• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.2407-2414
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• 1992

Constant temperature hot wire air flow meter for automobiles requires temperature compensation system because hot wire output signal is sensitive to ambient temperature variations as well as fluid velocity. The objectives of the present study are to design an air flow meter circuit which is capable of compensating the hot wire output signal for ambient temperature variations and to investigate the mechanism of such temperature compensation. This circuit is composed of platinum hot wire, platinum resistor, two variable resistors, a constant resistor and a DC-amplifier. In particular, by simply replacing a constant resistor in one of the bridge arms of the conventional circuit with platinum resistor and a variable resistor for the purpose of temperature compensation, the deviation of output signal with respect to ambient temperature variations between 27deg. C 70deg. C could be reduced to less than 2.5% for mass flow rate and to less than 5% for velocity respectively. The mechanism of temperature compensation against ambient temperature variations was explained by means of measuring the heat transfer coefficient with hot wire temperature variations and analyzing and analyzing conventional empirical equations qualitatively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.10
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• pp.1188-1194
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• 2019

Among the many ways to measure the flow of fluid the hot air wind speed sensor is a device for measuring the speed or temperature by heat transfer of a fluid. However, the hot wire wind speed sensor is sensitive to external environmental factors, and has a disadvantage of inaccuracy due to ambient temperature, humidity, and signal noise. In order to compensate for this disadvantage, advanced technology has been introduced by adding temperature compensation circuits, but it is expensive. In order to solve this problem, this paper studies the wind speed sensor that does not need temperature compensation. Heated wind speed sensors are very vulnerable to the ambient temperature, which is generated by electronic circuits, even among external environmental factors. in order to improve this, the auxiliary heating element is additionally installed in the heating element to control a constant temperature difference between the auxiliary heating element and the heating element.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1683-1696
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• 1991

본 연구에서는 정4각단면덕트 입구영역에서 층류맥동유동(laminar pulsating flows)의 유동특성을 이론 및 실험적으로 규명하기 위하여, 이론적 방법으로 덕트 입 구영역에서의 층류맥동유동에 대한 운동량방정식을 유도한 후 비선형인 대류항을 선형 화 시켜서 라플라스변환으로 속도분포식의 해를 구하였고, 실험적인 방법으로는 시험 덕트 크기는 횡단면의 가로*세로가 40mm*40mm이고, 길이가 4000mm인 정4각단면덕트 입구영역에서 송풍기에 의한 공기흡입유동으로 층류진동유동을 발생하며 이들 두유동 을 합성시켜 발생한 층류맥동유동에 대하여 열선유속계의 열선신호로부터 얻어진 속도 파형을 고찰하여 덕트내의 맥동유동에 대한 임계레이놀즈수를 결정하고 속도분포를 측 정하였다. 그리고 이론적으로 얻어진 속도분포식과 열선유속계로 측정한 속도분포를 비교검토하여 정확성을 검증하고, 이들 해석결과로 부터 층류맥동유동의 입구길이(en- trance lenght)식을 결정하여 제안하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.827-832
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• 2013

Heating wire cutting type separation mechanism has been widely used for cube satellite applications due to its design constraints such as small size of $10cm{\times}10cm{\times}10cm$ and light weight of less than 1kg. In addition, usage of pyro technic device is not allowed for cube satellite application. The conventional methods have some disadvantages of relatively small mechanical constraint force and the system complexity for the multi-deployable systems. In this paper, a separation nut type non-explosive separation mechanism has been proposed and investigated. The effectiveness of the design has been verified through the qualification tests of the mechanism.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.99-104
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• 2000

Calibration equation for Variable Temperature Anemometer(VTA) has been tested for measured velocity-output data and the calibration process has been compared with that of Constant Temperature Anemometer(CTA). VTA has greater sensitivity than that of any other conventional anemometers, but to be more popular technique in flow field measurement, simple, accurate and well established calibration process should be suggested. To meet this purpose, similar calibration method used for CTA has been adopted for VTA and finally calibration equation for VTA including the effect of temperature drift has been proposed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.279-285
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• 2011

We perform a numerical study to determine the time of onset of natural convection in a transient hot wire (THW) device for measuring the thermal conductivity of nanofluids. The samples used in this simulation are water-based $Al_2O_3$ nanofluids with volume fractions of 1%, 4%, and 10%, and the properties are calculated by theoretical models and experimental correlations. The THW apparatus using coated wire is modeled by the control-volume-based finite difference method, and the start of natural convection is determined by observing the temperature rise of the wire under a gravity field. The onset time is 11.5 s for water and 41.6 s for water-based $Al_2O_3$ nanofluids predicted by Maxwell thermal conductivity model with a 10% volume fraction. We confirm that the onset time of natural convection of nanofluids in the cylinder increases with the nanoparticle volume fraction. We suggest a correlation for predicting the onset time on the basis of the numerical results. Finally, it is shown that the measurement error due to natural convection is negligible if the measurement using the transient hot wire method is completed before the onset of natural convection in the base fluid.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.21-31
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• 1989

본 연구에서는 경사진 hot-wire probe 의 특성값을 구하고 열선풍속계의 응답식으로부터 수평원통관내에서 3차원 흐름의 속도성분과 난류 강도 그리고 전단 응력을 pitot tube의 결과와 비교 연구하였다. 또한, 속도 및 난류 강도에 관한 유도된 식을 swirling flow에도 적용하여 만족한 결과를 얻었다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.401-406
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• 2013

Non-explosive shockless holding and release mechanism for a nano class small satellite application has been proposed and investigated. The great advantages of the mechanism are a much lower shock level and larger constraint force than the conventional mechanism using pyro and the heating wire cutting mechanism which has been generally applied to the cube satellite program. To investigate the effectiveness of the mechanism design, EM mechanism was developed and tested to verify the basic function of the mechanism. The test results indicate that the proposed mechanism is well functioning as the mechanism design intends.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.529-534
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• 2014

Pyrotechnic devices are widely used for space appendages. However, a cube satellite requirements do not permit the use of explosive pyrotechnic device. A nichrome burn wire release has typically been used for holding and release of deployable appendages of the cube satellite due to its simplicity and low cost. However, relatively low mechanical constraint force and system complexity for application of multi-deployable systems are disadvantages of the conventional mechanism. To overcome these drawbacks, we developed a hinge driving segmented nut type holding and release mechanism based on the nichrome burn wire release. The functional performance of the mechanism has been verified through release function test, static load test and shock level measurement test.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.175-181
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• 2017

This paper presents the results of an investigation into the effect of forced temperature change cycles on physical and mechanical properties of sand and weathered granite soil. The effect of forced temperature change cycles on the particle arrangement and the thermal conductivity was first investigated. A series of triaxial compression tests on the soils were also performed to look into the effect of temperature change cycles on the stress-strain-strength behavior.