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Arc efficiency and kerf width in plasma arc cutting process (플라즈마 절단공정에서의 아아크 효율과 절단폭)

  • 노태정;나석주
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.23-33
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    • 1987
  • Plasma arc cutting is a fusion cutting process in which a gas constricted arc is employed to produce high temperature, high velocity jet at the workpiece. Even though the plasma arc cutting has been wid¬ely used in the industry, very little work has been done on the analysis of the process. In this paper, the kerf width was numerically analyzed by soving the temperature distribution in base metal under consideration of the latent heat effect. In modelling the heat flow problem, the heat intensity of the plasma arc was assumed to have a Gaussion distribution in the transverse direction and expone¬ntially decreasing in the thickness direction. The thermal efficiency and the heat input ratio of the top surface were experimentally deterimned for various thickness and cutting conditions, and used in numerical calculation of the kerf width. The experimental results were in eonsiderabely good agreement with the theoretically predicted kerf width.

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Research on Flow Analysis Program Development Considering Equilibrium Plasma Flow and Impulse Characterization of Sparkjet Actuator (플라즈마에 의한 평형 유동을 고려한 스파크제트 액츄에이터 유동 해석 프로그램 개발과 추력 특성 연구)

  • Kim, Hyung-Jin;Shin, Jin Young;Chae, Jeongheon;Ahn, Sangjun;Kim, Kyu Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.47 no.2
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    • pp.90-97
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    • 2019
  • Sparkjet actuator, also known as plasma synthetic jet actuator (PSJA), is an active flow control device that has possibility of controling supersonic flow. This actuator utilizes arc plasma to deposit energy onto the gas inside the cavity to raise temperature and pressure. A change in the state of the fluid inside the cavity generates pressure waves and momentum jet, and they are exhausted through out the orifice exit and disturb external flow field. Since the cavity flow is affected by arc plasma, which is an equilibrium plasma and have generated equilibrium flow, the equilibrium state of air should be considered in order to analyze the flow of sparkjet actuator. In this study, numerical program for equilibrium flow was developed for the use of sparkjet actuator analysis. The developed program was validated by comparing the time - accurate jet front positions with the reference result. Then, impulse characteristics of the actuator in the atmospheric quiescent air were explained.

Reforming of Hydrocarbon Fuel Using Water Jet Plasma (Water Jet 플라즈마를 이용한 탄화수소 연료 개질)

  • Kim, Seong-Cheon;Chun, Young-Nam
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.28 no.9
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    • pp.949-954
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this paper is to develop water jet plasma reactor and investigate the optimal condition of the syngas production by reforming of hydrocarbon fuel. Fuel used was propane and plasma was generated by arc discharge on water jet surface. Discharge slipping over the water surface has a number of advantages such as a source of short-wave and UV radiation, and it can be used for biological and chemical purification of water. Parametric screening studies were conducted, in which there were the variations of power ($0.18{\sim}0.74$ kW), water jet flow rate($38.4{\sim}65.6$ mL/min), electrode gap($5{\sim}15$ mm) and treatment time($2{\sim}20$ min). When the variations were 0.4 kW, 53.9 mL/min, 10 mm and 20 min respectively, result of maximum $H_2$ concentration was 61.6%, intermediates concentration were 6.1% and propane conversion rate was 99.8%.

Investigation of Turbulent Flow Effect in Segmented Arc Heater (아크히터 내부의 난류 효과에 대한 고찰)

  • Lee, Jeong-Il;Kim, Kyu-Hong;Kim, Chong-Am
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2005
  • Flows in segmented arc-heaters have been calculated for prediction of experimental operating condition or for analysis and design of arc-heater itself. Some researchers succeeded in calculating accurately inner flows of a arc-heater, but could not made mathematical models which satisfy various operating conditions for many arc-heaters. this study is forced on turbulence for the generality of mathematical model. Instead of algebraic turbulence models which are frequently used for calculating inner flow of arc-heater, two equation turbulent models are used. Prediction results agree well with experiment data and it was confirmed that $k-\varepsilon$ two equation turbulence model is appropriate for a flow in an arc heater throughout extensive numerical testing.

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF A 150KW HUELS TYPE ARC HEATER (150kW급 Huels형 아크 히터 내부의 유동 해석)

  • Han, S.H.;Byeon, J.Y.;Kim, K.H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.562-566
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    • 2010
  • Numerical analysis of 150kW Huels-type arc jet was performed using compressible Navier-Stokes CFD code. To consider chemical reaction by high temperature, the flow was assumed to be chemical equilibrium states. As a turbulence and a radiation model, the two-equation k-epsilon model and the 3-band radiation model were adopted, respectively. Mass flow rate and current density were given as conditions for calculations. In this study, two kinds of mechanisms for injection of air flow wire considered. One is that air is provided by left wall surface and the other is that air is injected from upper wall surface. The pressure, density and temperature contours of two cases were compared and heat transfer rates were estimated. The numerical results of two cases were not much different to each other. However, in real 150KW device, air is injected from upper wall surface with swirl. To calculate more accurately, swirl effect is must be considered.

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Performance Test of 400kW Enhanced Huels Type Plasma Generator (400kW 개량형 고온플라즈마 발생장치 성능평가연구)

  • Park, Sang-Hun;Lee, Ki-Seon;Lee, Sueng-Jin;Hwang, Lee-Ho;Rhee, Byong-Ho;Na, Jae-Jeong;Lee, Jung-Min
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.537-540
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    • 2010
  • An Enhanced Huels Type Plasma Torch that generates over $5000^{\circ}C$ plasma arc flow is the core equipment of arc-jet wind tunnel. It is applied to the high-tech areas such as a new materials development and eco-friendly industry. Although the Enhanced Huels Type Plasma Torch produce uniform flow of high purity, its complicated structure and operating condition makes the commercialization of it to be difficult. The 400kW arc-jet generator using the enhanced Huels type plasma torch was tested. The result of this study showed that the torch was operated in the range of 280~320 A and 250~1350 V.

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Airplanes at constant speeds on inclined circular trajectories

  • Labonte, Gilles
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.399-425
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    • 2016
  • The dynamical requirements are obtained for airplanes to travel on inclined circular trajectories. Formulas are provided for determining the load factor, the bank angle, the lift coefficient and the thrust or power required for the motion. The dynamical properties of the airplane are taken into account, for both, airplanes with internal combustion engines and propellers, and airplanes with jet engines. A procedure is presented for the construction of tables from which the flyability of trajectories at a given angle of inclination can be read, together with the corresponding minimum and maximum radii allowed. Sample calculations are shown for the Cessna 182, a Silver Fox like unmanned aerial vehicle, and a F-16 jet airplane.

Numerical Investigation of a Steady Non-Evaporating Hollow-Cone Spray Interacting with an Annular Air Jet (정상 할로우 콘 분무와 환형 공기 제트의 상호작용에 관한 수치적 연구)

  • Kim, Woo-Tae;Huh, Kang-Y.
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.43-52
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    • 2000
  • Numerical simulation of steady, non-evaporating hollow-cone sprays interacting with concentric annular air jets is performed using the discrete stochastic particle method in KIVA. The spray characteristics such as SMD, mean droplet velocity, liquid volume flux, air/liquid mass ratio, and droplet number density arc obtained and compared with the measurements involving different air flow rates in large and small annuli. Overall satisfactory agreement is achieved between calculation and experiment except for the deviation in the downstream SMD arising from uncertainty in the size distribution function at injection, and inaccuracy in the averaged spray parameters due to the small volumes of axisymmetric 2-D sector meshes close to the axis.

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