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DEVELOPMENT OF IMPLICIT DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD ON UNSTRUCTURED MESHES (비정렬 격자계에서 내재적 불연속 갤러킨 기법의 개발)

  • Lee, H.D.;Kwon, O.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.30-40
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    • 2007
  • The implicit discontinuous Galerkin method for the two-dimensional Euler equations was developed on unstructured triangular meshes, which can achieve higher-order accuracy by wing hierachical basis functions based on Legendre polynomials. Numerical tests were conducted to estimate the convergence order of numerical solutions to the Ringleb flow and the supersonic vortex flow for which analytic solutions are available. And, the flows around a circle and a NACA0012 airfoil was also numerically simulated. Numerical results show that the implicit discontinuous Galerkin methods with higher-order representation of curved solid boundaries can be an efficient higher-order method to obtain very accurate numerical solutions on unstructured meshes.

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Animation construction and application example by the post-processing of PIV data (PIV데이터의 post-processing에 의한 애니메이션 제작 및 적용예)

  • Kim, M.Y.;Choi, J.W.;Lee, H.;Lee, Y.H.
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2000.04b
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    • pp.655-660
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    • 2000
  • Animation technique from the PIV database is particularly emphasized to give macroscopic and quantitative description of complex flow fields. This paper shows animation construction and application example for the post-processing of PIV data. As examples, first case is a pitching airfoil immersed in tree surface water circulating tunnel. Second case is a wake of a model-ship. Third case of PIV data is a large scale surface flow field. Obtained images are processed in time sequence by PIV exclusive routines where an efficient and reliable cross correlation algorithm is included for vector identification. All. animation Jobs are implemented completely on single personal computer environment. Compressed digital images are obtained initially by Motion-JPEG board and various An files are finally obtained through graphic processes.

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Experimental Study on Drag Reduction of Ground Vehicle Using a Rear-Spoiler (Rear-spoiler를 이용한 자동차의 항력감소에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 최재호;이상준
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 1996
  • The effect of rear-spoiler attached at rear end of automobile trunk on the aerodynamic characteristics of a MIRA reference car model was experimentally investigated. For different shapes and positions(G/H) of the rear-spoiler, the aerodynamic forces on the automobile were measured at various flow speed(ReL). The effect of rear-spoiler on the wake structure behind the automobile was also investigated using flow visualization and hot-wire anemometer. The rear-spoiler modifies the near wake structure and decreases aerodynamic drag and increases driving stability compared with those of the conventional automobile without rear-spoiler. From the experimental results, rear-spoiler of airfoil shape installed at the position of G/H=0.084 shows the best aerodynamic performance.

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Cooling Characteristics of Wing Fin Heat Sink (익형 핀 히트싱크의 냉각특성)

  • 유갑종;박철우;장충선;김현우
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.16 no.8
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    • pp.728-740
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    • 2004
  • Heat sink has extended surface area for enhanced heat transfer. The enhanced convection heat transfer has been used widely, such as cooling electronic chips in the electronics industry. Heat sink usually requires an increase in the heat transfer and a decrease in the pressure drop, and must improve the performance in the flow field of industrial plants. In this study, wing fin heat sink was studied and tests were conducted in a rectangular cross sectional channel with wing fin heat sinks. The leading and trailing ends of a wing fin have a sharp edge, simulating the airfoil feature. Empirical correlations have been developed for wing fin heat sink types. And wing fin heat sinks have better cooling performance than elliptic fin and square fin types.

Enhancing aerodynamic performance of NACA 4412 aircraft wing using leading edge modification

  • Kumar, B. Ravi
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.271-277
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    • 2019
  • This work deals with designing the aircraft wing and simulating the flow behavior on it to determine the aerodynamically efficient wing design. A NACA 4412 airfoil is used to design the base wing model. A wing with a rectangular planform and the one with curved leading edge planform was designed such that their surface areas are the same. Then, a comprehensive flow analysis is carried out at various velocities and angle of attacks using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the results were interpreted and compared with the experimental values. This study shows that there is a significant improvement in the aerodynamic performance of the curved leading edge wing over the wing with rectangular planform.

Numerical Analysis on Effects of Positioning and Height of the Contoured Endwall on the Three-Dimensional Flow in an Annular Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane Cascade (끝벽의 설치 위치 및 변형 높이에 따른 환형 터빈 노즐 안내깃 캐스케이드 내 3차원 유동에 미치는 영향에 관한 수치해석)

  • Lee, Wu-Sang;Kim, Dae-Hyun;Min, Jae-Hong;Chung, Jin-Taek
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05b
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    • pp.3247-3252
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    • 2007
  • Endwall losses contribute significantly to the overall losses in modern turbomachinery, especially when aerodynamic airfoil load and pressure ratio are increased. Hence, reducing the extend and intensity of the secondary flow structures helps to enhance overall efficiency. From the large range of viable approaches, a promising combination positioning and height of endwall contouring was chosen. The objective of this study is to document the three-dimensional flow in a turbine cascade in terms of streamwise vorticity, total pressure loss distribution and static pressure distribution on the endwall and blade surface and to propose an appropriate positioning and height of the endwall contouring which show best secondary, overall loss reduction among the simulated endwall. The flow through the gas turbine were numerically analyzed using three dimensional Navier-Stroke equations with a commercial CFD code ANSYS CFX-10. The result shows that the overall loss is reduced near the flat endwall rather than contoured endwall, and the case of contoured endwall installed at 30% from leading edge with height of 25% for span showed best performance.

