Study on Aerodynamic Force Acting on Rotating Blade in Field
Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine
HIDEYUKI Kawabuchi(Fluid Engineering, Division of Systems Engineering).
Keywords: Fluid Machinery, Wind Mill, Blade, Pressure Distribution, Stall, Unsteady Flow,Yaw Effects, Shear Flow
1.Introduction
Though in recent years there has been substantial progress in the aerodynamic modeling and design ofhorizontal axis wind turbine, there is still a failure to predict high aerodynamic loads. Though today's rotor
blade is taking out about 40% of wind energy, it is possible to take it out up to 59.3% theoretically. However,
because the distribution of wind direction and speed changes, the amount of energy that can be actually takenout is influenced by wind condition.
Generally, wind turbine blade airfoil is designed by 2D numerical analysis combined with blade element
momentum theory, and verified in the wind tunnel test. However, in the field, the flow around the wind turbine
blade is unsteady, and it becomes complex due to the effect of Coriolis force, centrifugal force and threedimensional flow. It is uncertain that sufficiently detailed field measurements exist for validating aerodynamic
models against the actual three-dimensional, unsteady flow. Complexity of the flow behavior on the windturbine blade, makes it necessary to provide more data and for a broad range of experimental conditions.
This thesis shows the wind profile of upstream, and the pressure distribution on a rotor blade of a 10mdiameter wind turbine. The upstream wind condition of wind turbine and the aerodynamic force characteristicsof rotor blade are clarified by field experiment data, and it is used to develop the rotor blade and improve thewind turbine performance in the future.
2.Experiment and remarks
Results of this thesis are as follows:(1) At the radial section which close to two dimensional flow condition, the aerodynamic force improves
from the wind tunnel experiment.
(2) At the radial section in which the mainstream wind influence becomes remarkable, when the spatial inhomogeneity of the wind speed profile is large, the aerodynamic force decreases more than the windtunnel experiment.
(3) At the radial section in which the mainstream wind influence becomes remarkable, the aerodynamic
force decreases more than the wind tunnel experiment in yawed condition.
This result is not reflected in a current blade design, and it seems that it greatly influences development of arotor blade and a three-dimensional blade shape in the future. In addition, it proposed a concrete method tokeep the aerodynamic force of the rotor blade to be large from the correlation of an atmospheric turbulence andan aerodynamic force of rotor blade.
3.Conclusions
In the region of a large atmospheric turbulence and a complex terrain such as Japan, it is necessary toresearch including the upstream wind condition of wind turbine and the aerodynamic force characteristics ofrotor blade. Therefore, the data of aerodynamic force characteristic of rotor blade in operating condition aredemanded to design a blade. It is believed that the result of this thesis contributes to development of rotor blade,which shows high efficiency in unsteady shear flow.
Table 1 Contents of thesis
1. Introduction
1.1 Background of this study
1.2 Purpose of this study
1.3 Contents of this thesis
1.4 Nomenclature
2. Experimental apparatus and methodology
2.1 Test turbine and peripheral apparatus
2.2 Test blade and pressure measurement device
2.3 Calibration method of pressure measurement
2.4
Experiment
methodofpressuremeasurement
2.5 Visualization experimental apparatus
2.6 Visualization methodology
2.7 Wind tunnel test methodology
3. Equation for reducing an experiment result
3.1 Definitional equation
3.2 Data reduction method
4. Change of the mean aerodynamic force
characteristic of a blade due to radial flow
4.1 Prolusion
4.2 Change of the measured value due to theunsteady wind
4.3 Change of the blade performance against
local angle of attack
4.4 Change of the blade performance against
local slip

4.5 Comparison of the pressure distribution on a
blade surface
4.6 Summary
5. Change of the mean aerodynamic force
characteristic of a blade due to the fluctuation ofmainstream wind
5.1 Prolusion
5.2 Effect of the difference in the wind shear in
0 degree of yaw angles
5.3 Effect of the difference in yaw angle
5.4 Summary
6. Change of the mean aerodynamic force
characteristic of a blade for every azimuth angle
due to the fluctuation of mainstream wind
6.1 Prolusion
6.2 Effect of the difference in the wind shear in
0 degree of yaw angles
6.3 Effect of the difference in yaw angle
6.4 Summary
7. Conclusions
7.1 Summary of Chapter 4
7.2 Summary of Chapter 5
7.3 Summary of Chapter 6
Reference
Acknowledgement

Author’s publications[1] Takao MAEDA, Hideyuki KAWABUCHI, Yukimaru SHIMIZU, Albert BRUINING, Measurement ofPressure Distribution on Rotating Blade of Field Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine, Trans. of the JSME,
Series B, Vol.70, No.693 (2004-5), pp.1237-1243. [in Japanese][2] Takao MAEDA, Hideyuki KAWABUCHI, Pressure Distribution on Rotating Blade of Field Horizontal
Axis Wind Turbine in Yawed Condition, Trans. of the JSME, Series B, Vol.71, No.702 (2005-2), pp.530538. [in Japanese][3] Hideyuki KAWABUCHI, Takao MAEDA, Effect of Wind Shear on Characteristics of Rotating Blade of
Field Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine, Trans. of the JSME, Series B, Vol.71, No.708 (2005-8), pp.20752082. [in Japanese][4] Takao MAEDA, Hideyuki KAWABUCHI, Surface Pressure Measurement on a Rotating Blade of Field
Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine in Yawed Condition, JSME International Journal, Series B, Vol.48, No.1
(2005), pp.156-163.
[5] T. Maeda, E. Ismaili, H. Kawabuchi, Y. Kamada, Surface Pressure Distribution on a Blade of a 10 m
Diameter HAWT (Field Measurements versus Wind Tunnel Measurements), Transactions of the ASME,
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol.127 (2005), pp.185-191.

