• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권7호
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• pp.735-744
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• 2012

In order to quantify the flow distribution characteristics of APR+ reactor, a test was performed on a test facility, ACOP ($\underline{A}$PR+ $\underline{C}$ore Flow & $\underline{P}$ressure Test Facility), having a length scale of 1/5 referring to the prototype plant. The major parameters are core inlet flow and outlet pressure distribution and sectional pressure drops along the major flow path inside reactor vessel. To preserve the flow characteristics of prototype plant, the test facility was designed based on a preservation of major flow path geometry. An Euler number is considered as primary dimensionless parameter, which is conserved with a 1/40.9 of Reynolds number scaling ratio. ACOP simplifies each fuel assembly into a hydraulic simulator having the same axial flow resistance and lateral cross flow characteristics. In order to supply boundary condition to estimate thermal margins of the reactor, the distribution of inlet core flow and core exit pressure were measured in each of 257 fuel assembly simulators. In total, 584 points of static pressure and differential pressures were measured with a limited number of differential pressure transmitters by developing a sequential operation system of valves. In the current study, reactor flow characteristics under the balanced four-cold leg flow conditions at each of the cold legs were quantified, which is a part of the test matrix composing the APR+ flow distribution test program. The final identification of the reactor flow distribution was obtained by ensemble averaging 15 independent test data. The details of the design of the test facility, experiment, and data analysis are included in the current paper.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.159-169
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• 2002

The present study investigates in detail the combined effects of the Coriolis and centrifugal farce on the development of laminar flows in a square-sectioned U-bend rotating about an axis parallel to the center of bend curvature. When a viscous fluid flows through a rotating curved region, two types of secondary flow occur. One is caused by the Coriolis force due to the rotation of U-bend and the other by the centrifugal farce due to the curvature of U-bend. When the values of Rossby number and curvature ratio are large, the flow field in a rotating U-bend can be represented by two dimensionless parameters ; the Dean number K$\_$LC/=Re/√λ and a body ratio F=λ/Po. For positive rotation, where the rotation is in the same direction as that of the main flow, both the Coriolis force and the centrifugal force act radially outwards, the directions of the two secondary flows are the same. Therefore, the flow structure is qualitatively similar to that observed in a stationary curved duct with a larger f7c. On the other hand, in case of negative rotation, where two farces act in opposite direction, more complex flow fields can be observed depending on the relative magnitudes of the forces.

• Korean Membrane Journal
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2006

In semiconductor industries, dissolved oxygen is one of the most undesirable contaminants of ultrapure water. A method for dissolved oxygen removal (DOR) consists in the use of polymeric hollow fibres, loaded with a catalyst and fed with a reducing agent such as hydrogen. In this work, PVDF hollow fibres loaded with Pd were characterized by means of perporometry, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray (EDX). The hollow fibre analyzed shows a five-layer structure with remarkable morphological differences. An estimation of pore diameters and their distribution was performed giving a mean pore diameter of 100 nm. The permeance and selectivity of the fibres were measured using $H_2,\;N_2,\;O_2$ as single gases, at different operating conditions. An $H_2$ permeance of $37 mmol/m^2s$ was measured and $H_2/O_2$ and $H_2/N_2$ selectivities of ca. 3 were obtained. $H_2$ permeance was 1/3 when a water stream flows in the shell side. Catalytic fibrebehaviour was simulated using a mathematical model for a loop membrane reactor, considering only $O_2$ and $H_2$ diffusive transport inside the membrane and their catalytic reaction. Dimensionless parameters such as the Thiele modulus are employed to describe the system behaviour. The model agrees well with the experimental reaction data.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.41-47
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• 2014

