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Analysis of Hydraulic Characteristics Upstream of Dam and in Spillway Using Numerical Models (수치모형을 이용한 댐 상류 및 여수로 수리현상 해석)

  • Kim, Young-Han;Oh, Jung-Sun;Seo, Il-Won
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.761-776
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    • 2003
  • Numerical models were employed to investigate the hydrodynamics of water flow in the lake behind a dam and the spillway where supercritical flows and negative pressures are likely to occur. In this study, 2-D model, RMA2 was employed to examine the upstream flow pattern and 3-D CFD model, FLUENT was used to evaluate the three-dimensional flow in the approaching region and flow distributions in the spillways and discharge culverts. The bathymetry and the details of structures were carefully taken into consideration in building the models. The results from applying the 2-D model for the planned Hantan River Dam show that large eddies, the velocity of which reaches up to 1 m/s are occurring in several places upstream of the dam. That means that the 2-D numerical model could be utilized to investigate the two-dimensional flow patterns after the construction of a dam. Three-dimensional numerical results show that the approach flow varies depending on stages and discharge conditions, and velocities at spillways, discharge culverts, and sediment flushing tunnels are differently distributed. The velocity distributions obtained from the numerical model and a hydraulic model at the centerline of spillways 100 m upstream of the dam show reasonably similar results. It is expected that 2-D and 3-D numerical models ate useful tools to help optimize the dam design through investigating the flow patterns in the spillway and at the upstream of the dam, which is not always feasible in hydraulic modeling.

A study on the coal gasification modeling in an Entrained Flow Gasifier (분류층 반응기에서의 석탄가스화 모델링 연구)

  • Ju, Jisun;Chi, Junhwa;Chung, Jaehwa
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.106.1-106.1
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    • 2010
  • 석탄가스화기술은 매장량이 풍부하여 안정적인 공급이 보장되는 석탄을 이용함과 동시에 환경오염물질 감소라는 사회적 요구조건을 충족시키면서 화학제품, 석탄-가스화, 석탄-디젤화, 연료전지, 복합발전 등 다양한 분야에 응용이 가능한 장점이 있다. 특히 석탄가스화복합기술(Intergrated Coal Gasification Combined Cycle, IGCC)은 석탄을 고온, 고압하에서 가스화시켜 일산화탄소(CO), 수소($H_2$)가 주성분인 합성가스를 제조, 정제 후 가스터빈 및 증기터빈을 복합으로 구동하여 전기를 생산하는 친환경 차세대 발전기술로 주목을 받고 있다. 현재 IGCC 기술은 세계적으로 볼 때 상용화단계에 있고, 우리나라의 경우 한국형 IGCC 기술의 확보를 위한 연구사업이 진행중에 있다. 본 연구는 IGCC 발전플랜트의 발전효율을 결정하는 가장 중요한 부분이라 할 수 있는 가스화반응기의 모델링 기술을 개발하는 목적으로 진행되었다. 본 연구에서는 석탄가스화 반응기에서 발생하는 석탄의 휘발화와 Char의 표면반응 그리고 기상에서의 가스화반응등의 현상을 전산유체역학(Computational Fluid Dynamics)을 이용하여 모델링하는 방법론이 연구되었다. 해석을 위한 형상은 해석에 소요되는 시간을 줄이고, 형상이 해석결과에 미치는 영향을 줄이고자 2차원으로 구성하였다. 해석을 위한 수학적모델으로는 난류모델, 가스화반응모델, Lagrangian particle tracking, Char reaction 등을 포함하였고, 해석을 위한 Solver는 Fluent를 이용하였다. 모델링결과에 의해 예측되는 합성가스의 조성을 상용급 IGCC 가스화기의 운전결과와 비교해 본 결과 본 연구에서 설정한 모델로 예측되는 온도 및 가스농도가 실험치와 유사하게 나타남을 알 수 있었고 이를 통하여 본 연구에서 설정한 모델링방법이 적절함을 알 수 있었다.