A Study on the Landscape Administrative Measures
Centered on the Landscape Ordinance in the Prefectures
Yoshio Bando（System of the architecture and urban planning, Division of Systems Engineering）
Keyword:the Prefectures, landscape ordinance, landscape administrative measure

1. The Background and Purpose
In Japan, the equipment and preservation of the landscape has been wrestled mainly with the landscapeordinances of the Prefectures and the municipalities from 1960’s. The number of the landscape ordinances is
27 in the Prefectures, in the case of including the municipalities about 500. In 2004, the Landscape Law’s
been enacted, for taking a new turn, it’s important to estimate thus landscape administrative measures.
So in this study, I’ll make clear the roles of the landscape administrative measures while taking therelation between the municipalities into consideration, and survey how the landscape administration of thePrefectures should be in future.
2. The types and change of the landscape ordinances in the Prefectures
About the present condition of the landscape administration of the Prefectures and the municipalities,
we’ve made the hearing from 2002 to 2005.
It’s clarified that in the main measures of the landscape ordinances of the Prefectures and themunicipalities there’re “the landscape-forming region etc. (the wide-landscape region and thelandscape-forming district)”, “the large-scale activities etc.”, “the important landscape structure etc.” and“the public enterprise etc.” as the hard measures, “the enlightenment etc.”, “the landscape-forming
agreement”, “the landscape-forming group” and “the support etc.” as the soft measures.
According to these analyses, the landscape ordinances of the Prefectures’ been classified in 3types of theregion protective type which regulates a limited region and has begun in 1969 in Miyazaki, the total
development type which has the hard and the soft measures for all region of the Prefectures and has been
established in the 20 Prefectures from the beginning in 1984 in Shiga, and the idea active type which
supports with the soft measures only the landscape formation by the lead of the residents and themunicipalities and has established in 2000 in Fukuoka, in 2001 in Hokkaido.
Still more, through the analyses of the correlation of the landscape ordinances of the Prefectures and themunicipalities, the landscape ordinances of the Prefectures have classified in 3 types of the standing side byside type for the Prefectures and the municipalities of the region protective type, the adjustment type for thePrefectures and the municipalities of the total development type, the self-support type for the Prefectures andthe municipalities of the idea active type.
3. The applying circumstances of the adjustment type
The characteristic of the adjustment type is that the Prefectures can apply the landscape administrative
measures suitably in by the shift etc. in response to the circumstances of the municipalities. The Prefectures
entrust the municipalities with the landscape administrative measures fundamentally avoiding the
duplication of the region by the shift in the case which the municipality enact the landscape ordinance having
the hard measures afterward for planning the landscape formation in all region by the hard measures.
Co, Nissetu Architecture OfficeBesides, a part of the Prefectures act the competence devolution and the consignment contract.
The soft measures don’t be shifted basically and the Prefectures and the municipalities apply theiradministrative measures severally. But under some circumstances, the Prefectures put in joint support,
promote the administrative measures for the support, and improve the consciousness of the municipalities.

4. The applying circumstances of the standing side by side type
The characteristic of the standing side by side type is that the Prefectures apply the hard and the soft
measures for the wide landscape in spite of the circumstances of the municipalities. It has cased the
doubleness of the notifying system for the duplication of the region in the Prefectures and the municipalities.
5. The applying circumstances of the self-support type
The characteristic of the self-support type is that the Prefectures can act the own administrative measureseffectively for the municipalities which have the landscape ordinances regulating the administrative
measures directly.
As the case of “the wide-landscape region” etc., it seems to be the subject that the Prefectures can’t act thelandscape formation by the administrative measures directly.
6. The roles of the landscape administrative measures
From these analyses, in the landscape ordinances of the Prefectures, it’s clear that there’re 3 roles which
are the wide region role acting the landscape formation extending all over the plural municipalities, theleading role that the Prefectures lead the administrative measures of the municipalities and the promotive
role promoting the landscape administrative measures of the municipalities etc. .
Though the standing side by side type has the wide region role and the self-support type has the promotive
role, the adjustment type has all 3 roles. Thereupon the adjustment type is the most effective for thepromotion of the landscape administrative measures smoothly.
Then I suggest about the adjustment type for the Prefectures and the municipalities to work together still
more from 2 view points.
One is that in the landscape ordinances it needs to prescribe all of the main administrative measuresconcluding “the important landscape structure etc.” and “the landscape–forming group” which haven’t been
acted enough.
The other is to carry favor with the competence devolution, the consignment contract, the unification of
the notifying system, the joint support etc. for acting the promotion of the landscape administrative
measures.
7. The future view
According to “the unification of the landscape administration” of the Landscape Law, in the case that boththe Prefectures and the municipalities are the landscape administrative party, in principle the municipalities
bear the landscape administration. So it’s worried about that the Prefectures can’t bear the wide region role,
the promotive role and the leading role sufficiently and that it cases the region which the regulation doesn’treach. Therefore it’s desirable that the Prefectures build the working relationship with the municipalities andmake good the both landscape ordinances by the Landscape Law.
Author’s publications[1]Y. Bando, S. Asano, and S. Imai, A study on the transfiguration of the landscape ordinance in the
Prefectures, Journal of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Engineering, Transactions of Architectural
Institute of Japan, No.578, pp.85-92, 2004.4[2] Y. Bando, S. Asano, and S. Imai, A study on the applying circumstances and roles of the landscapeadministrative measures in the landscape ordinance about the total development type -The present conditionof the prefectures’ landscape administrative measures centered on the landscape ordinances Part1, Journal ofArchitecture, Planning and Environmental Engineering, Transactions of Architectural Institute of Japan,
No.597, pp109-118, 2005.11

