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Dissolved oxygen analysis of an abalone aquaculture cage system using computational fluid dynamics

  • Kim, Taeho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.51 no.2
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    • pp.155-162
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    • 2015
  • Abalone (Haliotis discus hannai) is a shellfish that feeds on kelp and, as a product, it can often achieve a high market value. However, the dissolved oxygen (DO) levels in coastal waters in Korea have been negatively impacted by pollution from many anthropogenic sources. Herein, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package was used to analyze the distribution of the DO concentration within an abalone containment structure. A finite volume approach was used to solve the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations combined with a $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence model to describe the flow. The distribution of DO was determined within the control volume domain, and the transport equations of the pollutants were interpreted using a CFD model. The CFD analysis revealed that more than 60% and 30% of the relative oxygen concentration in one and two containers, respectively, was maintained when the flow acts along the six sheets of polyethylene plates. Therefore, it is clear that the abalone plate shelters should be placed parallel to the flow.

A NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF INDOOR AIR QUALITY WITH CFD

  • Sin Vai Kuong;Sun Ho I
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.87-93
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    • 2005
  • Macao, a city with three sides bounded by water, is hot and humid in weather in more than six months of a year. This uncomfortable weather induces the frequency of operating air-conditioners. Choice of location for installation of air-conditioner in a building will affect the performance of cooling effect and thermal comfort on the occupants, which in turn will affect the indoor air quality (IAQ) of the building. In the paper, investigation of distribution on carbon dioxide, room air temperature and velocity, as well as air diffusion performance index (ADPI) of a single bedroom in Macao is studied by using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software FLOVENT 3.2. Simulations of locating the air-conditioner at 4 different walls will be done and comparisons and analyses of the results will be performed to decide a proper location for the air-conditioner for obtaining good thermal comfort.

An Aerodynamic Noise Reduction Design at Inter-coach Space of High Speed Trains Based on Biomimetic Analogy

  • Han, Jae-Hyun;Kim, Jung-Soo
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.74-79
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    • 2011
  • Recent years have witnessed speed up of moving vehicles such as high-speed of trains. Increase in speed entails concomitant increase in turbulent air flow which contributes toward increased aerodynamic noise. The proposed method for aerodynamic noise reduction is based on a biomimetic design of owl feather. The five morphological parameters of the owl feather are extracted from close observation, and simulation cases are constructed by applying design of experiments methodology. Swirling strength for each case is obtained through steady-state CFD analysis, and key morphological parameters that affect the turbulence are identified. Large eddy simulations (LES) are then performed on selected cases to predict the air turbulence. Different cases show varying vortex distributions which are expected to lead to varying aerodynamic noise levels.

Numerical Simulation for Transonic Wing-Body Configuration using CFD (CFD를 이용한 천음속 날개-동체 형상 해석)

  • Kim, Younghwa;Kang, Eunji;Ahn, Hyokeun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.233-240
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    • 2017
  • The flowfield around transonic wing-body configuration was simulated using in-house CFD code and compared with the experimental data to understand the influence of several features of CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) ; grid dependency, turbulence models, spatial discretization, and viscosity. The wing-body configuration consists of a simple planform RAE Wing 'A' with an RAE 101 airfoil section and an axisymmetric body. The in-house CFD code is a compressible Euler/Navier-Stokes solver based on unstructured grid. For the turbulence model, the $k-{\omega}$ model, the Spalart-Allmaras model, and the $k-{\omega}$ SST model were applied. For the spatial discretization method, the central differencing scheme with Jameson's artificial viscosity and Roe's upwind differencing scheme were applied. The results calculated were generally in good agreement with experimental data. However, it was shown that the pressure distribution and shock-wave position were slightly affected by the turbulence models and the spatial discretization methods. It was known that the turbulent viscous effect should be considered in order to predict the accurate shock wave position.

Aerodynamic shape optimization of a high-rise rectangular building with wings

  • Paul, Rajdip;Dalui, Sujit Kumar
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.259-274
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    • 2022
  • The present paper is focused on analyzing a set of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation data on reducing orthogonal peak base moment coefficients on a high-rise rectangular building with wings. The study adopts an aerodynamic optimization procedure (AOP) composed of CFD, artificial neural network (ANN), and genetic algorithm (G.A.). A parametric study is primarily accomplished by altering the wing positions with 3D transient CFD analysis using k - ε turbulence models. The CFD technique is validated by taking up a wind tunnel test. The required design parameters are obtained at each design point and used for training ANN. The trained ANN models are used as surrogates to conduct optimization studies using G.A. Two single-objective optimizations are performed to minimize the peak base moment coefficients in the individual directions. An additional multiobjective optimization is implemented with the motivation of diminishing the two orthogonal peak base moments concurrently. Pareto-optimal solutions specifying the preferred building shapes are offered.

