• KIEAE Journal
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2013

Recent researches on plant factory system deal with the convergence of lighting technology, agricultural technology inclusive to the high-tech industries worldwide in order to respond to the decreasing crop harvest due to global warming and abnormal weather phenomena. However, the fundamental performance standard is not currently being introduced in the case of plants factory and its commercialization is not activated because of high initial investment and operating cost. Large portion of the initial investment and operating cost of a plant factory is ascribed to artificial light sources and thermal control facilities, therefore, innovation should be provided in order to improve the economics of the plant factory. As an alternative, new plant factory could harness solar thermal and geothermal systems for heating, cooling and ventilation. In this study, a natural light dependent multi-layer plant factory's thermal environment was analyzed with two-dimensional numerical methods to elicit efficient operation conditions for optimized internal physical environment. Depending on the supply air temperature and airflow rate introduced in the facility, the temperature changes around the crops was interpreted. Since the air supplied into the plant factory does not stay long enough, the ambient temperature predicted around the plating trays was not significantly different from that of the supplied air. However, the changes of airflow rate and air flow pattern could cause difference to the temperature around the planting trays. Increasing the amount of time of air staying around the planting trays could improve energy performance in case the thermal environment of a natural light based multi-layer plant factory is considered.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.851-859
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• 2018

There are two primary causes of the ground movement due to tunnelling in urban areas; firstly the lost ground and secondly the groundwater depression during construction. The groundwater depression was usually not considered as a cause of settlement in previous research works. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the combined effect of these two phenomena on the transverse settlement trough. Centrifuge model tests and numerical analysis were primarily selected as the methodology. The characteristics of settlement trough were analyzed by performing centrifuge model tests where acceleration reached up to 80g condition. Two different types of tunnel models of 180 mm diameter were prepared in order to match the prototype of a large tunnel of 14.4 m diameter. A volume loss model was made to simulate the excavation procedure at different volume loss and a drainage tunnel model was made to simulate the reduction in pore pressure distribution. Numerical analysis was performed using FLAC 2D program in order to analyze the effects of various groundwater depression values on the settlement trough. Unconfined fluid flow condition was selected to develop the phreatic surface and groundwater level on the surface. The settlement troughs obtained in the results were investigated according to the combined effect of excavation and groundwater depression. Subsequently, a new curve is suggested to consider elastic settlement in the modified Gaussian curve. The results show that the effects of groundwater depression are considerable as the settlement trough gets deeper and wider compared to the trough obtained only due to excavation. The relationships of maximum settlement and infection point with the reduced pore pressure at tunnel centerline are also suggested.

• 멤브레인
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.203-212
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• 1996

본 연구의 목적은 수용성고분자 PVA의 한외여과 실험을 통해 한계투과량(limiting flux) 현상에 미치는 조업변수들의 효과들을 고찰하고, 또한 겔층모델(gel-layer model)의 한계성을 극복하기 위해 열전달 계수의 개념을 도입한 Amiar 모델식을 바탕으로 새로운 모델식을 제시하여 이의 적용 가능성을 살펴보았다. Polysulfone 재질의 평판막(MWCO=20,000)과 중공사형막(MWCO= 30,000)을 사용하여 막내선속도, 투과압력, 온도, PVA 농도 등의 변화에 따른 한외여과 특성을 살펴보았다. 실험결과를 통해 polysulfone 재질의 막을 통해 PVA의 한외여과 과정은 겔층형성에 따른 투과저항 메커니즘이 작용하는 것으로 나타났다. 반면에 중공사형막의 경우는 한계투과량 조건하에서 겔층모델에 의해 예측할 수 없는 upward 한계투과량 현상이 관측되었다. 점성도 보정인자(viscosity correction factor)가 포함된 새로운 모델식의 적용을 통해서 upward 한계투과량 현상을 예측하였으나 완전히 만족할만한 결과를 얻지 못했다. 그러나 이와 같은 모델식의 적용을 통해서 PVA의 한외여과 과정이 투과용액의 점성도와 매우 밀접한 관계를 가짐을 알 수 있었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.54-67
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• 2018

