• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.434-441
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• 2017

Containment venting is one of several essential measures to protect the integrity of the final barrier of a nuclear reactor during severe accidents, by which the uncontrollable release of fission products can be avoided. The authors seek to develop an optimization approach to venting operations, from a simulation-based perspective, using an integrated severe accident code, THALES2/KICHE. The effectiveness of the containment-venting strategies needs to be verified via numerical simulations based on various settings of the venting conditions. The number of iterations, however, needs to be controlled to avoid cumbersome computational burden of integrated codes. Bayesian optimization is an efficient global optimization approach. By using a Gaussian process regression, a surrogate model of the "black-box" code is constructed. It can be updated simultaneously whenever new simulation results are acquired. With predictions via the surrogate model, upcoming locations of the most probable optimum can be revealed. The sampling procedure is adaptive. Compared with the case of pure random searches, the number of code queries is largely reduced for the optimum finding. One typical severe accident scenario of a boiling water reactor is chosen as an example. The research demonstrates the applicability of the Bayesian optimization approach to the design and establishment of containment-venting strategies during severe accidents.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.1271-1287
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• 2004

In this article, vapor bubble nucleation in liquid and the evaporation process of a liquid droplet at its superheat limit were discussed from the viewpoint of molecular clustering (molecular cluster model for bubble nucleation). For the vapor bubble formation, the energy barrier against bubble nucleation was estimated by the molecular interaction due to the London dispersion force. Bubble nucleation by quantum tunneling in liquid helium under negative pressure near the absolute zero temperature and bubble nucleation on cavity free micro heaters were also presented as the homogenous nucleation processes.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2009년도 학술발표회 초록집
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• pp.511-515
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 소규모 연안 도시의 미래 에너지 공급원으로서 실용성을 검토하고 있는 연안 에너지 팜(energy farm)에 의한 파랑의 변형을 모의한다. 에너지 팜에 사용되는 부이는 파랑의 산란은 물론 파랑 에너지를 흡수하는 장치로서 해안선에 도달하는 파랑 에너지 저감에 영향을 미친다. 적용하는 파랑 모형은 해안 구조물에 의한 파랑 에너지 흡수와 산란을 동시에 구현하는 WADEM-PB(WAve Deformation Model-Permeable Barrier)이다.

• 한국복합재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국복합재료학회 2003년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.137-140
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• 2003

Impact of Automotive GMT(Glassfiber reinforced Mat Thermoplastic) Bumper for '5Mhp Barrier Test'was simulated using ls-dyna. The FE model consists of foam which is energy absorber, bumper beam and stay etc. Bumper intrusion and deflection was compared with the experimental results. Effects of uncertainty of material property and deviation of impact velocity were considered and results were compared with those of base design. Effects of number of integration points through th thickness was also investigated.

• 한국생물물리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물물리학회 1998년도 학술발표회
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• pp.15-15
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• 1998

Pores can form and grow in biomembranes because of factors such as thermal fluctuation, transmembrane electrical potential, and cellular environment. We propose a new statistical physics model of the pore growth treated as a non-Markovian stochastic process, with a free energy barrier and memory friction from the membrane matrix treated as a quasi-two-dimensional viscoelastic and dielectric fluid continuum.(omitted)

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.251-252
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• 2012

Recently, the growing interest in organic microelectronic devices including OLEDs has led to an increasing amount of research into their many potential applications in the area of flexible electronic devices based on plastic substrates. However, these organic devices require a gas barrier coating to prevent the permeation of water and oxygen because organic materials are highly susceptible to water and oxygen. In particular, high efficiency OLEDs require an extremely low Water Vapor Transition Rate (WVTR) of $1{\times}10^{-6}g/m^2$/day. The Key factor in high quality inorganic gas barrier formation for achieving the very low WVTR required ($1{\times}10^{-6}g/m^2$/day) is the suppression of defect sites and gas diffusion pathways between grain boundaries. In this study, we developed an $Al_2O_3$ nano-crystal structure single gas barrier layer using a Neutral Beam Assisted Sputtering (NBAS) process. The NBAS system is based on the conventional RF magnetron sputtering and neutral beam source. The neutral beam source consists of an electron cyclotron Resonance (ECR) plasma source and metal reflector. The Ar+ ions in the ECR plasma are accelerated in the plasma sheath between the plasma and reflector, which are then neutralized by Auger neutralization. The neutral beam energies were possible to estimate indirectly through previous experiments and binary collision model. The accelerating potential is the sum of the plasma potential and reflector bias. In previous experiments, while adjusting the reflector bias, changes in the plasma density and the plasma potential were not observed. The neutral beam energy is controlled by the metal reflector bias. The NBAS process can continuously change crystalline structures from an amorphous phase to nano-crystal phase of various grain sizes within a single inorganic thin film. These NBAS process effects can lead to the formation of a nano-crystal structure barrier layer which effectively limits gas diffusion through the pathways between grain boundaries. Our results verify the nano-crystal structure of the NBAS processed $Al_2O_3$ single gas barrier layer through dielectric constant measurement, break down field measurement, and TEM analysis. Finally, the WVTR of $Al_2O_3$ nano-crystal structure single gas barrier layer was measured to be under $5{\times}10^{-6}g/m^2$/day therefore we can confirm that NBAS processed $Al_2O_3$ nano-crystal structure single gas barrier layer is suitable for OLED application.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1347-1349
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• 2003

