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Dynamic Characteristics Analysis for Optimal Design of Flow Divider Valve (Flow Divider Valve의 최적설계를 위한 동특성 해석)

  • Hwang, Tae-Yeong;Park, Tae-Jo
    • 연구논문집
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    • s.29
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    • pp.123-130
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    • 1999
  • Flow divider valve, a kind of hydraulic control valve to divide the flow from one input line to two output line uniformly, should be able to keep the constant flow to output lines despite of the change load or supply pressure. Having 5-10% flow diving error in commercial hydraulic products is one of main source of the accumulated error caused hydraulic system problem and demands the development of flow divider valve to control flow more accurately, In this paper, the dynamic characteristics of flow divider valve are investigated by the numerical estimation of the spool motion considered the external supply force. The optimum design of flow divider valve are proposed to reduce the flow diving error. For the dynamic characteristics analysis, the change of sectional area of fixed and variable orifice, and spool are studied when the input signal is accepted to a constant load.

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EVALUATION OF OPENFAOM IN TERMS OF THE NUMERICAL PRECISION OF INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW ANALYSIS (OpenFOAM의 비압축성 유동 해석정밀도 평가)

  • Kim, Hyung Min;Yoon, Dong-Hyeog;Seul, Kwang-Won
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2013
  • The goal of the research is to evaluate the open source code of OpenFOAM for the use of nuclear plant flow simulation objectively. Of the various incompressible flow solvers, simpleFoam, pimpelFoam are then tested under three validated cases (backward facing step, flow over circular cylinder and turbulent round jet flow). For the evaluation of steady state incompressible laminar flow simulation, low reynolds number of backward facing step flow was solved by simpleFoam. The resultant of the reattached lengths turned out to be similar with the other experimental and simulation results. For transient flow simulation, flow over circular cylinder and turbulent round jet flow were solved by pimpleFoam. The simulation accuracy was evaluated by comparing the resultant flow patterns with the description of the characteristics of the flow over the circular cylinder. The quantitative accuracy was evaluated for no more than 85% by comparing it to the decaying constants of the turbulent round jet velocity.

Helium-Air Exchange Flow Through Openings with Vertical Partitions (수직평판을 삽입한 개구부의 헬륨 및 공기 치환류)

  • 강태일
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.79-87
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    • 2000
  • This paper describes experimental investigations of helium-air exchange flow through openings with vertical partitions. Such exchange flows may occur following rupture accident of stand pipe in high temperature gas cooled reactor. Exchange flow rates are investigated experimentally by using partitioned opening and opening with extended partition to assess fluids interference of the exchange flow at the stand pipe rupture accident. A tests vessel with the two types of opening on top of test cylinder is used in the experiments. An estimation method of mass increment is developed and applied to measure the exchange flow rate. A technique of flow visualization by Mach-Zehnder interferometer is provided to recognize the exchange flows. Amplitude and progress of interference fringes of the flows are observed and used as a support in comparison with the exchange flow rates. Flow passages of upward flow of the helium and downward flow of the air for both two types of the opening are separated by inserted partition within the opening, but in the case of partitioned opening, unseparated flow is formed at the opening entrance and the two flows interface. The exchange flow rate for the partitioned opening is not greater than that of the opening with extended partition because of the fluids interference at the entrance of opening. Finally, the fluids interference at the opening entrance is found to be one of important factors on the helium-air exchange flow rate.

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A Study on Flow Rate Characteristics of a $Annubar^{(R)}$ Type Differential Pressure Flow Meter with a Shape Improvement ($Annubar^{(R)}$형 차압유량계 형상 개선에 따른 유량 특성 연구)

  • Oh, Dae-San;Lee, Choong-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.204-210
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    • 2010
  • The inner structure of the triangular separate bar (TSB) was improved to enhance the productivity of the TSB flow meter by simplifying the machining process for making the flow meter. The cross section of upstream and downstream pressure chamber in the TSB was changed from triangle to circle, which make it possible to substitute the wire cutting by drilling in the process of machining the pressure chamber. The flow rate characteristics of the flow meters was calibrated with a laminar flow meter. Six kinds of flow meters whose diameters of pressure tap for measuring pressure of both upsteam and downstream pressure chamber were different one another were made. The effects of the pressure tap diameter on the flow rate characteristics of the TSB flow meter was little. The mass flow rate characteristics of the flow meters with increasing a non-dimensional parameter which includes the gas temperature, exhaust gas pressure and differential pressure at the flow meters and atmospheric pressure shows nearly linear relationship with a correlation coefficient of R=0.998.

The Analysis for Flow Circulation System in HANARO Flow Simulation Facility (하나로 유동 모의 설비의 유체순환계통 해석)

  • Park, Yong-Chul
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.7 no.1 s.22
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    • pp.30-35
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    • 2004
  • The HANARO, a multi-purpose research reactor of 30 MWth open-tank-in-pool type, has been under normal operation since its initial criticality in February, 1995. Many experiments should be safely performed to activate the utilization of the HANARO. HANARO flow simulation facility is being developed for the endurance test of reactivity control units for extended life time and the verification of structural integrity of those experimental equipments prior to loading in the HANARO. This facility is composed of three major parts; a half-core structure assembly, a flow circulation system and a support system. The flow circulation system is composed of a circulation pump, a core flow piping, a core bypass flow piping and instruments. The system is to be filled with de-mineralized water and the flow should be met the design requirements to simulate a similar flow characteristics in the core channel of the half-core structure assembly to the HANARO. This paper, therefore, presents an analytical analysis to study the flow behavior of the system. Computational flow analysis has been performed for the verification of system pressure variation through the three-dimensional analysis program with the standard $k-{\epsilon}$ turbulence model and for the verification of the structural piping integrity through the finite element method. According to the analysis results, it could be said that the design requirements and the structural piping integrity of the flow circulation system are satisfied.