There have been recent efforts to establish methods for high-fidelity and multi-physics simulation with coupled thermal-hydraulic (T/H) and neutronics codes for the entire core of a light water reactor under accident conditions. Considering the computing power necessary for a pin-by-pin analysis of the entire core, subchannel-scale T/H analysis is considered appropriate to achieve acceptable accuracy in an optimal computational time. In the present study, the applicability of in-house code CUPID of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute was extended to the subchannel-scale T/H analysis. CUPID is a component-scale T/H analysis code, which uses three-dimensional two-fluid models with various closure models and incorporates a highly parallelized numerical solver. In this study, key models required for a subchannel-scale T/H analysis were implemented in CUPID. Afterward, the code was validated against four subchannel experiments under unheated and heated single-phase incompressible flow conditions. Thereafter, a subchannel-scale T/H analysis of the entire core for an Advanced Power Reactor 1400 reactor core was carried out. For the high-fidelity simulation, detailed geometrical features and individual rod power distributions were considered in this demonstration. In this study, CUPID shows its capability of reproducing key phenomena in a subchannel and dealing with the subchannel-scale whole core T/H analysis.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.69-74
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• 2019

The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of the microtip length in a slot-die head on coating of a fine poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(4-styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) stripe. To this end, we have employed a meniscus guide with a 150-㎛-wide microtip and performed roll-to-roll slot-die coatings by varying its length between 500 ㎛ and 50 ㎛. When the microtip length is 150 ㎛ or shorter, we have observed three unexpected phenomena; 1) though the solution spreads much wider than the microtip width, yet the coated stripe width is almost the same as the microtip width, 2) the stripe width decreases, but the stripe thickness is rather increased with increasing coating speed at a fixed flow rate, 3) we obtain stripes much narrower than the microtip width at high coating speeds. It is due to the fact that 1) the meniscus is not well controlled by a short microtip, 2) the main stream of solution from the outlet is very close to the substrate and thus the distributed solution along the head lip merges with the main stream, and 3) the solution is not spread over the entire microtip end at high coating speeds, causing a tiny wobble in the meniscus. Using the 150-㎛-wide and 250-㎛-long microtip, we have fabricated 153-㎛-wide and 94-nm-thick PEDOT:PSS stripe at the maximum coating speed of 13 mm/s. To demonstrate its applicability in solution-processable organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), we have also fabricated an OLED device with the fine PEDOT:PSS stripe and obtained strong light emission from it.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.620-635
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• 2010

In this paper we describe current activities on the project Multi-Scale Modeling and Analysis of convective boiling (MSMA), conducted jointly by the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the Swiss Nuclear Utilities (Swissnuclear). The long-term aim of the MSMA project is to formulate improved closure laws for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations for prediction of convective boiling and eventually of the Critical Heat Flux (CHF). As boiling is controlled by the competition of numerous phenomena at various length and time scales, a multi-scale approach is employed to tackle the problem at different scales. In the MSMA project, the scales on which we focus range from the CFD scale (macro-scale), bubble size scale (meso-scale), liquid micro-layer and triple interline scale (micro-scale), and molecular scale (nano-scale). The current focus of the project is on micro- and meso-scales modeling. The numerical framework comprises a highly efficient, parallel DNS solver, the PSI-BOIL code. The code has incorporated an Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) to tackle complex geometries. For simulation of meso-scales (bubbles), we use the Constrained Interpolation Profile method: Conservative Semi-Lagrangian $2^{nd}$ order (CIP-CSL2). The phase change is described either by applying conventional jump conditions at the interface, or by using the Phase Field (PF) approach. In this work, we present selected results for flows in complex geometry using the IBM, selected bubbly flow simulations using the CIP-CSL2 method and results for phase change using the PF approach. In the subsequent stage of the project, the importance of effects of nano-scale processes on the global boiling heat transfer will be evaluated. To validate the models, more experimental information will be needed in the future, so it is expected that the MSMA project will become the seed for a long-term, combined theoretical and experimental program.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.122-127
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• 2021

선수 주변의 쇄파 과정 및 작은 스케일의 특징과 같은 유동 특성을 조사하기 위해 수치적 연구가 수행되었다. 본 연구에 사용된 쐐기형 선수의 형상은 이전 연구 [1, 2]에서 가져온 것이며 계산 조건은 Re = 1.64 × 10⁵ 및 Fr = 2.93이다. 상업용 전산유체역학(CFD) 소프트웨어 중 하나인 Star CCM +을 사용하여 수치 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 전반적인 선수 주변의 파 프로파일, 플런징 제트 모양, 공기 혼입 및 쇄파 과정과 같은 결과는 다른 실험 및 수치 연구와 비교되었고 일치하고 있는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 선수파 프로파일은 쐐기 앞에서부터 뒤로 가면서 뒤집힘 제트가 형성되고 마지막으로 제트가 쇄파 되는 것을 볼 수 있다. 플런징 쇄파 현상도 쐐기 모양을 따라가면서 일어나는 것을 알 수 있고 이전 플런징 쇄파에서 나타나는 플런징 쇄파의 4가지 과정을 보여 주고 있다. 플런징 쇄파 시 제트 주위의 속도가 급격하게 커지는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.69-75
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• 2017

