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Numerical Study on the NH3/CH4 Symmetric Premixed Counterflow Flames Part II: Investigation of Flame Structure and Reaction Path (암모니아/메탄 예혼합 대향류 대칭 화염에 관한 수치 해석적 연구: Part II 화염의 구조 및 반응 경로 해석 )

  • JINSEONG KIM;KEEMAN LEE
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.748-757
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    • 2023
  • Numerical analysis was conducted to confirm the characteristics of extinction behavior in NH3/CH4 counterflow symmetrical flames. Numerical simulations were run on CHEMKIN-PRO, using the OPPDIF code, with Okafor's mechanisms, which had the lowest error rate compared to Colson's experimental data in the our previous part I study. The chemical interactions of merged flames were examined by analyzing the production rate of major chemical species and key radicals with the volume fractional percentage of ammonia and global strain rate. The interaction phenomenon of the flames could be identified by observing the main chemical reaction path of the merged flames at the stagnation plane.

Experimental and numerical investigation of the energy harvesting flexible flag in the wake of a bluff body

  • Latif, Usman;Abdullah, Chaudary;Uddin, Emad;Younis, M. Yamin;Sajid, Muhamad;Shah, Samiur Rehman;Mubasha, Aamir
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.279-292
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    • 2018
  • Inspired by the energy harvesting eel, a flexible flag behind a D-shape cylinder in a uniform viscous flow was simulated by using the immersed boundary method (IBM) along with low-speed wind tunnel experimentation. The flag in the wake of the cylinder was strongly influenced by the vortices shed from the upstream cylinder under the vortex-vortex and vortex-body interactions. Geometric and flow parameters were optimized for the flexible flag subjected to passive flapping. The influence of length and bending coefficient of the flexible flag, the diameters (D) of the cylinder and the streamwise spacing between the cylinder and the flag, on the energy generation was examined. Constructive and destructive vortex interaction modes, unidirectional and bidirectional bending and the different flapping frequency were found which explained the variations in the energy of the downstream flag. Voltage output and flapping behavior of the flag were also observed experimentally to find a more direct relationship between the bending of the flag and its power generation.

Nonlinear Dynamic Responses among Wave, Submerged Breakwater and Seabed ($\cdot$수중방파제$\cdot$지반의 비선형 동적응답에 관한 연구)

  • HAN DONG SOO;KIM CHANG HOON;YEOM CYEONG SEON;KIM DO SAM
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.19 no.6 s.67
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2005
  • Recently, various-shaped coastal structures have been studied and developed. Among them, the submerged breakwater became generally known as a more effective structure than other structures, bemuse it not only serves its original function, but also has the ability to preserve the coastal environment. Most previous investigations have been focused on the wave deformation and energy dissipation due to submerged breakwater, but less interest was given to their internal properties and dynamic behavior of the seabed foundation under wave loadings. In this study, a direct numerical simulation (DNS) is newly proposed to study the dynamic interaction between a permeable submerged breakwater aver a sand seabed and nonlinear waves, including wave breaking. The accuracy of the model is checked by comparing the numerical solution with the existing experimental data related to wave $\cdot$ permeable submerged breakwater $\cdot$ seabed interaction, and showed fairly nice agreement between them. From the numerical results, based on the newly proposed numerical model, the properties of the wave-induced pore water pressure and the flow in the seabed foundation are studied. In relation to their internal properties, the stability oj the permeable submerged breakwater is discussed.

A Study on Beach Stabilization by Laying Drainage Layer (투수층 매설에 의한 해빈안정화에 관한 연구)

  • Hur, Dong-Soo;Lee, Woo-Dong;Jeon, Ho-Sung
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.30 no.3B
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    • pp.325-335
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    • 2010
  • The aim of this study is to survey the effects of laying drainage layer in sandy beach on beach stabilization. At first, the numerical model developed by Hur and Lee (2007), which is able to consider the flow through a porous medium with inertia, laminar and turbulent resistance terms, i.e. simulate directly WAve Structure Seabed/Sandy beach interaction and can determine the eddy viscosity with LES turbulent model in 3-D wave field (LES-WASS-3D), is validated by comparing with existing experimental data. And then, numerical simulation is carried out to examine the characteristics of wave-sandy beach interaction for a beach with/without drainage layer. From the numerical results, it is shown that mean ground-water level around a foreshore decreases and offshore-ward flow over a seabed reduces in case of a beach with drainage layer. Moreover, the effects of cross profile of drainage layer and incident wave condition on mean ground-water level around a foreshore are also discussed as well the distribution of wave setup around the foreshore.