Study on Motion Control of Flexible Arm
Considering Sensor Failure

Yu Izumikawa(Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Systems Engineering)

Keywords: Fault-tolerance, Sensor Fault, Flexible Arm, Reaction Force Estimation

1.Introduction
In recent years, control system reliability has received much attention. In order to improve reliability,
control systems need to have abilities to detect a fault (fault detection) and to maintain the stability and thecontrol performance (fault tolerance). This paper is concerned with the vibration suppression control of aone-link flexible arm robot. In our control system, vibration suppression is realized by an additional
feedback of a strain gauge sensor attached to the arm besides motor angle. However, a sensor fault may
degrade a control performance and make the control system unstable at its worst. In this paper, we propose afault-tolerant control system for a disconnection fault of a strain gauge sensor, and the effectiveness of the
proposed fault-tolerant control system is examined through experiments.

2.Proposed control system
In the case of a strain gauge sensor fault, it ispossible to maintain a stability of the control system
by interruption of a faulty sensor signal. However, thisinterruption results in poor vibration suppression. In
the control system of the flexible arm, it is desirable tomaintain not only a stability of the control system but
also a vibration suppression performance after a strain
gauge sensor fault. For this purpose, we propose a
new fault-tolerant control system toFig.1 Proposed control system•estimate a strain gauge sensor signal,•

detect a fault by monitoring an estimation error between the sensor signal and the estimated value•

exchange a faulty sensor signal for the estimated one, and•

maintain a stability and a control performance after switching from a faulty sensor signal to theestimated one.

Figure 1 illustrates a configuration of the proposed fault-tolerant control system. The proposed system isconstructed by adding a strain gauge sensor signal observer, an adaptive algorithm, a fault-mode controller
CF, and a fault detector to the (normal) control system of the flexible arm.

3.Experimental results
In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed
fault-tolerant control system, a disconnection fault of
the strain gauge sensor occurs virtually at 180.35[s].

0.35
0.3
0.25

Figures 2 and 3 show the motor angle θ and the

0.2

distortion of the arm Sd, respectively, together with

0.15

the

The

0.1

no-switching case means that only interruption of a

0.05

faulty sensor signal is performed. The tracking

0

no-switching

case

for

comparison.

174

performance associated with the motor angle θ has

176

178

180

182

184

186

184

186

Fig.2 Motor angle θlittle degradation. While the vibration suppression
performance much degrades in the no-switching case,theproposed

case

shows

enoughvibration

0.2

suppression close to the fault-free scenario. These

0.15

results show that the proposed fault-tolerant control

0.1

system maintains the stability and the overall

0.05

performance after the strain gauge sensor fault.

0
-0.05

4.Conclusion
In this paper, we proposed the fault-tolerant control
system for the strain gauge sensor fault. In the
proposed system, the strain gauge sensor fault is

-0.1
-0.15
-0.2
174

176

178

180

182

Fig.3 Distortion of arm Sd

detected by monitoring the estimation error between the sensor signal and the estimated signal, and thecontrol system works with the estimated signal after fault detection. From some experimental results, we
confirmed that the proposed control system could maintain the stability and the control performance after thestrain gauge sensor fault.

Author’s publication[1] Y.Izumikawa, K.Yubai, and J.Hirai, “Fault-tolerant Control System of Flexible Arm for Sensor Fault byUsing Sensor Signal Observer”, IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics. vol.10, no.4, pp.391—396, Aug. 2005.
[2] Y.Izumikawa, K.Yubai, and J.Hirai, “A Realization Method of Fault-tolerant Control of Flexible Armunder Sensor Fault by Using Adaptive Sensor Signal Observer”, Journal of Power Electronics, vol.5, no.1,
Jan. 2006.

Decision Problems for Non-Linear Term Rewriting Systems
Ichiro Mitsuhashi†(Computer Software, Division of Systems Engineering)
Keywords: Term rewriting system, Decision problem, Non-linear

1.

The purpose

A term rewriting system (TRS) is a set of directed equations (called rewrite rules). In this thesis, we consider thefollowing five fundamental decision problems for TRSs:
Joinability problem
For a TRS R and two terms s and t, can s and t be reduced to some common term by applying the rules of R?
Reachability problem
For a TRS R and two terms s and t, can s be reduced to t by applying the rules of R?
Word problem
For a TRS R and two terms s and t, are s and t convertible by applying the rules of R?
Unification problem
For a TRS R and two terms s and t, are s and t unifiable modulo R?
Confluence problem
For a TRS R, is R confluent (Church-Rosser)?
The word and unification problems are most important ones and their decision algorithms have various useful
applications in computer science, e.g., logic and functional programming, automated deduction,knowledge-based systems, computational linguistics, deductive databases, and so on. These two problems areclosely related to the other ones. For example, the word problem is equivalent to the joinability one if TRSs areconfluent. The unification problem includes the word problem as its special case and its decision algorithm often
needs an algorithm to decide joinability as its component. However, all of these problems are undecidable ingeneral, so that many researches finding decidable subclasses for them have been made so far. In this thesis, weconsider these decision problems for semi-constructor TRSs. Here, a semi-constructor TRS is such a TRS that all
defined symbols appearing in the right-hand side of each rewrite rule occur only in its ground subterms. This
class is a minimal subclass of non-right-linear TRSs, which include right-ground rules and collapsing rules. The
class of semi-constructor TRSs was introduced by us in order to explore the border between decidable andundecidable classes of these decision problems, since few nontrivial non-right-linear subclasses of TRSs which
possess these decidable properties have been known so far.
2.

