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External Store Separation Analysis Using Moving and Deforming Mesh Method (이동변형격자 기법을 활용한 외부장착물 분리운동 해석)

  • Ahn, Byeong Hui;Kim, Dong-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.9-20
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    • 2019
  • A military aircraft generally includes external stores such as fuel tanks or external arming, depending on the purpose of the operation. When a store is dropped from a military aircraft at high subsonic, transonic, or supersonic speeds, the aerodynamic forces and moments acting on the store can be sufficient to send the store back into contact with the aircraft. This can cause damage to the aircraft and endanger the life of the crew. In this study, time accurate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with dynamic moving grid (moving and deformable mesh, MDM) technique has been used to accurately calculate store trajectories. For the verification of the present numerical approach, a wind tunnel test model for the wing-pylon-finned store configuration has been considered and analyzed. The comparison results for the ejected store trajectories between the present numerical analysis and the wind tunnel test data at the Mach number of 0.95 and 1.2 are presented. It is also importantly shown that the numerical parameter of MDM technique gives significant effect for the calculated store trajectory in the low-supersonic flow such as Mach 1.2.

Numerical Analysis of Kerosene Burner (석유팬히터 기화기내 유동장 해석)

  • Hong, Yong-Ju;Sim, Seong-Hun;Kim, In-Gyu;Kim, Yeong-Su
    • 연구논문집
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    • s.27
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    • pp.109-118
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    • 1997
  • Kerosene Burner has widely used in domestic heating appliance. Higher combustion efficiency is required to save fuel and clean exhaust gas. The combustion characteristics in kerosene burner highly depends on the performance of evaporating liquid kerosene. And performance of evaporating effect on generation of tar. In this study, flow and heat transfer of kerosene burner is simulated by FLUENT/UNS using unstructured mesh system and discrete phase model to analyze performance of evaporating kerosene liquid. The simulated results show very complicated flow pattern and back flow at the exit of burner.

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DEVELOPMENT OF PRE/POST PROCESSOR PROGRAM FOR NUFLEX (NUFLEX의 전후처리장치 개발)

  • Kim, Sa-Ryang;Yeo, Jae-Hyun;Won, Chan-Shik;Hur, Nahm-Keon
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.91-94
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    • 2007
  • A GUI based pre/post processor program, which is based on the MFC and OpenGL library in the Windows O/S, hee been developed for NUFLEX Using this program, users are able to generate and modify structured or unstructured grid geometries, set all the parameters for the solver, and observe the results of the simulation in graphic view by vector or scalar plots. The mesh geometry data can be imported from or exported to other programs by supporting functions for reading from and writing to CGNS data format files.

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The Influence of Meshing Strategies on the Propeller Simulation by CFD

  • Bahatmaka, Aldias;Kim, Dong-Joon
    • Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.78-85
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    • 2018
  • This paper presents a study of the effects of the free surface to marine propeller including the mesh effect of the models. In the present study, we conduct the numerical simulation for propeller performance employing the openwater test. The numerical simulations compare the meshing strategies for the propeller and show the effects on both thrust and torque. OpenFOAM is applied to solve the propeller problem and then open water performances of KCS propeller (KP505) are estimated using a Reynold-averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS) solver and the turbulence of the $K-{\omega}$ SST model. Unstructured meshes are used in the numerical simulation employing hexahedral meshing for mesh generation. The arbitrary mesh interfacing (AMI) and multiple rotating frame (MRF) are compared to define the best meshing strategy. The meshing strategies are evaluated through 3 classifications, i.e., coarse, medium, and fine mesh. Thus, the propeller can be performed utilizing the best mesh strategy. The computational results are validated by comparison with the experimental results. The $K_T$, $K_Q$, and efficiency of the propeller are compared to an experimental result and for all of the meshing strategies. Thus, the simulations show the influence of meshing in order to perform the propeller performances.

Development of a Pre-Processing Program for Flow Analysis Based on the Object-Oriented Programming Concept (OOP 개념에 기초한 유동해석용 전처리 프로그램 개발)

  • Myong, Hyon-Kook;Ahn, Jong-Ki
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.70-77
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    • 2008
  • A pre-processing program based on the OOP(object-oriented programming) concept has been developed. The program consists of the input of a 2D or 3D flow problem to a CFD program by means of an user-friendly interface and the subsequent transformation of this input into a form suitable for the solver(PowerCFD) using unstructured cell-centered method. User-friendly GUI(graphic user interface) has been built on the base of MFC(Microsoft Foundation Class). The program is organized as modules by classes based on VTK(Visualization ToolKit)-library, and these classes are made to function through inheritance and cooperation which is an important and valuable concept of object-oriented programming. The major functions of this program are introduced and demonstrated, which include mesh generation, boundary settings, solver settings, generation of grid connectivity and geometric data etc.

