• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제41권9호
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• pp.700-707
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• 2013

0.4 MW 급 분절형 아크 히터를 장착한 전북대학교 플라즈마 풍동의 초음속 유동 특성 실험을 수행하고 그 결과를 분석하였다. 실험에 사용된 분절형 아크 히터와 초음속 노즐은 16.3 g/s 의 질량유량에 대해 전극 당 150 A, 전체 300 A의 입력전류 조건으로 운전되었으며, 운전 결과 350 kW의 입력전력과 약 51.4 %의 열효율이 계측되었다. 이 때, 아크 히터 내 고엔탈피 플라즈마의 내부압력은 약 4 bar 로 측정되었으며, 이를 초음속 노즐을 통해 압력 45 mbar로 유지되는 진공쳄버 내로 팽창시킴으로써, 전체 엔탈피 11 MJ/kg을 가진 초음속 플라즈마 유동을 얻을 수 있었다. 전체 엔탈피 측정과 함께, 생성된 초음속 플라즈마 유동에 대해 원뿔각 $30^{\circ}$를 가진 원뿔 탐침을 삽입하여 경사 충격파와 이루는 각을 측정하였으며, 이 측정값들로부터, 발생된 초음속 플라즈마의 온도와 마하 수는 각각 약 2,950 K 및 약 3.7에 이를 것으로 예상되었다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제40회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.407-408
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• 2011

Natural boron consists of two stable isotopes 10B and 11B with natural abundance of 18.8 atom percent of 10B and 81.2 atom percent of 11B. The thermal neutron absorption cross-section for 10B and 11B are 3837 barn and 0.005 barn respectively. 10B enriched specific compounds are used for control rods and as a reactor coolant additives. In this work 2 methods for boron enrichment were analysed: 1) Gas irradiation in static conditions. Dissociation occurs due to multiphoton absorption by specific isotopes in appropriately tuned laser field. IR shifted laser pulses are usually used in combination with increasing the laser intensity also improves selectivity up to some degree. In order to prevent recombination of dissociated molecules BCl3 is mixed with H2S 2) SILARC method. Advantages of this method: a) Gas cooling is helpful to split and shrink boron isotopes absorption bands. In order to achieve better selectivity BCl3 gas has to be substantially rarefied (~0.01%-5%) in mixture with carrier gas. b) Laser intensity is lower than in the first method. Some preliminary calculations of dissociation and recombination with carrier gas molecules energetics for both methods will be demonstrated Boron separation in SILARC method can be represented as multistage process: 1) Mixture of BCl3 with carrier gas is putted in reservoir 2) Gas overcooling due to expansion through Laval nozzle 3) IR multiphoton absorption by gas irradiated by specifically tuned laser field with subsequent gradual gas condensation in outlet chamber It is planned to develop software which includes these stages. This software will rely on the following available software based on quantum molecular dynamics in external quantized field: 1) WavePacket: Each particle is treated semiclassicaly based on Wigner transform method 2) Turbomole: It is based on local density methods like density of functional methods (DFT) and its improvement- coupled clusters approach (CC) to take into account quantum correlation. These models will be used to extract information concerning kinetic coefficients, and their dependence on applied external field. Information on radiative corrections to equation of state induced by laser field which take into account possible phase transition (or crossover?) can be also revealed. This mixed phase equation of state with quantum corrections will be further used in hydrodynamical simulations. Moreover results of these hydrodynamical simulations can be compared with results of CFD calculations. The first reasonable question to ask before starting the CFD simulations is whether turbulent effects are significant or not, and how to model turbulence? The questions of laser beam parameters and outlet chamber geometry which are most optimal to make all gas volume irradiated is also discussed. Relationship between enrichment factor and stagnation pressure and temperature based on experimental data is also reported.