The joinability and reachability problems

Joinability and reachability are known undecidable even if we restrict ourselves to flat TRSs. On the other hand,these problems are decidable for some subclasses of TRSs (e.g., right-ground TRSs, right-linear semi-monadic
TRSs, and right-linear finite path overlapping TRSs). Many of these decidability results have been obtained by
reducing these problems to decidable ones for tree automata, so that these decidable subclasses are restricted tothose of right-linear TRSs. In this thesis, we have shown that joinability is undecidable for linear†

Mie University

semi-constructor TRSs, but by developing a new proof technique, we have shown that this problem is decidable
for confluent semi-constructor TRSs and confluent semi-monadic TRSs. It follows that the word problem isdecidable for confluent semi-constructor TRSs and confluent semi-monadic TRSs, since the joinability is
decidable. We also have shown that reachability is undecidable both for linear semi-constructor TRSs andconfluent monadic and semi-constructor TRSs. These results are interesting, since no subclasses of TRSs withthe undecidable reachability but decidable joinability problems have been known so far.
3.

The unification problem

The unification problem is known undecidable even if we restrict ourselves to either right-ground TRSs or
terminating, confluent, monadic, and linear TRSs. On the other hand, it is known that this problem is decidable
for some subclasses of TRSs. In this thesis, we have shown that unification for confluent semi-constructor TRSs
is decidable. In order to obtain this result, we have developed a new unification algorithm obtained by refining
our previous algorithm for confluent simple TRSs, which is a proper subclass of confluent semi-constructor
TRSs. A main difference between the algorithms of the present thesis and of the previous works is that theprevious ones were constructed using decision algorithms for joinability and reachability, but the present one
using only a decision algorithm for joinability. This refinement is necessary to obtain our new result, sincereachability is undecidable for confluent semi-constructor TRSs.
4.

The confluence problem

We have shown that confluence is undecidable for semi-constructor TRSs. As a related result, it has beenreported that confluence is undecidable for flat TRSs. However, we have found that the proof is incorrect, andsucceeded in finding a correct proof.
5.

Remarks

We suggest the following problems as future works.
1. Finding subclasses of flat TRSs such that reachability is decidable.
2. Finding decidable subclasses of TRSs for unification problem, which properly include the class of confluent
semi-constructor TRSs.
Author’s publications[1] I.Mitsuhashi, M.Oyamaguchi, Y.Ohta, and T.Yamada. On the Unification Problem for Confluent Monadic
Term Rewriting Systems. Trans.IPS Japan on Programming, 44(SIG4(PRO17)), pp.54-66, 2003.
[2] I.Mitsuhashi, M.Oyamaguchi, Y.Ohta, and T.Yamada. The Joinability and Unification Problems for Confluent
Semi-Constructor TRSs. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on RTA2004, LNCS3091, pp.285-300,
2004.
[3] I.Mitsuhashi, M.Oyamaguchi, Y.Ohta, and T.Yamada. The Joinability and Related Decision Problems for
Semi-Constructor TRSs. Trans, IPS Japan, 47(5), pp1502-1514, 2006.
[4] I.Mitsuhashi, M.Oyamaguchi, and T.Yamada. The Reachability and Related Decision Problems for Monadic
and Semi-Constructor TRSs. Inf.Process.Lett, 98, pp219-22, 2006.

A Study on Energy Saving and Environmental Load Reduction
Method for Air-Conditioning System
Shigehiro ICHINOSE†
Architectural Engineering, Division of Systems Engineering
Keywords: Heat Pump Unit, Natural Working Fluids, Energy Saving, Humidity, Two-phase Flow Nozzle
1. The purpose
Air-conditioning systems mainly consist of heat source unit, which generate chilled and hot water andair-conditioner, which handle with heating load or cooling load. From the point of energy saving andenvironmental load reduction, it is important to operate these facilities and keep indoor environment
appropriately because its energy consumption rate to the hole building is almost 50%. Reflecting recentsocial situation, the social concern with environmental load reduction has been growing and we can see
some researches try to solve these issues. Aiming to achieve this purpose, two methods have beendeveloped in this study. The one is that development of heat pump unit with ice thermal storage tank using
natural working fluids, that is ammonia refrigerant. The other is that indoor relative humidity improvement
method during heating operation in winter and development of high efficiency humidifier system using
two-phase flow nozzle. The outline of study is shown below.
2. Development and performance estimate in aging change of heat pump unit using ammonia refrigerantwith ice thermal storage tank1)2)
As global environment problem has become an important issue, ammonia refrigerant has been watchedkeen interest because it dose not cause destruction of the ozone layer and global warming. We havedeveloped an air-source and water-source heat pump units using ammonia refrigerant with ice thermal
storage tank from the perspective for popularizing systems which use natural working energy and natural
working fluids. To further popularizing of this system, we have to verify its reliability and safety because
ammonia refrigerant is prescribed for toxic and combustible gas in ammonia gas regulations in Japan. In
this part, aiming to rationalize of its design, operation and maintenance, we carried out practical study toTable. Aging change after 5years and performance recovery between before and after overhaul of
popularized air-source heat pump unit using ammonia refrigerant with ice thermal storage tankClassification

Item

Thermal storage

Ice storage capacity

Capacity

Ice packing factor
Ice making capacity (Night time)
Heat pump operation capacity (Day time)

Efficiency (COP)

COP during ice making
COP during heat pump operation††

Compared with designed value
Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc.

