• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권7호
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• pp.1511-1516
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• 2020

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) established a new standard of the absorbed dose to water in LINAC X-ray beams. To confirm the equivalence of the new standard with other national metrology institutes (NMIs), a bilateral comparison study of the absorbed dose to water in high energy X-ray beams was performed between the KRISS and the National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ). The comparison was made in-directly. Three transfer chambers were calibrated in the high energy X-ray beams by both laboratories and the calibration coefficients were compared. The average ratios of the calibration coefficients of the three transfer chambers obtained by the KRISS to those obtained by the NMIJ were 1.004, 1.006, 1.006, 1.007 for 6, 10, 15 and 18 MV X-ray beams, respectively. The calibration coefficients obtained at the KRISS were higher than those at the NMIJ but they were in good agreement within the expanded uncertainty of 1.0% (k = 2). The results of this study will be used as the evidence for the KRISS standard being comparable with those of other NMIs, temporarily, in the interim period up to finalizing a key comparison study, BIPM.RI(I)-K6 managed by the Consultative Committee for Ionizing Radiation.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.3412-3432
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• 2019

Recent advances in radio frequency (RF) power transfer provide a promising technology to power sensor nodes. Adoption of mobile chargers to replenish the nodes' energy has recently attracted a lot of attention and the mobility assisted energy replenishment provides predictable and sustained power service. In this paper, we study the joint optimization of mobile charging and data gathering in sensor networks. A wireless multi-functional vehicle (WMV) is employed and periodically moves along specified trajectories, charge the sensors and gather the sensed data via one-hop communication. The objective of this paper is to maximize the uplink throughput by optimally allocating the time for the downlink wireless energy transfer by the WMV and the uplink transmissions of different sensors. We consider two scenarios where the WMV moves in a straight line and around a circle. By time discretization, the optimization problem is formulated as a 0-1 programming problem. We obtain the upper and lower bounds of the problem by converting the original 0-1 programming problem into a linear programming problem and then obtain the optimal solution by using branch and bound algorithm. We further prove that the network throughput is independent of the WMV's velocity under certain conditions. Performance of our proposed algorithm is evaluated through extensive simulations. The results validate the correctness of our proposed theorems and demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms two baseline algorithms in achieved throughput under different settings.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제45권7호
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• pp.895-910
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• 2013

The reflood test data from the rod bundle heat transfer (RBHT) test facility showed that the grids in the upper portion of the rod bundle could become wet well before the arrival of the quench front and that the sizes of liquid droplets downstream of a wet grid could not be predicted by the droplet breakup models for a dry grid. To investigate the water droplet generation from a wet grid spacer, a viscous linear temporal instability model of the water sheet issuing from the trailing edge of the grid with the surrounding steam up-flow is developed in this study. The Orr-Sommerfeld equations along with appropriate boundary conditions for the flow are solved using Chebyshev series expansions and the Tau-Galerkin projection method. The effects of several physical parameters on the water sheet oscillation are studied by determining the variation of the temporal growth rate with the wavenumber. It is found that a larger relative steam velocity to water velocity has a tendency to destabilize the water sheet with increased dynamic pressure. On the other hand, a larger ratio of steam boundary layer to the half water sheet thickness has a stabilizing effect on the water sheet oscillation. Droplet diameters downstream of the spacer grid predicted by the present model are found to compare reasonably well with the data obtained at the RBHT test facility as well as with other data recently reported in the literature.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.43-53
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• 2010

This study investigates a design optimization of a rotating two-pass rectangular cooling channel with staggered arrays of pin-fins. The radial basis neural network method is used as an optimization technique with Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes analysis of fluid flow and heat transfer with shear stress transport turbulent model. The ratio of the diameter to height of the pin-fins and the ratio of the streamwise spacing between the pin-fins to height of the pin-fin are selected as design variables. The optimization problem has been defined as a minimization of the objective function, which is defined as a linear combination of heat transfer related term and friction loss related term with a weighting factor. Results are presented for streamlines, velocity vector fields, and contours of Nusselt numbers, friction coefficients, and turbulent kinetic energy. These results show how fluid flow in a two-pass square cooling channel evolves a converted secondary flows due to Coriolis force, staggered arrays of pin-fins, and a $180^{\circ}$ turn region. These results describe how the fluid flow affects surface heat transfer. The Coriolis force induces heat transfer discrepancy between leading and trailing surfaces, having higher Nusselt number on the leading surface in the second pass while having lower Nusselt number on the trailing surface. Dean vortices generated in $180^{\circ}$ turn region augment heat transfer in the turning region and in the upstream region of the second pass. As the result of optimization, in comparison with the reference geometry, thermal performance of the optimum geometry shows the improvement by 30.5%. Through the optimization, the diameter of pin-fin increased by 14.9% and the streamwise distance between pin-fins increased by 32.1%. And, the value of objective function decreased by 18.1%.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.884-894
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• 2013

