• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.271-278
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• 2010

While the deterministic lattice physics/depletion codes use leakage-corrected critical spectrum (although approximate due to the B1 buckling search employed), Monte Carlo depletion codes currently in use do not have such a feature in spite of their heterogeneity and continuous-energy modeling capability. This paper describes an approach to Monte Carlo depletion with leakage-corrected critical spectrum derived from first principles. This is based on the concept of albedo eigenvalue treated as weight of the reflected neutron in Monte Carlo simulation.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권12호
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• pp.4518-4526
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• 2023

NECP-SARAX is a neutronics analysis code system for advanced reactor developed by Nuclear Engineering Computational Physics Laboratory of Xi'an Jiaotong University. In past few years, improvements have been implemented in TULIP code which is the cross-section generation module of NECP-SARAX, including the treatment of resonance interface, considering the self-shielding effect in non-resonance energy range, hyperfine group method and nuclear library with thermal scattering law. Previous studies show that NECP-SARAX has high performance in both fast and thermal spectrum system analysis. The accuracy of TULIP code in fast and thermal spectrum system analysis is demonstrated preliminarily. However, a systematic verification and validation is still necessary. In order to validate the applicability of TULIP code for full energy range, 147 fast spectrum critical experiment benchmarks and 170 thermal spectrum critical experiment benchmarks were selected from ICSBEP and used for analysis. The keff bias between TULIP code and reference value is less than 300 pcm for all fast spectrum benchmarks. And that bias keeps within 200 pcm for thermal spectrum benchmarks with neutron-moderating materials such as polyethylene, beryllium oxide, etc. The numerical results indicate that TULIP code has good performance for the analysis of fast and thermal spectrum system.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.687-707
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• 2007

High-tech facilities engaged in the production of semiconductors and optical microscopes are extremely expensive, which may require time-domain analysis for seismic resistant design in consideration of the most critical directions of seismic ground motions. This paper presents a framework for generating three-dimensional critical seismic ground acceleration time histories compatible with the response spectra specified in seismic design codes. The most critical directions of seismic ground motions associated with the maximum response of a high-tech facility are first identified. A new numerical method is then proposed to derive the power spectrum density functions of ground accelerations which are compatible with the response spectra specified in seismic design codes in critical directions. The ground acceleration time histories for the high-tech facility along the structural axes are generated by applying the spectral representation method to the power spectrum density function matrix and then multiplied by envelope functions to consider nonstationarity of ground motions. The proposed framework is finally applied to a typical three-story high-tech facility, and the numerical results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.207-224
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• 2012

This article discusses selects of some outstanding problems in nuclear reactor analysis, with proposed approaches thereto and numerical test results, as follows: i) multi-group approximation in the transport equation, ii) homogenization based on isolated single-assembly calculation, and iii) critical spectrum in Monte Carlo depletion.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.1177-1185
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• 2005

This paper investigates the noise radiated by a cascade of flat-plate airfoils interacting with homogeneous, isotropic turbulence. At frequencies above the critical frequency, all wavenumber components of turbulence excite propagating cascade modes, and cascade effects are shown to be relatively weak. In this frequency range, acoustic power was shown to be approximately proportional to the number of blades. Based on this finding at high frequencies, an approximate expression is derived for the power spectrum that is valid above the critical frequency and which is in excellent agreement with the exact expression for the broadband power spectrum. The approximate expression shows explicitly that the acoustic Power above the critical frequency is proportional to the blade number, independent of the solidity, and varies with frequency as ${\phi}_{ww}(\omega/W$), where ${\phi}_{ww}$ is the wavenumber spectrum of the turbulence velocity and W is mean-flow speed. The formulation is used to perform a parametric study on the effects on the power spectrum of the blade number stagger angle, gap-chord ratio and Mach number. The theory is also shown to provide a close fit to the measured spectrum of rotor-stator interaction when the mean square turbulence velocity and length-scale are chosen appropriately.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권9호
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• pp.1185-1191
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• 2010

장기운영된 항공기에는 비행시간의 누적에 따라 다양한 피로균열이 발생하며 이는 운영상 안전성 및 가동률을 저하시키는 요인이 된다. 이의 해결을 위하여 피로임계위치(Fatigue critical location, FCL)에 대한 균열 진전 해석은 매우 중요하다. 그러나 이러한 장기 운영된 항공기의 경우, 균열 진전 해석에 필수적인 FCL에서의 응력 스펙트럼 획득은 거의 불가능한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 장기운영된 항공기 주익 구조물의 FCL에서의 균열 진전 해석을 수행하기 위하여, 먼저 주익 구조물에 대한 2차원 하드카피 형태의 도면으로부터 구축된 3차원 CAD 모델에 대한 유한요소해석을 수행하였다. 또한 이러한 유한요소해석 결과 및 제한된 하중배수 자료를 기반으로 FCL에서의 전달함수와 응력 스펙트럼을 산출하였다. 상기 자료를 바탕으로 상용 균열 진전 해석 코드인 NASGRO를 이용하여 FCL에서의 균열진전해석을 수행하였다.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.151-155
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• 2001