Experimental results are given for the vertical motion of water in the water chambers for wave energy converter aligned along the wave propagation direction in order to avoid the impulsive wave forces. This paper mainly focuses on the property of the amplitude of the vertical motion of the water surface in the chambers. The amplification has been investigated by dimensionless parameters of wave period to resonance period ratio of the U-shaped oscillation, $T/T_r$, chamber size to wave length ratio, l/L, water depth to wave length ratio, h/L, amplitude of up-down motion of water particles to draft of the front wall ratio, ${\zeta}/D$. It has been shown that l/L should be less than 0.1 and as $T/T_r$ approaches unity the up-down of the water in the chambers is amplified. Also, the structure of the walls which form th water chambers has been examined roughly. It is deduced that the chambers set on both sides of the hull of a single-point moored floating vessel is preferable to those set along a fixed structure such as breakwaters.

• 한국해안해양공학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.606-613
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 2차원 수리모형실험을 통해 직립 구조물에 의한 권파와 이로 인해 발생하는 처오름과 월파 유속장을 측정하고, 그 결과를 이용하여 월파의 속도분포를 위한 경험식을 구하였다. 구조물 주위에서의 쇄파에 의한 월파는 넓은 기포화된 지역을 형성하며 다위상 상태가 된다. 이와 같은 구조물 주위에서의 처오름과 월파흐름의 유속을 측정하기 위하여 PIV(particle image velocimetry)기법을 사용하였으며, 기포화된 흐름영역은 PIV기법의 변형된 기법을 고안하여 측정하였다. 두 기법을 이용하여 측정된 유속장으로부터 구조물 주위에서의 3가지의 주된 위상인 쇄파, 처오름 그리고 월파의 최고유속을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 구조물의 상부로 월파된 유체흐름의 최대유속분포는 비선형적인 단면을 보여주고 시간별 최대유속은 주로 유체의 전면부에서 일어남이 관측되었다. 차원해석을 통해 무차원화된 유속분포로 부터 구조물 상단에서의 월파유속 분포가 유사단면을 갖는다는 것을 확인하였으며, 이를 이용하여 월파의 유속분포를 위한 실험적 경험식을 제시하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.5327-5332
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• 2014

우리나라 연안생태계는 백화현상(갯녹음)에 의한 해조류의 감소와 어패류 등 어업자원의 감소로 인해 연안역의 황폐화에 직면해 있다. 새로운 유형의 인공어초에 대한 안정성을 평가하기 위해 본 연구에서는 2차원 단면수조를 이용하여 새롭게 개발된 인공어초의 설치수심에 따른 재현파고, 주기, 흐름 등 외력을 변화시켜 요철형 어초의 안정 조건이 되는 한계치를 구하고, 설계외력(파랑, 흐름 등)의 안정성에 대한 검토를 수행하였다. 본 연구 결과는 새로운 인공어초의 설계 및 실해역에 시공하기 위해 구조물의 안정성을 사전에 검토할 수 있는 있는 기초자료를 제공할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.47-58
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• 2014

The characteristics of flame shape, laminar burning velocity, emissions and heat flux of stagnation point in premixed impinging jet flame of syngas fuel with 10% hydrogen content were experimentally investigated. Also, the adiabatic temperature and burning velocity are calculated by Chemkin package with USC-II mechanism. The equivalence ratios(0.8~5.0) and dimensionless separation distance(2.0~5.0) with fixed Reynolds number(1800) are main parameters in this work. Different flame shapes and colors were observed for different impingement conditions. The experimental results of burning velocity by flame surface area have a consistent with previous works and numerical simulation of this work. The inner flame length could be predicted with the ratio of mixture velocity and burning velocity from a simple formulation by the laminar burning velocity definition. It has been observed that the heat fluxes at stagnation point are directly affected by the flame shape including the separation distance. The emission results in impinging flame of syngas fuel show that the characteristics of $NO_x$ emission traced well with adiabatic temperature trend and CO emission due to fuel rich condition increased continuously with respect to the equivalence ratio.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.529-561
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• 2014

