• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1613-1618
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• 2004

Diffuser is an important fluid-mechanical equipment to convert kinetic energy into pressure energy. Many of the experimental and theoretical researches have been done in a diffuser but the understanding of energy transfer and detailed mechanism of energy dissipation is unclear. In this study, computations were performed using a numerical method with SIMPLE algorithm for conical diffuser with various diffuser angles and diffuser lengths. Also, we investigated the pressure recovery coefficient in conical diffuser by inserting strut. In this paper, we showed that the strut can cause a rising pressure recovery.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2011

Our previous experimental and numerical investigations of decelerated swirling flows in conical diffusers have demonstrated that water jet injection along the symmetry axis mitigates the pressure fluctuations associated with the precessing vortex rope. However, for swirling flows similar to Francis turbines operated at partial discharge, the jet becomes effective when the jet discharge is larger than 10% from the turbine discharge, leading to large volumetric losses when the jet is supplied from upstream the runner. As a result, we introduce the flow-feedback approach for supplying the jet by using a fraction of the discharge collected downstream the conical diffuser. Experimental investigations on mitigating the pressure fluctuations generated by the precessing vortex rope and investigations of pressure recovery coefficient on the cone wall with and without flow-feedback method are presented.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.157-163
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• 1992

In this paper, the relationship between static pressure recovery and turbulent energy was presented in case of swirling flows into a conical diffuser. The distributions of turbulent energy in a diffuser sectional area were measured by a hot wire anemometer. The following conclusion can be drawn from the experiment. Diffuser loss is constituted by a dynamic pressure loss and total pressure loss. The static pressure recovery depends strongly on the total pressure loss. The static pressure recovery depends strongly on the total pressure loss, and the turbulent energy varies inversely as the static pressure recovery coefficient.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제27권7호
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• pp.948-955
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• 2003

Pressure coefficient in rotating discharge hole was measured to gain insight into the influence of rotation to the discharge characteristics of rotating discharge hole. Pressure measurements were done by the telemetry system that had been developed by the authors. The telemetry system measures static pressure using piezoresistive pressure sensors. Pressure coefficients in rotating discharge hole were measured in longitudinal direction and circumferential direction with various rotating speed and 3 pressure ratios. From the results, the pressure coefficient, and therefore the discharge coefficient, is known to decrease with the increase of Ro number owing to the increase of flow approaching angle to the discharge hole inlet. However, there exists critical Ro number where the decrease rate of discharge coefficient with the increase of Ro number changes abruptly; flow separation occurs from the discharge hole exit at this critical Ro number. Critical Ro number increases with the increase of length-to-diameter ratio, but the increase is small where the length-to-diameter ratio is higher than 3. The decrease rate of discharge coefficient with the increase of Ro number depends on the pressure recovery at the discharge hole, and the rate is different from each length-to-diameter ratio; it has tendency that the short discharge hole shows higher decrease rate of discharge coefficient.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.151-156
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• 1992

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between static pressure recovery and velocity distributions in case of swirling flow into a conical diffuser. In this research, velocity distribution is measured by a multi-hole yaw-meter. The following conclusions can be drawn from the experiments. (1) The static pressure recovery depends strongly on the strength of a swirl. (2) A high pressure recovery coefficient is achieved by inserting a solid core into the diffuser center.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.25-30
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• 2014

자동차용 터보차저 원심압축기의 오버헝 볼류트의 두 가지 타입에 대한 유동장 특성이 수치적으로 연구되었다. 볼류트의 성능을 높이기 위해서는 높은 압력회복계수와 낮은 손실계수를 갖도록 함이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 디퓨저 입구각을 $24^{\circ}$, 질량유량을 0.055 kg/s 로 유지하고 두 가지 타입의 오버헝 볼류트에 대한 유동장 특성을 조사하였다. 하나는 1 개의 원호로 이루어진 볼류트 단면(타입 1)이며, 다른 하나는 3 개의 원호로 이루어진 볼류트 단면(타입 2)이다. 타입 2 볼류트가 타입 1 볼류트 보다 원주방향 전체를 통틀어 높은 압력회복계수와 낮은 손실계수를 보여주었다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.115-120
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• 2014