The effect of position of propeller fan relative to duct inlet on flow characteristics (프로펠러 팬과 덕트와의 상대위치가 유동특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Sim, W.C.;Cho, K.R.;Joo, W.G.
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.14-22
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    • 1997
  • The position of propeller fan from duct inlet is one of basic parameters for the design of propeller fan. To investigate the effect of its position on fan characteristics, the inlet flow fields and relative flow angles were measured by a 5-hole pitot tube. The experimental results indicate that the ratio of radial flow introduced from propeller circumference to total inlet flow increases with the increase of propeller distance from duct inlet. When fan operates without duct, the total flow rate and the radial flow ratio are higher than those of any other positions of propeller relative to duct inlet. The radial flow ratio decreases as a flow coefficient and the propeller distance decrease. Therefore the front flow fields can be adjusted in some extent by varying the propeller distance according to a fan loading. The inlet flow angles are decreasing a little as a rotational speed and the propeller distance decrease. In the present case it was judged that the deviation angle of outlet flow became negative owing to a flow separation near a trailing edge.

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Effects of Pressure Tapping Conditions on Flow Rate Measurement of Triangular Separate Bar Differential Pressure Flow Meter (삼각 분리 막대형 차압유량계 압력탭 조건이 유량 측정에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Choong-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2010
  • Flow characteristics of differential pressure flow meters which have a shape of triangular separate bar (TSB) was investigated according to the machining conditions in pressure tapping holes. Diameter of the pressure taping holes is either 1.0 mm or 1.5 mm. Also, number of the pressure tapping holes are drilled either 9 or 17. The mass flow rate of the TSB flow meters are calibrated with a laminar flow meter by connecting them in line. The mass flow rate in the TSB flow meters are plotted with a non-dimensional parameter H which includes the gas temperature, exhaust gas pressure and differential pressure at the flow meters. An empirical correlation between the mass flow rate at the TSB flow meter and the non-dimensional parameter H was obtained. The empirical correlation showed highly linear relationship between the mass flow rate and the non-dimensional parameter H. The hole size of the pressure tapping holes has a bigger effect on the flow rate than the number of the tapping holes.

sFlow Monitoring for a Virtualization Testbed in KREONET (KREONET에서 가상 환경을 위한 sFlow 모니터링 시스템)

  • Fitriyani, Norma Latif;Kim, Jae-rin;Song, Wang-Cheol;Cho, Buseung;Kim, Sunghae
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2014.11a
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    • pp.234-237
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    • 2014
  • This paper provides insights into the sFlow monitoring system of OF@KREONET. OF@KREONET is software defined network (SDN) testbed adapted by KREONET (Korea Research Environment Open NETwork). OF@KREONET uses SDN-based network virtualization to slice the network among multiple concurrent experimenter. Flow Monitoring of OF@KREONET using sFlow. sFlow and OpenFlow can be used to provide an integrated flow monitoring system where OpenFlow controller can be used to define flows to be monitored by sFlow. OF@KREONET flow monitoring system supports monitoring of per slice FlowSpace. An Experimental can monitor his/her own FlowSpace while network administrator can monitor all spaces.

Forces and flow around three side-by-side square cylinders

  • Zheng, Qinmin;Alam, Md. Mahbub;Rehman, S.;Maiti, D.K.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2019
  • A numerical investigation on forces and flow around three square cylinders in side-by-side arrangement is conducted at a Reynolds number Re = 150 with the cylinder center-to-center spacing ratio L/W = 1.1 ~ 9.0, where W is the cylinder side width. The flowat this Re is assumed to be two-dimensional, incompressible, and Newtonian. The flow simulation is conducted by using ANSYS-Fluent. The flow around the three side-by-side cylinders entails some novel flow physics, involving the interaction between the gap and free-stream side flows as well as that between the two gap flows. An increase in L/W from 1.1 to 9.0 leads to five distinct flow regimes, viz., base-bleed flow (L/W < 1.4), flip-flopping flow (1.4 < L/W < 2.1), symmetrically biased beat flow (2.1 < L/W < 2.6), non-biased beat flow (2.6 < L/W < 7.25) and weak interaction flow (7.25 < L/W < 9.0). The gap flow behaviors, time-averaged and fluctuating fluid forces, time-averaged pressure, recirculation bubble, formation length, and wake width in each flow regime are discussed in detail.

AN ALGORITHM FOR MINIMAL DYNAMIC FLOW

  • Ciurea, Eleonor
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.379-389
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    • 2000
  • FORD and FULKERSON have shown that a stationary maximal dynamic flow can be obtained by solving a transhipment problem associated with the static network and thereby finding the maximal temporally repeated dynamic flow. This flow is known to be an optimal dynamic flow. this paper presents the remark that temporally repeated flows may be not optimal for a minimal dynamic flow and an algorithm for such a flow. a numerical example is presented.