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Turbulent Enhancement of the Cooling System of Nuclear Reactor by Large Scale Vortex Generation in a Nuclear Fuel Bundles (원자로 연료봉내 대형 와유동에 의한 원자로 냉각제 시스템의 난류 증진)

  • 전건호;박종석;최영돈
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.12 no.11
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    • pp.1004-1011
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    • 2000
  • Experimental and computational studies were carried out to confirm the turbulent enhancement of the cooling system of nuclear reactor by large scale vortex generation in nuclear fuel bundle. The large scale vortex motions were generated by rearranging the inclination angles of mixing vanes to the coordinate directions. Axial development of mean and turbulent velocities in the subchannels were measured by the 2-color LDV system. Eddy diffusivity heat flux model and $k-varepsilon$ model were employed to analyze the turbulent heat and fluid flows in the subchannel. The turbulence generated by split mixing vanes has small length scales so that they maintain only about $10 D_H$ after the spacer grid. On the other hand, the turbulences generated by the large scale vortex continue more and remain up to $25 D_H$after the spacer gird.

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Laboratory investigation for engineering properties of sodium alginate treated clay

  • Cheng, Zhanbo;Geng, Xueyu
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.84 no.4
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    • pp.465-477
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    • 2022
  • The formation of biopolymer-soil matrices mainly depends on biopolymer type and concentration, soil type, pore fluid and phase transfer to influence its strengthening efficiency. In this study, the physical and mechanical properties of sodium alginate (SA) treated kaolinite are investigated through compaction test, thread rolling teat, fall cone test and unconfined compression test with considering biopolymer concentration, curing time, initial water content, mixing method. The results show that the liquid limit slightly decreases from 69.9% to 68.3% at 0.2% SA and then gradually increases to 98.3% at 5% SA. At hydrated condition, the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of SA treated clay at 0.5%, 1%, 2% and 3% concentrations is 2.57, 4.5, 7.1 and 5.48 times of untreated clay (15.7 kPa) at the same initial water content. In addition, the optimum biopolymer concentration, curing time, mixing method and initial water content can be regarded as 2%, 28 days, room temperature water-dry mixing (RD), 50%-55% to achieve the maximum unconfined compressive strength, which corresponds to the UCS increment of 593%, compared to the maximum UCS of untreated clay (780 kPa).

A Study on the Adhesive Performance of High-early Strengthening Polymer Cement Composites for Crack Repair of RC Structures (RC 구조물의 균열보수용 조강성 폴리머 시멘트 복합체의 접착성능에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Dong-Yeop;Kim, Sang-Hyeon;Jo, Young-Kug
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2023.11a
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    • pp.179-180
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    • 2023
  • The adhesion performance of PCCs for crack repair of RC structures was greater in the case of using ultra high-early strength cement than in the case of using ordinary Portland cement, and the effect of mixing silica fume was higher in the case of ordinary Portland cement than that of ultra high-early strength cement. On the other hand, 130% of W/C was more fluid than 80% of W/C in the same P/C 80%, which increased the fillability and improved the strength, but the strength improvement effect was the greatest in adhesion in flexure. Through this study, the basic characteristics of the adhesion performance of PCCs were identified, and based on this, it is necessary to induce an optimal mixing design that can increase adhesion performance through various mixing designs.

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A Study on the Factors Affecting the High Fluid Mortar Containing Ground Granulated Blast-furnace Slag (고로슬래그 미분말을 함유한 고유동 모르터의 유동성상에 미치는 영향 요인에 관한 연구)

  • 김재훈;윤상천;지남용
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2002
  • High fluid concrete unlike OPC concrete is made with various material, and the phase of fresh concrete is considerably different. In order to understand fluidity phase and mix properties of high fluid concrete, concrete is required to access as suspension structure which consists of aggregate and paste. The focus of this paper is to analyze the test results and quantify the effect of mix proportions of molar and fineness modulus of ,and on the properties of fresh mortar. The effect of water-binder ratio, sand-binder ration, content; of ggbs (by mass of total cementitious materials), and various contents of water reducing agent on the yield stress and plastic viscosity of the mix is studied. Based on the experimental results, the following conclusion; can be drawn: (1) The mixing time needed (or high fluid mortar was approximately two times more than that of ordinary portland mortar. (2) The fluidity phase of mortar could be explained by yield stress of mix and the fluidity of mortar. (3) As the content of ggbs increased, yield stress of mortar was decreased and plastic viscosity of it was increased. (4) For the high fluid mortar, it was appeared that sand-binder ratio should be below 1.5.

