• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

Thermal plasma technology has been at the center of major developments over the past century. It has found numerous applications ranging from aerospace materials testing to nanopowder synthesis and processing. In the present review highlights of principal breakthroughs in this field are presented with emphasis on an analysis of the basic phenomena involved, and the potential of the technology for industrial scale applications.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.189-194
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• 2008

플라즈마 진단법 중 손쉽고 구동이 용이한 장점으로 인해 범용 플라즈마 진단 장치로 사용되는 랑뮤어 (Langmuir) 탐침법은 탐침이 직접 플라즈마 내에 삽입됨으로써 플라즈마를 간섭하기 때문에 플라즈마 고유의 특성을 변형시키는 약점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 대기압 아르곤 자유 연소 아크 (free-burning arc)에 삽입된 랑뮤어 탐침에 의한 교란 영향을 고찰하기 위하여 탐침 유무에 따른 열플라즈마 상태를 수치계산 하였고, 온도장과 속도장이 왜곡된 정도를 비교 분석하였다. 열플라즈마를 모델링하기 위하여 열유동장과 전자기장에 관한 두 종류의 지배방정식을 상용 CFD 프로그램과 자체 제작한 서브루틴을 이용하여 연계 계산하였다. 삽입된 탐침에 의해 열플라즈마 온도장은 탐침의 앞뒤에서 모두 플라즈마 축의 수직 방향으로 큰 변화를 나타내는 열적 교란이 발생되었다. 속도장에서는 탐침 선단의 정체 영역과 후단 후류 영역에서 유동 교란이 발생되었으며, 삽입 된 탐침의 영향이 국부적인 것이 아닌 플라즈마 유동장 대부분 영역에 영향을 미침을 확인할 수 있었다. 따라서 탐침법의 신뢰성을 높이기 위해서는 탐침 삽입에 의한 플라즈마의 열유체역학적 교란을 고려해야 한다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.48.4-48.4
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• 2019

Small-scale shear flows are ubiquitous in the universe, and astrophysical plasmas are often magnetized. We study the thermal condensation instability in magnetized plasmas with shear flows in relation to filamentary structure formation in cool structures in the universe, representatively solar prominences and supernova remnants. A linear stability analysis is extensively performed in the framework of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with radiative cooling, plasma heating and anisotropic thermal conduction to find the eigenfrequencies and eigenfunctions for the unstable modes. For a shear velocity less than the Alfven velocity of the background plasma, the eigenvalue with the maximum growth rate is found to correspond to a thermal condensation mode, for which the density and temperature variations are anti-phased (of opposite signs). Only when the shear velocity in the k-direction is near zero, the eigenfunctions for the condensation mode are of smooth sinusoidal forms. Otherwise each eigenfunction for density and temperature is singular and of a discrete form like delta functions. Our results indicate that any non-uniform velocity field with a magnitude larger than a millionth of the Alfven velocity can generate discrete eigenfunctions of the condensation mode. We therefore suggest that condensation at discrete layers or threads should be quite a natural and universal process whenever a thermal instability arises in magnetized plasmas.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.2506-2511
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• 2007

The coupled simulation is performed to find out the interaction of arc plasmas with surrounding materials in a thermal puffer plasma chamber. In order to be more realistic, PTFE nozzle ablation and Cu electrode evaporation, which are caused by high temperature of arc plasmas, are considered together. Pressure rise and temperature inside the chamber generated during the whole arcing history are investigated with the applied currents. It is very important to define how thermal flow and mass transfer are processing between the arc plasma and surrounding materials for further understanding complex physics inside the chamber. It is concluded that the result might be very useful to understand the mechanism happened inside and to design thermal puffer plasma chambers, but further experimental studies are required to verify the results for the more practical applications.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제54권11호
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• pp.527-532
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• 2005

