• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.599-605
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• 2003

For practical calculations, the Reynolds equation is frequently used to analyze the lubricating flow. The full Navier-Stokes Equations are used to find validity limits of Reynolds equation in a lubricating flow regime by result comparison. As the amplitude of wavy upper wall increased at a given average channel height, the difference between Navier-Stokes and lubrication theory decreased slightly : however, as the minimum distance in channel throat increased, the differences in the maximum pressure between Navier-Stokes and lubrication theory became large.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.409-414
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• 1996

The limit of applicability of Navier-Stokes equation to stationary plane shock-waves is examined by using the principle of minimum entropy production of linear irreversible thermodynamics. In order to obtain analytic results, the equation is linearized near the equilibrium of downstream. Results show that the solution of Navier-Stokes equation which fits the boundary condition of far downstream flow is consistent with the thermodynamic requirement within the first order when the solution is expanded around the M=1, where M is the Mach number of upstream speed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.1-19
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• 1998

A Chebyshev pseudospectral-finite element method is proposed for two-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equation. The generalized stability and the convergence are proved strictly. The numerical results show the advantages of this method.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.111-116
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• 2005

Two coupling methods for the Navier-Stokes equations and a two-equation turbulence model equations are compared. They are the strongly coupled method and the loosely coupled method. The strongly coupled method solves the Navier-Stokes equations and the two-equation turbulence model equations simultaneously, while the loosely coupled method solves the Navier-Stokes equation with the turbulence viscosity fixed and subsequently solves the turbulence model equations with all the flow quantities fixed. In this paper, performances of two coupling methods are compared for two and three-dimensional problems.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.218-232
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• 2012

In a spool valve analysis, the Reynolds equation is commonly used to investigate the lubrication characteristics. However, the validity of the Reynolds equation is questionable in a spool valve analysis because cavitation often occurs in the groove and the depth of the groove is much higher than the clearance in most cases. Therefore, the validity of the Reynolds equation in a spool valve analysis is investigated by comparing the results obtained from the Reynolds equation and the Navier-Stokes equation. Dimensionless parameters are determined from a nondimensional form of the governing equations. The differences between the lateral force, friction force, and volume flow rate (leakage) obtained by the Reynolds equation and those obtained by the Navier-Stokes equation are discussed. It is shown that there is little difference (less than 10%), except in the case of a spool valve with many grooves where no cavitation occurs in the grooves. In most cases, the Reynolds equation is effective for a spool valve analysis under a no cavitation condition.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.275-285
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• 2013

The Reynolds equation is commonly used to investigate the lubrication characteristics of a spool valve. However, the applicability of the Reynolds equation is questionable for analyzing a spool valve because cavitation often occurs in the grooves of the valve and the depth of a groove is much higher than the clearance in most cases. In this study, the validity of the Reynolds equation in the spool valve analysis is investigated by comparing the results obtained from the Reynolds equation and those obtained from the Navier-Stokes equation. The results are compared in terms of the lateral forces, friction forces, and volume flow rates (leakages). A significant difference of more than 20% is found in the lateral forces in cases where cavitation occurs and there are many grooves. Therefore, the Navier-Stokes equation should be used to investigate the lubrication characteristics of a spool valve when cavitation occurs and when the spool valve contains many grooves.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.753-765
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• 2003

A finite element code for the numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equation is parallelized by vertex-oriented domain decomposition. To accelerate the convergence of iterative solvers like conjugate gradient method, parallel block ILU, iterative block ILU, and distributed ILU methods are tested as parallel preconditioners. The effectiveness of the algorithms has been investigated when P1P1 finite element discretization is used for the parallel solution of the Navier-Stokes equation. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional Laplace equations are calculated to estimate the speedup of the preconditioners. Calculation domain is partitioned by one- and multi-dimensional partitioning methods in structured grid and by METIS library in unstructured grid. For the domain-decomposed parallel computation of the Navier-Stokes equation, we have solved three-dimensional lid-driven cavity and natural convection problems in a cube as benchmark problems using a parallelized fractional 4-step finite element method. The speedup for each parallel preconditioning method is to be compared using upto 64 processors.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.833-842
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• 1999

In this paper, we construct a fully discrete solution of the incompressible Navier Stokes equations using implicit Runge kutta method. We prove the existence of the fully discrete solution.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.537-558
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• 2008

Consider a weak solution u of the Navier-Stokes equations in the class $L^2((0,T);X_1(\mathbb{R}^d)^d)$. We establish a new approach to treat the regularity problem for the Navier-Stokes equation in term of the multiplier space $X_1(\mathbb{R}^d)$.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.213-218
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• 2006

The 2D g-Navier-Stokes equations are a certain modified Navier-Stokes equations and have the following form, $$\frac{{\partial}u}{{\partial}t}-{\nu}{\Delta}u+(u{\cdot}{\nabla})u+{\nabla}p=f$$, in ${\Omega}$ with the continuity equation ${\nabla}{\cdot}(gu)=0$, in ${\Omega}$, where g is a suitable smooth real valued function. In this paper, we will derive 2D g-Navier-Stokes equations from 3D Navier-Stokes equations. In addition, we will see the relationship between two equations.