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A Study of Turbulence Generation Characteristics of Large Scale Vortex Flow Mixing Vane of Nuclear Fuel Rod Bundle (핵연료 집합체에서의 대형 이차 와류 혼합날개의 난류생성 특성에 관한 연구)

  • An Jeong-Soo;Choi Yong-Don
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.18 no.10
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    • pp.811-818
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    • 2006
  • Mixing vanes have been installed in the space grid of nuclear fuel rod bundle to improve turbulent heat transfer. Split mixing vanes induce the vortex flow in the cooling water to swirl in sub-channel of fuel assembly. But, The swirling flow decays rapidly so that the heat transfer enhancing effect limited to short length after the mixing vane. In the present study, the large scale vortex flow (LSVF) is generated by rearranging the mixing vanes to the coordinated directions. This LSVF mixing vanes generate the most strong secondary flow vortices which maintain about $35D_h$ after the spacer grid. The streamwise vorticity generated by LSVF sustain two times more than that split mixing vane.

Measurements of Transient Mixing Concentrations between Solid Powder and Liquid Fuel (고체분말/액체연료의 과도혼합 농도 분포 측정)

  • Doh, Deoghee;Yum, Jooho;Cho, Gyeongrae;Min, Seongki;Kim, Myungho;Ryu, Gyongwon;Yoo, Namhyun
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.678-687
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    • 2012
  • Concentration fields of solid powder in a liquid fuel were quantitatively measured by a visualization technique. The measurement system consists of a camcoder and three LCD monitors. The solid powder (glass powder) were filled in a head tank which was installed over a main mixing tank ($D{\times}H$, $310{\times}370mm$). The main mixing tank was filled with JetA1 fuel oil. With a sudden opening of the upper tank by pressurized nitrogen gas with 1.9 bar, the solid powder were poured into the JetA1 oil. An impeller type agitator was being rotated in the mixing with 700 rpm for the enhancements of mixing. Uniform visualization for the mixing flow field was made by the light from the three LCD monitors, and the visualized images were captured by the camcoder. The color images captured by the camcoder The color information of the captured images was decoded into three principle colors R, G, and B to get quantitattive relations between the concentrations of the solid powder and the colors. To get better fitting for the strong non-linearity between the concentration and the color, a neural network which has strong fitting performances was used. Analyses on the transient mixing of the solid powders were quantitatively made.

Neutrino Oscillation and S4 Flavor Symmetry

  • Park, Jong-Chul
    • Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.86-89
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    • 2018
  • Observations of neutrino oscillations are very strong evidence for the existence of neutrino masses and mixing. From recent experimental results on neutrino oscillation, we find that neutrino mixing angles are quite consistent with the so-called tri-bi-maximal mixing pattern, but the deviation from observational results is non-negligible. However, the tri-bi-maximal mixing pattern is still useful as a leading order approximation and provides a good guideline to search for the flavor symmetry in the neutrino sector. We introduce the $S_4$ permutation symmetry as a flavor symmetry to the standard model of particle physics with additional particle contents of heavy right-handed neutrinos and scalar fields. Finally, we obtain the tri-bi-maximal mixing pattern as a mixing matrix in the lepton sector within the suggested model. To derive the required unitary mixing matrix for the neutrino sector, the double seesaw mechanism is utilized.

Block Bootstrapped Empirical Process for Dependent Sequences

  • Kim, Tae-Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.253-264
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    • 1999
  • Conditinal weakly convergence of the blockwise bootstrapped empirical process for stationary sequences to the appropriate Gaussian process is reestablished particularly for severely dependent $\alpha$-mixing sequences. Issue of block size is discussed from the point of validity of bootstrap method.

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A Study on the Characteristics of Cylinder Wake Placed in Thermally Stratified Flow (I) (열성층유동장에 놓인 원주후류의 특성에 대한 연구 (1))

  • 김경천;정양범;김상기
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.690-700
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    • 1994
  • The effects of thermal stratification on the flow of a stratified fluid past a circular cylinder were examined in a wind tunnel. In order to produce strong thermal stratifications, a compact heat exchanger type variable electric heater is employed. Linear temperature gradient of up to $250^{\circ}C/m$ can be well sustained. The velocity and temperature profiles in the cylinder wake with a strong thermal gradient of $200^{\circ}C/m$ were measured and the smoke wire flow visualization method was used to investigate the wake characteristics. It is found that the temperature field effects as an active contaminant, so that the mean velocity and temperature profiles can not sustain their symmetricity about the wake centerline when such a strong thermal gradient is superimposed. It is evident that the turbulent mixing in the upper half section is stronger than that of the lower half of the wake in a stably stratified flow.

