• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.26-30
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• 2023

Interaction of a droplet and substrate is important to determine the coating and final deposition pattern in inkjet printing system. In particular, an accurate deposition of the droplet should be guaranteed for high-resolution patterning. In this study, we performed high-speed shadowgraph experiments on droplet train impact in inkjet system. From the high-speed images, we observed an unexpected bouncing phenomenon. We have found two factors affecting bouncing regime; the Weber number and the curvature of deposited droplet. Experimental results indicate that there is a critical curvature diameter of deposited droplet, which splits into bouncing and merging regime. From this result, we obtained a power-law behavior between the Weber number and the curvature. The understanding of bouncing phenomena helps to improve the accuracy and productivity of inkjet printing.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2006

An inviscid axisymmetric model capable of predicting droplet bouncing and the detailed pre-impact motion, influenced by the ambient pressure, has been developed using boundary element method (BEM). Because most droplet impact simulations of previous studies assumed that a droplet was already in contact with the impacting substrate at the simulation start, the previous simulations could not accurately describe the effect of the gas compressed between a failing droplet and the impacting substrate. To properly account for the surrounding gas effect, an effect is made to release a droplet from a certain height. High gas pressures are computationally observed in the region between the droplet and the impact surface at instances just prior to impact. The current simulation shows that the droplet retains its spherical shape when the surface tension energy is dominant over the dissipative energy. When increasing the Weber number, the droplet surface structure is highly deformed due to the appearance of the capillary waves and, consequently, a pyramidal surface structure is formed; this phenomenon was verified with our experiment. Parametric studies using our model include the pre-impact behavior which varies as a function of the Weber number and the surrounding gas pressure.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.49-53
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• 2015

Recently, researches for droplet impact phenomena have been faced a new phase in the direction of studying the effect of complex external conditions (e.g. wettability, temperature, morphology, electric field, etc.) for depth understanding and precise controlling in various applications. Hence, here we investigated the electrified droplet impact phenomena, because there were few quantitative researches for electrified droplet impact when we considering many real applications such as electrospray, electrohydrodynamic (EHD) jet printing. To observe interaction effect of surface charge between substrate and droplet simultaneously, micro-droplets with various Reynolds number (Re) and Weber number (We) were dripped on super-hydrophobic surface with existence and nonexistence of electrical surface charge. It shows three kinds of impact behaviors, fully bouncing, partial bouncing, and splashing with different We. Also, charged droplet bounced higher on electrically charged surface than on non-charged surface. Additionally, transition regions of three impact behaviors were classified quantitatively with water hammer pressure value, which means instant pressure inside droplet at the impact moment.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.187-192
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• 2008

In this study, the mechanisms of binary droplet collision were studied with diesel, ethanol and purified water. The droplet collisions of liquid droplet have been investigated for the same droplet diameter. In order to obtain the digital images of the droplet collision behavior, the experimental equipment was composed of the droplet generating system and the droplet visualization system. The droplets were produced by the vibrating orifice monodisperse generator. The visualization system consisted of a long distance microscope, a light source, and a high speed camera. The outcomes of binary droplet collision can be divided into four regimes, bouncing, coalescence, reflexive separation and stretching separation. The impact angle and the relative velocity of binary droplet are main parameters of collision phenomena, so the transition mechanism of droplet collision can be divided by the impact parameter.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.559-564
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• 2008

A prediction of binary droplets collision is important in the formation of falling drops and the evolution of sprays. The droplet velocity, impact parameter and drop-size ratio have influence on the interaction of the droplets. By the effect of these parameter, the collision processes are generated with the complicated phenomena. The droplet collision can be classified into four interactions such as the bouncing, coalescence, reflexive separation and stretching separation. In this study, the two-phase flow of the droplet collision was simulated numerically by using the Level Set method. 2D axi-symmetric simulations on the head-on collisions in the coalescence and reflexive separation, and 3D simulation on the off-center collisions in the coalescence and stretching separation were performed. These numerical results showed good agreements with the experimental and analytical results. For tracking the identity of droplets after the collision, transport equation for the volume fraction of the each initial droplet were used. From this, the identities of droplets were analyzed on the collision of droplets having different size.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1891-1896
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• 2004

The present article proposes a new droplet collision model including the stretching separation regime and the formation of satellite droplets. The new model consists of a several equations to calculate the post-collision characteristics of colliding droplets and satellite droplets. These equations are derived from the energy balance of droplets between before and after collision. For binary collision of water droplets, the new model shows good agreement with experimental data for the number of satellite droplets. Nevertheless, it is thought that, in order to guarantee the generality of the new model, the improvements should be performed to consider the effects of the bouncing and the reflexive separation, which is essential process in the collision of hydrocarbon droplets.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.353-360
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• 2011

액적 충돌은 물방울 형성 및 분무 유동 등의 현상을 예측하는데 있어 매우 중요하다. 이러한 액적 충돌은 액적 속도, 충돌 파라미터, 액적 크기비에 영향을 받아, 충돌 후 거동 특성이 결정된다. 충돌 후 액적은 반사, 합일, 스트레칭 분리, 리플렉시브 분리와 같은 거동 특성을 갖는다. 본 연구에서는 레벨셋 방법을 사용하여 충돌 후 액적 거동 특성에 대한 이상유동 해석을 수행하였다. 정면충돌 현상에 대한 2차원 축대칭 해석으로부터 합일 및 리플렉시브 분리 현상을, 비중심충돌 현상에 대한 3차원 해석으로부터 합일, 리플렉시브 분리, 스트레칭 분리 현상을 예측할 수 있었다. 이러한 해석 결과는 기존 실험 및 이론적 연구 결과와 일치하는 결과를 보였다. 또한, 초기 액적의 부피비에 대한 수송 방정식을 사용하여 충돌하는 두 액적의 성분을 추적하였다. 이로부터 크기가 다른 두 액적의 정면충돌에 대한 액적 성분 추적을 통해 액적 거동 및 액적 성분에 대해 분석하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2017

분무식 노즐(spray nozzle)은 액체의 표면을 증가시키기 위해 에너지를 공급하여 액체를 다수의 액적으로 미립화시키는 장치로 연소과정에서의 연료의 미립화 또는 표면이나 입자의 코팅 등 여러 산업분야에 다양한 목적으로 응용된다. 초음파 미립화 노즐은 진동 발생장치로부터 고진동수의 전기에너지를 받아 같은 진동수의 기계적 에너지로 변환시키는 변환기를 갖고 있다. 변환된 에너지를 액체에 부가하여 고주파 진동에 의해 미세한 액적을 생성하여 분사한다. 코팅작업에서 가압되지 않은 저속의 분무는 액적이 튕겨나가지 않고 표면에 달라붙어 과도하게 분사되는 양을 줄일 수 있다. 초음파 미립화 노즐은 초음파 진동부 외벽에 공기를 공급해 줄 수 있는 공간을 통해 생성된 보조 공기흐름을 이용하여 저속의 액적을 운반하여 분무특성이나 분무형상을 조절할 수 있다. 따라서 주위 공기의 흐름을 이용하여 원하는 분무특성을 얻을 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 액적의 분사 운동을 모사하기 위해 라그랑지안 분산상 모델(DPM)을 적용한 상용코드 FLUENT를 사용하여 액적 주위의 공기흐름을 동반하는 초음파 미립화 노즐을 해석하였다. 노즐 수축부 형상, 액적의 크기 그리고 공기 측 압력차의 크기를 변화시키며 수치해석을 수행하여 코팅용 분무를 위한 최적 조건을 연구하였다.