• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.415-431
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• 2022

Secondary flows have a huge impact on losses generation in modern low pressure gas turbines (LPTs). At design point, the interaction of the blade profile with the end-wall boundary layer is responsible for up to 40% of total losses. Therefore, predicting accurately the end-wall flow field in a LPT is extremely important in the industrial design phase. Since the inlet boundary layer profile is one of the factors which most affects the evolution of secondary flows, the first main objective of the present work is to investigate the impact of two different inlet conditions on the end-wall flow field of the T106A, a well known LPT cascade. The first condition, labeled in the paper as C1, is represented by uniform conditions at the inlet plane and the second, C2, by a flow characterized by a defined inlet boundary layer profile. The code used for the simulations is based on the Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) formulation and solves the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations coupled with the Spalart Allmaras turbulence model. Secondly, this work aims at estimating the influence of viscosity and turbulence on the T106A end-wall flow field. In order to do so, RANS results are compared with those obtained from an inviscid simulation with a prescribed inlet total pressure profile, which mimics a boundary layer. A comparison between C1 and C2 results highlights an influence of secondary flows on the flow field up to a significant distance from the end-wall. In particular, the C2 end-wall flow field appears to be characterized by greater over turning and under turning angles and higher total pressure losses. Furthermore, the C2 simulated flow field shows good agreement with experimental and numerical data available in literature. The C2 and inviscid Euler computed flow fields, although globally comparable, present evident differences. The cascade passage simulated with inviscid flow is mainly dominated by a single large and homogeneous vortex structure, less stretched in the spanwise direction and closer to the end-wall than vortical structures computed by compressible flow simulation. It is reasonable, then, asserting that for the chosen test case a great part of the secondary flows details is strongly dependent on viscous phenomena and turbulence.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권1B호
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• pp.95-109
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 LDS 난류응력 모형, Van Rijn의 pick up 함수를 활용하여 일정 경사부에서의 파랑의 이행과 천수, 연이은 쇄파현상, plunging breaker에 후행하는 해저질의 역동적인 부유와 down rush와 후행 파랑에 의한 표사의 재분배를 수치모의 하였다. 이 과정에서 해저질과 소통하는 저면 유체력에 대한 quadratic law를 중심으로 한 기존의 연구 성과들은 정상상태에 기초하여 급속히 가속되고 감속되는 swash 대역의 수리특성을 반영할 수 없다는 결론에 도달하고 이러한 인식에 기초하여 새로운 산출방법이 제시되었다. 새로운 산출방법을 토대로 수치모의하여 비선형 천수과정의 일반적인 특징, 동조 비동조 고차 조화성분으로 전이된 파랑에너지로 인해 상당히 예리하고 왜도된 파형, 파형의 마루로부터 시작되는 물입자 자유낙하, 착수로 인한 커다란 물보라의 형성, 물보라 형성층의 해변으로의 이행, wave finger (Narayanaswamy와 Dalrymple, 2002), swash 대역에서 진행되는 부유사 순환과정, swash 대역에서 처오름으로 인해 부유된 부유사 무리의 off shore 방향으로의 순 이동 등이 비교적 정확히 재현되는 등 상당히 고무적인 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 이러한 결과는 기존의 Euler 좌표계에서 정의되는 파랑모형과 이동경계 기법의 한계를 뛰어 넘는 것으로 향후 보다 정확한 침식해석이 가능 할 것으로 판단된다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권6B호
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• pp.643-651
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 횡방향 언덕-저면의 하상형상을 갖는 개수로 흐름을 수치모의 하였다. 곡선좌표계에 대한 지배방정식을 유도하고, 난류폐합을 위해 Speziale(1987)가 제안한 비선형 $k-{\varepsilon}$ 모형을 이용하였다. 개발된 모형의 개수로 흐름에 대한 적용성 및 모형 상수의 민감도를 분석하기 위해 직사각형 개수로 흐름을 수치모의 하였다. 그 결과 모형상수 $C_D$와 $C_E$는 각각 이차흐름 강도 및 난류의 비등방성에 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 또한 비선형 $k-{\varepsilon}$ 모형이 자유수면에서 발생되는 난류의 비등방성을 정확히 모의할 수 없는 것으로 나타났으나, 전반적인 이차흐름 분포는 비교적 잘 예측하는 것으로 확인되었다. 한편 개발된 모형을 이용하여 횡방향 하상형상을 갖는 개수로 흐름을 수치모의하고 기존의 실험 결과와 비교하였다. 그 결과 비선형 $k-{\varepsilon}$ 모형이 하상형상의 언덕과 저면에서 발생되는 상향류 및 하향류를 비교적 정확히 예측하는 것으로 나타났으며, 계산된 주흐름방향 평균유속 및 난류구조 역시 기존의 실험 결과와 잘 일치하였다. 그러나 비선형 $k-{\varepsilon}$ 모형은 하상형상의 저면을 향하는 하향류를 과소 산정하는 것으로 확인되었다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제29권3B호