During the last ten years the new interruption techniques, which use the arc energy itself to increase the pressure inside a chamber by the PTFE nozzle ablation, have displaced the puffer circuit breakers due to reduced driving forces and better maintainability. In this paper, we have investigated the thermal flow characteristics inside a thermal puffer type gas circuit breaker by solving the Wavier-Stokes equations coupled with Maxwell's equations for considering all instabilities effects such as turbulence and Lorentz forces by transient arc plasmas. These relative inexpensive computer simulations might help the engineer research and design the new interrupter in order to downscale and uprating the GIS integral.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 2002년도 제24회 KOSCO SYMPOSIUM 논문집
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• pp.179-184
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• 2002

Interaction between flames and non-thermal plasmas of DBD type has been experimentally investigated. Vigorous streamers were observed under flame conditions because of the increase of reduced field (electrical) at high temperature as well as the seeding of free electrons and ions generated inside the flame. Flame lengths were significantly shortened as the applied voltage increased on account of intense mixing by ionic winds and soot-induced flows. Flame luminosities severely decreased under plasma conditions, which means the reduction of soot, since the residence time was reduced because of the flame shortening. Temperature and major species concentrations measured by FTIR were not changed despite the plasma generation. which shows overall chemistries were not affected by non-thermal plasmas.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.117-126
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• 1998

In this study, the residue remaining on the silicon wafer during the oxide overetching using $C_4F_8/H_2$ helicon were plasmas and effects of various cleaning and annealing methods on the removal of the remaining residue were investigated. The addition of 30%$H_2$ to the C4F8 plasma increased the C/F ratio and the thickness of the residue on the etched silicon surface. Most of the residuse on the etched surfaces colud be removed by the oxygen plasmsa cleaning followed by thermal annealing over $450^{\circ}C$. Hydrogen-coataining residue formed on the silicon by 70%$C_4F_8/30%H_2$ helicon plasmas was more easily removed than hydrogen-free residue formed residue formed by $C_4F_8$ helicon wear plasmas. However, damage remaining on the silicon surface overetched using 70%$C_4F_8/30%H_2$ helicon plasmas was intensive and the degree of reocvery duing the post-annealing was lower.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.101-112
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• 2016

초음속 비행체의 항력 감소 기초 실험을 위한 플라즈마 분사장치의 특성에 대해 분석하였다. 플라즈마 종류는 고압에서 발생이 가능한 열 플라즈마가 적합하다. 열 플라즈마를 발생하기 위해 플라즈마 토치를 사용한다. 플라즈마 토치는 고압 고속 분사가 가능하기 때문에 플라즈마 분사 제트에 적합한 플라즈마 발생장치이다. 본 연구에서는 확보한 플라즈마 토치에 대해 분석 및 정리하였고 기초 연구를 수행하였다. 그 결과 플라즈마 제트 발생의 주요 변수로는 플라즈마 토치의 전극 간격과 공급 기체의 압력으로 고려되었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1989년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.145-148
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• 1989

Plasma diagnostics using Langmuir Probe is of wide application because of its simplicity in measurement of electron temperatures and densities. Current methods using simple circuit and analog meters, however, have troubles when they are applied to time-varying or thermal plasmas. To overcome these problems and expand the area of applicability, we have designed fast electronic voltage sweeping circuit in which we can detect digital data. Diagnostics using our digital Langmuir Probe is performed in various kinds of plasmas and the results are shown. Our method can be applied to measuring electron temperature and density of high temperature or time-varying plasmas. And we expect further knowledge of each state of plasma.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.196.2-196.2
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• 2016

The design and development procedures of SF6 gas circuit breakers are still largely based on trial and error through testing although the development costs go higher every year. The computation cannot cover the testing satisfactorily because all the real processes arc not taken into account. But the knowledge of the arc behavior and the prediction of thermal plasmas inside SF6 interrupters by numerical simulations are more useful than those by experiments due to the difficulties to obtain physical quantities experimentally and the reduction of computational costs in recent years. In this paper, in order to get further information into the interruption process of a SF6 self-blast interrupter, which is based on the combination of thermal expansion and arc rotation, gas flow simulations with a CFD-arc modeling are performed during the whole switching process such as high-current period, pre-current zero period, and current-zero period. Through the complete work, the temperature of residual arcs as well as the breakdown index after current zero should be a good criterion to predict the dielectric capability of interrupters.