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Dynamic instability response in nanocomposite pipes conveying pulsating ferrofluid flow considering structural damping effects

  • Esmaeili, Hemat Ali;Khaki, Mehran;Abbasi, Morteza
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.68 no.3
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    • pp.359-368
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    • 2018
  • This paper deals with the dynamic stability of nanocomposite pipes conveying pulsating ferrofluid. The pipe is reinforced by carbon nanotubes (CNTs) where the agglomeration of CNTs are considered based on Mori-Tanaka model. Due to the existence of CNTs and ferrofluid flow, the structure and fluid are subjected to axial magnetic field. Based on Navier-Stokes equation and considering the body forced induced by magnetic field, the external force of fluid to the pipe is derived. For mathematical modeling of the pipe, the first order shear deformation theory (FSDT) is used where the energy method and Hamilton's principle are used for obtaining the motion equations. Using harmonic differential quadrature method (HDQM) and Bolotin's method, the motion equations are solved for calculating the excitation frequency and dynamic instability region (DIR) of the structure. The influences of different parameters such as volume fraction and agglomeration of CNTs, magnetic field, structural damping, viscoelastic medium, fluid velocity and boundary conditions are shown on the DIR of the structure. Results show that with considering agglomeration of CNTs, the DIR shifts to the lower excitation frequencies. In addition, the DIR of the structure will be happened at higher excitation frequencies with increasing the magnetic field.

A NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SLOSHING IN A TANK WITH PLATE/POROUS BAFFLES (판형 및 다공형 배플을 포함한 탱크 내 슬로싱에 대한 유동해석)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyuk;Hur, Nahm-Keon
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.215-222
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    • 2009
  • In the present study, a numerical analysis on the sloshing in a tank with the harmonic motion was investigated. A VOF method was used for two-phase flows inside the sloshing tank and a source term of the momentum equation was applied for the harmonic motion. This numerical method was verified by comparing its results with the available experimental data. The sloshing in a tank causes the instability of the fluid flows and the fluctuation of the impact pressure on the tank. By these phenomena of the tank sloshing, the sloshing problems such as the failure and the noise of system can be generated. For the reduction of these sloshing problems, the various baffles such as the horizontal/vertical plate baffles and the porous baffles inside the tank are installed. With the installations of these baffles, the characteristics of the liquid behavior in the sloshing tank, the impact pressure on the wall, the amplitude of the free surface near the wall and the sloshing noise were numerically analyzed.

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Performance Improvement of a Scroll Compressor by Heat Transfer Analysis (열전달 해석을 통한 스크롤 압축기 성능 개선)

  • Hong, S. W.;Rew, H. S.
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.3 no.4 s.9
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    • pp.22-29
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    • 2000
  • Numerical analysis using three dimensional finite volume method for the discretization, adaptive grid method for the numerical accuracy, multiple rotating frame method for the rotating body and the standard $k-{\epsilon}$ model for the turbulent flow was performed to understand the heat transfer phenomena and to improve the efficiency of the scroll compressor. The temperature measurement was carried out under ARI condition. It was found that the fluid temperature in the compressor was predicted accurately while the temperature of the motor coil showed large discrepancy between the calculation and experiment due to the large anisotropy of the conductivity and non homogeneity. We found that the efficiency of the compressor depends on the inlet temperature of the compressing part and the flow pattern around the inlet region of the compressing part influences the inlet temperature due to high surface temperature of the main frame. The efficiency of the compressor using Coanda effect is higher than the previous one because the smooth suction at the inlet region of the compressing part leads to low heat transfer to the refrigerant of the compressor.

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A NUMERICAL STUDY ON FLOWS IN A FUEL TANK WITH BAFFLES AND POROUS MEDIA TO REDUCE SLOSHING NOISE (연료탱크 슬로싱 소음 저감을 위한 배플 및 다공성 물질 설치에 따른 유동해석 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyuk;Hur, Nahm-Keon
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.68-76
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    • 2009
  • The sloshing tank causes the instability of the fluid flows and the fluctuation of the impact pressure by the liquid on the tank. These flow characteristics inside the sloshing tank can generate the uncomfortable sloshing noise. In the present study, a numerical analysis for the reduction of a fuel tank sloshing noise was performed. To simulate the flow characteristics in a sloshing tank with partially filled liquid, a VOF method was used for interfacial flows by applying a momentum source term for the sloshing motion in a non-inertial reference frame. This numerical method was verified by comparing its results with the available experimental data. For the reduction of the sloshing noise, the horizontal and vertical baffles and porous media inside a sloshing tank were considered and numerically analyzed in the present study. For various installations of these baffles and porous media, the characteristics of the liquid behavior in the sloshing tank were obtained along with the impact pressure on the wall and the height of the free surface along the wall. These basic results can be used for the design of the actual vehicular fuel tank with the reduced sloshing noise.

