• Title/Summary/Keyword: Low Reynolds Number Flow

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Flows in a confined cylindrical container with differential rotating top and bottom disks (속도차를 갖는 두 회전판에 의해 유도되는 원통 내부 유동)

  • Park, Jun-Sang
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.487-490
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    • 2008
  • A theoretical study is made of the flow in a confined cylindrical container with differential rotating top and bottom disks. Two kinds of theoretical solution for the azimuthal velocity were obtained: one is an exact solution of Bessel function type and the other is an approximate solution of exponential function type which comes from WKB approximation. Both theoretical solutions are shown to be self consistent with each other as well as a good agreement with previous studies. Moreover, in a range of relatively low Reynolds number, the obtained solution of Bessel function type shows better result than previous solutions.

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A Numerical Study on Spin-up Flows in a Shallow Quadrangular Container (얇은 정사각형 용기 내의 스핀-업 유동에 관한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Park, Jae-Hyun;Suh, Yong-Kweon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.26 no.7
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    • pp.1005-1013
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    • 2002
  • Spin-up is a transient flow phenomenon occurring in a container when it starts to rotate from rest or its rotational speed increases from a low to high value. However, most studies on this subject have been for two-dimensional approximation. In this study, spin-up flows in a shallow rectangular container are analysed by using three-dimensional computation. We compared our results with those obtained by others using basically two-dimensional computation. Effect of two parameters, Reynolds number and liquid depth on the flow evolution is studied. We found that 2-D result is not accurate enough, and the vertical velocity distribution should be assumed of a fourth-order polynomial function for a better comparison.

Numerical Visualization of Supersonic Microjet Flows (초음속 마이크로제트 유동의 수치해석적 가시화)

  • Shin, Choon-Sik;Lee, Jong-Sung;Kim, Heuy-Dong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.35-41
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    • 2010
  • Supersonic microjets acquire considerable research interest from a fundamental fluid dynamics perspective, in part because the combination of highly compressible flow at low-to-moderate Reynolds number is not very common, and in part due to the complex nature of the flow itself. In addition, microjets have a great variety engineering applications such as micro-propulsion, MEMS(Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems) components, microjet actuators and fine particle deposition and removal. Numerical simulations have been carried out at moderate nozzle pressure ratios and for different nozzle exit diameters to investigate and to understand in-depth of aerodynamic characteristics of supersonic microjets.

Numerical analysis of the cross-flow past circular cylinders at low Reynolds number for effective breakwater arrangement (방파제의 효율적 배치를 알아보기 위한 실린더의 2차원 유동분석)

  • Cheon, Su-Min;Choe, Yun-Yeong
    • Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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    • 2014.03a
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    • pp.568-573
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    • 2014
  • 본 연구에서는 원형으로 모델링 된 실린더들에 균일한 유동이 흐를 때, 실린더들의 배치에 따른 이차원 층류 유동을 분석하였다. EDISON_CFD를 이용해서 실린더간의 거리와 주기적 배열에 따라 개별 실린더들의 항력계수와 평균 항력계수의 분석을 통해 항력계수가 최대가 되는 실린더 배열을 확인하였다. 이를 위해 계산영역과 최대격자수에 따른 정확도를 분석하였다. 가로 배열(tandem position)에서의 효율적 항력 거리를 확인하였다. 세로 배열(side-by-side position)에서의 효율적 항력 거리를 확인하였다. 위의 결과들로 9개의 실린더를 3개씩 3열로 배치하고, 주기적 배열과 엇갈림 배열로 나누어 효율적 항력 배치를 확인하였다.

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The Effect of Operating Conditions on the Frost Formation in a Vertical Plate at a Low Temperature (저온 수직평판에서 착상에 대한 운전조건의 영향)

  • 이관수;이태희;김우승
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.18 no.12
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    • pp.3305-3314
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    • 1994
  • In this study, the influence of a frost formed on the vertical plate for different operating conditions(the temperature of the air, the humidity of the air, the velocity of the air, and the temperature of the cooling plate) is investigated. The performance of the heat exchanger is examined by introducing a parameter such as the energy transfer resistance. Correlations which relate frost density, frost thickness and energy transfer resistance to Reynolds number, air temperature and humidity, and cooling plate temperature are developed. Static pressure drop and air flow rate are expressed as a function of free flow area of air.

