• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2016

Objective of this study is to compare the inherent characteristics of natural convection flow inside the canister of spent fuel dry storage system with different backfill gases by utilizing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. Four working fluids were selected for comparison study. Helium currently used backfill gas for canister, air, nitrogen, and argon are frequently used as coolant in many heat transfer applications. The results indicate that helium has very distinct conductive behavior and show very weak natural convective flow compared to the others. Argon showed the strongest natural convective flow but also the worst coolability. Air and nitrogen showed similar characteristics to each other. However, due to difference in Prandtl number, nitrogen showed more effective natural convective flow. These results suggest that experimental validation for the nitrogen is needed to investigate the potential coolability other than currently commercially used helium.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.309-332
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• 2016

Finite element method has been applied to solve the fundamental governing equations of natural convective, electrically conducting, incompressible fluid flow past an infinite vertical plate surrounded by porous medium in presence of thermal radiation, viscous dissipation, Soret and Dufour effects. In this research work, the results of coupled partial differential equations are found numerically by applying finite element technique. The sway of significant parameters such as Soret number, Dufour number, Grashof number for heat and mass transfer, Magnetic field parameter, Thermal radiation parameter, Permeability parameter on velocity, temperature and concentration evaluations in the boundary layer region are examined in detail and the results are shown in graphically. Furthermore, the effect of these parameters on local skin friction coefficient, local Nusselt number and Sherwood numbers is also investigated. A very good agreement is noticed between the present results and previous published works in some limiting cases.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.9-13
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 화력발전소의 재열기 내에 과열증기가 이상 고온이 될 때 과열증기를 냉각하는 과열증기 냉각기의 온도 안전성에 대하여 열전달 해석을 통해 진단하였다. 과열증기 냉각기 내부에 냉각을 위해 액체상태의 냉각수가 밀폐 공간 내에 존재한다. 이곳은 고온의 과열증기에 노출되어 있는 부분으로 가열에 의해 비등이 발생하면 내부 압력이 상승하여 냉각기가 견딜 수 있는 허용 압력 이상으로 되게 된다. 이렇게 되면 냉각기가 파손되거나 냉각수가 역류가 일어나서 안전하지 않게 된다. 본 연구에서는 이의 진단을 위해 냉각기의 형상을 합리적으로 단순화 하고 단열재 여부, 내부 냉각수의 자연대류 유동 고려 여부 등으로 구분하여 4 가지 경우의 열전달 해석을 수행 하였다. 냉각기 내부에 있는 액체 상태의 냉각수에 대하여 자연대류 유동을 고려하지 않는 경우는 온도 상승과 이에 따른 압력 상승으로 안전하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 실제 현상인 냉각수의 자연대류 유동을 고려하고 단열재를 사용한 경우에는 냉각수의 자연대류 유동에 따른 고온 영역에서 저온 영역으로 활발한 열전달이 발생하여 냉각수가 허용온도와 허용압력 이하에서 운전되고 있음을 알았고 이에 따라 과열증기 냉각기는 안전하다는 것을 판단할 수 있었다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.36-42
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• 2015

TMixed convective flow in a bottom heated and top cooled rectangular channel can be significantly affected by the channel aspect ratio, Prandtl number, Reynolds number, Rayleigh number and angle of inclination. In such a mixed convection, the flow pattern plays an important role in various technological processes. In this study, a numerical investigation is carried out to explore mixed convection in a three-dimensional rectangular channel with bottom heated and top cooled uniformly. The three-dimensional governing equations are discretized using the finite volume method. In the range of low Reynolds number($0{\leq}Re{\leq}9.6{\times}10^{-2}$), the effects of the aspect ratio($2{\leq}AR{\leq}12$) and Gr/Re are presented and discussed. The longitudinal roll number in the channel is increased with increasing aspect ratio, and the roll number induced, regardless of the aspect ratio number, is even in the range of aspect ratios between 2 and 12, New vortex flow structure containing inclined longitudinal rolls is found, which is affected by aspect ratio and Reynolds number. The ratio Gr/Re is used to check the relative magnitudes of forced and natural convection in the mixed convective flow of high viscous fluid.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.107-110
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• 2004