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A Study on Velocity Profiles between Two Baffles in a Horizontal Circular Tube

  • Chang, Tae-Hyun;Lee, Chang-Hoan
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.136-142
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    • 2015
  • The shell and tube heat exchanger is an essential part of a power plant for recovering transfer heat between the feed water of a boiler and the wasted heat. The baffles are also an important element inside the heat exchanger. Internal materials influence the flow pattern in the bed. The influence of baffles in the velocity profiles was observed using a three-dimensional PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) around baffles in a horizontal circular tube. The velocity of the particles was measured before the baffle and between them in the test tube. Results show that the velocity vectors near the front baffle flow along the vertical wall, and then concentrate on the upper opening of the front baffle. The velocity profiles circulate in the front and rear baffle. These profiles are related to the Reynolds number (Re) or the flow intensity. Velocity profiles at lower Re number showed complicated mixing to obtain the velocities and concentrate on the lower opening of the rear baffle as front wall. Numerical simulations were performed to investigate the effects of the baffle and obtain the velocity profiles between the two baffles. In this study, a commercial CFD package, Fluent 6.3.21 with the turbulent flow modeling, k-${\epsilon}$ are adopted. The path line and local axial velocities are calculated between two baffles using this program.

An Action-based LTS Bounded Model Checker for Analyzing Concurrency (병행성 분석을 위한 액션 기반의 LTS 바운드 모델 체커)

  • Park, Sa-Choun;Kwon, Gi-Hwon
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.35 no.9
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    • pp.529-537
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    • 2008
  • Since concurrent software is hard to debug, the verification of such systems inevitably needs automatic tools which support exhaustive searching. Bounded Model Checking (BMC) is one of them. Within a bound k, BMC exhaustively check some errors in execution traces of the given system. In this paper, we introduce the tool that performs BMC for LTS, modeling language for concurrent programs. In this tool, a property is described by a FLTL formula, which is suitable to present the property with actions in a LTS model. To experiment with existential model checkers and out tool, we compare and analysis the performance of the developed tool and others.

A New Approach to Robustly Exchange Models in Heterogeneous CAD/CAE Environment and its Application

  • Kim, In-Il;Jang, Young-Heuy;Suh, Heung-Won;Han, Seong-Hwan
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.11-23
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    • 2006
  • The model exchange from CAD system to CAE system in valid and effective manner is the major issue of automatic analysis modelling of ship structure. However, model exchange approaches based on the neutral CAD file have resulted in invalid model exchange that could not properly reflect the characteristics of CAD model and CAE model of ship structure. This paper presents the new approach of n-to-n mapping to exchange ship structure model in heterogeneous CAD/CAE environments. In this study, the common model called 'unified ship model for analysis' to directly extract proper information from different CAD systems for ship structural analysis is proposed. Moreover, a command language based model interfacing technique to construct an idealized model for analysis job is also proposed. The proposed approach has been actually implemented in DSME CAD/CAE environment of ship structure such as TRIBON system, PATRAN system and FLUENT system. The applicability and effectiveness of the proposed approach was verified by applying it to the real analysis project for fore-body of ship and block lifting. This application results show that the proposed approach can be effectively used for heterogeneous CAD/CAE environment.

Analysis on the Flow and the Byproduct Particle Trajectory of Roots Type Vacuum Pump (루츠식 진공 펌프의 유동 및 부산물 입자 궤적에 대한 해석)

  • Lee, Chan;Kil, Hyun-Gwon;Noh, Myung-Keun
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.18-23
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    • 2011
  • A CFD analysis method is developed and applied for investigating the gas flow and the byproduct particle trajectory in Roots type vacuum pump. The internal fluid flow and thermal fields between the rotors and the housing of vacuum pump are analyzed by using the dynamic mesh, the numerical methods for unsteady 2-D Navier-Stokes equation and the standard k-$\varepsilon$ turbulence model of the Fluent code. Coupled with the flow simulation results, the particle trajectory of the byproduct flowing into the pump with gas stream is analyzed by using discrete phase modeling technique. The CFD analysis results show the pressure, the velocity and the temperature distributions in pump change abruptly due to the rotation of rotors, and back flows are produced due to the strong reverse pressure gradients at rotor/rotor and rotor/housing clearances. The predicted byproduct particle trajectory results also show the particles impinge on the clearance surfaces between the housing and the rotor of pump and then may form the deposit layer causing the failure of pump.