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• pp.247-257
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 흐름방향으로 식생 영역이 교차적으로 식재된 교행식생 수로에서의 3차원 수치모의를 수행하였다. 지배방정식에서의 난류 폐합을 위해 ${\kappa}-{\varepsilon}$ 모형을 적용하였으며, 수치모형은 Olsen(2004)이 개발한 3차원 모형을 이용하였다. 먼저, 3차원 수치모형을 이용하여 하상의 일부가 식재된 부분 식생 수로를 수치모의 하고, 계산된 적분유속 및 레이놀즈응력을 기존의 실험 결과와 비교하였다. 그 결과 본 모형이 식생 수로에서의 평균 유속 분포를 매우 잘 예측하는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 ${\kappa}-{\varepsilon}$ 모형이 등방성 모형이므로 식생과 비식생 영역의 경계면 부근에서 발생되는 운동량 교환 효과를 정확히 예측할 수 없는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 주흐름방향으로 식생 영역이 교차적으로 존재하는 교행식생 수로를 수치모의 하고, 계산된 유속 분포를 기존의 실험 결과와 비교한 결과, 계산 유속과 실험 결과가 매우 잘 일치하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 다양한 밀도에 따른 유속 벡터도를 계산한 결과, 식생밀도가 증가함에 따라 식생이 흐름 방향을 변화 시켜 점차 만곡수로와 유사한 형태의 유속 벡터도를 갖는 것으로 나타났으며, 식생 밀도 ${\alpha}$가 9.97%인 경우에는 식생 반대 측벽 영역에서 재순환 흐름이 형성되는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 식생 밀도에 따른 단면 유속 분포도 및 편수위 변화를 살펴보았다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권10호
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• pp.3874-3897
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• 2023

A high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was performed using the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) model for the lower plenum of the High-Temperature Test Facility (HTTF), a ¼ scale test facility of the modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor (MHTGR) managed by Oregon State University. In most next-generation nuclear reactors, thermal stress due to thermal striping is one of the risks to be curiously considered. This is also true for HTGRs, especially since the exhaust helium gas temperature is high. In order to evaluate these risks and performance, organizations in the United States led by the OECD NEA are conducting a thermal hydraulic code benchmark for HTGR, and the test facility used for this benchmark is HTTF. HTTF can perform experiments in both normal and accident situations and provide high-quality experimental data. However, it is difficult to provide sufficient data for benchmarking through experiments, and there is a problem with the reliability of CFD analysis results based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes to analyze thermal hydraulic behavior without verification. To solve this problem, high-fidelity 3-D CFD analysis was performed using the LES model for HTTF. It was also verified that the LES model can properly simulate this jet mixing phenomenon via a unit cell test that provides experimental information. As a result of CFD analysis, the lower the dependency of the sub-grid scale model, the closer to the actual analysis result. In the case of unit cell test CFD analysis and HTTF CFD analysis, the volume-averaged sub-grid scale model dependency was calculated to be 13.0% and 9.16%, respectively. As a result of HTTF analysis, quantitative data of the fluid inside the HTTF lower plenum was provided in this paper. As a result of qualitative analysis, the temperature was highest at the center of the lower plenum, while the temperature fluctuation was highest near the edge of the lower plenum wall. The power spectral density of temperature was analyzed via fast Fourier transform (FFT) for specific points on the center and side of the lower plenum. FFT results did not reveal specific frequency-dominant temperature fluctuations in the center part. It was confirmed that the temperature power spectral density (PSD) at the top increased from the center to the wake. The vortex was visualized using the well-known scalar Q-criterion, and as a result, the closer to the outlet duct, the greater the influence of the mainstream, so that the inflow jet vortex was dissipated and mixed at the top of the lower plenum. Additionally, FFT analysis was performed on the support structure near the corner of the lower plenum with large temperature fluctuations, and as a result, it was confirmed that the temperature fluctuation of the flow did not have a significant effect near the corner wall. In addition, the vortices generated from the lower plenum to the outlet duct were identified in this paper. It is considered that the quantitative and qualitative results presented in this paper will serve as reference data for the benchmark.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2003년도 제20회 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.91-93
