• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제5권2호
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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.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.726-735
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• 2018

Femtocells are good examples of the ultimate networking technology, offering enhanced indoor coverage and higher data rate. However, the dense deployment of femto base stations (FBSs) and the exploitation of subcarrier reuse between macrocell base stations and FBSs result in significant co-tier and cross-tier interference, thus degrading system performance. Therefore, appropriate resource allocations are required to mitigate the interference. This paper proposes a discrete bacterial foraging optimization (DBFO) algorithm to find the optimal resource allocation in two-tier networks. The simulation results showed that DBFO outperforms the random-resource allocation and discrete particle swarm optimization (DPSO) considering the small number of steps taken by particles and bacteria.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.455-470
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• 2016

In ballasted railway tracks, ballast fouling due to finer material intrusion has been identified as a challenging issue in track maintenance works. In this research, deformation characteristics of crushed stone-sand mixtures, simulating fresh and fouled ballasts were studied from laboratory and a 3-D discrete element method (DEM) triaxial compression tests. The DEM simulation was performed using a recently developed DEM approach, named, Yet Another Dynamic Engine (YADE). First, void ratio characteristics of crushed stone-sand mixtures were studied. Then, triaxial compression tests were conducted on specimens with 80 and 50% of relative densities simulating dense and loose states respectively. Initial DEM simulations were conducted using sphere particles. As stress-strain behaviour of crushed stone-sand mixtures evaluated by sphere particles were different from laboratory specimens, in next DEM simulations, the particles were modeled by a clump particle. The clump shape was selected using shape indexes of the actual particles evaluated by an image analysis. It was observed that the packing behaviour of laboratory crushed stone-sand mixtures were matched well with the DEM simulation with clump particles. The results also showed that the strength properties of crushed stone deteriorate when they are mixed by 30% or more of sand, specially under dense state. The results also showed that clump particles give closer stress-strain behaviour to laboratory specimens than sphere particles.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.83-90
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 선형의 기본 파라메타가 주어졌을 때, 선형 최적화를 통하여 고속으로 주행하는 활주선의 저항성능을 개선하는 기법을 제안하였다. 먼저 선행연구 된 활주선형을 기준 선형으로 채택한 뒤, 선형 변경지점을 정의해 설계변수로 하여 최적화 문제를 수립하였다. 계산 효율을 위하여 탐색공간을 이산화하고, 최적화 문제를 풀기위하여 DPSO(Discrete binary version of Particle Swarm Optimization) 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 최적화 수행 후 기준 선형과 수정 선형의 목적함수 출력의 비교를 수행하였고, 이를 통해 고속영역에서의 저항성능의 개선을 확인하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권12호
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• pp.4395-4407
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• 2023

Bubble columns are widely encountered in several industries, especially in the field of nuclear safety. The Eulerian-Eulerian and the Eulerian-Lagrangian methods are commonly used to investigate bubble columns. Eulerian approaches require additional tasks such as strict volume conservation at the interface and a predefined well-structured grid. In contrast, the Lagrangian approach can be easily implemented. Hence, we introduce a fully Lagrangian approach for the simulation of bubble columns using the discrete bubble model (DBM) and moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) methods. Additionally, we propose a rigorous method to estimate the volume fraction accurately, and verified it through experimental data and analytical results. The MPS method was compared with the experimental data of Dambreak. The DBM was verified by analyzing the terminal velocity of a single bubble for each bubble size. It agreed with the analytical results for each of the four drag correlations. Additionally, the improved method for calculating the volume fraction showed agreement with the Ergun equation for the pressure drop in a packed bed. The implemented MPS-DBM was used to simulate the bubble column, and the results were compared with the experimental results. We demonstrated that the MPS-DBM was in quantitative agreement with the experimental data.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2015

다양한 변수들이 존재하는 현대의 전투전장에서는 운용전술에 따라 전투의 양상이 결정되기 때문에 최적화된 운용전술을 도출하는 연구가 필요하다. 기존의 M&S(Modeling & Simulation) 연구에서는 몬테 칼로 실험을 통해 변수들을 분석하는 것이 일반적이다. 그러나 이 방법은 상호 복합적으로 작용하는 다수의 변수들의 모든 조합에 대해 시뮬레이션을 수행하기 때문에, 많은 수행시간이 소요되고 최적의 운용전술 도출을 위한 별도의 분석이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 최적화 요소를 찾는 전산탐색 기법 중 하나인 DPSO(Discrete binary version of PSO) 알고리즘을 기반으로 하는 최적화 시뮬레이션 프레임워크를 제안하였다. 최적화 시뮬레이션 프레임워크는 짧은 시간 내에 최적화된 운용전술을 도출하기 위하여 설계되었다. 본 연구에서는 아군 수상함이 적 어뢰로부터 회피하는 사례를 적용하여 최적화 시뮬레이션 프레임워크의 탐색 성능을 확인하였다. 이를 통해 최적화 시뮬레이션 프레임워크의 효율성을 제시하였다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.101-105
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• 2016

