• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.66-76
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• 2011

The heat transfer and pressure loss characteristics of a rotating two-pass channel with a guide vane in the turning region have been studied using three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) analysis, and the shape of the guide vane has been optimized using surrogate modeling optimization technique. For the optimization, thickness, location and angle of the guide vanes have been selected as design variables. The objective function has been defined as a linear combination of the heat transfer and the friction loss related terms with a weighting factor. Latin hypercube sampling has been applied to determine the design points as design of experiments. A weighted-average surrogate model, PBA has been used as the surrogate model. The guide vane in the turning region does not influence the heat transfer in the first passage upstream of the turning region, but enhances largely the heat transfer in the turning region and the second passage. In an example of the optimization, the objective function has been increased by 13.6%.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.206.1-206.1
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• 2011

Recently, various developments in the area of small hydropower have being made and small hydro turbines are suitable for domestic use because it is a clean and renewable energy source. A small hydropower generator produces power by using the different water pressure levels in pipe lines and energy which was initially wasted by use of a reducing valve at the end of the pipeline is instead collected by a tubular-type hydro turbine in the generator. In this study, in order to acquire the performance of tubular-type hydro turbine applied, the output power, head, efficiency characteristics due to the different guide vane and runner vane angle are examined in detail. Moreover, influences of pressure and velocity distributions with the variation of guide vane and runner vane angle on turbine performance are investigated by using a commercial CFD code.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.154-163
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• 2017

Performance characteristics in pump mode of pump-turbines are vital for the safe and effective operation of pumped storage power plants. However, the head characteristics are different under different guide vane openings. In this paper, 3-D steady simulations were performed under 13mm, 19mm and 25mm guide vane openings. Three groups of operating points under the three GVOs were chosen based on experimental validation to investigate the influence of guide vane setting on flow patterns upstream and downstream. The results reveal that, the guide vane setting will obviously change the flow pattern downstream, which in turn influences the flow upstream. It shows a strong effect on hydraulic loss (power dissipation) in the guide and stay vanes. It is also found that the hydraulic loss mainly comes from the flow separation and vortices. In addition, in some operating conditions, the change of guide vane opening will change the flow angle at the runner inlet and outlet, which will change the Euler momentum (power input). The joint action of Euler momentum and hydraulic loss results in the change of the head characteristics.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2007

This paper presents the design procedure of a vertical wind turbine named jet-wheel-turbo turbine and the numerical and experimental verifications. The design parameters such as the rotor inlet angle, the diameter-to-hub ratio, the inlet guide outlet angle and the solidity were optimized to maximize the energy transfer, and to further increase the turbine efficiency by applying the side guide vane and the side opening to the rotor. The maximum power coefficient of 0.59, which is much higher than the ever-designed three-bladed horizontal turbines, was experimentally obtained when the optimal inlet- and side-guide vanes were installed and both sides of the rotor were 80% opened. The maximum power coefficients occur at the tip speed ratio ranging between 0.6 and 0.7. This vertical-axis turbine model can be applied to the large-scale power generation system with the speed and torque control algorithm for the specified wind characteristics.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.75-81
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• 2011

The turbo blowers having large power capacity are generally composed of the variable inlet guide vane, the impeller and the variable diffuser. In the present study, the effect of the stagger angles on the aerodynamic performances has been investigated by CFD methods. The design specifications of the reference model having 400kW power were given as 7.43kg/s of mass flow rate, 1.66 of pressure ratio with 12000rpm of impeller rotating speed. As the first simulation parameter, the diffuser vane angle was varied in the range of ${\pm}$20 degree from the initial-design point. The inlet guide vane angles, as the second one, was changed in the range of ${\pm}$40 degree from the initial-design point. The commercial Navier-Stokes solver, ANSYS-CFX, was applied to solve the three-dimensional unsteady flow fields inside the turbo blower. Through the numerical results, the desirable setting angles were proposed to fit the best performance to the variation of the operating conditions.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2016

일반적으로 다단 축류압축기는 부분 부하 조건에서 충분한 운전영역을 확보하기 위해 가변안내깃을 이용한다. 본 연구에서의 해석대상인 다단 축류압축기는 입구에서의 안내깃과 함께 1단과 2단 정익을 가변안내깃으로 하여 운전영역을 확보한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 정격회전수의 70%와 90% 회전수 조건에서의 가변안내깃의 설치각이 다단 축류압축기의 성능에 미치는 영향에 대해 조사하였다. 다단 축류압축기의 성능은 3차원 정상상태 및 비정상상태 수치해석을 이용하여 확보하였다. 각 해석기법을 통해 확보한 결과를 비교하였으며 내부유동장의 특성을 파악하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제40권8호
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• pp.519-525
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• 2016

펌프 성능 관점에서 바라보면 회전날개의 충격손실을 최소화하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 본 연구는 회전날개의 충격손실에 직접적으로 영향을 미치는 흡입 케이싱 내에 설치되는 안내깃의 형상 및 설치 각 변화가 축류 펌프의 성능에 미치는 효과를 수치 해석 방법을 통해 살펴보았다. 그리고 주어진 운전조건에서 흡입 케이싱 내에 설치되는 안내깃의 최적형상 및 설치 각을 최적화 기법을 사용하여 최적화하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제37권7호
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• pp.709-716
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• 2013

팬 필터 유닛 (FFU)은 청정실 천정에 설치되어 정화된 공기를 공급하는 장치이다. FFU가 대형화되면서 출구면에서 속도가 불균일해지고 결과적으로 청정실에서 생산되는 제품의 품질 또는 생산성을 떨어뜨리게 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 가이드 베인이 설치되는데 가이드 베인은 속도를 균일하게 하지만 유동저항을 유발하여 동력이 일정하게 주어진 경우 공급되는 유량을 감소시킨다. 따라서 속도 균일성을 확보하면서 유량 감소를 최소화하는 최적설계가 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 FFU의 외벽과 중앙에 설치된 가이드 베인의 각도와 길이를 변경하면서 수치해석을 수행하여 가이드 베인의 성능 개선 방안을 도출하였다. 외벽에 설치된 가이드 베인의 경우, 형상을 변경하여 유량이 1.5% 감소하는 조건에서 속도 균일도를 3.7% 향상시킬 수 있었다. 중앙 가이드 베인의 경우 유량이 0.7% 감소하는 조건에서 속도 균일도를 2.9% 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.443-446
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• 2005

The Kaplan turbine model has been tested and analyzed. The blade angle and the guide vane opening of the turbine model were designed to be varied according to the best combination of guide vane and runner blade opening. When the changes in head and output were comparatively large, the efficiency drop were small, so the efficiency characteristics and stability of the entire operating condition were maintained in good condition. These results showed that the developed model in this study will be suitable for small hydro power stations with large changes in head and load.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2007년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.1992-1996
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• 2007

The Kaplan turbine model has been tested and analized. The blade angle and the guide vane opening of the turbine model were designed to be varied according to the best combination of guide vane and runner blade opening. When the changes in head and output were comparatively large, the efficincy drop were small, so the efficiency characteristics and stability of the entire operating condition were maintained in good condition. These results showed that the developed model in this study will be suitable for small hydro power stations with large changes in head and load.