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Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Rotor Flow Using an Unstructured Overset Mesh Flow Solver

  • Jung, Mun-Seung;Kwon, Oh-Joon
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.104-111
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    • 2009
  • An unstructured overset mesh method has been developed for the simulation of unsteady flow fields around isolated rotors and rotor-fuselage configurations. The flow solver was parallelized for the efficient calculation of complicated flows requiring a large number of cells. A quasi-unsteady mesh adaptation technique was adopted to enhance the spatial accuracy of the solution and to better resolve the rotor wake. The method has been applied to calculate the flow fields around rotor-alone and rotor-fuselage configurations in forward flight. Validations were made by comparing the predicted results with those of measurements. It was demonstrated that the present method is efficient and robust for the prediction of unsteady time-accurate flow fields involving multiple bodies in relative motion.

Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Dealing with Shock Wave Analysis (폭발현상 해석을 위한 적응적 요소망 생성)

  • Jun, Yongtae;Lee, Minhyung
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.461-469
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    • 2013
  • Computer simulation with FEM is very useful to analyze hypervelocity impact phenomena that are tremendously expensive or otherwise too impractical to analyze experimentally. Shock physics can be efficiently handled by mesh adaptation which allows finite element mesh to be locally optimized to resolve moving shock wave in explosion. In this paper, an adaptive meshing technique based upon quadtree data structure was applied to resolve ballistic impact phenomena. The technique can adaptively refine a mesh in the neighborhood of a shock and coarsen the mesh for the smooth flow behind the shock according to a criterion. The criterion for refinement and coarsening is based upon the standard deviation of the gradient of shock pressure on the associated field. Shock simulation starts with the rough mesh of the pressure field and mesh density is increased locally under the criterion at each time step. The results show that the mesh adaptation enables to minimize the global computation error of FEM and to increase storage and computational saving compared to the fixed resolution of the conventional static mesh approach.

Adaptive Mesh Refinement Using Viscous Adjoint Method for Single- and Multi-Element Airfoil Analysis

  • Yamahara, Toru;Nakahashi, Kazuhiro;Kim, Hyoungjin
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.601-613
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    • 2017
  • An adjoint-based error estimation and mesh adaptation study is conducted for two-dimensional viscous flows on unstructured hybrid meshes. The error in an integral output functional of interest is estimated by a dot product of the residual vector and adjoint variable vector. Regions for the mesh to be adapted are selected based on the amount of local error at each nodal point. Triangular cells in the adaptive regions are refined by regular refinement, and quadrangular cells near viscous walls are bisected accordingly. The present procedure is applied to single-element airfoils such as the RAE2822 at a transonic regime and a diamond-shaped airfoil at a supersonic regime. Then the 30P30N multi-element airfoil at a low subsonic regime with a high incidence angle (${\alpha}=21deg.$) is analyzed. The same level of prediction accuracy for lift and drag is achieved with much less mesh points than the uniform mesh refinement approach. The detailed procedure of the adjoint-based mesh refinement for the multi-element airfoil case show that the basic flow features around the airfoil should be resolved so that the adjoint method can accurately estimate an output error.

Development of a 2-dimensional Flow Solver using Hybrid Unstructured and Adaptive Cartesian Meshes (비정렬 및 적응 직교격자를 이용한 2차원 혼합격자계 유동해석 코드 개발)

  • Jung, M.K.;Kwon, O.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.294-301
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    • 2011
  • A two-dimensional hybrid flaw solver has been developed for the accurate and efficient simulation of steady and unsteady flaw fields. The flow solver was cast to accommodate two different topologies of computational meshes. Triangular meshes are adopted in the near-body region such that complex geometric configurations can be easily modeled, while adaptive Cartesian meshes are, utilized in the off-body region to resolve the flaw more accurately with less numerical dissipation by adopting a spatially high-order accurate scheme and solution-adaptive mesh refinement technique. A chimera mesh technique has been employed to link the two flow regimes adopting each mesh topology. Validations were made for the unsteady inviscid vol1ex convection am the unsteady turbulent flaws over an NACA0012 airfoil, and the results were compared with experimental and other computational results.

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Simulation of Unsteady Rotor-Fuselage Aerodynamic Interaction Using Unstructured Adaptive Meshes (비정렬 적응 격자계를 이용한 비정상 로터-동체 공력 상호작용 모사)

  • Nam, H.-J.;Park, Y.-M.;Kwon, O.-J.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.11-21
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    • 2005
  • A three-dimensional parallel Euler flow solver has been developed for the simulation of unsteady rotor-fuselage interaction aerodynamics on unstructured meshes. In order to handle the relative motion between the rotor and the fuselage, the flow field was divided into two zones, a moving zone rotating with the blades and a stationary zone containing the fuselage. A sliding mesh algorithm was developed for the convection of the flow variables across the cutting boundary between the two zones. A quasi-unsteady mesh adaptation technique was adopted to enhance the spatial accuracy of the solution and to better resolve the wake. A low Mach number pre-conditioning method was implemented to relieve the numerical difficulty associated with the low-speed forward flight. Validations were made by simulating the flows around the Georgia Tech configuration and the ROBIN fuselage. It was shown that the present method is efficient and robust for the prediction of complicated unsteady rotor-fuselage aerodynamic interaction phenomena.