Purpose: Heat transfer analysis of recently developed 'slim type double-skin system window' were presented. This window system is designed for curtain wall type façade that main energy loss factor of recent elegant buildings. And the double skin system is the dual window system integrated with inner shading component, enclosed gap space made by two windows when both windows were closed and shading component effectively reflect and terminate solar radiation from outdoor. Usually double-skin system requires much more space than normal window systems but this development has limited by 270mm, facilitated for curtain wall façade buildings. In this study, we estimated thermophysical phenomena of our double-skin curtain wall system window with solar load conditions at the summer season. Method: A fully 3-Dimentional analysis adopted for flow and convective and radiative heat transfer. The commercial CFD package were used to model the surface to surface radiation for opaque solid region of windows' frame, transparent glass, fluid region at inside of double-skin and indoor/outdoor environments. Result: Steep angle of solar incident occur at solar summer conditions. And this steep solar ray cause direct heat absorption from outside of frame surface rather than transmitted through the glass. Moreover, reflection effect of shading unit inside at the double-skin window system was nearly disappeared because of solar incident angle. With this circumstances, double-skin window system effectively cuts the heat transfer from outdoor to indoor due to separation of air space between outdoor and indoor with inner space of double-skin window system.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.5-13
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• 2007

1925년 이후 지반개량공법은 많은 발전을 거듭해 왔으며, 많은 건설현장에서 차수의 목적 또는 지반강도 증진의 목적 등으로 그라우팅이 적용되어왔다. 지반개량공법의 발전과 더불어 그라우트재의 종류 또한 그 수가 증가되었으며, 그라우트재의 침투특성과 관련된 이론적인 연구의 필요성이 요구되었다. 전수두차에 의해 그라우트재의 흐름이 발생되며, 그라우트재의 이동은 지반의 투수계수의 영향을 받는다. 그라우트재가 지반의 간극을 지날 때, 그라우트재의 화학반응에 의해 점도가 변화되며, 따라서 점도 증가로 인하여 투수계수는 감소하게 된다. 또한 현탁액형의 그라우트재의 경우 그라우트재 입자에 의한 지반 간극의 폐색으로 투수계수가 감소하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 새로 개발된 그라우트재의 물리적-화학적 특성을 연구하고, 입경이 다른 두 종류의 모형지반에서 실시된 신개발 그라우트재의 주입실험 결과와 비교하여 점도변화와 폐색현상을 고려한 그라우트재의 침투 가능성을 이론적으로 제시하고자 한다. 측정된 신개발 그라우트재의 점도는 시간의 지수함수 형태를 보였으며, 실험결과와 비교하여 폐색현상과 관련된 계수 $\delta$를 추정하였다. 그라우트재의 점도 변화는 시간에 따른 주입량에 많은 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났으며, 간극의 크기가 작은 지반에서 주입실험을 실시한 결과 폐색현상의 영향으로 주입량이 현저하게 감소되는 것으로 나타났다.

• 에너지공학
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2019

기존에 차량용 안개등으로 사용되었던 할로겐 광원은 전력소모가 증가하고 수명이 짧기 때문에 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위해 자동차 광원은 LED로 점차 바뀌고 있다. 그러나 차량용 LED 안개등을 점등하였을 경우에는 LED에서 발생하는 고열로 인해 안개등 수명을 단축시키는 단점이 있다. 안개등 내부에서 LED에 의해 발생된 열은 주로 히트싱크에 의해 배출되지만, 나머지 열은 거의 대부분 대류를 통해 외부로 배출된다. 이러한 대류에 의한 냉각효율이 저하되면 열에너지는 램프의 주요부품인 렌즈, 리플렉터, 베젤 등에 열을 발생시키거나 LED 광원에 고온을 발생시켜 LED 안개등의 수명을 단축시킨다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 히트싱크에 의한 방열방식 이외에도 냉각효율에 중요한 영향이 미치는 대류에 의한 방열성능을 개선하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 차량용 LED 안개등 내부공기를 외부로 흡·배출시킬수 있는 통풍구 설치 위치를 결정하기 위한 열유동해석을 수행하여 최적의 설계가 되도록 하였다. 공기의 평균속도는 기존 프로토타입인 Case1에 비해 Case3, Case2의 순으로 증가되었고 Case3의 증가폭이 다른 Case에 비해 상대적으로 큰 것을 알 수 있었다. 이는 안개등 상·하에 설치된 통풍구가 온도차이에 따라 생성되는 대류현상을 적절하게 유도하기 때문에 공기의 속도 증가와 함께 열을 효율적으로 배출시켰기 때문인 것으로 판단하였다.