• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2012

The characteristic features of solid oxide fuel cells are reviewed from the viewpoint of the thermodynamic variables to be developed inside cells/stacks particularly in terms of gradients of chemical potential, electrical potential and temperature and corresponding flows of air, fuel, electricity and heat. Examples of abrupt destruction of SOFC systems were collected from failures in controlling their steady flows, while continuous degradation was caused by materials behaviors under gradients of chemical potentials during a long operation. The local equilibrium approximation has been adopted in NEDO project on the durability/reliability of SOFC stacks/systems; this makes it possible to examine the thermodynamic stability/reactivity as well as mass transfer under the thermodynamic variable gradients. Major results of the NEDO project are described with a focus on degradation/deterioration of electrolyte and electrode materials.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.1649-1661
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• 2005

We consider. a horizontal static liquid layer on a planar solid boundary. The layer is evaporating when the plate is heated. Vapor recoil and thermo-capillary are discussed along with the effect of mass loss and vapor convection due to evaporating liquid and non-equilibrium thermodynamic effects. These coupled systems of equations are reduced to a single evolution equation for the local thickness of the liquid layer by using a long-wave asymptotics. The partial differential equation is solved numerically.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제12권S1호
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• pp.60-62
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• 2003

In this study we report the results of ab initio first-principles calculations to investigate the possibility of metamagnetic behavior in Fe$_3$Al alloy. We used the WIEN2k package of full-potential linearized-augmented- plane-wave method within the local-spin-density approximation to the density-functional theory. The exchange-correlation functional is the generalized-gradient approximation of Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof. The theoretical lattice constant, which is about 0.5% smaller than the experimental one, is obtained by minimizing the total energy. If the volume decreases about 9 % from the equilibrium, the total magnetic moment decreases abruptly from 4.6 $\mu_{B}$/f.u. to 4.0 $\mu_{B}$/f.u. Since this change is considerably large (∼14%), it is possible to measure by a simple high-pressure experiment at about 180 kbar.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제28권12호
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• pp.2019-2031
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• 2004

The least-squares formulation for rigid-plasticity based on J$_2$-flow rule and infinitesimal theory and its meshfree implementation using moving least-squares approximation are proposed. In the least-squares formulation the squared residuals of the constitutive and equilibrium equations are minimized. Those residuals are represented in a form of first-order differential system using the velocity and stress components as independent variables. For the enforcement of the boundary and frictional contact conditions, penalty scheme is employed. Also the reshaping of nodal supports is introduced to avoid the difficulties due to the severe local deformation near the contact interface. The proposed least-squares meshfree method does not require any structure of extrinsic cells during the whole process of analysis. Through some numerical examples of metal forming processes, the validity and effectiveness of the method are investigated.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제34권7호
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• pp.981-990
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• 2010

The main objective of this study is to investigate the fluid flow and the heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids using multi-phase thermal LBM and to realize theenhancement of heat transfer characteristics considered in the Brownian motion. In multi-phase, fluid component($H_2O$) is driven by Boussinesq approximation, and nanoparticles component by the external force gravity and buoyancy. The effect of Brownian motion as a random movement is modified to the internal velocity of nanoparticles(Cu). Simultaneously, the particles of both the phases assume the local equilibrium temperature after each collision. It has been observed that when simulating $H_2O$-Cu nanoparticles, the heat transfer is the highest, at the particle volume fraction 0.5% of the particle diameter 10 nm. The average Nusselt number is increased approximately by 33% at the particle volume fraction 0.5% of the particle diameter 10 nm when compared with pure water.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.193-203
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• 1983

The mixed convective heat transfer problems are characterized by the relatively significant contribution of buoyancy force to the transport processes of momentum and heat. Past analytical studies on this kind of problems have been carried out by employing either the conventional R-.epsilon. turbulence model which includes constant turbulent Prandtl number .sigma.$_{+}$ 1 or an extended R-.epsilon. turbulence model which takes account of the buoyancy effect in appropriate length scale equations. But in the latter case, the temperature variance .the+a.$^{2}$ over bar is approximated by a model under local equilibrium condition and the time scale ratio between velocity and temperature is assumed to be constant. These approximation is known to break down when the buoyancy effect is dominant. The present study is aimed at development of new computational turbulence closure level which can be applied to this rather complex turbulent process. The temperature variance is obtained directly by solving its dynamic transport equation and the time scale ratio which is variable in space is computed by a solution of a dynamic equation for the rate of scalar dissipation .epsilon.$_{\thetod}$ It was found that the computational results are in good agreement with available experimental data of wide range of unstable conditions.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2013

스핀 궤도 각운동량의 상호작용은 저차원계 자성물질에서 나타나는 여러 가지 특이한 현상들의 물리적 원인을 제공하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 최근 들어 자성 도핑을 이용한 열전 물질의 합금에 대한 관심이 높아지면서, 열전 및 위상 절연체(Topological Insulator) 등의 물리적 성질 결정에 중요한 역할을 하는 페르미 에너지 준위 부근에서의 전자구조에 대한 스핀 궤도 각운동량의 효과 연구가 관심을 끌고 있다. 본 연구에서는 가장 일반적인 열전 호스트 물질인 비스무스 텔루라이드의 격자 상수 및 부피 팽창률에 대한 스핀 궤도 각운동량 상호작용의 효과를 연구하기 위하여 모든 전자(all-electron) FLAPW(full-potential linearized augmented plane wave) 방법을 이용하여 전자구조 계산을 수행하였다. 국소밀도 근사법 및 일반 기울기 보정법의 서로 다른 교환상호작용 퍼텐셜을 채용하고, 수평격자 및 수직격자를 분리하여 변화시키는 구조최적화 계산을 통하여, 스핀-궤도 각운동량 상호작용의 효과가 격자상수 평형 값을 약하게 증가시키는 반면, 부피탄성률을 크게 감소시키는 영향을 주며, 그 효과는 구조적 이방성이 뚜렷한 비스무스 텔루라이드의 특성에 의하여 격자방향에 대한 의존성을 보인다는 것을 확인했다.