressure energies in the turbulent boundary layer significantly and supposed to radiate to the far-field effectively.

A Study on Improving Filter Performance Using Coanda Effect (코안다효과를 이용한 필터에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yong Sun;Seok, Jae Jun;Shin, Hee Jae;Ko, Sang Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 2020
  • Modern people spend a lot of time indoors. Oil mist has a very fatal effect on the cook's health. Range Hood's filter plays a very important role in removing oil mist from kitchen. In this study, we applied coanda effect to increase the collection efficiency of filter. Original, Bottom, Slide Three shapes were simulated, and the two shapes were measured and compared using a wind tunnel tester. Pressure loss is measured below 2.0mmAq for all three filters, making them easy to use indoors. The simulation results were 15% for the original filter, 22% for the bottom filter, and 30% for the slide filter. The wind tunnel tester obtained 26% of the original filter and 30% of the slide filter. Research is needed to increase the collection efficiency by 50%.

Construction of the Pressure Sensitive Paint System (PSP 압력측정 시스템의 구축)

  • Jeon, Young-Jin;Kim, Ki-Su;Seo, Hyung-Seok;Byun, Yung-Hwan;Lee, Jae-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 2008
  • Pressure Sensitive Paint(PSP) means a reacting paint in pressure. The calibration of PSP and the wind tunnel test of PSP painted model are required to measure pressure by using PSP. Therefore, the post processing from these results shows the information and image of the pressure distribution. PSP can show the information of total pressure from the wind tunnel test and the calibration. In this study, equipments of PSP are composed, and experiment is accomplished by using PSP. The surface pressure distribution around the wall of nozzle is measured by PSP. The measured pressure has similar results to those of the CFD and pressure tap measurement.

The consideration about pressure on surface of cone shape in experiments of supersonic wind tunnel I (초음속풍동실험에서 원뿔형상의 표면에서 측정되는 압력에 대한 고찰 I)

  • Lee, Jae-Ho;Choi, Jong-Ho;Yoon, Hyun-Gull;Kim, Kyu-Hong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.391-394
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, the shock angle and effect had been compared with numerical data within supersonic area at an forebody such as missiles or an aircraft. By using supersonic wind tunnel in Seoul National University, The shock position and magnitude were measured in the model of cone shape according to mach number. The experiment had been conducted at mach number 2.0, 3.0, and 3.8. As a result, the shock position and magnitude are different from flow velocity, AOA, and AOS in some cases blockage effect had occurred.

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Wind flow around rectangular obstacles with aspect ratio

  • Lim, Hee-Chang
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.299-312
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    • 2009
  • It has long been studied about the flow around bluff bodies, but the effect of aspect ratio on the sharp-edged bodies in thick turbulent boundary layers is still argued. The author investigates the flow characteristics around a series of rectangular bodies ($40^d{\times}80^w{\times}80^h$, $80^d{\times}80^w{\times}80^h$ and $160^d{\times}80^w{\times}80^h$ in mm) placed in a deep turbulent boundary layer. The study is aiming to identify the extant Reynolds number independence of the rectangular bodies and furthermore understand the surface pressure distribution around the bodies such as the suction pressure in the leading edge, when the shape of bodies is changed, responsible for producing extreme suction pressures around the bluff bodies. The experiments are carried out at three different Reynolds numbers, based on the velocity U at the body height h, of 24,000, 46,000 and 67,000, and large enough that the mean boundary layer flow is effectively Reynolds number independent. The experiment includes wind tunnel work with the velocity and surface pressure measurements. The results show that the generation of the deep turbulent boundary layer in the wind tunnel and the surface pressure around the bodies were all independent of Reynolds number and the longitudinal length, but highly dependent of the transverse width.

Web-based Fluid Dynamics Education using e-AIRS System (e-AIRS 환경을 활용한 웹기반의 유체역학 교육)

  • Kim, J.H.;Yi, J.S.;Ko, S.H.;Kim, C.;Kim, Y.H.;Moon, J.B.;Cho, K.W.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.212-215
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    • 2008
  • e-AIRS, an abbreviation of 'e-Science Aerospace Integrated Research System,' is a virtual organization supporting CFD(computational fluid dynamics) simulations, remote experimental service, and collaborative and integrative study between computation and experiment. e-AIRS works on the e-Science environment and research process is accomplished through the web portal. By the system development since 2005, a stable education system with the full support on fluid dynamics is successfully established and utilized to various fluid dynamic lectures in universities. By using e-AIRS system during a lecture, students can conduct the full CFD simulation process on the web and inspect the wind tunnel experiment via Access Grid. This kind of interactive lecture makes students to have a deeper understanding on the physics of fluid, as well as the characteristics of numerical techniques. The current paper will describe system components of e-AIRS and its utilization on education.

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