Performance Prediction a 10MW-Class Wind Turbine Blade Considering Aeroelastic Deformation Effect (공탄성 변형효과를 고려한 10MW급 풍력발전기 블레이드의 성능해석)

  • Kim, Dong-Hyun;Kim, Yo-Han;Ryu, Gyeong-Joong;Kim, Dong-Hwan;Kim, Su-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.657-662
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    • 2011
  • In this study, aeroelastic performance analyses have been conducted for a 10MW class wind turbine blade model Advanced computational analysis system based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational structural dynamics (CSD) has been developed in order to investigate detailed dynamic responsed of wind turbine blade Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations with k-${\omega}$ SST turbulence model are solved for unsteady flow problems of the rotating turbine blade model. A fully implicit time marching scheme based on the Newmark direct integration method is used for computing the coupled aeroelastic governing equations of the 3D turbine blade for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems.

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Numerical Computations of Turbulent Flow in a $90^{\circ}$ Curved Duct Using a Modified Extended $k-\varepsilon$ Turbulence Model (수정된 Extendel $k-\varepsilon$ 난류모델을 사용한 $90^{\circ}$곡관 내의 난류유동에 관한 수치해석적 연구)

  • 정수진;김태훈;조진호
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.139-146
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    • 1996
  • An extended $k-\varepsilon$ tuebulence model modified by considering the streamline curvature effect and standard $k-\varepsilon$ turbulence model have been applied for three dimensional analysis of turbulece flow in a $90^{\circ}$ curved duct. By comparision of the results with the experimental data, the modified extended $k-\varepsilon$ model gave closer agreement with experimental data than the results from standard $k-\varepsilon$ model owing to an extra time scale of the production rate and parameter describing effects of streamline curvature included in the dissipation rate equation.

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Comparison of Experimental and Simulation Results for Flow Characteristics around Jet Impingement/Effusion Hole in Concave Hemispherical Surface (오목한 반구면의 Jet Impingement/Effusion Hole 주변 유동 특성에 대한 실험과 시뮬레이션의 비교)

  • Youn, Sungji;Seo, Heerim;Yeom, Eunseop
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.28-37
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    • 2022
  • Flow characteristics of jet impingement over concave hemispherical surface with effusion cooling holes is relatively more complex than that of a flat surface, so the experimental validation for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) results is important. In this study, experimental results were compared with simulation results obtained by assuming different turbulence models. The vortex was observed in the region between the central jets where the recirculation structure appeared. The different patterns of vorticity distributions were observed for each turbulence models due to different interaction of the injected jet flow. Among them, the transition k-kl-ω model predicted similarly not only the jet potential core region with higher velocity, but also the recirculation region between the central jets. From the validation, it may be helpful to accurately predict heat and mass transfer in jet impingement/effusion hole system.

Wind field generation for performance-based structural design of transmission lines in a mountainous area

  • Lou, Wenjuan;Bai, Hang;Huang, Mingfeng;Duan, Zhiyong;Bian, Rong
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.165-183
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    • 2020
  • The first step of performance-based design for transmission lines is the determination of wind fields as well as wind loads, which are largely depending on local wind climate and the surrounding terrain. Wind fields in a mountainous area are very different with that in a flat terrain. This paper firstly investigated both mean and fluctuating wind characteristics of a typical mountainous wind field by wind tunnel tests and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The speedup effects of mean wind and specific turbulence properties, i.e., turbulence intensity, power spectral density (PSD) and coherence function, are highlighted. Then a hybrid simulation framework for generating three dimensional (3D) wind velocity field in the mountainous area was proposed by combining the CFD and proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method given the properties of the target turbulence field. Finally, a practical 220 kV transmission line was employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed wind field generation framework and its role in the performance-based design. It was found that the terrain-induce turbulence effects dominate the performance-based structural design of transmission lines running through the mountainous area.

Aerodynamic and Structural Design of 6kW Class Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine (공탄성 변형효과를 고려한 5MW급 풍력발전 블레이드의 피치각에 따른 성능해석)

  • Kim, Yo-Han;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Hwang, Mi-Hyun;Kim, Kyung-Hee;Hwang, Byung-Sun;Hong, Un-Sung
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2011
  • In this study, performance analyses have been conducted for a 5MW class wind turbine blade model. Advanced computational analysis system based on computational fluid dynamics(CFD) and computational structural dynamics(CSD) has been developed in order to investigate detailed dynamic responsed of wind turbine blade. Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations with K-${\epsilon}$ turbulence model are solved for unsteady flow problems of the rotating turbine blade model. A fully implicit time marching scheme based on the Newmark direct integration method is used for computing the coupled aeroelastic governing equations of the 3D turbine blade for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. Predicted aerodynamic performance considering structural deformation effect of the blade show different results compared to the case of rigid blade model.