최근 지구 온난화에 따른 이산화탄소 배출량 감소 및 에너지 절약을 위하여 방송통신 기술 역시 에너지를 절약을 위한 연구가 시작되고 있다. 특히 방송통신 시스템의 전체 소비 에너지는 기지국에서 87.5%이상 차지하고 있지만 물리계층에서 에너지 효율성에 관한 연구는 전송용량을 총 전력 단일 상수로 나누어 분석하기 때문에 실제적인 에너지 특성을 분석하는데 문제점이 많다. 본 논문은 이와 같은 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 실제 증폭기에 사용되는 트랜지스터의 특성과 신호 모델에 관하여 간략히 소개한다. 이는 에너지 효율적인 방송통신 시스템을 설계하는데 이용 가능한 비선형 증폭기의 신호모델 그리고 증폭기의 특성을 고려한 기지국의 총 전력 사용량까지 포함하여 효율적인 에너지 효율을 계산하는 데 중요한 이해를 제시한다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.1140-1151
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• 2023

Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCM) fuel is emerging advanced fuel material for the future nuclear reactors. The fuel pellet in the FCM fuel is composed of matrix and a large number of TRistructural-ISOtopic (TRISO) fuel particles which are randomly dispersed in the SiC matrix. The minimum layer thickness in a TRISO fuel particle is on the order of 10^-5 m, and the length of the FCM pellet is on the order of 10^-2 m. Hence, the heat transfer in the FCM pellet is a multi-scale phenomenon. In this study, three multi-scale heat conduction models including the Multi-region Layered (ML) model, Multi-region Non-layered (MN) model and Homogeneous model for FCM pellet were constructed. In the ML model, the random distributed TRISO fuel particles and coating layers are completely built. While the TRISO fuel particles with coating layers are homogenized in the MN model and the whole fuel pellet is taken as the homogenous material in the Homogeneous model. Taking the results by the ML model as the benchmark, the abilities of the MN model and Homogenous model to predict the maximum and average temperature were discussed. It was found that the MN model and the Homogenous model greatly underestimate the temperature of TRISO fuel particles. The reason is mainly that the conventional equivalent thermal conductivity (ETC) models do not take the internal heat source into account and are not suitable for the TRISO fuel particle. Then the improved ETCs considering internal heat source were derived. With the improved ETCs, the MN model is able to capture the peak temperature as well as the average temperature at a wide range of the linear powers (165 W/cm~ 415 W/cm) and the packing fractions (20%-50%). With the improved ETCs, the Homogenous model is better to predict the average temperature at different linear powers and packing fractions, and able to predict the peak temperature at high packing fractions (45%-50%).

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.19-31
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• 2005

During the last decade, the exploration of nanoscale device and circuitry based on molecules has gained increasing interest. In parallel with this, considerable effort is being devoted to the development of molecular photonic/electronic materials based on various porphyrin arrays. This involves light as an input/output signal and excitation energy migration as a mechanism for signal transmission. Absorption of a photon at the light collector end of the porphyrin array yields the excited state, which migrates among the intervening pigments until reaching the emitter, whereupon another photon is emitted. As a consequence, it is relevant to understand the excitation energy transfer (EET) processes occurring in various forms of porphyrin arrays for the applications as artificial light harvesting arrays and molecular photonic/electronic wires. Since the excitonic (dipole) and electronic (conjugation) couplings between the adjacent porphyrin moieties in porphyrin arrays govern the EET processes, we have characterized the EET rates of various forms of multiporphyrin arrays (linear, cyclic, and box) based on various time-resolved spectroscopic measurements. We believe that our observations provide a platform for further development of molecular photonic/electronic materials based on porphyrin arrays.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.490-497
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• 2020