Application of aluminum alloy has been increasing for most of industry area because aluminum has a good mechanical properties and castability, especially automotive field for weight reduction. But, Furnace industry is sluggish. The purpose of this study is numerical analysis of aluminum holding furnace for reasonableness estimation when we design for new model of furnace. The numerical simulation involving fluid flow of inside air and heat transfer to fireproof material is presented in order to improve the understanding of aluminum furnace. First of all, we are carried out numerically for the two dimensional inside convection and surface radiation heat transfer in a square enclosure. Subsequently, we are established the analysis method of aluminum furnace considering natural convective heat transfer

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.555-568
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• 1992

본 연구에서는 상기 연구의 연장으로서 내부 Rayleigh수가 1*$10^{4}$~1.5 *$10^{5}$ 범위 일때 Prandtl수가 6.05인 내부발열유체에 의해 자연대류가 일어나는 밀폐공간에서 종회비가 1/2, 1/3, 및 1/4로 변화할 때 유동, 온도분포 및 열전달특성 을 수치적인 방법 및 실험적인 방법으로 연구하였다.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2001

Mixed convection in a horizontal annulus is considered, and the effect of a forced flow on the natural convective flow is investigated. The inner cylinder is hotter than the outer cylinder, and the outer cylinder is rotating with constant angular velocity with its axis at the center of the annulus. The unsteady streamfunction-vorticity equation is solved with a finite difference method. For the fluid with Pr=0.7, there appear flows with two eddies, one eddy, or no eddy according the Rayleigh and Reynolds numbers. The rotation of the outer cylinder reduces the heat transfer rate at the wall of the annulus. The oscillatory multicellular flow of a low Prandtl number fluid with Pr=0.01 can be effectively suppressed by the forced flow.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.8-18
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• 1999

In devising a numerical approximation for the convective spatial transport of a fluid mechanical quantity, it is noted that the convective motion of a scalar quantity occurs in one-way, or from upstream to downstream. This consideration leads to a new scheme termed a pure upwind difference scheme (PUDS) in which an estimated value for a fluid mechanical quantity at a control surface is not influenced from downstream values. The formal accuracy of the proposed scheme is third order accurate. Two typical benchmark problems of a wall-driven fluid flow in a square cavity and a buoyancy-driven natural convection in a tall cavity are computed to evaluate performance of the proposed method. for comparison, the widely used simple upwind scheme, power-law scheme, and QUICK methods are also considered. Computation results are encouraging: the proposed PUDS sensitized to the convection direction produces the least numerical diffusion among tested convection schemes, and, notable improvements in representing recirculation of fluid stream and spatial change of a scalar. Although the formal accuracy of PUDS and QUICK are the same, the accuracy difference of approximately a single order is observed from the revealed results.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.683-695
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• 2002

The objective of the present study is to analyze the fluid flow with moving boundary using a finite element method. The algorithm uses a fractional step approach that can be used to solve low-speed flow with large density changes due to intense temperature gradients. The explicit Lax-Wendroff scheme is applied to nonlinear convective terms in the momentum equations to prevent checkerboard pressure oscillations. The ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian) method is adopted for moving grids. The numerical algorithm in the present study is validated for two-dimensional unsteady flow in a driven cavity and a natural convection problem. To extend the present numerical method to engine simulations, a piston-driven intake flow with moving boundary is also simulated. The density, temperature and axial velocity profiles are calculated for the three-dimensional unsteady piston-driven intake flow with density changes due to high inlet fluid temperatures using the present algorithm. The calculated results are in good agreement with other numerical and experimental ones.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.804-810
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• 2001

Transition of flows in natural convection in a horizontal cylindrical annulus is investigated for the fluid with Pr=0.2. The unsteady streamfunction-vorticity equation is solved with finite difference method. As Rayleigh number is increased, the steady crescent-shaped eddy flow bifurcates to a time-periodic flow with like-rotating eddies. After the first Hopf bifurcation, however, a reverse transition from oscillatory to a steady flow occurs by the flow pattern variation. Hysteresis phenomenon occurs between the solution branches of up-scan and down-scan stages, and dual solutions with one steady and one oscillatory flow are found. Overall Nusselt of the flows at the flows at the down-scan stage is greater than that at the up-scan stage.