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Hybrid RANS and Potential Based Numerical Simulation for Self-Propulsion Performances of the Practical Container Ship

  • Kim, Jin;Kim, Kwang-Soo;Kim, Gun-Do;Park, Il-Ryong;Van, Suak-Ho
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2006
  • The finite volume based multi-block RANS code, WAVIS developed at MOERI is applied to the numerical self-propulsion test. WAVIS uses the cell-centered finite volume method for discretization of the governing equations. The realizable $k-{\epsilon}$ turbulence model with a wall function is employed for the turbulence closure. The free surface is captured with the two-phase level set method and body forces are used to model the effects of a propeller without resolving the detail blade flow. The propeller forces are obtained using an unsteady lifting surface method based on potential flow theory. The numerical procedure followed the self-propulsion model experiment based on the 1978 ITTC performance prediction method. The self-propulsion point is obtained iteratively through balancing the propeller thrust, the ship hull resistance and towing force that is correction for Reynolds number difference between the model and full scale. The unsteady lifting surface code is also iterated until the propeller induced velocity is converged in order to obtain the propeller force. The self-propulsion characteristics such as thrust deduction, wake fraction, propeller efficiency, and hull efficiency are compared with the experimental data of the practical container ship. The present paper shows that hybrid RANS and potential flow based numerical method is promising to predict the self-propulsion parameters of practical ships as a useful tool for the hull form and propeller design.

Thermal Characteristics of Hybrid Composites for Application to Surfboard (서프보드 적용을 위한 하이브리드 복합재료의 열적 특성)

  • Kim, Yun-Hae;Lee, Jin-Woo;Park, Chang-Wook;Park, Soo-Jeong
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.351-355
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    • 2014
  • Today, carbon fibers are used as heating elements. Carbon fibers are generally used to reinforce composite materials because they are lightweight and have a high strength and modulus. Carbon fiber reinforced composite materials are used for aerospace, automobile, and wind turbine blade applications. This work explored the possibility of using carbon fiber reinforced composite materials as self heating materials. The temperatures of the carbon fiber reinforced composites were measured. These results verified that the carbon fiber reinforced composite materials could be used as heating elements. A glass fiber was laminated using various methods. The thermal characteristics of the composites were evaluated. This confirmed that the generation of heat varied according to the lamination thicknesses of the carbon fiber and glass fiber. As the number of carbon fiber laminations increased, the heat-generating temperature increased. In contrast, as the number of glass fiber laminations increased, the amount of heat decreased. The generation of heat and ability to remain warm could be controlled by controlling the carbon fiber and glass fiber laminations.

NUMERICAL METHODS FOR OPEN WATER PERFORMANCE PREDICTION OF HORIZONTAL AXIS TIDAL STREAM ENERGY CONVERSION TURBINE (조류발전용 수평축터빈의 단독성능 평가를 위한 수치 해석법)

  • Lee, J.H.;Kim, D.J.;Rhee, S.H.;Kim, M.C.;Hyun, B.S.;Nam, J.H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.155-162
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    • 2010
  • Recently, due to high oil prices and environmental pollution issues, interest of alternative energy development increases and the related research is widely conducted. Among those research activities the tidal stream power generation utilizes the tidal flow as its mechanical power resource and less depends on the environmental condition for installation and operation than other renewable energy resources. Therefore the amount of power generated is quite consistent and straightforward to predict. However, research on the tidal stream energy conversion turbine is rarely found. In the present study, two numerical methods were developed and compared for the open water Momentum Theory, which is widely used for wind turbines, was adopted. The moving reference frame method for Computational Fluid Dynamis solver were also used. Hybrid meshing was used for the complex geometry of turbines. The analysis results using each method were compared to figure out a better method for the performance prediction.

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Numerical Study on Three - Dimensional Viscous Flows in Turbine Blade Passages (터빈 블레이드 통로에서의 3차원 점성유동에 대한 수치해석)