A Numerical Simulation based on Cell-centered Scheme for Contractive and Dilative Motion on Axisymmetric Micro-hydro machine (셀중심법에 의한 축대칭 극소 로봇의 압축팽창운동에 대한 수치적인 연구)

  • 강효길;김문찬;전호환
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.90-97
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    • 2004
  • Flow mechanism of contractive and dilative motion is numerically investigated to obtain a propulsive force in highly viscous fluid. An axisymmetric code is developed with unstructured grid system based on cell-centered scheme. It is validated by comparing with the results of Stokes approximation for the problem of uniform flow past a sphere in low Reynolds number(R$_{n}$=1). The validated code is applied to the simulation of contractive and dilative periodic motion of body whose results are quantitatively compared with the two dimensional case. In order to investigate the grid dependency, two different grids are applied to the present computations. The present study provides key information for the development of an axisymmetric Micro-hydro-robot.t.

NUMERICAL STUDY ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL INCOMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS FLOW BASED ON GRIDLESS METHOD (2차원 비압축성 점성유동에 관한 무격자법 기반의 수치해석)

  • Jeong, S.M.;Park, J.C.;Heo, J.K.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2009
  • The gridless (or meshfree) methods, such as MPS, SPH, FPM an so forth, are feasible and robust for the problems with moving boundary and/or complicated boundary shapes, because these methods do not need to generate a grid system. In this study, a gridless solver, which is based on the combination of moving least square interpolations on a cloud of points with point collocation for evaluating the derivatives of governing equations, is presented for two-dimensional unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes problem in the low Reynolds number. A MAC-type algorithm was adopted and the Poission equation for the pressure was solved successively in the moving least square sense. Some typical problems were solved by the presented solver for the validation and the results obtained were compared with analytic solutions and the numerical results by conventional CFD methods, such as a FVM.

저 레이놀즈 수에서 선인장 단면 모양 실린더의 항력 특성 연구

  • An, Chan-Geun
    • Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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    • 2016.03a
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    • pp.530-536
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    • 2016
  • 본 연구에서는 EDISON_CFD의 2D_YUIBM_1 해석자를 사용하여 선인장 단면 모양 실린더의 $C_D$를 가시의 개수(N)와 가시의 깊이(D)에 따른 경향성으로 나타내었다. 저 레이놀즈 수에 대한 유동 해석을 해야 하므로 레이놀즈 수 영역은 20(steady), 40(steady), 100(Unsteady)을 사용하였다. 또한, 특징적인 효과를 보이는 몇 개의 케이스를 선별해 그 모델들에서 $C_P$와 Vorticity의 분포를 조사했으며 이를 통해 저 레이놀즈 수의 선인장 모양 실린더에서 $C_D$의 변화 원인을 규명하였다. 마지막으로, 물체의 기하학적 성질과 유체의 성질을 기반으로 저 레이놀즈 수에서 $C_D$를 최적화하는 공식을 산출하였다.

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Maxwell nanofluid flow through a heated vertical channel with peristalsis and magnetic field

  • Gharsseldien, Z.M.;Awaad, A.S.
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.77-86
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    • 2022
  • This paper studied the peristaltic transport of upper convected Maxwell nanofluid through a porous medium in a heated (isothermal) symmetric vertical channel. The nanofluid is assumed to be electrically conducting in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. These phenomena are modeled mathematically by a differential equations system by taking low Reynolds number and long-wavelength approximation, the yield differential equations have solved analytically. A suggested new technique to display and discuss the trapping phenomenon is presented. We discussed and analyzed the pumping characteristics, heat function, flow velocity and trapping phenomena which were illustrated graphically through a set of figures for various values of parameters of the problem. The numerical results show that, there are remarkable effects on the vertical velocity, pressure gradient and trapping phenomena with the thermal change of the walls.

A Study of an Airfoil for Optimal Aerodynamic Performance of Flapping Motion (Flapping운동의 최적공력성능을 위한 익형 연구)

  • Lee J. S.;Kim C.;Rho O. H.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.24-32
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    • 2003
  • In this work, we propose a new idea of flapping airfoil design for optimal aerodynamic performance from detailed computational investigations of flow physics. Generally, flapping motion which is combined with pitching and plunging motion of airfoil, leads to complex flow features such as leading edge separation and vortex street. As it is well known, the mechanism of thrust generation of flapping airfoil is based on inverse Karman-vortex street. This vortex street induces jet-like flow field at the rear region of trailing edge and then generates thrust. The leading edge separation vortex can also play an important role with its aerodynamic performances. The flapping airfoil introduces an alternative propulsive way instead of the current inefficient propulsive system such as a propeller in the low Reynolds number flow. Thrust coefficient and propulsive efficiency are the two major parameters in the design of flapping airfoil as propulsive system. Through numerous computations, we found the specific physical flow phenomenon which governed the aerodynamic characteristics in flapping airfoil. Based on this physical insight, we could come up with a new kind of airfoil of tadpole-shaped and more enhanced aerodynamic performance.