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The Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow in an Automotive HVAC module by using Commercial Code (상업용 코드를 이용한 차량용 HVAC module의 유동에 관한 전산모사)

  • KIM H. B.;HONG S. R.;CHUNG D. S.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.08a
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    • pp.194-199
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    • 2003
  • The studying is to analyze characteristic of air flow and is used to design in an automotive HVAC module. The RNG k-e turbulence model with the Upwind Difference convection scheme and an unstructured hybrid mesh with arbitrary matching method were applied to the simulation. The comparing air flow characteristic of the basic HVAC module and total HVAC module with blower were discussed in the paper.

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A Suggested Mechanism of Significant Stall Suppression Effects by Air Separator Devices in Axial Flow Fans

  • Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.57-66
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    • 2011
  • Radial-vaned air separators show a strong stall suppression effect in an axial flow fans. From a survey of existing literature on the effects and the author's data, a possible mechanism for the significant effects has been proposed here. The stall suppression is suggested to have been achieved by a combination of the following several effects; (1) suction of blade and casing boundary layers and elimination of embryos of stall, (2) separation and straightening of reversed swirling flow from the main flow, (3) induction of the fan main flow toward the casing wall and enhancement of the outward inclination of meridional streamlines across the rotor blade row, thus keeping the Euler head increase in the decrease in fan flow rate, and (4) reinforcement of axi-symmetric structure of the main flow. These phenomena have been induced and enhanced by a stable vortex-ring encasing the blade tips and the air separator. These integrated effects appear to have caused the great stall suppression effect that would have been impossible by other types of stall prevention devices. Thus the author would like to name the device "tip-vortex-ring assisted stall suppression device".

Effect of Partition within Opening on Helium-Air Exchange Flow (개구부에 삽입한 수직평판이 헬륨.공기치환류에 미치는 영향)

  • Tae-il Kang
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.797-805
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    • 2003
  • This paper describes experimental investigations of helium-air exchange flow through single opening and partitioned opening. Such exchange flows may occur following rupture accident of stand pipe in high temperature gas cooled reactor. A test vessel with a small opening on top of test cylinder is used for experiments. An estimation method of mass increment is developed and applied to measure the exchange flow rate. A technique of flow visualization by Mach-Zehnder interferometer is provided to recognize the exchange flows. Flow measurements are made with the opening, for partition ratios H_p/H$_1$$ in the range 0 to 1. where H_p$ and H$_1$ are partition length and height of the opening. respectively. In the case of H_p/H$_1$$ of 0, flow passages of upward flow of the helium and downward flow of the air within the opening are unseparated (bidirectional), and the two flows interfere within the opening. The unseparated flow increases strength of flow resistance and therefore, the exchange flow rate is minimum through range of the partition ratios. Two flow zones, i.e., separated (unidirectional) flow zone and unseparated (bidirectional) flow zone, exist with increasing the partition length. The exchange flow rate increases with increasing the separated flow zone. It is found that a maximum exchange flow rate exists at H_p/H$_1$$ of 1. As a result of comparison of the exchange flow rates by changing the partition ratio, the fluids Interference in the unseparated zone is found to be an important factor on the helium-air exchange flow rate.

Effect of Opening Partition Length on Helium-Air Exchange Flow (개구부 삽입부의 길이가 헬륨 및 공기의 치환류에 미치는 영향)

  • 강태일
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.192-200
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    • 1999
  • This paper describes experimental investigations of helium-air exchange flow through parti-tioned opening. Such exchange flow may occur following rupture accident of stand pipe in high temperature gas cooled reactor. A test vessel with a opening on top of test cylinder is used for experiments. An estimation method of mass increment is developed and applied to measure the exchange flow rate. A technique of flow visualization by Mach-Zehnder interferometer is provided to recognize the exchange flows. Flow measurements are made with partitioned opening for parti-tion rations $H_p/H_1$ in the range 0 to 1 where $H_p$ and $H_1$ are partition length and height of the open-ing respecticely. In the case of $H_p/H_1$ of 0 flow passages of upward flow of the helium and down-ward flow of the air within the opening are unseparated (bidirectional) and the two flows interact exchange flow rate is minimum through range of the partition ratios, Two flow zones i.e. separat-ed(unidirectional)flow zone and unseparated(bidirectional) flow zone exist with increasing the partition. length, The exchange flow rate increases with increasing the separated flow zone. It is found that a maximum exchange flow rate exists at $H_p/H_1$ of 1. As a result fo comparison of the exchange flow rates by changing the partition ration the fluids interaction in the unseparated zone is found to be an important factor on the helium-air exchange flow rate.

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Computer simulation for the performance analysis of automobile air conditioning system (자동차용 에어컨 시스템의 성능해석을 위한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션)

  • 이건호;유정열;정종대;최규환
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.202-216
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    • 1998
  • A computer simulation for the performance analysis of automobile air conditioning components is carried out for the various operating conditions. The automobile air conditioning system consists of laminated type evaporator, swash plate type compressor, parallel flow type condenser, externally equalized thermostatic expansion valve and receiver drier. The overall heat transfer coefficient and the pressure drop in laminated type evaporator were obtained through experiments. In parallel flow type condenser, the performance analysis computer program using the empirical equation for heat transfer coefficient has been developed and the results are compared with experimental results. A model for matching the performance analysis programs of respective components .of automobile air conditioning system is introduced. Further, the effects of varying condenser size and refrigerant charge on the performance of automobile air conditioning system are discussed clearly.