  • 윤준원;유정열
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.527-539
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    • 1992
  • 본 연구에서는 터빈익렬의 입구유동면에 주어지는 끝벽 경계층유동에 의하여 익렬 내의 유동에서 발생하는 여러 와류들에 의한 2차 유동과 이와 연관된 여러가지 3차원 점성유동 현상 그리고 이에 따른 유동손실을 보다 정확히 예측하기 위한 수치해 석적 연구를 수행하였으며, 이에 필요한 수치해석적 연구를 수행하였으며, 이에 필요 한 수치해석코드를 작성하였다.유동특성에 대하여 상세한 연구결과가 보고되어 있 는 UTRC(United Technologies Research Center) 평면 터빈익렬을 연구대상으로 채택하 여 익렬 내의 3차원 유동특성을 연구하고 계산한 결과를 기존의 결과와 비교 검토하였 다. 강한 2차유동이 존재하는 경우에 발생하는 수치확산을 감소시키기 위하여 대류 항에 대하여 2차 정확도(second-order accuracy)의 선형상류도식(linear upwind sche- me)을 사용하여 일반적으로 널리 사용되는 하이브리드도식(hybrid scheme)에 의한 해 석결과와 비교하였다. 터빈익렬 내의 난류 유동은 익렬의 회전과 유선의 만곡 등에 의한 영향으로 복잡한 유동현상을 나타내지만, 터빈익렬 내의 난류유동 특성에 대한 실험결과가 아직까지는 부족하고 또한 본 연구에서는 평균유동값의 정확한 해석에 중 점을 두었으므로 표준 k-.epsilon. 모델을 사용하였다.

Development of New Hybrid Zoysiagrass Cultivar 'Seah' (한국잔디 신품종 '세아(Seah)' 개발)

  • Choi, Joon-Soo;Yang, Geun-Mo;Bae, Eun-Ji;Park, Yong-Bae;Lee, Kwang-Soo
    • Weed & Turfgrass Science
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.306-312
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    • 2017
  • This study was carried out to develop new hybrid zoysiagrass cultivar 'Seah' (The application no. for cultivar protection : 2014-22). Native zoysiagrasses were collected from south-west seaside of Korea from 2010 to 2011. Artificial crossing was conducted to develop F1 hybrid between Z2011 (Z. sinica) and NM1 (Z. matrella) at plastic house in 2011. Among the progenies, 'Seah' showed fine leaf texture and high shoot density from the space planting plots at field. 'Seah' showed genetically light green color, with fine leaf with 1.8mm and height to the lowest leaf blade was 1.94 cm. Ground coverage rate was slower than medium leaf zoysiagrass (Jung-gi), but plant height of 7.1 cm was the lowest among the compared zoysiagrasses and height to lowest leaf of 1.94 cm was lower than most zoysiagrass, which may allow low mowing height.

Rotor Track and Balance of a Helicopter Rotor System Using Modern Global Optimization Schemes (최신의 전역 최적화 기법에 기반한 헬리콥터 동적 밸런싱 구현에 관한 연구)

  • You, Younghyun;Jung, Sung Nam;Kim, Chang Ju;Kim, Oe Cheul
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.41 no.7
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    • pp.524-531
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    • 2013
  • This work aims at developing a RTB (Rotor Track and Balance) system to alleviate imbalances originating from various sources encountered during blade manufacturing process and environmental factors. The analytical RTB model is determined based on the linear regression analysis to relate the RTB adjustment parameters and their track and vibration results. The model is validated using the flight test data of a full helicopter. It is demonstrated that the linearized model has been correlated well with the test data. A hybrid optimization problem is formulated to find the best solution of the RTB adjustment parameters using the genetic algorithm combined with the PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) algorithm. The optimization results reveal that both track deviations and vibration levels under various flight conditions become decreased within the allowable tolerances.

Effect of UV Radiation on Early Growth of Korean Rice Cultivars(Oryza sativa L.)

  • Choi, Kwan-Sam;In, Jun-Gyo;Kang, Si-Yong;Bae, Chang-Hyu;Lee, Hyo-Yeon
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.296-301
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    • 1999
  • The concerns on the crop damage by ultraviolet (UV) radiations is increasing owing to the decrease of their absorbing stratospheric ozone in the tropospheric. Cultivar differences on early growth of UV radiation among five Korean rice cultivars, four japonica types and one Tongil type (indica-japonica cross hybrid), were studied. Pot-seeded rice plants were grown under four different radiation conditions, i.e., visible radiation only, visible radiation with supplemented with high or low dose of UV-B (280~320 nm in wavelength) and UV-C (less than 280 nm in wavelength). The inhibitory degree on plant height, shoot and root weight and length of leaf blade and leaf sheath were determined at 40 days after seeding. UV-C showed the most severe inhibitory effect on the degree of biomass gain and leaf growth in most cultivars examined, followed by high UV-B and low UV-B. Among the cultivars used, the Kuemobyeo was the most sensitive cultivar and had not repair or showed resistance ability to continued irradiation of UV radiation. However, Janganbyeo and Jaekeon showed different responses that the elongation of leaf blades was promoted on 2nd and 3rd leaves and inhibited on 4th and 5th leaves but this inhibitory degree was reduced on 6 th and 7th leaves. Such tendency on leaf growth means that both cultivars had low sensitivity and most resistant ability to continued irradiation of UV radiation. While Tongil showed different response to enhanced UV radiation, ie., low UV-B promoted leaf growth but the inhibitory was severely increased by continued irradiation of high UV-B and UV-C, which means that Tongil had high threshold of UV radiation for response as an inhibitory light of plant growth. The results of this study indicate that the differences on sensitivity or resistant to the effects of UV radiation were existed among Korean rice cultivars.

