• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.526-531
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• 1998

본 논문은 농축도 0.9%의 순환우라늄 핵연료(CANFLEX-RU)에 대한 축방향 출력분포(AFD) 및 반경방향 출력분포(RFD) 특성을 조사하고 CANFLEX-RU 다발이 장전된 CANDU줄 채널의 예비 열수력 해석을 수행하였다. CANFLEX-RU 다발의 4 bundle shift 핵연료 교체 방법에 따라 AFD 분포 특성은 정점(Peak) 열속이 채널 상류쪽으로 이동하였고 채널 중심 부근에서 평탄하거나 다소 오목한 형상을 보여주었다. RFD 분포를 표현하는 적절한 변수로서 국부 다발열유속비를 정의하고, 이 비와 국부 표면열유속비의 상호 관계식을 도출하였다. 연소도에 따른 최외환봉의 국부 다발열유속비 변화를 조사한 결과로서, CANFLEX-RU 다발의 최대 국부 다발열유속비는 초기 연소도에서 발생되었고 이 값 CANFLEX-NU 다발 보다는 크고 37-핵연료봉다발 보다는 작았다. CCP 계산시에 RFD 분포 효과를 고려하는 방안으로서 최외환봉 열유속을 다발의 국부 열유속으로 가정하였다 이는 임계열유속이 -10.2% 감소한 조건을 사용하여 CCP를 계산하는 결과가 되었다. 다발-블균형 계수를 이용한 CCP 민감도 결과와 본 계산에서 얻은 CCP 결과에 의하면, CANFLEX-RU의 CCP 는 CANFLEX-NU에 비교해서 土1.0% 이내로 근사한 분포가 예상되었으며 이는 AFD 분포 효과가 RFD 분포에 의한 CCP 감소를 보상하기 때문이다. 결론적으로, CANFLEX-RU는 열수력적 설계 관점에서 CANFLEX-NU에 비교해서 열적 성능이 저하되지 않았고 따라서 기존 37-핵연료봉다발에 대한 CANFLEX-NU의 열여유도 증가와 같은 장점을 유지할 것으로 예상되었다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.37-44
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• 2003

This experimental study is aimed at evaluating the hydrodynamic performance of newly designed self-expandable graft stents under steady flow condition. Two graft stents with different coating materials and a bare TiNi metallic stent for comparison test were used in the experiment. Pressure variation and velocity distribution at the upstream and downstream of the stents were measured at flow rates of 5, 10, and 15 l/min, respectively. Pressure loss due to insertion of the stent increased with increasing flow rate exponentially as expected. At a flow rate of 15 l/min, pressure loss of Polyure-thane(PU)-coated graft stent was 6 times higher than that of TiNi metallic stent, while the pressure loss of a porous Polytetrafluoroethylene(PTFE)-coated graft stent was comparable to a bare TiNi metallic stent. Velocity profiles of the porous PTFE-coated graft stent were similar to those of a bare TiNi metallic stent regardless of flow rate. Furthermore, the velocity profile of PU-coated graft stent revealed an asymmetrical and relatively low central velocity at a higher flow rate than 10 1/min, expecially, where the effects resulted in increases of wall shear stress and normal stress. The worse hydrodynamic behavior of PU-coated graft stent than the other two stents might be attributed to formation of folds due to poor flexibility of coated material when inserting the graft stent into the pipe with a more smaller size, which later gave rise non-symmetry of flow area, increase of surface roughness and jet flow via the crevice between the stent and cylinder wall.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.72-78
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• 2003

In the present paper, computational studies on the hydrodynamic behavior of the inducer for the rocket-engine turbopump are presented including the effect of the mass flow rate. As the mass flow rate is increased, the inducer showed better performance with weak back flows which may have deleterious effects upon the anti-cavitation ability. But the adopted inducer showed low head rise with high volume flow rates, which may be caused by the small passage area near the trailing edge. The static pressure distributions at the shroud surface are compared with experimental results showing very good agreements except near the leading edge where strong back flows are present. The overall performance of the inducer such as, efficiency, head rise is also compared with experiments. The computational results are generally in good agreements with experimental ones near the design point, but two results show discrepancy at the high flow rate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.81.2-81.2
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.356.1-356
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• 1999