Design of Continuous-flow Micro-PCR System (연속류형 Micro-PCR 시스템의 설계)

  • Kim, Duck-Jong;Kim, Jae-Yun;Park, Sang-Jin;Heo, Pil-Woo;Yoon, Eui-Soo
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.12a
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    • pp.115-120
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    • 2003
  • In this work, a continuous-flow micro-PCR system is systematically designed. From the numerical simulation based on the finite volume method, adapting oneself to a new environmental temperature without an external temperature controller is shown to be possible and a cooler as well as a heater is shown to be necessary to obtain three individual temperature zones for polymerase chain reaction. In addition, appropriate geometry of a heat sink for the cooler is determined by using a compact modeling method, the porous medium approach.

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Wakes of two inline cylinders at a low Reynolds number

  • Zafar, Farhan;Alam, Md. Mahbub;Muhammad, Zaka;Islam, Md.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.55-64
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    • 2019
  • The effect of vortex impingement on the fluid dynamics around a cylinder submerged in the wake of another of different diameters is numerically investigated at a Reynolds number Re = 200. While the diameter (D) of the downstream cylinder is fixed, impinging vortices are produced from the upstream cylinder diameter (d) varied as d/D = 0.24, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 and 1.0, with a spacing ratio L=5.5d, where L is the distance between the center of the upstream cylinder to the front stagnation point of the downstream cylinder. Two-dimensional simulations are carried out using the finite volume method. Fluid forces acting on the two cylinders are correlated with impinging vortices, vortex shedding, and wake structure. Different facets of wake formation, wake structure, and flow separation and their connections to fluid forces are discussed.

A Parametric Study on Inlet Duct Treatment for Improving the Operational Stability of a Centrifugal Compressor (운전안정성 향상을 위한 원심 압축기의 유입부 형상변화에 관한 연구)

  • Seo, Tae-Wan;Heo, Man-Woong;Kim, Kwang-Yong
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.12-19
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    • 2016
  • In present study, a parametric study of a centrifugal compressor with inlet treatment has been performed numerically using three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. The shear stress transport turbulence model was used for analysis of turbulence. The finite volume method and unstructured grid system were used for the numerical solution. Tested parameters were related to the geometry of the inlet duct. It was found that the application of circumferentially distributed holes in the inlet duct improves operational stability of the compressor compared to that with conventional inlet duct.

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A TRANSONIC AIRFOIL IN THE CLOUD WITH THE DROPLET-LADEN INVISCID AIR FLOW MODEL (액적이 있는 비점성 공기유동 모델을 이용한 구름속의 천음속 에어포일 수치해석)

  • Yeom, G.S.;Chang, K.S.;Baek, S.W.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.291-293
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, the problem of transonic aerodynamic characteristics of a NACA0012 airfoil is numerically investigated in the inviscid gas-droplet two-phase flow with the compressible two-fluid model. In the present study, the airfoil flight in the cloud is simulated by taking account of the viscous drag of the droplets, the heat transfer, the phase change, and the droplet fragmentation The two-fluid equation system is solved by the fractional-step method and the WAF-HIL scheme. The effects of size and volume fraction of the droplets on the flow characteristics of the airfoil in the cloud are elaborated and discussed.

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Three-Dimensional Heat and Fluid Flow Simulations for Non-Newtonian Fluid in a Single Screw Extruder (단축 스크류 압출기 내의 비뉴턴유체에 대한 3차원 열 및 유동해석)

  • Kwag, Dong-Seong;Kim, Woo-Seung;Lyu, Min-Young
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.06d
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    • pp.337-342
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    • 2001
  • A numerical study of three-dimensional fluid flow and heat transfer in the metering section of a single screw extruder has been performed. The mathematical model for the screw channel is simplified by unwound channel and fixing the coordinate system to the screw. The pressure boundary and the prescribed mass flow rate conditions are imposed on the inlet and outlet, respectively. The commercial code STAR-CD based on the finite volume method is used to obtain the results of the present work. The computation of the reverse flow, which cannot be computed by the marching-type 3-D model, is performed in the present study.

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Applicability of Computational Fluid Dynamics on Industrial Ventilation Engineering (산업환기공학에 대한 전산유체역학의 응용가능성)

  • Ha, Hyun-Chul;Kim, Tae-Hyeung;Shim, Kwang-Jin
    • Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.163-177
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    • 1998
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) was applied to predict air flow around the hoods : circular hoods, square hoods, and push-pull hoods. A commercially available CFD software, CFD-ACE(Ver. 4.0), was tested, which is based on the finite volume method using the ${\kappa}-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence model. Numerical results were compared with the experimental, analytical and numerical results from other studies. CFD solutions showed an excellent agreement with the previous experimental and numerical results. It is promising that CFD techniques could be applied on the variety of complex problems in the industrial ventilation engineering.

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