• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.40-45
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• 1993

The steam generator tubes of the nuclear power plant should be inspected using eddy current techniques. Recently the crack-like defects become a major concern for the integrity of the steam generator tubes. These defects could be detected by the MRPC(Motorized Rotating Pancake Coil) method, not by the conventional bobbin coil method. In this paper it has been attempted to estimate the length of the cracks at the tube expansion region using of MRPC technique. The lengths of both axial and circumferential cracks show a tendency of overestimation compared to the real lengths. As the depths of the defects decrease from 100% through 50% of the wall thickness, the error of the length estimation is increased.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.173-182
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• 2004

The present study has focused on numerical investigation on the flame structure, flame lift-off and stabilization in the partially premixed turbulent lifted jet flames. Since the lifted jet flames have the partially premixed nature in the flow region between nozzle exit and flame base, level set approach is applied to simulate the partially premixed turbulent lifted jet flames for various fuel jet velocities and co-flow velocities. The flame stabilization mechanism and the flame structure near flame base are presented in detail. The predicted lift-off heights are compared with the measured ones.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2013

In the present study, the turbulent flow from an annular jet is investigated by using large eddy simulation. Particularly, the effect of the ratio of the inner and outer diameters is one of the main interests of this study. The instantaneous fields presented in this paper showed that behind the jet exit the backflow region, as well known in literatures, exists, and its detailed behavior depends on the ratio of the inner and outer diameters ($D_1/D_2$). The dependence on $D_1/D_2$ is attributed to the different shear layer development according to $D_1/D_2$. At small $D_1/D_2$, the development of the outer shear layer is similar to that from the circular jet. However, with increasing $D_1/D_2$, the interaction between the outer and inner shear layers becomes strong, resulting in fast transition to turbulence.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부A
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• pp.22-24
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• 1998

The current distribution in the source coil region is analyzed using the two dimensional finite element method. The variables in the FEM are the magnetic vector potentials and the source current density. The boundary condition for the source current density is that the total current is the sum of the eddy current and the source current and is known quantity from measurement. The simulation results are compared with the analytical solution. It is found that the method can analyze the current distribution in the source conductors very accurately.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.344-350
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• 2006

The present study investigates the characteristics of fire-driven heat flows and gas concentration in a compartment fire by using the modified VHS model (MVHS). The main idea of this model is to add some source terms for combustion products and oxygen consumption to the original VHS model for providing more accurate and useful information on gas concentration distributions as well as thermal fields. It is found that the present MVHS model shows fairly good agreement with the experimental data and the eddy breakup combustion model. The tilting angle of fire plume calculated by MVHS is larger than that of EBU model because the fire source of VHS is affected by ventilating flow less than EBU. However, this discrepancy is apparently reduced in the downstream region of fire source.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.823-832
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• 2002

A modified $textsc{k}$-$\varepsilon$model is proposed for calculation of transitional boundary-layer flows with changing pressure gradient. In order to develop the model for this problem, the flow is divided into three regions; pre-transition region, transition region and fully turbulent region. The effect of pressure gradient is taken into account in stream-wise intermittency factor, which bridges the eddy-viscosity models in the pre-transition region and the fully turbulent region. From intermittency data in various flows, Narashima＇s intermittency function, F(${\gamma}$), has been found to be proportional to $\chi$$^{n}$ according to the extent of pressure gradient. Three empirical correlations of intermittency factor being analyzed, the best one was chosen to calculate three benchmark cases of bypass transition flows with different free-stream turbulence intensity under arbitrary pressure gradient. It was found that the variations of skin friction and shape factor as well as the profiles of mean velocity in the transition region were very satisfactorily predicted.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2014

A computational study of a thermal striping in the upper plenum of PGSFR(Prototype Generation-IV Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor) being developed at the KAERI(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) is presented. The LES(Large Eddy Simulation) approach is employed for the simulation of thermal striping in the upper plenum of the PGSFR. The LES is performed using the WALE (Wall-Adapting Local Eddy-viscosity) model. More than 19.7 million unstructured elements are generated in upper plenum region of the PGSFR using the CFX-Mesh commercial code. The time-averaged velocity components and temperature field in the complicated upper plenum of the PGSFR are presented. The time history of temperature fluctuation at the eight locations of solid walls of UIS(Upper Internal Structure) and IHX(Intermediate Heat eXchanger) are additionally stored. It has been confirmed that the most vulnerable regions to thermal striping are the first plate of UIS. From the temporal variation of temperature at the solid walls, it was possible to find the locations where the thermal stress is large and need to assess whether the solid structures can endure the thermal stress during the reactor life time.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.405-414
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• 2007

