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Flow Characteristics of Transitional Boundary Layers on a Flat Plate Under the Influence of Freestream Turbulent Intensity (자유유동 난류강도 변화에 따른 평판위 천이 경계층의 유동특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Shin, Sung-Ho;Jeon, Woo-Pyung;Kang, Shin-Hyoung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.1335-1348
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    • 1998
  • Flow characteristics in transitional boundary layers on a flat plate were experimentally investigated under three different freestream conditions i. e. uniform flow with 0.1 % and 3.7% freestream turbulent intensity and cylinder-wake with 3.7% maximum turbulent intensity. Instantaneous streamwise velocities in laminar, transitional and turbulent boundary layers were measured by I-type hot-wire probe. For estimation of wall shear stresses on the flat plate, measured mean velocities near the wall were applied to the principle of Computational Preston Tube Method (CPM). Distributions of skin friction coefficients were reasonably predicted in all developed boundary layers. Intermittency profiles, which were estimated using Conditional Sampling Technique in transitional boundary layers, were also consistent with previously published data. It was predicted that the incoming turbulent intensity had more influence on transition onset point and transition process than freestream turbulent intensity existed just over the transition region. It was also confirmed that non-turbulent and turbulent profiles in transitional boundary layers could not be simply treated as Blasius and fully turbulent profiles.

Prediction of Wall Shear Stresses in Transitional Boundary Layers Using Near-Wall Mean Velocity Profiles

  • Jeon, Woo-Pyung;Shin, Sung-Ho;Kang, Shin-Hyoung
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.14 no.11
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    • pp.1305-1318
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    • 2000
  • The local wall shear stress in transitional boundary layer was estimated from the near-wall mean velocity data using the principle of Computational Preston Tube Method(CPM). The previous DNS and experimental databases of transitional boundary layers were used to demonstrate the accuracy of the method and to provide the applicable range of wall unit y(sup)+. The skin friction coefficients predicted by the CPM agreed well with those from previous studies. To reexamine the applicability of CPM, near-wall hot-wire measurement were conducted in developing transitional boundary layers on a flat plate with different freestream turbulence intensities. The intermittency profiles across the transitional boundary layers were reasonably obtained from the conditional sampling technique. An empirical correlation between the representative intermittency near the wall and free parameter K$_1$of the extended wall function of CPM has been newly proposed using the present and other experimental data. The CPM has been verified as a useful tool to measure the wall shear stress in transitional boundary layer with reasonable accuracy.

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Transition Prediction of Boundary Layers over Airfoils based on Boundary Layer Stability Theory (경계층 안정성 이론을 바탕으로 한 익형 위 경계층의 천이지점 예측)

  • Park, Dong-Hun;Park, Seung-O
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.38 no.5
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    • pp.403-413
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    • 2010
  • Transition location of boundary layers over airfoils is predicted by using PSE(Parabolized Stability Equations) and $e^N$-method. Growth rates of disturbances are obtained from the PSE analysis and the N-factor curves are calculated by integrating the growth rates. The computational code developed in the present study is validated by comparing the computed results with the well known data for the cases of flat plate boundary layers and airfoils. Predictions of transition location are made for the boundary layers over NACA0012, NLF(1)-0414F, and NLF(1)-0416 airfoil. Predicted transition locations are found to be in good agreement with the experimental data.

An active grid for the simulation of atmospheric boundary layers in a wind tunnel

  • Talamelli, A.;Riparbelli, L.;Westin, J.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.131-144
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    • 2004
  • A technique for the simulation of atmospheric boundary layers in wind tunnels is developed and tested experimentally. The device consists of a grid made of seven horizontal and vertical evenly distributed bars in which air injection holes are drilled in order to influence the flow in the wind tunnel. The air flow in each bar can be controlled independently. Firstly, the device is used together with a rough carpet, which covers the test section floor, in order to simulate the boundary-layer characteristics over an open rural area. Hot-wire measurements, performed at different positions in the test-section, show the capability of the grid in generating the required boundary layer. An acceptable agreement with statistical values of mean velocity and turbulence profiles has been achieved, together with a good span-wise homogeneity. The results are also compared with those of a passive simulation technique based on the use of spires.

Direct Numerical Simulation of 3-Dimensional Axial Turbulent Boundary Layers with Spanwise Curvature

  • Shin, Dong-Shin
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.441-447
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    • 2000
  • Direct numerical simulation has been used to study turbulent boundary layers with convex curvature. A direct numerical simulation program has been developed to solve incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in generalized coordinates with the finite volume method. We considered two boundary layer thicknesses. When the curvature effect is small, mean velocity statistics show little difference with those of a plane channel flow. Turbulent intensity decreases as curvature increases. Contours suggest that streamwise vorticities are strong where large pressure fluctuations exist.