해양 목장에서 음향 순치 대상 어종으로 사용할 수 있는 볼락의 청각 문턱치를 기본으로 하여 음향 어법의 기초 자료를 제공할 목적으로 볼락의 백색 잡음에 대한 청각 임계비와 학습 및 유집을 위한 방성 음압 강도를 조사한 결과는 다음과 같다. 음압 73, 78, 83dB의 3단계 백색 잡음을 방성하였을 때 볼락의 청각 문턱치는 백색 잡음이 없을 때보다 높게 나타나 마스킹 현상이 나타났고, 주파수 300Hz에서 보다 높게 나타났다. 볼락의 청각 임계비는 측정 주파수 80, 100, 200, 300, 500, 800Hz에서 음압이 대략 28, 34, 26, 30, 47, 52dB이고 마스킹 현상은 주파수 300Hz에서 음압 65dB의 잡음 레벨에서 나타나기 시작하였고 그 외의 주파수에서는 음압 68dB 이상에서 나타났으며, 볼락이 주파수 $200\~300$Hz에서 신호음을 인식하기 위해서는 음압 96dB 이상, 잡음 레벨보다 약 26dB 이상의 높은 음압이 요구되었다.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.269-275
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• 2003

제주도 연안 정치망의 여름철 주 어획대상인 잿방어를 실험어로 하여, 음향을 이용한 어군행동 제어, 음향순치 등 바다목장 조성을 위한 어군의 관리, 사육, 어획기술에 이용할 기초자료를 제공할 목적으로 육상수조에서 수중 가청 저주파음과 전기충격을 이용하여 음향 학습 시킨 후, 주파수와 음압을 변화시켜가면서 잿방어의 섬전도를 도출 하여 심박간격의 변화로부터 청각문턱치, 청각임계비를 측정하였다. 자연환경소음에서 잿방어의 청각문턱치는 측정 주파수 80∼800 HZ의 수중 가청음을 모두 인식하였고, 측정 주파수 200∼500 HZ 에서 청각 감도가 양호하였으며, 측정 주파수 300 Hz에서 평균 음압 94.5 dB, 표준편차 4.5 dB로 가장 낮은 청각문턱치를 보였다. 평균 음압을 65 dB, 70 dB, 75 dB의 3단계로 변화시킨 백색잡음 방성으로 측정한 잿방어의 청각임계비는 측정 주파수 80, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 800 HZ에서 각각 평균 음압 45.9, 52.8, 42.5, 36.4, 38.6, 39.4, 44.4 dB이었다. 측정 주파수 300 HZ, 400 HZ 그리고 500 HZ 에서는 백색잡음 중에서 측정음을 식별하는 능력이 다른 측정 주파수에 비하여 우수했다. 잿방어가 주파수 300 HZ의 수중 가청음을 충분히 인식하기 위해서는 최저 100 dB 이상의 음압 강도가 펼요하며 환경 소음이 존재하는 환경에서는 소음 스펙트럼 음압 레벨보다 약 35 dB 이상 크게 방성할 펼요가 있다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.515-522
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• 2011

In this paper, we investigate cooperative diversity in a spectrum sharing environment where secondary users utilize primary users' spectrum only if the interference power received at the primary users is maintained below a predetermined level. The outage probability of a selective decode-and-forward (DF) based cooperative diversity scheme in the secondary network is derived to analyze the effects of spectrum sharing on cooperative diversity. Our analytical and simulation results show that the outage probability is saturated at a certain level of transmit power of secondary users due to interference regulation, and, hence, cooperative diversity gains are lost. Through asymptotic analysis, we also identify the critical value of transmit SNR beyond which the outage probability is saturated.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.1-4
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• 2002

We studied experimentally the angular spectrum of the light emitted from dye Molecules near a plane boundary. It is confirmed that the molecules near the boundary can emit light into the evanescent wave mode, and the light emission with the angle greater than the critical angle is detected with good accuracy. The angular spectrum of the spontaneous radiation is measured, and the spectrum shows contributions from the molecules both near and far away from the boundary. The polarization dependence and the pumping angle dependence are also measured. The experimental results are in good agreement with quantum theory.