Appraisement of Design Parameters through Fluid Dynamic Analysis in Thermal Vapor Compressor (열 증기 압축기 내의 유동해석을 통한 설계 인자들의 영향 분석)

  • Park I. S.;Kim H. W.;Kim Y. G.
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.155-158
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    • 2002
  • In general, TVC(Thermal Vapor Compressor) is used to boost/compress a low pressure vapor to a higher pressure for further utilization. The one-dimensional method is simple and reasonably accurate, but cannot realize the detail as like the back flow and recirculation in the mixing chamber, viscous shear effect, and etc. In this study, the axisymmetric How simulations have been performed to reveal the detailed flow characteristics for the various ejector shapes. The Navier-Stokes and energy equations are solved together with the continuity equation In the compressible flow fields. The standard $k-{\epsilon}$ model is selected for the turbulence modeling. The commercial computational fluid dynamic code FLUENT software is used for the simulation. The results contain the entrainment ratio under the various motive, suction and discharge pressure conditions. The numerical results are compared with the experimental data, and the comparison shows the good agreement. The three different flow regimes (double chocking, single chocking and back flow) have been clearly distinguished according to each boundary pressure values. Also the effects of the various shape variables (nozzle position, nozzle outlet diameter, mixing tube diameter, mixing tube converging angle, and etc.) are quantitatively discussed.

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A numerical analysis of forced convection heat transfer in an electric oven (전기오븐의 강제대류 열전달 특성 연구)

  • Noh, Sun-Jong;Cho, Seong-Ho;Kim, Hyeong-Sik;Kwag, Dong-Seong
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.124-128
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    • 2011
  • The heat transfer rate in an oven is very important for the quality of cooking food. For a robust performance design in an electric oven, forced convection has been used rather than natural convection, in bake and convection mode. Forced convection heat trans for in a vented electric oven has been numerically evaluated using the commercial software FLUENT. CFD modeling of the electric oven involves three-dimensional, steady state, MRF fan model and DO radiation model. In this study, the electric oven cavity and fan modules are not simplified. Other research shows that the boundary condition can often lead to non-physical solutions, such as reverse flaw at the top vent. To remove this non-physical solution, control volume has been expanded at the nearby vent. This numerical analysis has been performed with dedicated experimental support. The results show that there is less than a 2.2% difference between the simulation and experimental data for the temperature profile of food. From this research we can use this oven simulation technique to make a better convection system in an electric oven.

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Analysis of the ejector for low-pressure evaporative desalination system using solar energy (태양에너지 이용 저압 증발식 해수 담수시스템 이젝터 CFD 해석)

  • Hwang, In-Seon;Joo, Hong-Jin;Kwak, Hee-Youl
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.137-143
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    • 2010
  • In this study, the ejector design was modeled using Fluent 6.3 of FVM(Finite Volume Method) CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) techniques to resolve the flow dynamics in the ejector. A vacuum system with the ejector has been widely used because of its simple construction and easy maintenance. Ejector is the main part of the desalination system, of which designs determine the efficiency of system. The effects of the ejector was investigated geometry and the operating conditions in the hydraulic characteristics. The ejector consists mainly of a nozzle, suction chamber, mixing tube(throat), diffuser and draft tube. Liquid is supplied to the ejector nozzle, the fast liquid jet produced by the nozzle entrains and the non condensable gas was sucked into the mixing tube. In the present study, the multiphase CFD modeling was carried out to determine the hydrodynamic characteristics of seawater-air ejector. Two-dimensional geometry was considered with the quadrilateral-mashing scheme. The gas suction rate increases with increasing Motive flow circulating rate.

Optimization of Sandwich Structures of a Small Aircraft Wing using Automated Aero- Structure Interaction Systems (자동화된 공력-구조 연계 시스템을 이용한 소형항공기 날개 샌드위치구조 최적설계)

  • Park, Chan Woo;Chu, Jae Myeong;Shul, Chang Won;Jun, Seung Moon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.30 no.10
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    • pp.1061-1068
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    • 2013
  • In this research, the design optimization of a composite sandwich has been performed for using as an airplane wing skin. Automated analysis framework for aero-structure interaction is used for calculating load data on the wing. For automated analysis framework, FLUENT is used for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. CFD mesh is generated automatically by using parametric modeling of CATIA and GAMBIT. A computational structure mechanics (CSM) mesh is generated automatically by the parametric method of the CATIA and visual basic script of NASTRAN-FX. The structure is analyzed by ABAQUS. Composite sandwich optimization is performed by NASTRAN SOL200. Design variables are thicknesses of the sandwich core and composite skin panel plies. The objective is to minimize the weight of the wing and constraints are applied for wing tip displacement, global failure index and local failure indexes.