국내 아스팔트 포장 도로는 전체 포장의 약 90%이상을 차지하고 있으며, 건설구조물 중에서는 가장 광범위하게 시공되어지고 있다. 아스팔트 포장의 열전달 특성은 도심지 열섬효과(Heat island effect)에 원인이 되고 있으며, 높은 아스팔트 표면 온도 증가로 인해 파손에 원인이 되고 있다. 이처럼 본 연구에서는 열 변화에 민감한 포장 재료인 아스팔트 혼합물에 태양열 에너지 누적에 따른 열전달 특성 인자를 평가하였다. 평가한 아스팔트 혼합물은 3종류로 밀입도인 WC-2와 배수성 입도인 PA-13, 순환골재를 적용한 WC-2 입도에 대해서 열전달 특성인자(열전도도, 비열용량, 열확산율)와 열에너지 누적에 따른 열전도도변화를 평가하였다. 해당 연구에서 진행한 열누적에 따른 열전도도 실험과 HFM실험 비교 결과, 1.2~2.0배의 차이를 나타냈다. 이는 아스팔트혼합물이 열에너지 누적에 따라 열전도도가 변화한다는 것을 의미한다. 실험결과를 이용하여 아스팔트 혼합물의 표면온도와 입도에 따른 열전도도의 상관관계를 분석하였으며, WC-2 입도의 경우 로그형태의 상관관계를 PA-13의 입도의 경우 선형상관관계를 나타내고 있다. 향후 이러한 열전달 특성 인자는 열에너지에 의한 아스팔트 혼합물의 파손평가 및 모형 개발 연구에 활용 가능한 선행연구가 될 것이라 판단된다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제39권9호
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• pp.929-936
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• 2015

풍력터빈 블레이드의 후단, 나셀 상부에 설치되는 나셀 풍속계는 블레이드 회전에 따른 후류효과 및 나셀형상 등으로 인하여 풍력터빈에 입사되는 자연풍속과는 다른 왜곡된 풍속을 측정한다. 풍력터빈 출력성능의 신뢰성 확보를 위해서는 나셀풍속을 자연풍속으로 보정하는 나셀전달함수를 유도하여 성능곡선을 보정하여야 한다. 본 연구에서는 전라남도 비금도 북부 해안에 건설된 신안풍력발전소에서 지상기반 원격탐사 장비인 라이다(LiDAR)를 설치하여 나셀 풍속계와 동일 높이에서의 자연풍속을 측정하였다. 나셀풍속을 자연풍속으로 보정하는 기존의 단순회귀분석에 의한 선형 나셀전달함수를 개선하기 위하여 다중회귀분석에 의한 비선형 나셀전달함수를 유도하였다. 나셀전달함수로 계산한 보정풍속을 풍력터빈 출력곡선에 대입하여 산출한 이론 발전량과 실제 발전량의 잔차를 비교하여 개선효과를 검증하였다. 다중회귀분석 나셀전달함수는 단순회귀분석에 비해 풍속의 표준오차는 9.4% 감소하였으며, 발전량 잔차 분포의 평균은 6.5% 감소하여 개선효과가 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.131-139
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• 2014

주기가 약 1~3분인 외중력파는 항만 내의 계류선박의 거동해석 및 연안 표사이동 해석에 직접적인 영향을 미치는 인자이다. 먼 바다의 유의미한 외중력파가 항만으로 전파되어 증폭될 경우 대형선박의 하역작업을 중단시켜 경제적인 손실을 유발할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 포항신항의 항외 및 항내에서 약 5년 동안 동시 관측한 파랑 자료에 대한 통계분석 및 전달함수를 사용하여 항만 외부로부터 내부로의 외중력파 전파특성을 분석하였다. 전파 특성분석은 외중력파의 파고가 0.1 m 이상이 되는 사상만을 이용하였다. 통계적인 특성분석 결과, 항만 내부의 파고분포는 외부와 유사한 반면 주기분포는 항만 외부보다 분산이 컸다. 전달함수의 매개변수는 각각의 사상에 대하여 최적 추정하였다. 항만 내부의 파고 추정 평균 RMS 오차는 0.013 m 수준이었다. 추정 매개변수는 외중력파의 파고, 주기 및 파향의 선형조합 정보와 강한 상관관계가 있었다(R = 0.95). 본 연구에서 제안한 전달함수는 사전 예측된 외중력파 정보를 이용하여 항만 내부의 외중력파 정보를 빠르고 간단하게 추정할 수 있으므로 예상하지 못한 항만이용 제한에 따른 피해를 저감할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.