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Numerical Analysis of Cryogenic Liquid Nitrogen Jets at Supercritical Pressures using Multi-Environment Probability Density Function approach (다점 확률분포 모델을 이용한 초임계 압력 액체질소 제트 해석)

  • Jung, Kiyoung;Kim, Namsu;Kim, Yongmo
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.137-145
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    • 2017
  • This paper describes numerical modeling of transcritical and supercritical fluid flows within a liquid propellant rocket engine. In the present paper, turbulence is modeled by standard $k-{\varepsilon}$ model. A conserved scalar approach in conjunction with multi-environment probability density function model is used to account for the turbulent mixing of real-fluids in the transcritical and supercritical region. The two real-fluid equations of state and dense-fluid correction schemes for mixtures are used to construct thermodynamic data library based on the conserved scalar. In this study, calculations are made on two cryogenic nitrogen jets under different chamber pressures. Sensitivity analysis for two different real-fluid equations of sate is particularly emphasized. Based on numerical results, precise structures of cryogenic nitrogen jets are discussed in detail. Numerical results show that the current real-fluid model can predict the essential features of the cryogenic liquid nitrogen jets.

Rediction of Stage Efficiency Variation of a USC High Pressure Steam Turbine by Computational Fluid Dynamics (유동해석을 이용한 고압증기터빈 단효율 변화 예측)

  • Kang, Soo Young;Jang, Hyuck Jun;Lee, Jeong Jin;Kim, Tong Seop;Park, Seong Jin;Hong, Gi Won
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.17-25
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    • 2017
  • Prediction of performance and operating characteristics of a state-of-the-art ultra-supercritical (USC) steam turbine is an important issue in many ways. Theoretical and empirical correlation equations, developed a few decades ago, have been widely used in commercial programs for a prediction of performance. To improve of these correlation equations and apply them to the high pressure turbine of a USC steam turbine, computational fluid dynamic analysis was carried out and correlation equations to calculate efficiency variation of each stage were made. Both fluid dynamic characteristic and thermodynamic performance was analyzed for the development of the correlation equations. In particular, the impact of flow addition through an overload valve (OLV) between stages was examined throughly. The trend of pressure drop due to the flow mixing by the OLV flow addition was analyzed and an efficiency correlation equation considering the OLV flow was also made.

ANALYSIS OF TWOPHASE FLOW MODEL EQUATIONS

  • Jin, Hyeonseong
    • Honam Mathematical Journal
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.11-27
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we propose closures for multi-phase flow models, which satisfy boundary conditions and conservation constraints. The models governing the evolution of the fluid mixing are derived by applying an ensemble averaging procedure to the microphysical equations characterized by distinct phases. We consider compressible multi species multi-phase flow with surface tension and transport.

A Study on the Mixing of Dilution Air and Ammonia in the Ammonia Mixing Pipe of the Thermal Power Plant De-NOx Facility (화력발전소 탈질설비의 암모니아 혼합 관에서 희석 공기와 암모니아의 혼합에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ki-Ho;Ha, Ji-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2022
  • According to reinforce environmental regulations, coal power plants have used selective catalytic reduction using ammonia as a reducing agent to reduce the amount of nitrogen oxide generation. The purpose of the present study was to derive a mixing device for effectively mixing dilute air and ammonia in the ammonia mixing pipe by performing computational fluid dynamic analysis. The mixing effect was compared by analysing the %RMS of ammonia concentration at the down stream cross section in the mixing pipe and the 16 outlets based on the case 1-1 shape, which is an existing mixing pipe without a mixing device. The mixing device was performed by changing the positions of a square plate on the downstream side of the ammonia supply pipe and an arc-shaped plate on the wall of the mixing pipe. In the case of the existing geometry(Case 1-1), the %RMS of ammonia concentration at the 16 outlets was 29.50%. The shape of the mixing device for Case 3-2 had a square plate on the downstream side of the ammonia supply pipe and an arc plate was installed adjacent to it. The %RMS of ammonia concentration for Case 3-2 was 2.08% at 16 outlets and it could be seen that the shape of Case 3-2 was the most effective mixing shape for ammonia mixing.

Design of Turbulent In-situ Mixing Mixer and Fabrication of Cu-TiB2 Nanocomposities (난류 용탕 In-situ 합성 믹서의 설계 및 Cu-TiB2 나노 복합재료의 제조)

  • Choi, Baek-Boo;Park, Jung-Su;Yun, Ji-Hun;Ha, Man-Young;Park, Yong-Ho;Park, Ik-Min
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2007
  • Turbulent in-situ mixing process is a new material process technology to get dispersed phase in nanometer size by controlling reaction of liquid/solid, liquid/gas, flow ana solidification speed simultaneously. In this study, mixing which is the key technology to this synthesis method was studied by computational fluid dynamics. For the simulation of mixing of liquid metal, static mixers investigated. Two inlets for different liquid metal meet ana merge like 'Y' shape tube having various shapes and radios of curve. The performance of mixer was evaluated with quantitative analysis with coefficient of variance of mass fraction. Also, detailed plots of intersection were presented to understand effect of mixer shape on mixing. The simulations show that the Reynolds number (Re) is the important factor to mixing and dispersion of $TiB_2$ particles. Mixer was designed according to the simulation, and $Cu-TiB_2$ nano composites were evaluated. $TiB_2$ nano particles were uniformly dispersed when Re was 1000, and cluster formation and reduction in volume fraction of $TiB_2$ were found at higher Re.