자동차용 터보차저 압축기의 성능 개선을 위해 원주방향의 볼류트 입구 높이들이 수정되었고 디퓨저를 포함한 볼류트에 대한 유동장이 상용 소프트웨어를 사용하여 조사되었다. 기본적으로 잘 설계된 볼류트는 높은 압력회복계수와 낮은 전압력손실계수를 보여주어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 동일한 단면형상과 설단면각(Tongue Angle)을 가지나 원주방향으로는 서로 다른 볼류트 입구 높이를 갖는 두 경우의 원형단면 볼류트가 선정되었다. 하나는 $90^{\circ}$ 원주방향에서는 단면 중앙으로 유입되나 이후의 원주방향에서는 볼류트 단면 최하단부들을 잇는 접선과 동일한 높이를 유지하면서 점진적으로 하단부로 유입되는 볼류트 형상이다(케이스 1 볼류트). 다른 하나는 설단면에서는 접선방향으로 유입되도록 모든 원주방향에 대하여 입구 높이를 2 mm 낮춘 형상이다(케이스 2 볼류트). 해석결과, 케이스 2 볼류트가 케이스 1 볼류트보다 높은 압력회복계수로 인한 높은 전압력비와 낮은 전압력손실계수로 인한 높은 등엔트로피 효율을 보여주었다.

• International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.132-139
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• 2003

The effects of casing shapes on the performance and the interaction between an impeller and a casing in a small-sized centrifugal compressor are investigated. Especially, numerical analyses are conducted for the centrifugal compressor with both a circular casing and a volute one. The optimum design for each element (i.e., impeller, diffuser and casing) is important to develop an efficient and compact compressor using alternative refrigerant as working fluids. Typical rotating speed of the compressor is in the range of 40,000∼45,000 rpm. The impeller has backswept blades due to tip clearance and a vane diffuser has wedge type. In order to predict the flow pattern inside an entire impeller, vaneless diffuser and casing, calculations with multiple frames of reference method between the rotating and stationery parts of the domain are carried out. For computations of compressible turbulent flow fields, the continuity and time-averaged Navier-Stokes equations are employed. To evaluate the performance of two types of casings, the static pressure recovery and loss coefficients are obtained for various flow rates. Also, static pressure distributions around casings are studied for different casing shapes, which are very important to predict the distribution of radial load. The static pressure around the casing and pressure difference between the inlet and outlet of the compressor are measured for the circular casing.

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 유체기계공업학회 1999년도 유체기계 연구개발 발표회 논문집
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• pp.134-140
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• 1999

A three-dimensional CSCM upwind flux difference splitting Navier-stokes code with two-equation turbulence models was developed to predict the transonic flows in centrifugal compressor diffuser. The k-$\epsilon$ model of Abe et al. performed well in predicting the pressure distribution in the shock wave/turbulent boundary-layer interaction. Three turbulence models predicted the similar distribution of static pressure through the diffuser and showed a good agreement with the experimental results. The secondary flows in the corner were predicted well by these turbulence models. The pressure increase before the throat of the diffuser vane is important for the overall pressure recovery. As the mass flow rate increased the blockage decreased at the throat. The pressure coefficient distribution through the diffuser depended on the throat blockage not on the rotational speed of the impeller.

• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2005년도 동계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.294-299
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• 2005

In order to control indoor air quality and save energy. it is needed to install a suitable ventilation system equipped with heat exchanger for heat recovery. Paper heat exchanger can recover $50{\sim}70$ of the enthalpy difference between supply and exhaust air. The purpose of this research is to obtain the experimental correlations for the friction factor, heat transfer coefficient, mass transfer coefficient and permeance of paper heat exchanger, which can be used for the performance prediction of the paper heat exchanger. Pressure drop at various velocities and heat transfer rate at various dry-bulb temperatures, relative humidities, and specific humidities are measured to make experimental correlations. The results of prediction using correlations show fairly good agreement with experimental data.