• Title/Summary/Keyword: Free surface flows

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Analysis of Steady Flows in a Rectangular Container with a Characterization of the Free Surface by One-Dimensional Motion (1차원 표면유동의 정량화에 따른 직사각형 용기내의 정상유동 해석)

  • 변민수;서용권
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.227-231
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    • 2001
  • Analysis of two-dimensional unsteady flows with a free surface in a rectangular container subject to a linear reciprocating force is performed by numerical and experimental methods. FVM is used for the numerical computation of the two-dimensional flows. We consider the surface tension as well as the viscous/elastic properties of the free surface. One-dimensional analysis as well as experiment is used in establishing the free surface properties. The steady recirculatory flow is visualized by a laser sheet. It is shown that the one-dimensional analysis provides useful informations associated with the free surface properties.

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A Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis on Sloshing in Rectangular Tank (사각통에서의 슬로싱에 대한 전산유체역학적 연구)

  • Kwack Youngkyun;Lee Youngsin;Kor Sungho
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.99-102
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    • 2002
  • The present study describes a numerical analysis for simulation of the sloshing of flows with free-surface which contained in a rectangular tank The SOLA-VOF (Volume of fluid) method uses a fixed mesh for calculating the motion of flow and the free-surface. This Eulerian approach enables the VOF method to use only a small amount of computer memory for simulating sloshing problems with complicated free-surface contours. The VOF function, representing the volume fraction of a cell occupied by the fluid, is calculated for each cells, which gives the locating of the free-surface filling any some fraction of cells with fluid. Using SOLA-VOF method, the study describes visualization about simulation of the sloshing of flows and damping effect by baffle. Translation and pitching motion of the forms have been investigated The time-dependent changes of free-surface height are used for visualization subject to several conditions such as fluid height horizontal acceleration, sinusoidal motion, and viscosity. The free-surface heights were used for comparing wall-force, which is caused by sloshing of flows. Baffle was Installed to reduce the force on the wall by sloshing of flows. Damping effects was extensively expressed under the conditions such as baffle shape and position.

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Numerical Simulation on the Free Surface using implicit boundary condition (내재적 경계 조건을 이용한 자유표면 유동 수치해석)

  • Lee G. H.;Baek J. H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1998.05a
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    • pp.156-161
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    • 1998
  • This describes a numerical method for predicting the incompressible unsteady laminar three-dimensional flows of fluid behaviour with free-surface. The elliptic differential equations governing the flows have been linearized by means of finite-difference approximations, and the resulting equations have been solved via a fully-implicit iterative method. The free-surface is defined by the motion of a set of marker particles and interface behaviour was investigated by way of a 'Lagrangian' technique. Using the GALA concept of Spalding, the conventional mass continuity equation is modified to form a volumetric or bulk-continuity equation. The use of this bulk-continuity relation allows the hydrodynamic variables to be computed over the entire flow domain including both liquid and gas regions. Thus, the free-surface boundary conditions are imposed implicitly and the problem formulation is greatly simplified. The numerical procedure is validated by comparing the predicted results of a periodic standing waves problems with analytic solutions or experimental results from the literature. The results show that this numerical method produces accurate and physically realistic predictions of three-dimensional free-surface flows.

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Numerical Calculation of the free-Surface Flows around a Submerged Body (잠수체 주위 자유표면 유동의 수치계산)

  • 김용직;하영록;홍사영
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, the high-order spectral/boundary-element method is developed to calculate the 3-dimensional water waves generated by a submerged body. This method is one of the most efficient numerical methods by which the nonlinear gravity waves can be simulated Tn time-domain. Three-dimensional free-surface flows generated by a submerged sphere which is moving under the free-surface are calculated. Through example calculations, nonlinear effects on free-surface profiles and hydrodynamic forces are shown. Comparisons with others' results show good agreements.

Critical Free Surface Flows in a Sloshing Tank

  • Scolan, Y.M
    • Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.163-173
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    • 2018
  • There are many issues in fluid structure interactions when dealing with the free surface flows in a sloshing tank. For example the problem of how yielding a highly nonlinear wave with a simple forced motion over a short duration is of concern here. Nonlinear waves are generated in a rectangular tank which is forced horizontally; its motion consists of a single cycle of oscillation. One of the objectives is to end up with a shape of the free surface yielding a wide range of critical flows by tuning few parameters. The configuration that is studied here concerns a plunging breaker accompanied with a critical jet where great kinematics are simulated. The numerical simulations are performed with a twodimensional code which solves the fully nonlinear free surface boundary conditions in Potential Theory.