Trap effect of groove is evaluated in a lubricating system using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. The simulation is based on the standard k-ε turbulence model and the discrete phase model (DPM) using a commercial CFD code FLUENT. The simulation results are also capable of showing the particle trajectories in flow field. Computational domain is meshed using the GAMBIT pre-processor. The various grooves are applied in order to improve lubrication characteristics such as reduction of friction loss, increase in load carrying capacity, and trapping of the wear particles. Trap effect of groove is investigated with variations in cross-sectional shape and Reynolds number in this research. Various cross-sectional shapes of groove (rectangular, triangle, U shaped, trapezoid, elliptical shapes) are considered to evaluate the trap effect in simplified two-dimensional sliding bearing. The particles are assumed to steel, and defined a single particle injection condition in various positions. The “reflect” boundary condition for discrete phase is applied to the wall boundary, and the “escape” boundary condition to “pressure inlet” and “pressure outlet” conditions. The streamlines are compared with particles trajectories in the groove. From the results of numerical analysis in the study, it is found that the cross-sectional shapes favorable to the creation of vortex and small eddy current are effective in terms of particle trapping effect. Moreover, it is found that the Reynolds number has a strong influence on the pattern of vortex or small eddy current in the groove, and that the pattern of the vortex or small eddy current affects the trap effect of the groove.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2017년도 제48회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.766-774
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• 2017

알루미늄과 같은 금속분말을 연료로 사용하는 추진체의 연료공급장치에 있어, 원통형 공급관 내부를 이동하는 분말이 연소기로 진입하면서 발생되는 분말의 급확대부 영역에서의 확산현상을 해석하기 위해 컴퓨터 소프트웨어를 개발하였다. 플러그 유동형태의 입자집단운동을 기술하기 위해서 일종의 Lagrangian기법이며 난류속도변동 조건을 만족하는 개별입자추적법을 도입하였다. 여기에 재순환 영역에서 유체의 방향전환을 증진시키기 위해 기하학적 유동 구조에 입각한 반경방향 속도성분을 추가시켰다. 속도 추가성분의 유무에 따른 급확대부 재부착점 부근에서의 입자 속도분포 수치해석 결과를 기존의 실험결과와 비교하였다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.148-158
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• 2018

This study investigated the effect of the grinding media of a ball mill under various conditions on the raw material of copper powder during the milling process with a simulation of the discrete element method. Using the simulation of the three-dimensional motion of the grinding media in the stirred ball mill, we researched the grinding mechanism to calculate the force, kinetic energy, and medium velocity of the grinding media. The grinding behavior of the copper powder was investigated by scanning electron microscopy. We found that the particle size increased with an increasing rotation speed and milling time, and the particle morphology of the copper powder became more of a plate type. Nevertheless, the particle morphology slightly depended on the different grinding media of the ball mill. Moreover, the simulation results showed that rotation speed and ball size increased with the force and energy.

• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.193-200
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• 2009

We present a direct simulation technique for two-dimensional mold-filling simulations of fluids filled with a large number of circular disk-like rigid particles. It is a direct simulation in that the hydrodynamic interaction between particles and fluid is fully considered. We employ a pseudo-concentration method for the evolution of the flow front and the DLM (distributed Lagrangian multipliers)-like fictitious domain method for the implicit treatment of the hydrodynamic interaction. Both methods allow the use of a fixed regular discretization during the entire computation. The discontinuous Galerkin method has been used to solve the concentration evolution equation and the rigid-ring description has been introduced for freely suspended particles. A buffer zone, the gate region of a finite area subject to the uniform velocity profile, has been introduced to put discrete particles into the computational domain avoiding any artificial discontinuity. From example problems of 450 particles, we investigated the particle motion and effects of particles on the flow for both Newtonian and shear-thinning fluid media. We report the prolonged particle movement toward the wall in case of a shear-thinning fluid, which has been interpreted with the shear rate distribution.