• Transactions of the KSME C: Technology and Education
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.73-80
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• 2014

Drug delivery in human upper airway was studied by the numerical simulation of oral airflow. We created an anatomically accurate upper airway model from CT scan data by using a medical image processing software (Mimics). The upper airway was composed of oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, trachea, and second generations of branches. Thin sliced CT data and meticulous refinement of model surface under the ENT doctor's advice provided more sophisticated nasal cavity models. With this 3D upper airway models, numerical simulation was conducted by ANSYS/FLUENT. The steady inspiratory airflows in that model was solved numerically for the case of flow rate of 250 mL/s with drug-laden spray(Q= 20, 40, 60 mL/s). Optimal parameters for mechanical drug aerosol targeting of predetermined areas was to be computed, for a given representative upper airways. From numerical flow visualization results, as flow-rate of drug-laden spray increases, the drag spray residue in oral cavity was increased and the distribution of drug spray in trachea and branches became more homogeneous.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.645-652
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• 2010

The aim of this investigation was study on the non-evaporation diesel spray characteristics injected through a common-rail diesel injector under various ambient pressure. The diesel spray was investigated with observation of macroscopic characteristics such as spray tip penetration and spray cone angle by the shadowgraph and the image processing method. The numerical study was conducted using a computational fluid dynamics code, AVL-FIRE. The breakup models used were WAVE model and standard $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence model was applied. The numerical study used input data which spray cone angle and fuel injection rate was achieved by Zeuch's method. Comparison with experimental result such as spray tip penetration was good agreement. Distribution of droplet diameter were conducted on four planes where the axial distances were 5, 15, 39 and 49mm respectively downstream from the orifice exit.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.91-98
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• 2010

The water elevation inside the air chamber and bi-directional air flow in the duct of Oscillating Water Column wave energy converter is one of the most important factors to evaluate the operating performance. The numerical wave tank based on the commercial software Fluent 6.2 in the present paper is employed to generate the incident waves. The numerical wave tank consists of the continuity equations, the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations and the two-phase VOF function. The oscillating amplitude of water column in the chamber and bi-directional air flow in the duct installed on the top of the chamber are calculated, and compared with experimental data to verify the validation of the present NWT. The nozzle effects of the chamber-duct system on the relative amplitudes of the inner free water surface and air flow rate in the duct are investigated.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.387-395
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• 2015

A technique for calculating the additive drag of the inlet in supersonic flow was studied using commercial CFD software, STAR-CCM+, which provides a efficient way of 3 dimensional flow analysis with polyhedron-shaped grid system. Three configurations were chosen and applied to the calculation with various flow conditions of two different free stream Mach No. and some mass flow ratios. Comparisons with results from wind tunnel test gave good agreements. Though computation were carried out with the inviscid and compressible flow around the supersonic inlet for the supercritical condition, ignoring the viscous effects is concluded to give little effects on the accuracy of the additive drag calculation and to make the calculation more efficient owing to less effort and time consumed for grid system build-up and for iteration because of less grid number and simpler boundary condition.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.21-29
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• 2016

Commercial wind farm design tools and the national wind map are used to determine the implementation potential of offshore wind power in Korea in this study. For this, the territorial waters of Korea were divided into nine analysis regions and a commercial CFD code was used to obtain wind resource maps at 100m A.S.L. which is the hub height of a 5MW wind turbine used in this study. With the wind resource obtained, factors including water depth, distance from substations, minimum and maximum capacity of a wind farm, distance between turbines and wind farms were considered to determine wind power potential. Also, the conservation areas, military zones, ports, fishing grounds, etc. were considered and excluded. As the result, a total capacity of 6,720 MW was found to be the implementation potential and this corresponds to $3.38MW/km^2$ in API. Also if the distance from the substation is not considered, the potential increased to be 10,040 MW. This offshore wind farm potential is considered enough to satisfy the target of wind farm capacities in the 7th national plan for electricity demand and supply.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.425-429
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• 2011

In the unlikely of nuclear reactor meltdown, the leaked core melt or corium must be contained in a device called core-catcher so that the corium can be cooled and stabilized. The ex-vessel behavior of corium involves complex physical and chemical mechanisms of flow propagation, heat transfer, and reactions with sacrificial substrates. In this study, the detailed characteristics of corium flow and heat transfer were investigated by using a commercial CFD code for VULCANO VE-U7 test reported in the literature. The volume-of-fluid (VOF) model was used to predict the interfacial surface formation of corium and the surrounding air, and the discrete ordinate model was adopted to calculate radiation between corium and the surroundings. It was found that cooling via radiation through the top surface of corium had a dominant effect on the temperature and viscosity profiles at the front of the corium flow.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.7
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• pp.731-738
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• 2012

