• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.2680-2687
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• 2000

The Reynolds equation, incorporating Elrods cavitation algorithm, is discretized on a rectangular grid in computational space through coordinate mapping in order to accurately analyze a herringbone grooved journal bearing of a spindle motor in a computer hard disk drive. The pressure distribution and cavitation area are determined by using the finite volume method. Predicted results are compared to experimental data of previous researchers. It was found that positive pressure is developed within the converging section of the bearing and that a cavity occurs in the diverging section. Cavitation has been neglected in the previous analysis of the herringbone grooved bearing. Load capacity and bearing torque are increased due to the increased of eccentricity and L/D and the decrease of the grooved width ratio. The maximum load capacity was found to occur at a groove angle of 30 degrees while bearing torque remains constant due to the variation of the groove angle. The cavitation region is significantly decreased with the inclusion of herringbone grooves. However, the region increases with the increase of the eccentricity, L/D, groove angle and the rotational speed and the decrease of the grooved width ratio.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.60-66
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• 2011

Engineering interests of submerged bodies and turbomachinery has led researchers to study various cavitation models for decades. The governing equations used for the present work are the two-phase Navier-Stokes equations with homogeneous mixture model. The solver employed on implicit dual time preconditioning algorithm in curvilinear coordinates. Three different cavitation models were applied to two axisymmetric cylinders and compared with experiments. It is concluded that the Merkle's new cavitation model has successfully accounted for cavitating flows and well captured the re-entrant jet phenomenon over the 0-caliber cylinder.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.150-155
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• 2019

공동현상은 유체의 속도 변화에 의한 압력변화로 인해 유체 내에 빈 곳이 생기는 현상을 말한다. 고속의 액체유동에서 액체의 압력이 포화증기압 이하로 낮아져서 액체 내에 증기 기포가 발생하는 현상이다. 본 연구에서는 선박 및 해양플랜트 분야에서 사용되어지는 유체기기에 대해 CFD 유동해석을 이용하여 선박용 프로펠러의 단독성능 해석기법의 타당성 확보 및 공동에 따른 유동양상을 파악하기 위해 FLUENT를 이용하여 전진비를 증가시키며 3차원 해석을 수행하고 MOERI의 실험 데이터와 비교분석하였다. 대형 컨테이너선용 KP505프로펠러의 사양을 기준으로 전진비에 따른 해석의 결과 전진비 0.7~0.8 구간에서 효율은 60% 수준으로 가장 높게 확인되었다. 압력면과 흡입면의 차이로 추력이 발생되는 것을 확인하였고 프로펠러 표면보다는 이면부근에서 Bubble이 많이 생성될 것으로 추정되며 공동현상이 더 많이 발생할 것이라 추정되었다. 또한 전진비가 증가함에 따라 공동현상은 급격히 감소함을 알 수 있었다. 추력계수와 토크계수는 MOERI 실험값과 비교했을 때 비교적 유사한 결과를 나타내었으며 전진비 1을 제외하고 모두 5%이내의 차이를 나타내었다. 따라서, CFD로 프로펠러 단독 성능에 대한 평가가 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2015

Centrifugal pumps consume considerable amount of energy in various industrial applications. Therefore, improvement of the efficiency of these machines has become a major challenge. Cavitation is a phenomenon which decreases the pump efficiency and even causes structural demage. Hence, the goal of this paper is to investigate the cavitation problem in the single-stage and double-stage centrifugal pumps. The Volume of Fraction (VOF) method has been used for the numerical simulations together with Rayliegh-Plesset model for the gas-liquid two-phase flow inside the pump. In order to capture the turbulent phenomena, the standard k-${\varepsilon}$ turbulence model has been adopted, and the simulations have been done as unsteady cases. In addition, the motion of the rotating parts has been simulated using Multi Reference Frame(MRF) method. The results are presented and compared in terms of hydraulic head and NPSH for both the single-stage and double-stage pumps. The H-Q curves show the effects of cavitation on decreasing the pumps performances.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.324-333
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• 2013

Recently, rudder erosion due to cavitation has been frequently reported on a semi-spade rudder of a high-speed large ship. This problem raises economic and safety issues when operating ships. The semi-spade rudders have a gap between the horn/pintle and the movable wing part. Due to this gap, a discontinuous surface, cavitation phenomenon arises and results in unresolved problems such as rudder erosion. In this study, we made a rudder model for 2-D experiments using the NACA0020 and also manufactured gap flow blocking devices to insert to the gap of the model. In order to study the gap flow characteristics at various rudder deflection angles($5^{\circ}$, $10^{\circ}$, $35^{\circ}$) and the effect of the gap flow blocking devices, we carried out the velocity measurements using PIV(Particle Image Velocimetry) techniques and cavitation observation using high speed camera in Seoul National University cavitation tunnel. To observe the gap cavitation on a semi-spade rudder, we slowly lowered the inside pressure of the cavitation tunnel until cavitation occurred near the gap and then captured it using high-speed camera with the frame rate of 4300 fps(frame per second). During this procedure, cavitation numbers and the generated location were recorded, and these experimental data were compared with CFD results calculated by commercial code, Fluent. When we use gap flow blocking device to block the gap, it showed a different flow character compared with previous observation without the device. With the device blocking the gap, the flow velocity increases on the suction side, while it decreases on the pressure side. Therefore, we can conclude that the gap flow blocking device results in a high lift-force effect. And we can also observe that the cavitation inception is delayed.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.92-98
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• 2018