Before overhaul

After overhaul

2002/7/3-4

2002/8/5-6†

Difference

Difference†

+2%
+1%
-2%
+2%
+11%
+16%

+1%
+2%
+4%
+16%
+15%
+26%

verify its performance both in development phase and aging change, and results of the field test forverification of its performance are presented. It was found that the heat pump unit using ammonia
refrigerant can be handled as well as the heat pump unit using fluorocarbon refrigerant such as HFC.

120

100

100
80

75

60
40

26

31
15

20
0
Two phase flow
type

Vaporizing
type(Mulch)

Vaporizing
type(Central)

Water spraytype

Steam type

Electricity Consumption(W/kg)

Humidifier efficiency（Moistening quantity/water consumption）（%）

3. Study on the improvement of indoor relative humidity for office buildings during heating operations in
winter3)4)
Indoor relative humidity is stipulated for an important point in indoor environment regulations such as
Building Control Code in Japan. Based on the findings of indoor environment studies carried out during thewinter, however, relative humidity is below standards in many buildings. Aiming to clarify the actual stateof indoor relative humidity and improve it during the winter, we have selected sixty-nine office buildings
located in Central Japan and carried out a study. We have also investigated actual performance of popular
humidifiers that are frequently used in air-conditioning systems. Throughout this study, we classified thefactors that degrade indoor relative humidity into two categories. One consists of factors caused by building
side such as infiltration and decreased winter loads. The other consists of factors caused by humidifier suchas low performance at low indoor temperatures. Given that the winter load in office buildings has tended todecrease because of improvements of building insulation and increasing number of office equipment used
in office buildings, almost all the popular humidifier except the steam type failed to maintain performancedue to low indoor temperatures. For the reasons mentioned above, we developed a high-efficiency
humidifier system that uses a two -phase flow nozzle for industrial use. Because its spray particles are
smaller than those of popular spray types, its performance is not affected by indoor air temperature. In thispart presents results of the investigation and methods of improvement including development of ahigh-efficiency humidifier system. Results indicated that about 80% of office buildings studied could not
maintain relative humidity to standard during the winter. Relative humidity remarkably improved in officebuildings which had a high-efficiency humidifier system using two-phase flow nozzle. If steps are also
taken for the building, then relative humidify in office buildings will further improve.
1000
900

900

800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100

20

70

0
Steam type

Water spraytype

Two phase flow
type

Figure. Humidity efficiency under fan operation (20℃,30% (left)) and Electricity consumption (right)
compared with popularized humidifier’
Author s publications
1) Development and performance estimate in aging change of heat pump unit using ammonia refrigerantwith ice thermal storage tank, Transactions of the Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and SanitaryEngineers of Japan, No.96, 2005, pp51-61
2) Actual field test to assess performance of water-source heat pump unit using ammonia refrigerant withice thermal storage tank, 9th International Conference on Thermal Energy Storage, PROCEEDINGS
Vol.1 2003, pp485-490
3) Study on the improvement of indoor relative humidity for office buildings during heating operations in
winter, Transactions of the Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan,
No.100, 2005, pp27-37
4) A study on improvement of indoor humidity in office building during heating operation in winter, The
2005 World Sustainable Building Conference SB05Tokyo, 2005, pp1400-1405

Studies on Performance Improvement of Jet Pump
Yukitaka Yamazaki †(Fluid Engineering, Division of System Engineering)
Keywords: Jet pump, Single nozzle, Efficiency, Mixing process, Local skin-friction coefficient, BWR

1.

Introduction
A jet pump has been widely used in the Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) plant, driven by the PLR (Primary
Loop Recirculation system) pump to recirculate the reactor core coolant because of its safety aspect byminimizing the PLR piping diameter and pump flow. The improvement of the BWR jet pump efficiency brings
an economic advantage because it reduces the operating power cost of the PLR pump for driving jet flow.
Recently in order to reduce the plant operating cost, improvement of the jet pump efficiency is expected forthe first-generation jet pump which efficiency is about 35%. And it is also needed to obtain fundamental
knowledge of the effect of surface roughness on jet pump performance in order to recover the efficiency bycleaning jet pumps which are reduced by attached crud such as iron oxide or chromium oxide inner-surface ofthe jet pump. Especially, it is important to specify the effect of the rough location in the throat because throat haslong length to mix the driving jet and the induced flow. In order to improve and recover the efficiency of the
BWR jet pump, experimental studies are performed for a typical single nozzle jet pump using water at room
temperature condition and a small-scale model.
2.