3-Dimensional Numerical Analysis of Air Flow inside OWC Type WEC Equipped with Channel of Seawater Exchange and Wave Characteristics around Its Structure (in Case of Irregular Waves) (해수소통구를 구비한 진동수주형 파력발전구조물 내 공기흐름과 구조물 주변에서 파랑특성에 관한 3차원수치해석(불규칙파의 경우))

  • Lee, Kwang Ho;Lee, Jun Hyeong;Jeong, Ik Han;Kim, Do Sam
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.253-262
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    • 2018
  • Oscillating Water Column (OWC) Wave Energy Converters (WEC) harness electricity through a Power-Take-Off (PTO) system from the induced-airflow by seawater oscillating inside a chamber. In general, an air chamber with a relatively small cross-sectional area is required compared to seawater chamber to obtain high-velocity air in the PTO system, and in order to simulate an accurate air flow rate in the air chamber, a three-dimensional study is required. In this study, the dynamic response of OWC-WEC that is equipped with the channel of seawater exchange for the case of irregular waves has been numerically studied. The open source CFD software, OLAFLOW for the simulation of wave dynamics to the openFOAM and FOAM-extend communities, was used to simulate the interaction between the device and irregular waves. Based on the numerical simulation results, we discussed the fluctuation characteristics of three dimensional air flow in the air-chamber, wave deformation around the structure and the seawater flow inside the channel of seawater exchange. The numerical results the maximum air flow velocity in the air-chamber increases as the Ursell value of the significant wave increases, and the velocity of airflow flowing out from the inside of air chamber to the outside is greater than the speed of flowing into the air chamber from the outside.

Pore flow Characteristics in Seabed around Dike Due to Variation of Ground Water Level (지하수위 변화에 따른 호안 주변 지반내의 흐름특성)

  • Kim, Chang-Hoon;Kim, Do-Sam;Hur, Dong-Soo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.408-417
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    • 2007
  • Recently, an artificial beach has been constructed compensating for loss of the natural one caused by the development of coastal area, as well as serving as a location for recreational activities such as sea bathing. It is well known that some structure should be constructed to protect an artificial beach from the outflow due to wave action of the reclaimed sand. In general, dike is utilized as the structure to protect an artificial beach. And, one of the factors which may need to be taken into consideration for stability of dike on seabed foundation is the ground water behavior behind dike. However, the interrelated phenomena of nonlinear wave and ground water response have relatively little attention although these interactions are important for stability of structure and sand suction to the artificial beach. In this paper, the numerical wave tank was developed to clarify nonlinear wave, dike and ground water dynamic interaction, which can simulate the difference of ground water and mean water level. Using the developed numerical wave tank, the present study investigates how variation of ground water level influences hydrodynamic characteristics in seabed around dike and numerically simulates the wave fields, pore flow patterns, pore water pressures and vorticities according to variation of ground water level. Numerical results explain well how hydrodynamic characteristics in seabed around dike is affected by the variation of ground water level.

Three Component Velocity Field Measurements of Turbulent Wake behind a Marine Propeller Using a Stereoscopic PIV Technique (Stereoscopic PIV 기법을 이용한 선박용 프로펠러 후류의 3차원 속도장 측정)

  • Lee, Sang-Joon;Paik, Nu-Geun;Yoon, Jong-Hwan
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.27 no.12
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    • pp.1716-1723
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    • 2003
  • A stereoscopic PIV(Particle Image Velocimetry) technique was employed to measure the 3 dimensional flow structure of turbulent wake behind a marine propeller with 5 blades. The out-of-plane velocity component was determined using two CCD cameras with the angular displacement configuration. Four hundred instantaneous velocity fields were measured for each of four different blade phases and ensemble averaged to investigate the spatial evolution of the propeller wake in the near-wake region from the trailing edge to one propeller diameter(D) downstream. The phase-averaged velocity fields show the potential wake and the viscous wake developed along the blade surfaces. Tip vortices were generated periodically and the slipstream contraction occurs in the near-wake region. The out-of-plane velocity component and strain rate have large values at the locations of tip and trailing vortices. As the flow goes downstream, the turbulence intensity, the strength of tip vortices and the magnitude of out-of-plane velocity component at trailing vortices are decreased due to viscous dissipation, turbulence diffusion and blade-to-blade interaction.