In this study, the evaluation of the aerodynamic characteristics of the NREL Phase VI Rotor System has been performed, for the 7 m/s upwind case using commercial FEA and CFD tools which are ANSYS Mechanical 12.1 and CFX 12.1. The initial operating conditions of the rotor blade include a $3^{\circ}$ tip pitch angle. A numerical simulation was carried out on only the rotor parts, excluding the tower structure based on the equivalent stiffness model, to consider the aeroelastic effect for the numerical simulation using the loosely coupled 2-way fluid-structure interaction method. The blade root bending moment was monitored in real time to obtain reasonable results. To verify the analysis results, the numerical simulation results were compared with the measurements in the form of the root bending moment and the pressure distributions of the NREL/NASA Ames wind tunnel test.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.48 no.11
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• pp.849-859
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• 2020

The semi-empirical equation and commercial computational tool were used to predict the base drag of a guided missile with free-stream Mach numbers and chamber pressures, and the results were generally agree each other. Differences in flow characteristics and base drags were observed with over/under expansion conditions by the nozzle. Under the over-expansion condition, the base pressure decreased as the expansion fan was generated at upper region of the base, and base pressure decreased further with increasing free-stream Mach number as the expansion becomes strong. Under the under-expansion conditions, a shock wave was generated around the base by the influence of the nozzle flow, which increased the base pressure, and the effect increased as the chamber pressure increased. Under the same chamber pressure condition, as the free-stream Mach number increases, the characteristic that the base pressure decreases as the shock wave generated at the base moves downstream was observed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.97-97
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• 2010

많은 플라즈마 공정 중에 건식 식각은 복잡하고 표면반응이 잘 알려지지 않은 등의 이유로 가장 어려운 분야 중의 하나이다. 이러한 이유로 식각 장치 디자인뿐만 아니라 플라즈마를 이용한 건식 식각의 공정 조건은 수많은 시행착오를 통해 시도되어 왔다. 이런 문제들을 극복하기 위해 많은 연구자들에 의해서 다양한 방법과 tool을 이용해 모델링이 시도되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 $CF_4$ 가스를 이용한 유도결합 플라즈마에 의해 Si와 $SiO_2$를 식각하는 것을 상용 프로그램인 전산모사 유체역학 시뮬레이터인 CFD-ACE+를 이용하여 모델링했다. 150 mm 직경의 웨이퍼에 대한 모델은 식각 속도 실험결과와 비교 하였다. Ar의 경우 20 mTorr에서 13.56 MHz, 500 W인가 시 2.0 eV의 전자온도와 $7.3{\times}10^{11}\;cm^{-3}$의 전자밀도가 계산결과와 상당히 일치하게 측정되었고, $CF_4$를 이용한 $SiO_2$ 식각에서도 식각 속도가 평균 190 nm/min로 일치했고 식각 균일도는 3% 였다. 450 mm 웨이퍼 공정용 장치의 모델 계산 결과에서는 안테나와 기판의 거리, 챔버의 단면적, 기판 지지대와 배기구와의 높이 등 기하학적인 구조와 각 안테나 턴의 위치 및 전류비가 플라즈마 균일도에 많은 영향을 주었으며, 안쪽부터 4 turn이 있는 경우 2번째, 4번째 turn에만 1:4의 전류비를 인가했을 때, 수십%의 전자밀도의 불균일도를 4.7%까지 낮출 수 있었다. 또한, Si 식각에서는 식각 속도의 분포가 F radical의 분포와 같은 경향을 보임을 확인했고, $SiO_2$ 식각에서는 전자 밀도의 분포와 일치함을 확인함으로써 균일한 식각을 위해서 두 물질의 식각 공정에서는 다른 접근의 시도가 필요함을 확인했다. 플라즈마의 준중성 조건을 이용해서 Poisson 방정식을 풀지 않고 sheath를 해석적 모델로 처리하는 방법과, Poisson 식으로 정전기장을 푸는 방법을 통해서 입사 이온의 에너지 분포를 비교하였다. 에너지 범위는 80~120 eV로 같지만, 실험에서는 IED가 낮은 에너지 쪽이 더 높게 측정됐고, 계산 결과에서는 높은 에너지 쪽이 높았다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.162-169
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• 2007

This study is focused on the comparison of a 3 dimensional numerical and hydraulic model experiment for the flow phenomenon when a lock gate is opened. The lock gate is designed to discharge the flood flow rate at $218m^3/s$ of Solicheon at the Kun Jang national industry complex. The three dimensional ${\kappa}-{\epsilon}$ turbulent model of ANSYS CFX-10 of the computational fluid dynamics(CFD) program was used. The characteristics of CFX-10 are able to be simulated effectively for turbulent flow, especially the flow separation of the boundary layer of the two phase interface of air and water. The velocity and the flow pattern of the numerical model was showed to be similar to the results of the hydraulic model experiment.