Experiment and Results
Figure 1 shows the experimental set-up of the jet pump performance tests. High pressure water pumped bya centrifugal pump flows into the nozzle as the driving jet flow. The driving jet and induced flow are mixed in
the throat and flow out after recovering pressure in the diffuser. Figure 2 shows the normal throat for
improvement test and the rough location test, and the diverging throat for improvement test.
1450

645
320

150

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65
P 2

P

P 3

P

P 1

50A

Motor

80A

50A

Centrifugal pump

Discharge(a) Normal throat

Suction
80A

x

750

P

117

412

f35

P

Flow control
valve
Flow meter
326

100

Jet pump

f35

ChamberP

429

Pressurized line nozzle

Vent nozzle

470

Drain nozzle

1919

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1°(b) Diverging throat
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6°

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Circular nozzle
s/Dn = 020

1: hb / hb,hs: Mb: Rough region

0.9

1.1

Circluar nozzle
Normal throats/Dn = 0: Normal throat
1

2

Flow rate ratio, M

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1.2: Estimation: Diverging throat

00Diffuser

Mb

30

10

1.3
ThroatBest efficiency ratio, hb / hb,hs

Efficiency, h (%)

40

0.8
0

0.5

1

1
1.5

Rough location, x/Lt

Fig. 4 Effect of rough location on the best efficiency

Figure 3 shows the effect of the throat shape on the jet pump efficiency h. The efficiency of the diverging
throat is improved about 2% compared with the normal throat. The results of flow analysis (CFD) show thatdivergence angle of about 1 deg is optimum and almost the same improvement of efficiency is expected at BWR
operating condition. Figure 4 shows the effect of rough location on the flow rate ratio Mb at the best efficiency
point and the best efficiency ratio hb /hb, hs, where hb, hs is the best efficiency of the hydraulically smooth jetpump. Mb and hb are decreased rapidly as rough location x/Lt is closer to the throat inlet. From the velocity
profile measurement results in case of hydraulically smooth throat, local skin friction coefficient Cf tends todecrease toward the throat exit and then increase after the transition to the turbulent boundary layer. Apparently
roughness in the throat inlet where Cf is larger greatly affects jet pump efficiency.
3.

Concluding remarksi) The efficiency of the diverging throat is improved about 2% compared with the normal throat.
ii) The results of the flow analysis show that divergence angle of about 1 deg is optimum for diverging throat
and efficiency improvement of the diverging throat is expected at BWR operating condition.
iii) Surface roughness located nearer the throat inlet has a greater effect on the jet pump efficiency because thelocal skin friction coefficient nearest the throat inlet is the larger. Therefore cleaning the throat inlet is themost effective to recover the jet pump efficiency.
Author’s publications[1] Y. Yamazaki, A. Yamazaki, T. Narabayashi, J. Suzuki and T. Shakouchi, Studies on Mixing Process andPerformance Improvement of Jet Pump (Effects of Nozzle and Throat Shapes), Trans. of JSME, Series B, Vol.
71, No.701 (2005-1), pp. 147-153.
[2] Y. Yamazaki, T. Nakayama, T. Narabayashi, H. Kobayashi and T. Shakouchi, Effect of Throat Surface
Roughness on Jet Pump Performance, Trans. of JSME, Series B, Vol. 72, No.720 (2006-8).
[3] Y. Yamazaki, A. Yamazaki, T. Narabayashi, J. Suzuki and T. Shakouchi, A STUDY ON PERFORMANCE OF
JET PUMPS (EFFECTS OF FLOW PASSAGE CONFIGURATION), Proceedings of 6th World Conference
on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics, ExHFT-6, (2005), CD-ROM.
[4] Y. Yamazaki, T. Nakayama, T. Narabayashi, H. Kobayashi and T. Shakouchi, EFFECT OF SURFACEROUGHNESS ON JET PUMP PERFORMANCE, Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Jets, Wakes and Separated
Flows, ICJWSF-2005, (2005), pp491-495.
[5] Y. Yamazaki, T. Nakayama, T. Narabayashi, H. Kobayashi and T. Shakouchi, EFFECT OF SURFACEROUGHNESS ON JET PUMP PERFORMANCE, JSME Int. Journal Series B, Vol. 49, No.4 (2006-11).
[6] T. Narabayashi, Y. Yamazaki, H. Kobayashi and T. Shakouchi, Flow Analysis for Single and Multi-Nozzle Jet
Pump, Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, ICJWSF-2005, (2005), pp267-272.