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Time harmonic analysis of dam-foundation systems by perfectly matched layers

  • Khazaee, Adib;Lotfi, Vahid
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.349-364
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    • 2014
  • Perfectly matched layers are employed in time harmonic analysis of dam-foundation systems. The Lysmer boundary condition at the truncation boundary of the PML region has been incorporated in the formulation of the dam-foundation FE model (including PML). The PML medium is defined in a way that the formulation of the system can be transformed into time domain. Numerical experiments show that applying Lysmer boundary conditions at the truncation boundary of the PML area reduces the computational cost and make the PML approach a more efficient technique for the analysis of dam-foundation systems.

Compressible Boundary Layer Stability Analysis With Parabolized Stability Equations

  • Bing, Gao;Park, S.O.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.110-119
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    • 2006
  • An accurate and cost efficient method PSE is used for the stability analysis of 2D or 3D compressible boundary layers. A highly accurate finite difference PSE code has been developed at a general curvilinear coordinate system using an implicit marching procedure to deal with a broad range of transition predictions problems. Evolution of disturbances in compressible flat plate boundary layers are studied for free-stream Mach numbers ranging from 0 to 1.5. The effect of mean-flow nonparallelism is found to be weak on two dimensional waves and strong on three dimensional waves. The maximum amplification rate increases monotonically with Mach number. The present PSE solutions are compared with previous numerical investigations and experimental results and are found to be in good agreement.

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Axisymmetric Thick Turbulent Boundary Layer Around a Rotating Body of Revolution (회전하는 회전체 주위의 축대칭 두꺼운 난류경계층 연구)

  • Shin-Hyoung,Kang;Jung-Ho,Hwang
    • Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.13-22
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    • 1986
  • Axisymmetric turbulent thick boundary layers on a rotating body of revolution are calculated numerically in the paper. Richardson number is introduced to the mixing length to take account of swirl effects on Reynolds stresses. Interactions of the boundary layer and the external potential flow are included by adding the displacement thickness of boundary layers on the original body. Pressure distributions on the body surface are estimated by integrating normal momentum equation across the boundary layer. A model is designed and tested in the wind tunnel. Mean velocities are measured. Through the present study, swirl effects on the thick axisymmetric boundary layer development are considerable in comparison with those of non-totating cases. Rotational motion generally increase boundary layer thickness, axial skin friction coefficients, and form drags. Circumferential flow can be reversed to induce negative skin friction when the section area is reduced.

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FITTED MESH METHOD FOR SINGULARLY PERTURBED DELAY DIFFERENTIAL TURNING POINT PROBLEMS EXHIBITING TWIN BOUNDARY LAYERS

  • MELESSE, WONDWOSEN GEBEYAW;TIRUNEH, AWOKE ANDARGIE;DERESE, GETACHEW ADAMU
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.38 no.1_2
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    • pp.113-132
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, a class of linear second order singularly perturbed delay differential turning point problems containing a small delay (or negative shift) on the reaction term and when the solution of the problem exhibits twin boundary layers are examined. A hybrid finite difference scheme on an appropriate piecewise-uniform Shishkin mesh is constructed to discretize the problem. We proved that the method is almost second order ε-uniformly convergent in the maximum norm. Numerical experiments are considered to illustrate the theoretical results.

Stability analysis of transversely isotropic laminated Mindlin plates with piezoelectric layers using a Levy-type solution

  • Ghasemabadian, M.A.;Saidi, A.R.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.62 no.6
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    • pp.675-693
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, based on the first-order shear deformation plate theory, buckling analysis of piezoelectric coupled transversely isotropic rectangular plates is investigated. By assuming the transverse distribution of electric potential to be a combination of a parabolic and a linear function of thickness coordinate, the equilibrium equations for buckling analysis of plate with surface bonded piezoelectric layers are established. The Maxwell's equation and all boundary conditions including the conditions on the top and bottom surfaces of the plate for closed and open circuited are satisfied. The analytical solution is obtained for Levy type of boundary conditions. The accurate buckling load of laminated plate is presented for both open and closed circuit conditions. From the numerical results it is found that, the critical buckling load for open circuit is more than that of closed circuit in all boundary and loading conditions. Furthermore, the critical buckling loads and the buckling mode number increase by increasing the thickness of piezoelectric layers for both open and closed circuit conditions.