The two-phase turbulent flow past an interface-piercing circular cylinder is studied using a high-fidelity orthogonal curvilinear grid solver with a Lagrangian dynamic subgrid-scale model for large-eddy simulation and a coupled level set and volume of fluid method for air-water interface tracking. The simulations cover the sub-critical and critical and post critical regimes of the Reynolds and sub and super-critical Froude numbers in order to investigate the effect of both dimensionless parameters on the flow. Significant changes in flow features near the air-water interface were observed as the Reynolds number was increased from the sub-critical to the critical regime. The interface makes the separation point near the interface much delayed for all Reynolds numbers. The separation region at intermediate depths is remarkably reduced for the critical Reynolds number regime. The deep flow resembles the single-phase turbulent flow past a circular cylinder, but includes the effect of the free-surface and the limited span length for sub-critical Reynolds numbers. At different Froude numbers, the air-water interface exhibits significantly changed structures, including breaking bow waves with splashes and bubbles at high Froude numbers. Instantaneous and mean flow features such as interface structures, vortex shedding, Reynolds stresses, and vorticity transport are also analyzed. The results are compared with reference experimental data available in the literature. The deep flow is also compared with the single-phase turbulent flow past a circular cylinder in the similar ranges of Reynolds numbers. Discussion is provided concerning the limitations of the current simulations and available experimental data along with future research.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.477-486
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• 2011

본 연구는 인공수로 또는 인공호수와 같은 환경 친화적 친수공간이 건설됨에 따라 발생되는 수질오염 문제를 수질모형실험을 통해 해소할 수 있는 방법을 연구하였다. 호소수의 개념으로 도입되는 인공수로 및 호수는 제한된 수량 공급으로 인해 수질악화, 악취발생 및 녹조 현상이 일어날 수 있다. 하지만, 이러한 현상을 예상할 수 있는 방법은 수치해석으로만 의지해 왔고 물리적 해석에 의한 검증이 이뤄지지 않아 실제 적용에 대한 어려움이 있었다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 오염된 물과 오염되지 않은 물이 서로 희석되어 영양염류의 농도를 낮추는 현상에 착안하여 원형과 모형의 상사에 영향을 받지 않는 무차원의 물리적 수질모형실험을 실시하였다. 또한 수체 내에서 흐름을 인공적으로 발생시키는 흐름유발기기의 효과 검증과 적용방법을 연구하여 목표수질을 유지할 수 있는 방안을 제시하였다.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2011년도 학술발표회
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• pp.16-16
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• 2011

Statistics of extreme rainfall play a vital role in engineering practice from the perspective of mitigation and protection of infrastructure and human life from flooding. While flood frequency assessments, based on river flood flow data are preferred, the analysis of rainfall data is often more convenient due to the finer spatial nature of rainfall recording networks, often with longer records, and potentially more easily transferable from site to site. The rainfall frequency analysis as a design tool has developed over the years in New Zealand from Seelye's daily rainfall frequency maps in 1947 to Thompson's web based tool in 2010. This paper will present a history of the development of New Zealand rainfall frequency analysis methods, and the details of the latest method, so that comparisons may in future be made with the development of Korean methods. One of the main findings in the development of methods was new knowledge on the distribution of New Zealand rainfall extremes. The High Intensity Rainfall Design System (HIRDS.V3) method (Thompson, 2011) is based upon a regional rainfall frequency analysis with the following assumptions: $\bullet$ An "index flood" rainfall regional frequency method, using the median annual maximum rainfall as the indexing variable. $\bullet$ A regional dimensionless growth curve based on the Generalised Extreme Value (GEV), and using goodness of fit test for the GEV, Gumbel (EV1), and Generalised Logistic (GLO) distributions. $\bullet$ Mapping of median annual maximum rainfall and parameters of the regional growth curves, using thin-plate smoothing splines, a $2km\times2km$ grid, L moments statistics, 10 durations from 10 minutes to 72 hours, and a maximum Average Recurrence Interval of 100 years.