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.263-273
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• 1992

The study on the velocity distribution and the pressure drop characteristic of the nuclear fuel assembly is of importance for the thermal hydraulic design and safety analysis. The purpose of this experimental study is to investigate the hydraulic mixing behind the different kinds of spacer grids in the now or rod bundles. In this study, the detailed hydraulic characteristics in subchannels of 5$\times$5 PWR(Pressurized Water Reactor) rod bundles were measured using one-component He-Ne LDV(Laser Doppler Velocimeter). Measurements of the axial velocity, turbulent intensities and pressure drops were peformed Lateral velocity, turbulent intensities and Reynolds shear stress were also measured by adjust-ing LDV alignment. Friction factors in rod bundles and loss coefficients for spacer grids were evaluated from the measured pressure drops. Hydraulic mixing performance for different kinds of spacer grids could be investigated by estimating the turbulent cross-flow mixing rates between neighboring subchannels.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.91-102
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• 2015

A thermal-hydraulic design and performance analysis computer code for a once-through steam generator using straight tubes is developed. To benchmark the developed physical models and computer code, an once-through steam generator developed by other designer is simulated and the calculated results are compared with the design data. Also, the same steam generator is analyzed with the best-estimate thermal-hydraulic system code, MARS, for the code-to-code validation. The overall characteristics of heat transfer area, pressure and temperature distributions calculated by the developed code show general agreements with the published design data as well as the analysis results of MARS. It is demonstrated that the developed code can be utilized for diverse purposes, such as, sensitivity analyses and optimum thermal design of a once-through steam generator.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.25-32
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• 2003

In the present paper, a computational study on the hydrodynamic behavior of the inducer are presented including the effect of the mass flow rate. The adopted inducer showed very low head rise with high volume flow rates, which may be caused by the small passage area near the trailing edge. The static pressure distributions at the shroud surface are compared with experimental results showing very good agreements. The overall performance of the inducer such as, efficiency, head rise is also compared with experiments. The computational results are generally in good agreements with experimental ones near the design point, but at the high flow rate, the two results shows discrepancy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.78-81
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• 2009

A series of hydraulic tests of a fuel pump are performed using water at a room temperature. The pump is under development for 75-ton class liquid rocket engines of the open-loop gas generator type. According to the test results, the fuel pump satisfies its design requirement and its head and efficiency at the design flowrate are higher than the expected value by the computational analysis. Also, it is found that the pressure at the rear bearing outlet is higher than expected because the inlet of bypass pipe line is narrow. Furthermore, the flowrate of the secondary flow is estimated using the pressure difference of the elbow of the bypass pipe line.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.30 no.1 s.244
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• pp.87-94
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• 2006

This paper presents the hydrodynamic design and performance analysis method for a miniaturized centrifugal blood pump using three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. In order to obtain the hydraulically high efficient configuration of a miniaturized centrifugal blood pump for cardiopulmonary circulation, a well-established commercial CFD code was incorporated considering detailed flow dynamic phenomena in the blood pump system. A prototype of centrifugal blood pump developed by the present design and analysis method has been tested in the mock circulatory system. Predicted results by the CFD code agree very well with in vitro hydraulic performance data for a centrifugal blood pump over the entire operating conditions. Preliminary in vivo animal testing has also been conducted to demonstrate the hemodynamic feasibility for use of centrifugal blood pump as a mechanical circulatory support. A miniaturized centrifugal blood pump developed by the hydraulic design optimization and performance prediction method presented herein shows the possibility of a good candidate for intra and extracorporeal cardiopulmonary circulation pump in the near future.