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• 2003

A comprehensive numerical study is carried out to investigate for the understanding of the flow evolution and flame development in a supersonic combustor with normal injection of ncumally injecting hydrogen in airsupersonic flows. The formulation treats the complete conservation equations of mass, momentum, energy, and species concentration for a multi-component chemically reacting system. For the numerical simulation of supersonic combustion, multi-species Navier-Stokes equations and detailed chemistry of H2-Air is considered. It also accommodates a finite-rate chemical kinetics mechanism of hydrogen-air combustion GRI-Mech. 2.11[1], which consists of nine species and twenty-five reaction steps. Turbulence closure is achieved by means of a k-two-equation model (2). The governing equations are spatially discretized using a finite-volume approach, and temporally integrated by means of a second-order accurate implicit scheme (3-5).The supersonic combustor consists of a flat channel of 10 cm height and a fuel-injection slit of 0.1 cm width located at 10 cm downstream of the inlet. A cavity of 5 cm height and 20 cm width is installed at 15 cm downstream of the injection slit. A total of 936160 grids are used for the main-combustor flow passage, and 159161 grids for the cavity. The grids are clustered in the flow direction near the fuel injector and cavity, as well as in the vertical direction near the bottom wall. The no-slip and adiabatic conditions are assumed throughout the entire wall boundary. As a specific example, the inflow Mach number is assumed to be 3, and the temperature and pressure are 600 K and 0.1 MPa, respectively. Gaseous hydrogen at a temperature of 151.5 K is injected normal to the wall from a choked injector.A series of calculations were carried out by varying the fuel injection pressure from 0.5 to 1.5MPa. This amounts to changing the fuel mass flow rate or the overall equivalence ratio for different operating regimes. Figure 1 shows the instantaneous temperature fields in the supersonic combustor at four different conditions. The dark blue region represents the hot burned gases. At the fuel injection pressure of 0.5 MPa, the flame is stably anchored, but the flow field exhibits a high-amplitude oscillation. At the fuel injection pressure of 1.0 MPa, the Mach reflection occurs ahead of the injector. The interaction between the incoming air and the injection flow becomes much more complex, and the fuel/air mixing is strongly enhanced. The Mach reflection oscillates and results in a strong fluctuation in the combustor wall pressure. At the fuel injection pressure of 1.5MPa, the flow inside the combustor becomes nearly choked and the Mach reflection is displaced forward. The leading shock wave moves slowly toward the inlet, and eventually causes the combustor-upstart due to the thermal choking. The cavity appears to play a secondary role in driving the flow unsteadiness, in spite of its influence on the fuel/air mixing and flame evolution. Further investigation is necessary on this issue. The present study features detailed resolution of the flow and flame dynamics in the combustor, which was not typically available in most of the previous works. In particular, the oscillatory flow characteristics are captured at a scale sufficient to identify the underlying physical mechanisms. Much of the flow unsteadiness is not related to the cavity, but rather to the intrinsic unsteadiness in the flowfield, as also shown experimentally by Ben-Yakar et al. [6], The interactions between the unsteady flow and flame evolution may cause a large excursion of flow oscillation. The work appears to be the first of its kind in the numerical study of combustion oscillations in a supersonic combustor, although a similar phenomenon was previously reported experimentally. A more comprehensive discussion will be given in the final paper presented at the colloquium.