A Numerical Study on the Effect of PCB Structure Variation on the Electronic Equipment Cooling (PCB 구조변화가 전자장비 냉각에 미치는 영향에 관한 수치적 연구)

  • ;;Park, Kyoung-Woo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.19 no.12
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    • pp.3329-3343
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    • 1995
  • The interaction of mixed convection and surface radiation in a printed circuit board(PCB) is investigated numerically. The electronic equipment is modeled by a two-dimensional channel with three hot blocks. In order to calculate the turbulent flow characteristics, the low Reynolds number k-.epsilon. model which is proposed by Launder and Sharma is applied. The S-4 approximation is used to solve the radiative transfer equation. The effects of the Reynolds number and geometric configuration variation of PCB on the flow and heat transfer characteristics are analyzed. As the results of this study, it is found that the thermal boundary layer occured at adiabatic wall in case with thermal radiation included, and the effect of radiation is also found to be insignificant for high Reynolds numbers. It is found, as well, that the heat transfer increases as the Reynolds number and block space increase and the channel height decreases and the heat transfer of vertical channel is greater than that of horizontal channel.

Numerical Modeling of Turbulent Premixed Lifted Flames in Low-Swirl Burner (저 스월 버너에서의 난류 예혼합 부상화염장의 해석)

  • Kang, Sung-Mo;Lee, Jeong-Won;Kim, Yong-Mo;Chung, Jae-Hwa;Ahn, Dal-Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.8-15
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    • 2007
  • This study has numerically modelled the combustion processes of the turbulent swirling premixed lifted flames in the low-swirl burner (LSB). In these turbulent swirling premixed flames, the four tangentially-injected air jets induce the turbulent swirling flow which plays the crucial role to stabilize the turbulent lifted flame. In the present approach, the turbulence-chemistry interaction is represented by the level-set based flamelet model.. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional computations are made for the various swirl numbers and nozzle length. In terms of the centerline velocity profiles and flame liftoff heights, numerical results are compared with experimental data The three-dimensional approach yields the much better conformity with agreements with measurements without any analytic assumptions on the inlet swirl profiles, compared to the two-dimensional approach. Numerical clearly results indicate that the present level-set based flamelet approach has realistically simulated the. structure and stabilization mechanism of the turbulent swirling stoichiometric and lean-premixed lifted flames in the low-swirl burner.

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Numerical Modeling of Turbulent Premixed Lifted Flames in Low-Swirl Burner (저 스월 버너에서의 난류 예혼합 부상화염장의 해석)

  • Kang, Sung-Mo;Lee, Jeong-Won;Kim, Yong-Mo;Chung, Jae-Hwa;Ahn, Dal-Hong
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.455-458
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    • 2006
  • This study has numerically modelled the combustion processes of the turbulent swirling premixed lifted flames in the low-swirl burner (LSB). In these turbulent swirling premixed flames, the four tangentially- injected air jets induce the turbulent swirling flow which plays the crucial role to stabilize the turbulent lifted flame. In the present approach, the turbulence-chemistry interaction is represented by the level-set based flame let model. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional computations are made for the various swirl numbers and nozzle length. In terms of the centerline velocity profiles and flame liftoff heights, numerical results are compared with experimental data The three-dimensional approach yields the much better conformity with agreements with measurements without any analytic assumptions on the inlet swirl profiles, compared to the two-dimensional approach. Numerical clearly results indicate that the present level-set based flamelet approach has realistically simulated the structure and stabilization mechanism of the turbulent swirling stoichiometric and lean-premixed lifted flames in the low-swirl burner.

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