Distributed Virtual Topology Adaptation Method to Support IP Traffic in WDM Mesh Networks (WDM Mesh 네트워크에서 IP 트래픽을 수용하기 위한 분산형 가상토폴로지 적응 기법)

  • Kim, Eal-Lae;Lee, Sung-Kuen;Lee, Yong-Won;Chang, Sun-Hyok;Lee, Myung-Moon;Park, Jin-Woo
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.32 no.1B
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2007
  • We propose a new approach to accommodate bidirectional asymmetric traffic demands as well as unexpected dynamic internet traffic variation in the WDM mesh network by using optical networking technologies. In the proposed scheme, an intermediate node determines the optical path based on the switching statistics of IP router of the node which characterizes the Internet traffic variation, which in effect provides a dynamic and distributed traffic control over the network. It is expected to reduce the efficiency deterioration of RWA(Routing and Wavelength Assignment) due to the real-time variation of Internet traffic so that expandability and flexibility of the network can be enhanced. In this paper, we describe a methodology for traffic behavior analysis at a node, and the decision policy of the establishment/release of optical path. In addition, we evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme through the computer simulations.

Development of a Parallel Cell-Based DSMC Method Using Unstructured Meshes (비정렬격자에서 병렬화된 격자중심 직접모사 기법 개발)

  • Kim, Hyeong-Sun;Kim, Min-Gyu;Gwon, O-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2002
  • In the present study, a parallel DSCM technique based on a cell-based data structure is developed for the efficient simulation of rarefied gas flows especially od PC clusters. Dynamic load balancing is archieved by decomposing the computational domain into several sub-domains and accounting for the number of particles and the number cells of each domain. Mesh adaptation algorithm is also applied to improve the resolution of the solution and to reduce the grid dependency. It was demonstrated that accurate solutions can be obtained after several levels of mesh adapation starting from a coars initial grid. The method was applied to a two-dimensioanal supersonic leading-edge flow and the axi-symmetric Rothe nozzle flow to validate the efficiency of the present method. It was found that the present method is a very effective tool for the efficient simulation of rarefied gas flow on PC-based parallel machines.

A Study on the Selectivity of the Mesh type Escape Device and the Applicability in a Set Net (망목형 탈출장치의 선택성과 정치망에 적용 가능성)

  • Kim, Seong-Hun;Kim, Tae-Kyung;Kim, Hyung-Seok;Lee, Ju-Hee
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.928-936
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    • 2013
  • This thesis is the fundamental study on the adaptation of escape device for reducing small fishes in set-net. The escape devices for experiments were made the mesh-type devices with three different mesh sizes (60.6, 75.8 and 120.0mm). The experiments of size selectivity on escape devices were conducted by using two kinds of species as black rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli) and sea perch (Lateolabrax maculatusi) in the experimental tank. The size selectivity curve was fitted by using a logistic function and the parameters of selectivity curve were estimated by a maximum likelihood method. In the results; 50% selection ranges for the mesh-type escape devices with three different mesh sizes were; a black rockfish was 18.99 in mesh size 60.6mm and 21.96 in mesh size 75.8mm (120mm could not estimate). A sea perch was 22.02 in mesh 60.6mm and 24.46 in mesh size 75.8mm (120mm could not estimate). The 50% selection range of a black rockfish was wilder than a sea perch about 1.1~.2 time. Therefore, the small fishes are able to reduce by using the mesh type escape device. However, the optimum mesh size should be decided to consider the size of target species and economics of catches.

Numerical Analysis for Linear and Nonlinear Attenuation Characteristics of Exhaust Silencer Systems (배기 소음기의 선형 및 비선형 감쇄 특성에 대한 수치해석)

  • 김종태;김용모;맹주성;류명석;구영곤
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.179-189
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    • 1996
  • An unstructured grid finite-volume method has been applied to predict the linear and nonlinear attenuation characteristics of the expansion chamber silencer system. In order to achieve a grid flexibility and a solution adaptation for geometrically silencer system. In order to achieve a grid flexibility and a solution adaptation for geometrically complex flow regions associated with the actual silencers, the unstructured mesh algorithm in context with the node-centered finite volume method has been employed. The present numerical model has been validated by comparison with the analytical solutions and the experimental data for the acoustic field of the concentric expansion chamber with and without pulsating flows, as well as the axisymmetric blast flowfield with open end. Effects of the chamber geometry on the nonlinear wave attenuation characteristics is discussed in detail.

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