A Study on Extraction Method and Waterfront Area Improvement for
Designing Irrigation Reservoir as Urban Parks
Akira Tomori
Mie University School of Engineering System Engineering
keywords: Reservoir, Parks, Extraction Method, Waterfront Area Improvement
1. INTRODUCTION
Open spaces with green and water are essential in helping to built healthy urban environment byimproving air quality and providing recreational opportunities for urban lifestyle. Reservoirs are manmade lakes
with the primary objective of storing water for irrigation, power generation and a host of other activities.
Therefore, irrigation reservoirs have the possibility to play a significant role to enhance the urban environment.
In order to find information needed to design irrigation reservoir as urban parks, the objectives of this thesis are:1) To classify and extract irrigation reservoirs with conditions for an improvement planning, 2) To clarify
characteristics of recreational activities at reservoirs waterfront area and, 3) To analyze the design of waterfront
area improvement for enjoying the benefits (characteristics) of reservoir and its surrounding(water front area).
2. EXTRACTION OF IRRIGATION RESERVOIR FOR IMPROVING AS URBAN PARKS
Chapter two describes a method of extraction of reservoir for improvement planning, especially as urban
resources. The area of search is Northern Chita Peninsula. Five common factors were extracted from 14
variables related to reservoir through factor analysis. In order to classify reservoirs, factor scores were adapted toclustering analysis. By comparing the factor score structure from reservoirs and those with improvement
projects, it was possible to extract reservoirs, which has possibilities for an improvement planning. Furthermore,by checcking the relationship between reservoirs extracted from the latter classification, for an improvement
planning, and from the former clustering, it was possible to indicate improvement methods from the view pointof combining and enhancing the use as agricultural facility for irriagtion and as environmental resource.
3. CHARACTERISTICS OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AT RESERVOIRS' WATERFRONT AREAIn Chapter tree, characteristics of recreational activities at reservoir's waterfront area are investigated. Twosorts of survey were carried out to compare users' characteristics and recreational activities between a park withreservoir and another without reservoir. In a park with reservoir, passive recreational, active recreational andwalking were observed at waterfront area, which includes the walking path and the bank. Walking was thedominat recreational activitiy in this area and the majority of this recreational activity was daily or weekly –elderly users. Users that came to walk in a park with reservoir were more and stayed longer than in a park
without reservoir due to opportunities for enjoying the aesthetical quality that the reservoir and the environment
provide.
4. DESIGN OF WATERFRONT AREA IMPROVEMENT FOR ENJOYING RESERVOIRS' BEFENITSIn Chapter four, relations between places to watch and places to be watched are investigated in order toclarify design improvements that attend the needs of reservoirs' (waterfront area) users. Places to watch arelocated in places with good accessibility and goob visibility. Accessibility is related to the surrounding land use,such as parks, parking areas and access road. And visibility is related to the open space effect and the natural
diverse edge. The design of places to watch should attend the needs of users with good visibility andattractiveness; however, a precise location is necessary to not disturb the environment at the waterfront area
coexisting with the natural diversity.

5. CONCLUSION
The conclusions obtained from each chapter is as follow:
Chapter two: 1) 5 common factors (dimension, location, accessibility, aesthetical quality and maitenancecondition ) were extracted from 14 variables related to reservoir through factor analysis. In order to classify
reservoirs, factor scores were adpted to clustering analysis. Reservoirs were classified in 5 big patterns: [bigreservoirs], [irriagtion reservoirs in rural areas], [residential proximity reservoirs in rural areas], [small urban
reservoir], [small rural reservoir]. 2) In the area of search, almost 20% of reservoirs were improved as parks or
as 'rural improved projects'. By comparing the factor scores structure from reservoir and those with improvement
projects, it was possible to extract reservoirs, which has possibilities for an improvement planning. 3)
Furthermore, by checking the relationship between reservoirs extracted from 2), for an improvement planning,
and from 1), it was possible to indicate improvement methods from the viewpoint of combining and enhancing
the use as agricultural facility for irrigation and as environment resource.
Chapter tree: 1) Walking is the dominant recreational activity at the reservoir's waterfront area. The
majority of this recreational activity is daily or weekly elderely users. 2) Recreational activities can beclassified in 7 patterns: one pattern is single purpose activity and 6 patterns are multiple purpose activities. 3)
Pattern 1 (walking), pattern 6 (walking + chatting ) and pattern 7 (others) are common patterns in both parks.
Patterns 3,4 and 5 which are walking + watching the scenary are specific from the park with reservoir. 4) For
users from patterns 3,4 and 5, richness of green, fauna anf flora, and the water surface are reasons to use the park.
These are related to aesthetical quality that the reservoir and the surrounding provide.
Chapter four: 1) Places to watch can be categorized in 7 elements: walking path (circle and non-circle),deck , bridge, adjacent park, kiosk, terrace and lower terrace. Places to be watched can be categorized in 5
elements: water plant, background, decorated bank, planting and 'oasis garden'. 2) Decks, terraces and kiosks arelocated along the walking path, and close to places where users concentrate or easy to access, such as entrances,
access road, parking area or adjacent park. 3)Furthermore, 'places to watch' are also located in places with goodvisibility: places where users can contemplate the open space effect and the natural diverse edge of reservoirs.
And the diverse edge can be divided in preserved green area and improved green area. 4) The design of walking
path should also attend the needs of users with good visibility and attractiveness; however, the location should
be precise to not disturbe the environment at the waterfront area coexisting with the natural diversity.
Authors publications
1)「A comparison study in users' characteristics and recreational activities between a park with reservoir andanother without reservoir – Characteristics of recreatinal activities at reservoir's waterfront area」Akira Tomori,
Hirotaka Suzuki and Masuro Urayama, Journal of Architecture and Planning, AIJ, No. 598, December, 2005
2)「Study on classification if irriagtion reservoirs for improvement planning」Akira Tomori and Urayama
Masuro, Papers on Environmental Information Science, No.19 November, 2005

Separated Flow through Channel/Pipe with Abrupt Change
of Cross-section
Flow Control and Drag Reduction
Toshitake Ando*

Keywords: Abrupt contraction/expansion pipe, Forward/backward facing step, Drag reduction,
Flow separation, Flow control
1. Introduction
The flow through the pipe which has an abrupt change of cross-section has an annular vortex
region just after the abrupt change [Fig.1 and 2(a)]. The negative pressure in this region causes amagnificent flow resistance. Some flow control is needed to reduce the flow resistance of this kind of flow.
In this study, the reduction of the flow resistance by mounting a small ring shaped obstacle on the pipe wall[Fig.1 and 2(b)] is newly shown and examined. This is a simpler method than using diffuser, especially fora large scale pipe or duct system.
Two-dimensional forward-facing step is contained in the abrupt expansion pipe. For the first, thecontrol of the vortex region on the upper step surface of two-dimensional forward-facing step by small
obstacle (rectangular column) was examined. Next, reduction of flow resistance (drag) of abrupt
contraction pipe by ring shaped small obstacle was examined. Abrupt expansion pipe which has opposite
shape of abrupt contraction pipe was also examined. Experiments was carried on using water.
(a)

