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Load analysis of an offshore monopile wind turbine using fully-coupled simulation (Fully-coupled 시뮬레이션을 이용한 해상 monopile 풍력 발전기의 응력해석)

  • Shi, Wei;Park, Hyun-Chul
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.480-485
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    • 2009
  • Offshore wind energy is gaining more attention. Ensuring proper design of offshore wind turbines and wind farms require knowledge of the external conditions in which the turbines and associated facilities are to operate. In this work, a three-bladed 5MW upwind wind turbine, which is supported by the monopile foundation, is studied by use of fully coupled aero-hydro-servo-elastic commercial simulation tool, 'GH-Bladed'$^{(R)}$. Specification of the structures are chosen from the OC3 (Offshore Code Comparison Collaboration) under "IEA Wind Annex XXIII-subtask2". The primary external conditions due to wind and waves are simulated. Design Load case 5.2 is investigated in this work. The steady state power curve and power production loads are evaluated. Comparison between different codes is made.

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A study on the performance of variable damper type suspension for tracked vehicle (가변댐퍼식 궤도차량용 현수장치의 성능에 관한 연구)

  • 이재순;김승무
    • Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.34-42
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    • 1981
  • The feasibility of using fluidic components for improving certain performance characteristics of the suspension systems for tracked vehicle is investigated. This study describes three variable damping systems for which the damping coefficients are function of relative velocity and absolute a of the vehicle body. Through the comparison analysis between constant damping coefficient damper and each of variable dampers. the followings were found: (1)Fluidic Diode Damper gave less accelerations, (2)Both Fluidic Diode Damper and Relative Velocity Damper gave the less time for which the wheel is off the ground, (3) At low vehicle velocity Fluidic Diode Damper gave low energy dissipation rate, while at high vehicle velocity Turbulence Accelerometer Damper gave low energy dissipation rate.

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CFD modelling and the development of the diffuser augmented wind turbine

  • Phillips, D.G.;Richards, P.J.;Flay, R.G.J.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.5 no.2_3_4
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    • pp.267-276
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    • 2002
  • Research being undertaken at the University of Auckland has enabled Vortec Energy to improve the performance of the Vortec 7 Diffuser Augmented Wind Turbine. Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) modelling of the Vortec 7 was used to ascertain the effectiveness of geometric modifications to the Vortec 7. The CFD work was then developed to look at new geometries, and refinement of these led to greater power augmentation for a given diffuser exit area ratio. Both full scale analysis of the Vortec 7 and a wind tunnel investigation of the development design have been used for comparison with the CFD model.

Conceptual design and numerical simulations of a vertical axis water turbine used for underwater mooring platforms

  • Wenlong, Tian;Baowei, Song;Zhaoyong, Mao
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.625-634
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    • 2013
  • Energy is a direct restriction to the working life of an underwater mooring platform (UMP). In this paper, a vertical axis water turbine (VAWT) is designed to supply energy for UMPs. The VAWT has several controlled blades, which can be opened or closed by inside plunger pumps. Two-dimensional transient numerical studies are presented to determine the operating performance and power output of the turbine under low ocean current velocity. A standard k-${\varepsilon}$ turbulence model is used to perform the transient simulations. The influence of structural parameters, including foil section profile, foil chord length and rotor diameter, on the turbine performance are investigated over a range of tip-speed-ratios (TSRs). It was found that turbine with three unit length NACA0015 foils generated a maximum averaged coefficient of power, 0.1, at TSR = 2.

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF AN ARC PLASMA IN A DC ELECTRIC FURNACE

  • Lee Yeon Won;Lee Jong Hoon
    • 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.30-33
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    • 2004
  • In order to analyze the heat transfer phenomena in the plasma flames, a mathematical model describing heat and fluid How in an electric arc has been developed and used to predict heat transfer from the arc to the steel bath in a DC Electric Arc Furnace. The arc model takes the separate contributions to the heat transfer from each involved mechanism into account, i.e. radiation, convection and energy transported by electrons. The finite volume method and a SIMPLE algorithm are used for solving the governing MHD equations, i.e., conservation equations of mass, momentum, and energy together with the equations describing a standard $k-\varepsilon$ model for turbulence. The model predicts heat transfer for different currents and arc lengths. Finally these calculation results can be used as a useful insight into plasma phenomena of the industrial-scale electric arc furnace. from these results, it can be concluded that higher arc current and longer arc length give high heat transfer.