EFFICIENT COMPUTATION OF COMPRESSIBLE FLOW BY HIGHER-ORDER METHOD ACCELERATED USING GPU (고차 정확도 수치기법의 GPU 계산을 통한 효율적인 압축성 유동 해석)

  • Chang, T.K.;Park, J.S.;Kim, C.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.52-61
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    • 2014
  • The present paper deals with the efficient computation of higher-order CFD methods for compressible flow using graphics processing units (GPU). The higher-order CFD methods, such as discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods and correction procedure via reconstruction (CPR) methods, can realize arbitrary higher-order accuracy with compact stencil on unstructured mesh. However, they require much more computational costs compared to the widely used finite volume methods (FVM). Graphics processing unit, consisting of hundreds or thousands small cores, is apt to massive parallel computations of compressible flow based on the higher-order CFD methods and can reduce computational time greatly. Higher-order multi-dimensional limiting process (MLP) is applied for the robust control of numerical oscillations around shock discontinuity and implemented efficiently on GPU. The program is written and optimized in CUDA library offered from NVIDIA. The whole algorithms are implemented to guarantee accurate and efficient computations for parallel programming on shared-memory model of GPU. The extensive numerical experiments validates that the GPU successfully accelerates computing compressible flow using higher-order method.

Prediction of Performance Change for the Intake system of Smart UAV With Freestream Wind Direction Using CFD Analysis (CFD를 이용한 풍향에 따른 스마트무인기 흡기구 성능 변화 예측)

  • Jung Y. W.;Jun Y. M.;Yang S. S.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.95-99
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    • 2004
  • The developing Smart UAV in KARI supposes high speed flight as like a conventional plane, as well as vertical takeoff and landing as like a helicopter. Therefore, the air intake system should be designed to provide the sufficient air flow to the engine and the maximum possible total pressure recovery at the engine intake screen over a wide range of flight conditions. For this purpose, we designed the intake system using a pilot type intake model and plenum chamber In this paper, we designed the intake model and analyzed the performance of designed intake system using the general-purpose commercial CFD code, CFD-ACE+ For 3-D calculation, we generated mesh using the unstructured gird and used $\kappa-\epsilon$ turbulence model. The analysis results of the total pressure variation and the velocity distribution was illustrated in this paper. The pressure recovery and distortion coefficient at a plane coincident with the compressor inlet were calculated and streamline variation through the intake system was investigated at the worst condition as well as the standard flight condition.

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AUTOMATED TRIANGULAR SURFACE GRID GENERATION ON CAD SURFACE DATA (CAD 형상 데이터를 이용한 물체 표면 삼각형 격자의 자동 생성 기법)

  • Lee, B.J.;Kim, B.S.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.103-107
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    • 2007
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD in short) approach is now playing an important role in the engineering process recently. Generating proper grid system for the region of interest in time is prerequisite for the efficient numerical calculation of flow physics using CFD approach. Grid generation is, however, usually considered as a major obstacle for a routine and successful application of numerical approaches in the engineering process. CFD approach based on the unstructured grid system is gaining popularity due to its simplicity and efficiency for generating grid system compared to the structured grid approaches. In this paper an automated triangular surface grid generation using CAD surface data is proposed According to the present method, the CAD surface data imported in the STL format is processed to identify feature edges defining the topology and geometry of the surface shape first. When the feature edges are identified, node points along the edges are distributed. The initial fronts which connect those feature edge nodes are constructed and then they are advanced along the CAD surface data inward until the surface is fully covered by triangular surface grid cells using Advancing Front Method. It is found that this approach can be implemented in an automated way successfully saving man-hours and reducing human-errors in generating triangular surface grid system.

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Flexible CFD meshing strategy for prediction of ship resistance and propulsion performance

  • Seo, Jeong-Hwa;Seol, Dong-Myung;Lee, Ju-Hyun;Rhee, Shin-Hyung
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.139-145
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    • 2010
  • In the present study, we conducted resistance test, propeller open water test and self-propulsion test for a ship's resistance and propulsion performance, using computational fluid dynamics techniques, where a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations solver was employed. For convenience of mesh generation, unstructured meshes were used in the bow and stern region of a ship, where the hull shape is formed of delicate curved surfaces. On the other hand, structured meshes were generated for the middle part of the hull and the rest of the domain, i.e., the region of relatively simple geometry. To facilitate the rotating propeller for propeller open water test and self-propulsion test, a sliding mesh technique was adopted. Free-surface effects were included by employing the volume of fluid method for multi-phase flows. The computational results were validated by comparing with the existing experimental data.

Numerical Simulation of Slamming Phenomena for 2-D Wedges (2차원 쐐기형 구조물의 슬래밍 현상에 대한 수치 유동해석)

  • Yum, Deuk-Joon;Yoon, Bum-Sang
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.45 no.5
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    • pp.477-486
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    • 2008
  • Numerical analysis for slamming impact phenomena has been carried out when 2-dimensional wedge shaped structure with finite deadrise angles enter the free surface by using a commertial CFD code, FLUENT. Fluid is assumed incompressible and entry speed of the structure is kept constant. Geo-reconstruct scheme (or PLIC-VOF scheme) is used for the tracking of the deforming free surface. User defined function of 6 degrees of freedom motion and moving dynamic mesh option are used for the expression of the downward motion of the structure and deforming of unstructured meshes adjacent to the structure. The magnitude and the location of impact pressure and the total drag force which is the summation of pressures distributed at the bottom of the structure are analyzed. Results of the analysis show good agreement with the results of similarity solution, asymptotic solution and the solution of BEM.