PV array, which is generally installed in the outside, has the possibility to be damaged by high voltage doc to lightning. Because the surge characteristic of PV array has not been fully identified yet, there is the very important issue whether PV array should be connected with ground or not. In this paper, a basic model of PV array is provided considering solar cell's barrier capacitance and ground capacitance for analysis of surge characteristics.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.130-135
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• 2006

강자성체/비자성 금속/강자성체/반도체 구조에서 층간교환강호작용(interlayer exchange coupling) 에너지가 외부 인가전압으로 제어 가능함을 이론적으로 보였다. 비자성 금속층으로 격리된 두 강자성층 사이의 층간교환상호작용 에너지는 강자성체/비자성 금속 계면에서 전자의 스핀에 의존하는 반사율의 차이에 의해 결정된다는 것은 잘 알려진 사실인데, 이를 각자성체/비자성 금속/강자성체/반도체 구조에 적용하여 층간교환상호작용 에너지가 강자성체/비자성 금속/강자성체 계면에서 전자의 반사율뿐 아니라 강자성체/반도체 계면에서의 반사율에도 의존한다는 것을 보였다 강자성체/반도체 계면에 생기는 Schottky 장벽의 높이와 두께는 인가전압으로 바꿀 수 있고, 그에 따른 전자의 반사율이 인가전압에 의해 바뀔 수 있음을 알 수 있었다. 결과적으로 일차원 자유전자 모델을 사용하여 외부 인가 전압으로써 두 강자성체 사이의 층간 교환 상호작용 에너지를 제어할 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.262-279
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• 2019

고준위방사성폐기물처분장의 공학적 방벽에서는 다양한 원인으로 인해 기체가 발생한다. 만약 기체 생성 속도가 기체 확산 속도보다 빠를 경우 기체의 압력이 증가하게 되고, 기체 유입 압력(gas entry pressure)을 넘어서게 되면 기체가 급격히 벤토나이트 완충재를 통과하는 기체 이동 현상(gas migration)이 발생하게 되며 이는 사람과 주변 환경을 방사능에 노출시킬 수 있기 때문에, 공학적 방벽의 장기 건전성 확보 측면에서 기체 이동 현상을 명확히 규명하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 특히 벤토나이트 완충재와 같이 점토 물질을 다량 함유한 매질에서만 나타나는 매우 중요한 기체 흐름 현상인 팽창 흐름에 대한 수리-역학적 메커니즘을 규명하고, 기체 이동 현상의 정량적 평가를 위한 새로운 수치 해석 기법 개발 및 검증이 필수적이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 공학적 방벽에서의 기체 이동 현상을 모사하고자 역학 손상 모델 및 손상도를 고려한 2상 유동 모델을 개발하였으며, 일정 체적 경계 조건 하에서의 1차원 기체 주입 시험 모사를 통해 개발된 모델의 적용성을 검토하였다. 수치 해석 결과 공극 수압 및 응력, 기체 유출량이 팽창 흐름 발생 시 급격히 증가하는 현상을 모사할 수 있었다.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.36-39
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• 2014

Formation mechanism of residual carbon layer, frequently observed in the $CuInSe_2$ (CIS) thin film prepared by direct solution coating routes, was investigated in order to find a way to eliminate it. As a model system, a methanol solution with dissolved Cu and In salts, whose viscosity was adjusted by adding ethylcellulose (EC), was chosen. It was found that a double layer, a top metal ion-derived film and bottom EC-derived layer, formed during an air drying step presumably due to different solubility between metal salts and EC in methanol. Consequently, the top metal ion-derived film acts as a barrier layer inhibiting further thermal decomposition of underlying EC, resulting a formation of bottom carbon residue layer.