• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.12
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• pp.1021-1030
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• 2017

This paper describes the algorithm of computing thermal contact conductance between unmatched grid interfaces for finite element thermal analysis. Because grid interfaces should be coincident with adjacent meshes for finite element method, large amount of man hours and huge computations are required to match interfaces between many numbers of complex subdomains. A novel method that distributes feasibly the conductances to interface nodes is proposed. The aims of the method are described, and details of the nodal conductance distribution algorithm with less dependency on meshes are represented. The algorithm can be applied both the flat and curved interfaces in 3 dimensional space, and proposed method can combined with many finite element application including thermal analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.26-34
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• 2005

In this paper, a novel moving least squares interface welding method is proposed to carry out the coupled analysis of whole model composed of independently modeled finite element substructures with nodal mismatching interfaces. To verify the validity, and efficiency of the proposed interface welding method, various numerical examples are worked out including patch tests, convergence tests, and examples of coupled analyses of the structural systems with mismatching substructures. From the numerical tests, it is confirmed that one can efficiently carry out the coupled analysis of whole model composed of mismatching finite element substructures through the proposed method without any remeshing or any additional unknown.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.369-376
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• 2015

Numerical models simulating groundwater flow are often used to estimate groundwater discharge into a tunnel. In designing numerical models, the grid size should be carefully considered to ensure that groundwater discharge is accurately predicted. However, several recent studies have employed various grid sizes without providing an adequate explanation for their choice. This paper suggests the optimal grid size based on a comparison of numerical models with analytical solutions. Discrepancies between numerical and analytical solutions result from the effect of model boundaries as well as the grid size. By nullifying boundary effects, the errors solely associated with the grid size could be analyzed. The optimal grid size yielding accurate numerical solutions was thus derived. The suggested relationship between tunnel radius and optimal grid size is analogous to the relationship between the equivalent well block radius and grid size.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.191-198
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• 2014

During multi-physics or multi-phase simulations accompanying fluid- structure- thermal interaction, data transfer problems always arise along non- matching interfaces caused by different computational meshes for each physical domain. Common- refinement scheme, among many available methods, is attractive since it is known to yield conservative and accurate data transfer for non- matching interface cases. This is particularly important in simulating compressible unsteady fluid- structure- thermal interaction inside solid propellant rockets, where grid size along solid- fluid interfaces is substantially different. From this perspective, we examine performances of common- refinement- based data transfer scheme between structured quadrilateral (structure part) and unstructured triangular (fluid part) meshes by comparing computed results with other data transfer methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2015.08a
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• pp.193.1-193.1
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• 2015

실리콘 (Si) 기판 위에 고품질의 갈륨질화물 (GaN) 박막을 성장시키기 위한 노력이 계속되고 있다. 실리콘 기판은 사파이어 기판 보다 경제적인 측면에서 유리하고, 실리콘 직접화 공정에 GaN 소자를 쉽게 접목 가능하다는 장점이 있다. GaN 박막은 2차원 전자 가스형성을 통한 고속소자, 직접 천이형 밴드갭을 이용한 발광소자 및 고전압 소자로써 활용 가능한 물질이다. 종래에는 Si(100) 및 Si(111) 기판 위에 GaN 박막 성장에 대한 연구가 주로 진행되었다. 하지만 대칭성과 격자 불일치도 등 결정학적 특성을 고려할 때 Si(100) 기판 위에 고품질의 GaN 박막을 성장시키는 것은 쉽지 않다. Si(111) 기판은 실리콘 소자 직접화 공정에 적합하지 못한 단점을 가지고 있다. 반면, 최근 Si(110) 기판 위에서 비등방적 변형 제어를 통한 고품질 GaN 박막 성장이 보고 되어 실리콘 집적 소자와 결합한 고전압 소자 및 고속소자 구현에 관한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 투과전자현미경 연구를 바탕으로 Si(110) 기판 위에 성장된 GaN의 미세구조에 관한 연구를 소개한다. 열팽창계수의 차이에 의한 GaN 박막 내 결함 생성을 줄이기 위하여 AlN 완충층이 사용되었다. GaN 박막을 암모니아 ($NH_3$) 유량이 다른 조건에서 성장시킴으로써 GaN 박막 미세구조의 암모니아 유량 의존성에 관한 연구를 진행하였다. GaN 박막에서 투과전자현미경 연구와 X-ray 회절 연구를 통하여 결함 거동 및 결정성을 확인하였다. $NH_3$ 유랑이 증가함에 따라 GaN의 성장 거동이 3차원에서 2차원으로 변화됨을 관찰하였다. 또한, 전위밀도의 증가도 확인되었다. $NH_3$ 유량이 낮은 경우 GaN 전위는 AlN와 GaN 경계에 주로 위치하고 GaN 표면 근처에는 전위밀도가 감소하였으나, $NH_3$ 유량이 높을 경우 GaN 박막 표면까지 전위가 관통됨을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.1-10
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose MPI gridding algorithm of LiDAR data that minimizes the communication between the cores. The LiDAR data collected from aircraft is a 3D spatial information which is used in various applications. Since there are many cases where the LiDAR data has too high resolution than actually required or non-surface information is included in the data, filtering the raw LiDAR data is required. In order to use the filtered data, the interpolation using the data structure to search adjacent locations is conducted to reconstruct the data. Since the processing time of LiDAR data is directly proportional to the size of it, there have been many studies on the high performance parallel processing system using MPI. However, previously proposed methods in parallel approach possess possible performance degradations such as imbalanced data size among cores or communication overhead for resolving boundary condition inconsistency. We conduct empirical experiments to verify the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm. The results show that the total execution time of the proposed method decreased up to 4.2 times than that of the conventional method on heterogeneous clusters.