Numerical Simulation on the Free Surface using implicit boundary condition (내재적 경계 조건을 이용한 자유표면 유동 수치해석)

  • Lee G. H.;Baek J. H.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 1999
  • This paper describes a numerical method for predicting the incompressible unsteady laminar three-dimensional flows with free-surface. The Navier-Stokes equations governing the flows have been discretized by means of finite-difference approximations, and the resulting equations have been solved via the SIMPLE-C algorithm. The free-surface is defined by the motion of a set of marker particles and the interface behaviour was investigated by means of a "Lagrangian" technique. Using the GALA concept of Spalding, the conventional mass continuity equation is modified to form a volumetric or bulk-continuity equation. The use of this bulk-continuity relation allows the hydrodynamic variables to be computed over the entire flow domain including both liquid and gas regions. Thus, the free-surface boundary conditions are imposed implicitly and the problem formulation is greatly simplified. The numerical procedure is validated by comparing the predicted results of a periodic standing waves problems with analytic solutions. The results show that this numerical method produces accurate and physically realistic predictions of three-dimensional free-surface flows.

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Computation of Two-Fluid Flows with Submerged hydrofoil by Interface Capturing Method (접면포착법에 의한 수중익 주위의 이층류 유동계산)

  • 곽승현
    • Journal of Korean Port Research
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.167-174
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    • 1999
  • Numerical analysis of two-fluid flows for both water and air is carried out. Free-Surface flows with an arbitrary deformation have been simulated around two dimensional submerged hydrofoil. The computation is performed using a finite volume method with unstructured meshes and an interface capturing scheme to determine the shape of the free surface. The method uses control volumes with an arbitrary number of faces and allows cell-wise local mesh refinement. the integration in space is of second order based on midpoint rule integration and linear interpolation. The method is fully implicit and uses quadratic interpolation in time through three time levels The linear equation systems are solved by conjugate gradient type solvers and the non-linearity of equations is accounted for through picard iterations. The solution method is of pressure-correction type and solves sequentially the linearized momentum equations the continuity equation the conservation equation of one species and the equations or two turbulence quantities.

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A Similarity of the Velocity Profiles According to Water Depth in Partially Filled Circular Pipe Flows (비만관 상태의 원형관로에서 수위에 따른 속도분포의 상사성)

  • Yoon, Ji-In;Kim, Young-Bae;Sung, Jae-Yong;Lee, Myeong-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.28-32
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    • 2008
  • Contrary to the flow rate in fully filled pipe flows, the flow rate in partially filled pipe flows is significantly influenced by the variation of water level, channel slop, and so on. The major difference in these two flows results from the existence of a free surface. To make it clear, in the present study, a similarity of the velocity profile in a partially filled circular pipe has been investigated according to the water level. A particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique was applied to measure the three-dimensional velocity profiles. As a result, there is found a similarity of the velocity profile near the central region. However, near the side wall, the similarity is broken due to the interaction between the wall and the free surface.

Effects of Non-hydrostatic Pressure on Free Surface Environmental Flows (자유표면 환경유동에 대한 비정수압 효과)

  • Yoon, B.S.;Park, C.W.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.116-121
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    • 2005
  • In the present paper, a new calculation algorithm far solving large scale environmental or geophysical flows with free surface is proposed where the non-hydrostatic pressure component is taken into consideration. Predictor-corrector fractional step approach with explicit, forward time marching scheme in the sigma coordinate system is employed. In order to validate the present calculation algorithm and to estimate the effects of non-hydrostatic pressure on resultant flow and free surface movements, example calculations are carried out for typical steady and unsteady flow problems. Present method can be applied to the meso-scale free surface flows with complex bottom topography where MAC-like 3-d hydrodynamic calculations are quite ineffective and uneconomic.

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A Computational Study on Turbulent Flows around Single and Tandem Two-Dimensional Hydrofoils with Shallow Submergence

  • Kim, H.T.;Park, J.B.;Kim, W.J.
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 2000
  • Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations are numerically solved using a secondorder finite difference method for the analysis of turbulent flows around single and tandem hydrofoils advancing under the free surface. The location of the free surface, not known a priori, is computed from the kinematic free surface condition and the computational grid is conformed at each iteration to the free surface deformation. The eddy viscosity model of Baldwin-Lomax is employed for the turbulence closure. The method is validated through the comparision of the numerical results with the experimental data for a single hydrofoil of a Joukowski foil section. A computational study is also carried out to investigate the effect of the submergence depth and the Froude number on the lift and the drag of the hydrofoil. For tandem hydrofoils, computations are performed for several separation distances between the forward and aft foils to see the interference effect. The result shows clearly how the lift and drag change with the separation distance.

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