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Aeromechanical stability analysis and control of helicopter rotor blades (헬리콥터 회전날개깃의 안정성 해석과 제어)

  • Kim, J.S.;Chattopadhyay, Aditi
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.59-69
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    • 2001
  • The rotor blade is modeled using a composite box beam with arbitrary wall. The active constrained damping layers are bonded to the upper and lower surfaces of the box beam to provide active and passive damping. A finite element model, based on a hybrid displacement theory, is used in the structural analysis. The theory is capable of accurately capturing the transverse shear effects in the composite primary structure, the viscoelastic and the piezoelectric layers within the ACLs. A reduced order model is derived based on the Hankel singular value. A linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller is designed based on the reduced order model and the available measurement output. However, the LQG control system fails to stabilize the perturbed system although it shows good control performance at the nominal operating condition. To improve the robust stability of LQG controller, the loop transfer recovery (LTR) method is applied. Numerical results show that the proposed controller significantly improves rotor aeromechanical stability and suppresses rotor response over large variations in rotating speed by increasing lead-lag modal damping in the coupled rotor-body system.

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Study on the Optimal Selection of Rotor Track and Balance Parameters using Non-linear Response Models and Genetic Algorithm (로터 트랙 발란스(RTB) 파라미터 최적화를 위한 비선형 모델링 및 GA 기법 적용 연구)

  • Lee, Seong Han;Kim, Chang Joo;Jung, Sung Nam;Yu, Young Hyun;Kim, Oe Cheul
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.44 no.11
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    • pp.989-996
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    • 2016
  • This paper intends to develop the rotor track and balance (RTB) algorithm using the nonlinear RTB models and a real-coded hybrid genetic algorithm. The RTB response data computed using the trim solutions with variation of the adjustment parameters have been used to build nonlinear RTB models based on the quadratic interpolation functions. Nonlinear programming problems to minimize the track deviations and the airframe vibration responses have been formulated to find optimum settings of balance weights, trim-tab deflections, and pitch-link lengths of each blade. The results are efficiently resolved using the real-coded genetic algorithm hybridized with the particle swarm optimization techniques for convergence acceleration. The nonlinear RTB models and the optimized RTB parameters have been compared with those computed using the linear models to validate the proposed techniques. The results showed that the nonlinear models lead to more accurate models and reduced RTB responses than the linear counterpart.

Analysis of Flows around the Rotor-Blades as Rotating Body System of Wind Turbine (풍력 발전기의 Rotor-Blades 회전체 시스템 공력 해석)

  • Kim, Don-Jean;Kwag, Seung-Hyun;Lee, Kyong-Ho
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.25-31
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    • 2009
  • The most important component of wind turbine is rotor blades. The developing method of wind turbine was focused on design of rotor blade. By the way, the design of a rotating body is more decisive process in order to adjust the performance of wind turbine. For instance, the design allows the designer to specify the wind characteristics derived by topographical map. The iterative solver is then used to adjust one of the selected inputs so that the desired rotating performance which is directly related to power generating capacity and efficiency is achieved. Furthermore, in order to save the money for manufacturing the rotor blades and to decrease the maintenance fee of wind power generation plant, while decelerating the cut-in speed of rotor. Therefore, the design and manufacturing of rotating body is understood as a substantial technology of wind power generation plant development. The aiming of this study is building-up the profitable approach to designing of rotating body as a system for the wind power generation plant. The process was conducted in two steps. Firstly, general designing and it’s serial testing of rotating body for voltage measurement. Secondly, the serial test results above were examined with the CFD code. Then, the analysis is made on the basis of amount of electricity generated by rotor-blades and of cut-in speed of generator.