본 논문은 모형 프로펠러를 대상으로 공동수조 시험, 수중 충격시험, 유한요소해석 및 전산유체해석에 기반하여 수행한 명음 발생 메커니즘 연구이다. 선미 유동을 모사하기 위해 반류망, 프로펠러 및 방향타를 설치하고 수중청음기와 가속도계로 프로펠러 명음 현상의 발생과 소멸을 계측하였다. 유한요소해석을 통해 프로펠러 날개의 고유진동수를 예측하고 접촉 및 비접촉식 충격시험으로 이를 검증하였다. RANS(Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes) 방정식 기반 전산유체해석을 통하여 프로펠러 날개 각 단면의 유속과 유효 받음각을 계산하였으며, DES(Detached Eddy Simulation) 기반 고해상도 해석을 통해 명음 발생 위치에서 2-D 날개 단면 뒷전의 와류흘림주파수(vortex shedding frequency) 계산을 수행하였다. 수치적으로 예측된 와류흘림주파수는 모형시험으로 계측한 명음 발생 주파수 및 날개 고유진동수와 일치함을 확인하였다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.449-454
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• 2008

Some pretreatment methods have been proposed to enhance the biodegradability and to shorten the hydrolysis reaction time. By means of efficient pretreatment the suspended solids (SS) can be made of better accessible for the anaerobic bacteria. There are several ways how this can be accomplished, which include biological, mechanical, thermal, and chemical methods. For the sludge solubilization using the cavitation phenomenon, we have tried to develop a pretreatment process consisted of a reactor and pumps. The objectives of this study were to develop a advanced wastewater treatment consisted of IABR and the cavitation with PGA. The most effective removal for organic matter and nutrients were occured when both cavitation pretreatment and ${\gamma}$-PGA were applied at the IABR process. Only small portion of ${\gamma}$-PGA at a rate of 1.38mg/L, was enough to improve sedimentation ability, SS removal efficiencies, and sludge volume reduction. After the sludge solubilization by the cavitation, SCOD increased to 193% and SS decreased to 36%. The removal ratio of BOD was 94.5%, T-N removal ratio was 85.5% and T-P removal ratio was 84.9%. The combination process of the IABR with the cavitation and PGA addition seems to be very effective alternative wastewater treatment process.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집E
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• pp.499-505
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• 2001

The objective of the paper was to measure the pressure drop and to investigate the recirculation region of the conical orifices used in Kwang-yang Iron & Steel Company. The flow field with water used as a working fluid was the turbulent flow for Reynolds number of $2{\times}10^4$. The effective parameters for the pressure drop and the recirculation region were the conical orifice's inclined angle (${\theta}$) against the wall, the interval(L) between orifices, the relative angle of rotation(${\alpha}$) of the orifices, the shape of the orifice's hole(circle, rectangle, triangle) having the same area. It was found that the shape of the orifice's hole affected the pressure drop and the flow field a lot, But the other parameters did not make much differences to the pressure drop. The PISO algorithm with FLUENT code was employed.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.116-124
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• 2002

The bubble model by Keller and Prosperetti is adapted to solve the nonlinear oscillation of a gas bubble. This formulation leads to accurate results since it introduces the energy equation instead of the polytropic assumption for the bubble interior. The numerical method used in this study is stable enough to handle large amplitude of bubble oscillation. The numerical results show some interesting nonlinear phenomena fur the bubble oscillator. The excitation changes the natural frequency of the bubble and makes some harmonic resonances at $f/f_0=1/2, 1/3$ and so on. The natural frequency of a bubble oscillator decreases compared with the linear case result, which means that the nonlinear bubble oscillation system is a "softening"system. In addition, the frequency response curve jumps up or down at a certain frequency. It is also found that there exist multi-valued regions in the frequency response curve depending on the initial conditions of bubble. The dependency of the bubble motion on the initial condition can generate extremely large pressure and temperature which might be the cause of the acoustic cavitation and the sonoluminescence.inescence.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제37권9호
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• pp.863-871
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• 2013

본 수치적 연구에서는 국내의 발전소에서 사용되는 일반적인 고차압 트림의 형상 중 대표적으로 사용되는 형상의 트림을 기본형 트림으로 정하여, 이를 설계한 후 캐비테이션과 유량의 관점에서 유동 특성을 살펴보았다. 실제로 운전되는 발전소계통의 운전조건을 참고하여 고차압 조건으로서 입 출구 차압을 18.7 MPa로, 온도를 $160^{\circ}C$로 설정하였다. 트림의 주요 설계 인자로서 유로의 면적, 유로의 단(stage)과 유로의 방향을 채택하여, 유량과 케비테이션 발생 특성을 개선하기 위해 기본형 트림을 재설계하였다. 개선을 위해 트림을 반경방향으로 세 영역으로 나눈 후 각 영역에서 재설계 인자를 이용하여 형상을 변경하였다. 4가지의 재설계 모델을 제안하였으며, 각 모델 형상에 대한 수치해석을 수행하였다. 유량 및 캐비테이션 발생량의 관점에서 기본형 트림과 설계개선 트림들을 비교하여 재설계 모델의 성능이 개선되었음을 확인하였다.