(a)

(b)

(b)
(a) without small obstacle(b) with small obstacle(a) without small obstacle(b) with small obstacle

Fig. 1 Abrupt contraction pipe

Fig. 2 Abrupt expansion pipe

2. Experimental Results
Figure 3 shows the stream lines of th flow over the forward facing step. Reynolds Number is Re =U H / n = 5,000 (U: velocity, n: kinematic viscosity). The rectangular column of h = 0.2H height ismounted on the lower step surface at L / H = 3.5. In this case, vortex region on the upper step surface issuppressed because separated flow from the rectangular column flows along the upper step surface. This
simple method is applied to the abrupt contraction and expansion pipe to reduce the flow resistance (drag)z [= 2 Dp / (rU12) where Dp: pressure loss at
expansion, r: density, U1: mean velocity in
upstream pipe]. Figure 3 and 4 show the flow
resistance (drag) in the cases of abrupt
contraction and expansion pipe, respectively. In
the case of abrupt contraction, pressure difference|DCp| [= 2 Dp / (rU12), where Dp pressure
difference] takes minimal value at L / H = 1. In Fig. 3 Control of the separation flow on the upper
step surface of forward facing-stepthe case of abrupt expansion pipe, the flow(Re
= 5,000, L / H = 3.5, h / H = 0.2)
resistance z takes the minimum value in the caseof L / H = 5 and h / H = 0.8.
*Mie University

Fig. 4 Flow resistance of abrupt contraction pipe
(A1/A2 = 4, h / H = 0.4)

Fig. 5 Flow resistance of abrupt expansion pipe
(A2/A1 = 4, Re=100,000)

3. Conclusion
Some major results are as follows:(1) The vortex region on the upper step surface of forward-facing step can be suppressed by mounting asmall obstacle (height: 0.2H) on the lower step surface. The size of vortex is decreased with increasing
L / H, and at L / H = 3.5 it disappeared almost because the separated flow from the small obstacle
flows along the upper step surface.
(2) The flow resistance of abrupt contraction pipe takes a minimum value for mounting a ring shaped
small obstacle on upstream pipe wall (lower step surface) at L / H = 1 because vortex region on thedownstream pipe (upper step surface) is suppressed. The reduction rate of flow resistance is 16% for
the pipe of contraction rate A1 / A2 = 4.0.
(3) In the case of abrupt expansion pipe of expansion rate of A2 / A1 = 4.0, the flow resistance takes aminimum value for mounting a small obstacle of h / H = 0.8 on down stream pipe wall at L / H = 2.07
because vortex region on the downstream pipe is make waken. The reduction rate of flow resistance is26%.
Author's Publication
1. Toshihiko Shakouchu, Kazunori Hirai, Kazuhiko Fujita and Toshitake Ando Self-Induced Oscillation ofThree-Dimensional Turbulent Jet Issued into Open Channel, Journal of JSME, 62-594B (1996), 527532.
2. Toshihiko Shakouchi, Toshitake Ando and Koji Nakano, Flow Characteristics over Forward Facing
Step and Control of Separated Flow, Journal of JSME, 65-637B (1999), 3008-3014.
3. Toshihiko Shakouchi, Toshitake Ando, Takayuki Sekine and Akira Matsumoto, Flow Characteristics,
Enhancement and Control of Fluctuation of Resonance Jet, Journal of JSME, 66-642 (2000), 352-358.
4. Toshitake Ando, Toshihiko Shakouchi and Keigo MiyataDrag Reduction of Abrupt Contraction Pipe
(Control of Flow Separation by Small Obstacle), Journal of JSME, 70-691 (2004), 650-656.
5. Toshitake Ando, Toshihiko Shakouchi, Hiroyuki Yamamoto and Koichi Tsujimoto, Control of Flow
Separation and Drag Reduction of Abrupt Expansion Pipe, Journal of JSME, 72-717 (2006), 1125-1130.
6. Toshihiko Shakouchi and Toshitake Ando, Behavior of Separated Turbulent Shear Flow over a
Forward-Facing Step and Its Control, Proceedings of 3rd Int. Symposium on Turbulence, Heat andMass Transfer (2000), 613-620.
7. Toshihiko Shakouchi, Toshitake Ando, Keisuke Ito, Mean and Vortex Shedding Flow Characteristics
over a Forward-Facing Step, Proceedings of 2001 ASME Fluid Engineering Division Summer Meeting(2001), CD-ROM.
8. Toshihiko Shakouchi, Takumi Maruyama, Toshitake Ando, Koichi Tsujimoto and Atsushi Watanabe, A
Study on Resonance Impinging and Wall Jets, Proceedings of 4th ASME/JSME Joint Fluids
Engineering Conference (2003), CD-ROM.
9. Toshitake Ando, Toshihiko Shakouchi and Keigo Miyata, Flow and Control of Abrupt Contraction Pipe
Flow, Proceedings of 6th KSME-JSME Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (2004), CD-ROM.