Concentration Changes of Wastewater Effluent Discharge in the Mixing Bone of Masan Sea Outfall (마산만 해양방류 혼합구역에서의 하수농도 분포 변화)

  • Kang See-Whan;You Seung-Hyup;Kim Sang-Ik;Oh Byung-Cheol;Park Kwang-Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2001
  • The concentration changes of discharged wastewater effluents due to ambient current flows and density stratifications in an outfall mixing zone have been investigated by using the outfall mixing zone analysis of Huang et al.[1996]. This analysis was applied to Masan sea outfall case and the concentration distributions of wastewater effluent discharges were simulated using three month period of current-meter data measured in the outfall site. Hourly concentration distributions of wastewater effluents were averaged for the period of 15 days which covers the flow conditions of the neap and the spring tidal currents in Masan Bay. The results show that the wastewater concentrations in the Masan outfall mixing zone were very low due to the higher dilution rates during the period of strong ambient currents and less density stratifications. The higher concentrations in the mixing zone were found in August because of strong density stratifications with low ambient currents. The mixing zone was extended to the west coast beach area because of major tidal current directions. This result can be used to explain the dynamical reasons for the depositional distribution of the contaminated sediments in Masan sea outfall area.

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STRONG LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS FOR ASYMPTOTICALLY NEGATIVE DEPENDENT RANDOM VARIABLES WITH APPLICATIONS

  • Kim, Hyun-Chull
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.29 no.1_2
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    • pp.201-210
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we obtain the H$\`{a}$jeck-R$\`{e}$nyi type inequality and the strong law of large numbers for asymptotically linear negative quadrant dependent random variables by using this inequality. We also give the strong law of large numbers for the linear process under asymptotically linear negative quadrant dependence assumption.

Distribution of Water Masses and Characteristics of Temperature Inversion in the Western Seas of Jeju Island in Spring (봄철 제주도 서부해역의 수괴 분포와 수온역전 특징)

  • Kang, So-Young;Moon, Jae-Hong
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.191-207
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    • 2022
  • Using the results of CTD casts made in Spring from 2017 to 2021, in this study we investigated the water mass distribution and occurrence of temperature inversion in the western seas of Jeju Island in spring. The distribution of water masses was characterized by cold and fresh water in the northwest and warm and saline water in the southeast, forming a strong thermohaline front running in the southwest-to-northeast direction. Strong temperature inversion mainly occurred in the frontal boundary when the cold water intrudes beneath the warm water at depths of 30-50 m. Analysis of the mixing ratio demonstrated that Jeju Warm Water is dominantly distributed in the western seas of Jeju Island, but its ratio can be modified depending on the southward extension of Yellow Sea Cold Water (YSCW). Results of in situ measurement showed that in 2020, the YSCW largely expanded to the western seas of Jeju Island, occupying approximately 40 % of the mixing ratio. Due to the expansion of YSCW, a strong thermohaline front was formed in the study area, thereby causing thick and strong temperature inversion. On the other hand, in 2018 the mixing ratio of YSCW was minimum (~18%) during the study period of 2017-2021, and thus a relatively weak frontal boundary was formed, without the occurrence of temperature inversion. The observational results also suggest that the interannual changes of water mass distribution and the associated temperature inversion in the western seas of Jeju Island are closely related with wind-driven Yellow Sea circulation in spring, which is the summer monsoon transition period.

LES of Turbulent Mixing of Non Reacting Flow in a Gas Generator

  • Lee, Chang-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.391-398
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    • 2008
  • LES analysis was conducted with in-house CFD code to investigate the turbulence evolution and interaction due to turbulence ring and splash plate in the gas generator. Though chemical reaction was not accounted for, the results can be useful in determining the turbulence characteristics generated by ring and plate. The calculation results show that the installation of turbulence ring can introduce additional turbulences and improve turbulent mixing in the downstream flow. However, the addition of splash plate in the downstream of TR brings totally different shape of perturbation energy and enstrophy distribution for turbulent mixing. This enhancement can be done by the formation of the intensively strong vorticity production and mixing behind the plate. Pressure drop was found to be a reasonable level of about 1% or less of initial pressure in all calculation cases. Also, calculation results revealed that the variation of TR shape and intrusion length did not change the characteristics of turbulent mixing in the chamber. Even though the effect of installation location of splash plate on the turbulent mixing is not investigated yet, calculation results conclude the addition of splash plate leads to the increase in turbulent mixing with an acceptable pressure drop.

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