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The Structure of Axisymmeric Turbulent Diffusion Flame(II) (재순환 영역이 있는 축대칭 난류 확산화염의 구조 (II))

  • 이병무;신현동
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.70-77
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    • 1986
  • Turbulent mixing field with recirculating flow which is formed by injecting gaseous fuel on the main air stream is solved numerically by a finite difference method. The turbulence model for obtaining transport properties was k-.epsilon. model, which was obtained from turbulent kinetic energy and its dissipation rate. Considering the effects of streamline curvature, modified k-.epsilon model was used. Generally, Modified k-.epsilon. model makes better predictions than standard model, and from this result, it is recognized that standard model has deficiency when applied to turbulent recirculating flows, and that modified k-.epsilon. model takes into account of streamline curvature effects properly. Meanwhile, A more study will be necessary to find the reason why large differences between predicted and experimental turbulent kinetic energy exist.

Numerical Analysis of an Arc Plasma in a DC Electric Furnace

  • Lee, Yeon-Won;Lee, Jong-Hoon
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.28 no.8
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    • pp.1251-1257
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    • 2004
  • In order to analyze the heat transfer phenomena in the plasma flames, a mathematical model describing heat and fluid flow in an electric arc has been developed and used to predict heat transfer from the arc to the steel bath in a DC Electric Arc Furnace. The arc model takes the separate contributions to the heat transfer from each involved mechanism onto account, that is radiation, convection and energy transported by electrons. The finite volume method and a SIMPLE algorithm are used for solving the governing MHD equations, that are conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy together with the equations describing a standard k-${\varepsilon}$ model for turbulence. The model predicts heat transfer for different currents and arc lengths. Finally these calculation results can be used as a useful insight into plasma phenomena of the industrial-scale electric arc furnace. From these results, it can be concluded that higher arc current and longer arc length give high heat transfer

A Study on the Ultimate Load Assessment and the Performance Prediction of a Wind Turbine (풍력터빈 출력예측 및 극한하중평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Bum-Suk;Eum, Hark-Jin;Kim, Mann-Eung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.326-333
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    • 2009
  • Design life-time of a wind turbine is required to be at least 20 years. In the meantime, the wind turbine will experience a lot of load cases such as extreme loads and fatigue loads which will include several typhoons per year and extreme gusts with 50 years recurrence period as well as endless turbulence flow. Therefore, IEC61400-1 specifies design load cases to be considered in the wind turbine design and requires the wind turbine to withstand the load cases in various operational situations. This paper investigates the ultimate loads which the wind turbine will experience for 20 years and their characteristics based on the IEC61400-1 using an aero-elastic software, GH-Bladed. And the performance characteristics of a wind turbine such as electrical power generation and annual energy yield are also investigated.

A Study on the Eddy Diffusion in a Pulsed Turbulent System (脈動渦流裝置에 있어서의 渦流擴散)

  • Woong Ki Kang;Yung Wook Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.203-206
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    • 1963
  • The eddy diffusion in the pulsed wetted wall column, where the spherical balls are consecutively arrayed along the axis of the column and turbulence is caused around the balls by pulsation, has been studied both theoretically and experimentally. A diffusion equation is solved for a longitudinal column where a concentration impulse is given at the top of the column, and the experimental results, which are the impulse response measurements at the half of the total height of the column, have shown a good agreement with the developed theory. A method of measuring the eddy diffusivity, which is based on the slope of concentration vs. time in the particular interval of concentration, is proposed and the measured diffusivity is used as a criterion of comparing the theory and the experiment. The eddy diffusion is remarkably increased as the amplitude and the frequency of the pulsation increase but the increasing rate is decreased as the pulsation increases.

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Three Dimensional Numerical Analysis of the Walking Beam Type of a Hot Roll Reheat Furnace (Walking Beam형 열연 재가열로의 3차원 수치해석)

  • Kim J. K.;Huh G. Y.;Kim I. T.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1999.05a
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    • pp.199-204
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    • 1999
  • Three dimensional numerical analysis for the turbulent reactive flow and radiative heat transfer in the walking beam type of a reheat furnace in POSCO has been carried out by the industrial code FLUENT. Computations an based on the conservation equations of mass, momentum, energy and species with the $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence model and mixture fraction/PDF(Probability Density Function) approach for the combustion rate. Radiative heat transfer is computed by the discrete ordinates radiation model in combination with the weighted-sum-of-gray-gas model for the absorption coefficient of gas medium. The predicted temperture distribution in the reheat furnace and energy flow fractions are in reasonable agreement with the measurement data.

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