• Title/Summary/Keyword: Dynamics of vortices

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Asymmetric Vortices around a Body at High Angle of Attack Subsonic Flow (아음속 유동하의 고 받음각 물체 주위의 비대칭 와류 특성 연구)

  • Park, Mee-Young;Kim, Wan-Sub;Lee, Jae-Woo;Park, Soo-Hyung
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.33-38
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    • 2008
  • Numerical investigation of asymmetric vortices at high angles of attack subsonic flow is performed using three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. A small bump has been carefully selected and attached near the nose of an ogive cylinder to simulate symmetric vortices. Selected bump shape does develop asymmetric vortices and is verified using Lamont's experimental results. By changing the angle of attack, Reynolds numbers, and Mach numbers, the characteristics of asymmetric vortices are observed. The angle of attack which contributes significantly to the generation of asymmetric vortices are over 30 degrees. By increasing Mach number and Reynolds number asymmetric vortices, hence the side forces show decreasing trend..

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Effects of aspect ratio on laboratory simulation of tornado-like vortices

  • Tang, Zhuo;Zuo, Delong;James, Darryl;Eguch, Yuzuru;Hattori, Yasuo
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.111-121
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    • 2018
  • Experiments were conducted in a large-scale Ward-type tornado simulator to study tornado-like vortices. Both flow velocities and the pressures at the surface beneath the vortices were measured. An interpretation of these measurements enabled an assessment of the mean flow field as well as the mean and fluctuating characteristics of the surface pressure deficit, which is a manifestation of the flow fluctuation aloft. An emphasis was placed on the effect of the aspect ratio of the tornado simulator on the characteristics of the simulated flow and the corresponding surface pressure deficit, especially the evolution of these characteristics due to the transition of the flow from a single-celled vortex to a two-celled vortex with increasing swirl ratio.

Propagation Dynamics of Optical Vortices with Anisotropic Phase Profiles (비균일 위상 형태를 갖는 광보텍스의 진행 특성)

  • Kim Gwang-Hun;Lee Hae-Jun;Kim Jong-Uk;Seok Hui-Yong
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2002.07a
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    • pp.110-111
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    • 2002
  • Controllable waveguide of optical vortex solitons is possible by using the rotational characteristics of optical vortices, while the relative phase difference across the soliton profiles can be used to steer the waveguide direction in case of two-dimensional dark solitons. It is important to understand in detail what sources contribute to the rotation of optical vortices to apply optical vortex solitons to the optical switchyard. (omitted)

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Numerical Study on the Motion of Azimuthal Vortices in Axisymmetric Rotating Flows

  • Suh, Yong-Kweon
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.313-324
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    • 2004
  • A rich phenomenon in the dynamics of azimuthal vortices in a circular cylinder caused by the inertial oscillation is investigated numerically at high Reynolds numbers and moderate Rossby numbers. In the actual spin-up flow where both the Ekman circulation and the bottom friction effects are included, the first appearance of a seed vortex is generated by the Ekman boundary-layer on the bottom wall and the subsequent roll-up near the corner bounded by the side wall. The existence of the small vortex then rapidly propagates toward the inviscid region and induces a complicated pattern in the distribution of azimuthal vorticity, i.e. inertial oscillation. The inertial oscillation however does not deteriorate the classical Ekman-pumping model in the time scale larger than that of the oscillatory motion. Motions of single vortex and a pair of vortices are further investigated under a slip boundary-condition on the solid walls. For the case of single vortex, repeated change of the vorticity sign is observed together with typical propagation of inertial waves. For the case of a pair of vortices with a two-step profile in the initial azimuthal velocity, the vortices' movement toward the outer region is resisted by the crescent-shape vortices surrounding the pair. After touching the border between the core and outer regions, the pair vortices weaken very fast.

Air Flow in a Neonate Incubator: Flow Visualizations, Hot-Wire Velocity Measurements and Computational Fluid Dynamics (신생아 보육기의 공기유동에 관한 유동가시화, hot-wire 속도계측 및 전산유동 해석)

  • Kim, Young-Ho;Kwon, Chi-Ho;Yoo, Seoung-Chool
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.06e
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    • pp.162-168
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    • 2001
  • In the present study, flow visualizations, hot-wire velocity measurements and computational fluid dynamics were performed in order to determine complicated air flow characteristics in a neonate incubator. In this study, following conclusions can be made: (1) The flow visualization technique developed in the present study revealed an enough qualitative information for the flow field in the neonate incubator. Flow structures in a neonate incubator with a realistic three-dimensional shape was successfully visualized the present study. (2) Results from the flow visualization were relatively in good agreements with those obtained from the computational fluid dynamics. (3) Velocities very near the neonate measured by the hot-wire anemometer were relevant to those obtained from the computational fluid dynamics. (4) Temperatures were higher at the neck region and the medial aspect of both thighs, but lower in both extremities. (5) Small vortices between the neonate and the mattress might interfere with convective and evaporative heat transfers on the neonate's surface. In the fluid dynamic aspect, it is important to eliminate the formation of these small vortices for the design of incubator chamber.

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Change of Vortex Dynamics in the Cylinder Wake by the Lock-on to Oscillatory Incident Flow (진동 유동장에서 유동공진에 의한 실린더 후류의 와류 특성 변화)

  • Kim, Won-Tae;Sung, Jae-Yong;Yoo, Jung-Yul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.27 no.11
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    • pp.1645-1654
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    • 2003
  • When vortex shedding is locked-on to a single frequency oscillatory flow, the variations of vortex dynamics are investigated using a time-resolved PIV system. Wake regions of recirculation and vortex formation, dynamic behavior of the shed vortices and the Reynolds stress fields are measured in the wake-transition regime at the Reynolds number 360. In the lock-on state, reduction of the wake region occurs and flow energy distributed downstream moves upstream being concentrated near the cylinder base. To observe the dynamic behavior of the shed vortices, the trajectory of the vortex center extended to the inside of the wake bubble is considered, which describes well the formation and evolution processes. The Reynolds stresses and their contributions to overall force balance on the wake bubble manifest the increase of the drag force by the lock-on.

Magnetic-vortex Dynamic Quasi-crystal Formation in Soft Magnetic Nano-disks

  • Kim, Junhoe;Kim, Sang-Koog
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.29-33
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    • 2017
  • We report a micromagnetic numerical study on different quasi-crystal formations of magnetic vortices in a rich variety of dynamic transient states in soft magnetic nano-disks. Only the application of spin-polarized dc currents to a single magnetic vortex leads to the formation of topological-soliton quasi-crystals composed of different configurations of skyrmions with positive and negative half-integer numbers (magnetic vortices and antivortices). Such topological object formations in soft magnets, not only in the absence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction but also without magnetocrystalline anisotropy, are discussed in terms of two different topological charges, the winding number and the skyrmion number. This work offers an insight into the dynamic topological-spin-texture quasi-crystal formations in soft magnets.