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A Numerical Study of Shock Wave/Boundary Layer Interaction in a Supersonic Compressor Cascade

  • Song, Dong-Joo;Hwang, Hyun-Chul;Kim, Young-In
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.366-373
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    • 2001
  • A numerical analysis of shock wave/boundary layer interaction in transonic/supersonic axial flow compressor cascade has been performed by using a characteristics upwind Navier-Stokes method with various turbulence models. Two equation turbulence models were applied to transonic/supersonic flows over a NACA 0012 airfoil. The results are superion to those from an algebraic turbulence model. High order TVD schemes predicted shock wave/boundary layer interactions reasonably well. However, the prediction of SWBLI depends more on turbulence models than high order schemes. In a supersonic axial flow cascade at M=1.59 and exit/inlet static pressure ratio of 2.21, k-$\omega$ and Shear Stress Transport (SST) models were numerically stables. However, the k-$\omega$ model predicted thicker shock waves in the flow passage. Losses due to shock/shock and shock/boundary layer interactions in transonic/supersonic compressor flowfields can be higher losses than viscous losses due to flow separation and viscous dissipation.

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A Study on Grid Adaptation by Poisson Equation (푸아송 방정식을 이용한 격자 적응에 대한 연구)

  • 맹주성;문영준;김종태
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.182-189
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    • 1993
  • To improve the resolution of complex flow field features, grid adaptation scheme of Anderson has been revised, which was based on the Poisson grid generator of Thompson. Anderson's original scheme adapts the grid to solution automatically, but if flow field is more or less complex, then the adaptivity is weak. So the technique of using threshold which is used in unstructured grid system is adopted. The regions of large variation in the solution are marked by marking function which has the property of total variation of the solution, and these regions have same values of weight but other regions are neglected. This updated method captures shocks clearly and sharpy. Four examples are demonstrated, (1) Hypersonic flow past a blunt body, (2) High speed inlet analysis, (3) Supersonic flow of M=1.4 over a 4% biconvex airfoil in a channel, (4) Hypersonic shock-on-shock interaction at M=8.03.

Effect of Pitch Angle and Blade Length on an Axial Flow Fan Performance (피치각과 날개 길이에 따른 축류팬의 성능)

  • Jeon, Sung-Taek;Cho, Jin-Pyo
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 2013
  • In this study, the performance of an impeller according to blade length and pitch angle was studied experimentally by building a variable pitch impeller while changing blade length to review the effect of blade length and pitch angle on a fan's performance. The pitch angle was changed in six steps from $20^{\circ}{\sim}45^{\circ}$ at intervals of $5^{\circ}$ while the blade lengths were changed to 90 mm, 100 mm, 110 mm and 120 mm with an identical airfoil shape while carrying out the experiment. The results are summarized as follows: The air flow per static pressure of axial fans increased linearly with increase of pitch angle, but the high static pressure showed a decrease at a pitch angle of $35^{\circ}$. The shaft power increased proportionally to the pitch angle at all blade lengths; the larger the pitch angle, the larger the measured increase of shaft power. This is because the drag at the fan's front increases with the pitch angle. In the axial fans considered in this research, the flow and increase of static pressure amount increased up to a pitch angle of $30^{\circ}$ but decreased rapidly above $35^{\circ}$.

A Study of Performance Estimate and Flow Analysis of the 500 kW Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbine by CFD (CFD에 의한 500kW급 수평축 풍력발전용 터빈의 성능평가 및 유동해석에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Y.T.;Kim, B.S.;Kim, J.H.;Nam, C.D.;Lee, Y.H.
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.5 no.4 s.17
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    • pp.32-39
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this 3-D numerical simulation is to calculate and examine the complex 3-D stall phenomena on the rotor blade and wake distribution of the wind turbine. The flow characteristics of 500kW Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) are compared with the calculated 3-D stall phenomena and wake distribution. We used the CFX-TASCflow to predict flow and power characteristics of the wind turbine. The CFD results are somewhat consistent with the BEM (Blade Element Momentum) results. And, the rotational speed becomes faster, the 3-D stall region becomes smaller. Moreover, the pressure distribution on the pressure side that directly gets the incoming wind grows high as it goes toward the tip of the blade. The pressure distribution on the blade's suction side tells us that the pressure becomes low in the leading edge of the airfoil as it moves from the hub to the tip. However, we are not able to precisely predict on the power coefficient of the rotor blade at the position of generating complex 3-D stall region.