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A Method for Improving Air Distribution Performance at the Residence Ventilation System (주거 환기 시스템의 공기 분배 성능 개선 방안)

  • Park, Eun-Jun;Kim, Yong-Bong;Na, Hee-Hyoung;Lee, Sang-Ki
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.589-593
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    • 2007
  • In the mechanical ventilation system, it is a fundamental condition to distribute the air equally to the each room. In this study, distribution performance of the air distributor which generally connected to a circular duct was investigated by simulation and experiment. In the first CFD analysis, maximum air flow rate deviation was an 63% in the air distributor model. After numbers of model modification and simulation, maximum flow rate deviation was reduced to 19% in the final simulation model. An air distributor which used in the experiment was produced by using data obtained from the final analysis. When experimental result was compared with analysis result, there was a deviation difference as much as 9%.

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Dynamic Simulation of a Dedicated Outdoor Air-conditioning System (외기 전용 공조기의 동특성 시뮬레이션)

  • Kim, Jung-Min;Kim, Young-Il;Chung, Kwang-Seop;Park, Seung-Tae
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.322-327
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    • 2007
  • Dedicated outdoor air-conditioning(DOA) system that utilizes pre-cooling and desiccant dehumidification can be superior to conventional cooling and reheating system with respect to energy consumption and indoor thermal comfort. In this work, simulation has been conducted to study various factors that affect the performance of DOA. Dynamic simulation shows the transient variation of temperature and humidity as the on/off control logic is imposed. Exit humidity of process air and flow rate are varied to study the effect on exit temperature of process air, dehumidification quantity, required regeneration temperature and exit humidity of regeneration air. For an outdoor air condition of $28.5^{\circ}C$ temperature, 16 g/kg humidity ratio and 2000 cmh flow rate, the dehumidification efficiency is increased by 4.6% as the flow rate is doubled.

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On-site Performance Test and Simulation of a 10 RT Air Source Heat Pump

  • Baik, Young-Jin;Chang, Young-Soo;Kim, Young-Il
    • International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.61-69
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    • 2004
  • In this study, on-site performance test of an air source heat pump which has a rated capacity of 10 RT is carried out. Since indoor and outdoor air conditions can not be controlled to satisfy the standard test conditions, experiments are done with the inlet air conditions as they exist. To estimate the performance of the heat pump for other conditions, the heat pump is modeled with a small number of characteristic parameters. The values of the parameters are determined from the few measurements measured on-site during steady operation. A simulation program is developed to calculate cooling capacity and power consumption at any other arbitrary operating conditions. The simulation results are in good agreement with the experiment. This study provides a method of an on-site performance diagnosis of an air source heat pump.

Performance analysis of oil free air compressor for automotive electronic air suspension system (차량용 공기현가장치의 무급유 공기압축기 성능해석)

  • Shim, Jae-Hwi;Kim, Ho-Young;Lee, Yong-Ho;Kim, Hyun-Jin
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.572-577
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    • 2006
  • Numerical simulation has been made on the performance of an oil free air compressor for automotive electronic air suspension system. Calculation results on the flow rate at various air supply pressures were reasonably well compared to the experimental data. With the aid of the computer simulation program, parametric study on the compressor design parameters has also been carried out for the compressor performance improvement: Increase in the discharge port diameter or discharge valve stiffness was found to be effective to increase the flow rate per unit compressor input for the present compressor model.

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A numerical study of the air fuel ratio effect on the combustion characteristics in a MILD combustor (공연비 변화가 MILD 연소 특성에 미치는 영향에 관한 해석적 연구)

  • Ha, Ji-Soo;Kim, Tae-Kwon;Shim, Sung-Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.587-592
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    • 2010
  • A numerical analysis of reactive flow in a MILD(Moderate and Intense Low oxygen Dilution) combustor is accomplished to elucidate the characteristics of combustion phenomena in the furnace with the variation of air fuel ratio. For the smaller magnitude of air injection velocity(10 m/s), the air flow could not penetrate toward upper part of furnace. On the other hand, the air flow suppresses the fuel flow for the case of air injection velocity 30 m/s. The air velocity 18 m/s is corresponding to the stoichiometric air flow velocity, and for that case, the air flows to relatively more upper part of the furnace when compared with the case of air injection velocity 10 m/s. The reaction zone is produced with the previous flow pattern, so that the reaction zone of the air injection velocity 10 m/s is biased to the air nozzle side and for the case of air injection velocity 30 m/s, the reaction zone is inclined to the fuel nozzle side. For the cases with the air injection velocities 16, 18, 20 m/s, the reaction zone is nearly located at the center between air nozzle and fuel nozzle. The maximum temperatures and NOx concentrations for the cases of air injection velocity 16, 18, 20 m/s are lower than the cases with air injection velocity 10, 30 m/s. From the present study, the stoichiometric air fuel ratio is considered as the most optimal operating condition for the NOx reduction.