최근 난류유동에 대한 많은 실험 및 이론적 연구들은 무질서해 보이는 난류유동도 특정한 구조를 가지고 있으며 그 구조적 특성들이 반복적이며 가시적인 질서들을 가지고 있음을 보여주고 있다. 헤어핀 와류는 벽면 영역에서 난류경계층을 발전시키고 지탱하는 중요한 역할을 하는 난류의 핵심 구조로서 벽면 압력변동의 주요 특성을 설명해 줄 수 있는 개념 모델로 여겨지고 있다. 이 연구에서는 난류경계층에서 생성되는 헤어핀 와류들이 유기하는 표면 압력과 압력 스펙트럼을 평가하고 부착와류 모델링을 통해 이들이 유기하는 전체 표면 압력과 그에 상응하는 스펙트럼을 계산하였다. 이 연구를 통해 확립된 해석방법을 검증하기 위해 기존의 실험 및 이론계산을 통해 얻어진 결과들과 비교하여 신뢰성과 유용성을 증명하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.869-874
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• 2014

It was discovered in a Korean PWR that an extensive number of very short and shallow cracks in the SG tubes were undetectable by eddy current in-service-inspection because of the masking effect of sludge deposits. Axial stress corrosion cracks at the outside diameter of the steam generator tubes near the line contacts with the tube support plates are the major concern among the six identical Korean nuclear power plants having CE-type steam generators with Alloy 600 high temperature mill annealed tubes, HU3&4 and HB3~6. The tubes in HB3&4 have a less susceptible microstructure so that the onset of ODSCC was substantially delayed compared to HU3&4 whose tubes are most susceptible to ODSCC among the six units. The numbers of cracks detected by the eddy current inspection jumped drastically after the steam generators of HB4 were chemically cleaned. The purpose of the chemical cleaning was to mitigate stress corrosion cracking by removing the heavy sludge deposit, since a corrosive environment is formed in the occluded region under the sludge deposit. SGCC also enhances the detection capability of the eddy current inspection at the same time. Measurement of the size of each crack using the motorized rotating pancake coil probe indicated that the cracks in HB4 were shorter and substantially shallower than the cracks in HU3&4. It is believed that the cracks were shorter and shallower because the microstructure of the tubes in HB4 is less susceptible to ODSCC. It was readily understood from the size distribution of the cracks and the quantitative information available on the probability of detection that most cracks in HB4 had been undetected until the steam generators were chemically cleaned.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.271-276
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• 2003

복합위성자료 신호처리기법을 사용해서 남인도양 지역을 중심으로 한 해수면변화와 사행 (meandering)을 연구하였다. 해수면변화는 아프리카 남부(46$^{\circ}$E)에서 크호제트 대지(Crozet basin)의 35$^{\circ}$~46$^{\circ}$S대를 걸쳐서 암스테르담-케르겔른 경로(Amsterdam-Kerguelen Passage)까지 확장된다. 이때 가장 강한 해수면변화(20~30cm)가 2개의 좁은 지역에서 발생하는데, 하나는 경도 49$^{\circ}$~57$^{\circ}$E(약 700Km) 및 위도 38$^{\circ}$~42$^{\circ}$S(약 450Km)나타났고 그리고 나머지 하나는 경도 58$^{\circ}$~64$^{\circ}$E(약 450Km) 및 위도 42$^{\circ}$~44$^{\circ}$S(약 200Km)에서 각각 나타났다. 이것은 해저지형과 관련된 강한 와동류의 형성 때문이다. 와동류 발생지역은 아규라스반류(Agulhas Return Current) 및 남극순환해류(Antarctic Circumpolar Current)와 관련하여 강한 흐름이 형성되는 지역에서 발생했다. 이때 복합위성자료(Topex/Poseidon, ERS1)는 표층순환과 해수면변동 특성을 잘 나타내었다.