• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.75-82
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• 2011

The numerical analysis of the reduction of reaction mechanism for the ignition of dimethyl ether (DME) was performed. On the basis of a detailed reaction mechanism involving 79 species and 351 reactions, the peak molar concentration and sensitivity analysis were conducted in a homogeneous reactor model. The reduced reaction mechanism involving 44 species and 166 reactions at the threshold value $7.5{\times}10^{-5}$ of the molar peak concentration was established by comparing the ignition delays the reduced mechanism with those the detailed mechanism. The predicted results of the reduced mechanism applied to the single-zone homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine model were in agreement with those of the detailed mechanism. Therefore, this reduced mechanism can be used to accurately simulate the ignition and combustion process of compression ignition engine using DME fuel.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.243-250
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• 2003

The extinction behavior and the unsteady response of augmented reduced mechanism(ARM) have been investigated by adopting an OPPDIF code and a numerical solver for the flamelet equations. By comparing the performance of the ARM based on Miller and Bowman's mechanism(MB-ARM) with that of the ARM based on GRI-Mech 3.0(GRI-3.0-ARM), it is identified that the MB-ARM is more suitable for the unsteady calculation because it is relatively less stiff than GRI-3.0-ARM during an ignition process. The steady results using the MB-ARM, which is modified to predict reasonably the extinction point of experiment, are in excellent agreement with those from full mechanism. Under the sinusoidal transient disturbances of scalar dissipation rate, the unsteady responses of the flame temperature and species concentrations using a modified MB-ARM show in very close agreement with those from full mechanism. It is presumed that above modified MB-ARM is very suitable for the unsteady simulation of turbulent flames because it gives not only a low computational cost but also a good prediction performance for flame structure, extinction point and unsteady response.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.44-49
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• 2001

Reduced chemical kinetics mechanism has been derived, which can be applicable for autoignition model of hydrocarbon fuels, and contains 23 reactions and 18 species. The present model is validated with the experimental data, where the ignition delays of several hydrocarbon fuels, such as n-heptane, i-octane, n-decane and DME(dimethylether) are measured as equivalence ratios are varied. Especially, the effects of different fuels on ignition delays can be explained by changing the rate constants of three reactions among the present model. As a result, the proposed model can be applicable to two stage ignition model of Diesel combustion.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.27 no.10
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• pp.1401-1411
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• 2003

A two-dimensional direct numerical simulation was performed to investigate the flame structure of CH$_4$$N_2$-air counterflow nonpremixed flame interacting with a single vortex. The detailed transport properties and a modified 16-step augmented reduced mechanism based on Miller and Bowman's detailed chemistry were adopted in this simulation. The characteristic vortex and chemical time scales were introduced to quantify and investigate the extinction phenomenon during a flame-vortex interaction. The results showed that fuel- and air-side vortex cause an unsteady extinction. In this case, the flame interacting with a vortex was extinguished at much larger scalar dissipation rate than steady flame. It was also found that the air-side vortex extinguished a flame more rapidly than the fuel-side vortex. Furthermore, it was noted that the degree of unsteady effect experienced by a flame can be investigated by comparing the above two characteristic time scales, and this analysis could give an appropriate reason for the results of the previously reported experiment.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.1704-1709
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• 2004

New reduced chemical kinetic mechanism for prediction of autoignition process of HSDI diesel engine was investigated. For precise prediction of the ignition characteristics of diesel fuel, mechanism coefficients were fitted by the experimental results of ignition delay of diesel spray in a constant volume vessel. Ignition delay of diesel engine on various operation condition was calculated based on the new reduced chemical mechanism. The calculation results agreed well with experimental data.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.16-22
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• 2011

It is a challenging task to apply large detailed chemical mechanisms of fuel oxidation in simulation of complex combustion phenomena. There exist a few systematic methodologies to reduce detailed chemical mechanisms to smaller sizes involving less computational load. This research work concerns generation of a skeletal chemical mechanism by a directed relation graph with specified accuracy requirement. Two sequential stages for mechanism reduction are followed in a perfectly stirred reactor(PSR) for high temperature chemistry and to consider the autoignition delay time for low and high temperature chemistry. Reduction was performed for the detailed chemical mechanism of n-heptane consisting of 561 species and 2539 elementary reaction steps. Validation results show acceptable agreement for the autoignition delay time and the PSR calculation in wide parametric ranges of pressure, temperature and equivalence ratio.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.41-41
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• 2011

국제해사기구(IMO)에서2016년에 건조되는 선박부터 Tier III 규제를 예고하고 있다. 이 규 제를 만족하기 위하여 엔진 전처리 기술 및 후처리 기술 개발과 실증 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이중 SCR(Selective Catalytic Reduction) 반응을 이용한 질소산화물 저감기술이 80% 이상의 Tier III NOx 규제치를 만족할 수 있는 유일한 기술이다. 육상 플랜트에서 실증과 검증이 확보된 SCR 기술의 선박 엔진에 대한 적용을 위해서는 선박의 급격한 운전조건 변화와 엔진에 의한 저주파 진동에 대한 촉매 내구성 확보가 중요하다. 본 연구에서 기공 분포면에서 마이크로 기공보다는 메죠 및 매크로 기공쪽으로 구조를 개선함으로써 촉매 사용시 우려되는 배기가스중의 Soot 또는 2차 합성물질에 의한 촉매기공 막힘을 최대한 방지한 상용 SCR 촉매를 개발하였다. 또한 촉매에 대한 내구성 실증을 위하여 현재 운항 선박(한진피츠버그호)에 장착하여 실증 실험을 수행하였다. 기존 corrugate 타입의 촉매보다 40% 정도의 부피 감소와 차압 감소를 달성하였고 이로 인하여 선박내 제한된 공간에 효율적으로 SCR 시스템 설치가 가능할 것으로 생각된다. 그리고 본 연구에서는 가이드 베인 설치 없이 유동 균일화를 달성하여 반응기 전체의 크기 축소가 가능하다. 이는 추가적인 비용 및 압력 손실 저감, 유지 보수 공간 확보 등의 장점이 있다.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.363-367
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• 1993

A retrospective analysis was peformed on 42 patients with carcinoma of the uterine cervix who were treated with external beam (EB) radiation therapy alone at the Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital from March 1979 to December 1988. After whole pelvic field irradiation of 50Gy, all the patients received additional booster dose of 12-22Gy to the primary tumor Thirty one received EB radiotherapy alone because of poor geometry for intracavitary application,5 because of medical problems and 6 because of other reasons. Five year locoregional control rate and five year survival rate were $34.5\%\;and\;35.4\%,$ respectively. Five year survivals were $66.7\%,\;36.4%,\;32.8\%\;and\;25.0\%$ for stage IIA, IIB, IIIB and IVA, respectively. The response one month after treatment well correlated with prognosis. The incidence of grade 2 and 3 complication was $12\%\;and\;10\%,$ respectively. There was tendency of increased complication with advanced stage.