• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.2873-2878
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• 2007

The mixing vanes attached to the spacer grid of rod bundles are used to improve the heat transfer in heat exchanger devices by controlling the characteristics of the flow structures and turbulence. In this study, velocity patterns induced by two types of mixing vane(split and swirl vane) are measured by the PIV technique to better understand how to effect on the cross and secondary vortex flow patterns in $5{\times}$ rod bundle simulating the fuel assembly of the nuclear reactor. A successful measurement of the lateral velocity patterns was conducted using a specially designed beam sheet generator and experimental loop at KAERI. As the result, we found that for the cross flow between subchannels, the split vane is more effective than the swirl vane, while for the secondary vortex flow in each subchannel, the swirl vane's one is larger and longer than split vane's one.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.587-594
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• 2009

In the paper the effect of a stern-plate attached to a ship was taken into account. The relationship between the trim angle of a ship and the wave-resistance coefficient induced by the a stern-plate was studied using the potential flow analysis method. Numerical algorithm was described using the panel method and the vortex lattice method(VLM) to simulate the flow phenomena around a ship. The non-linearity of the free surface boundary conditions were considered using the iterative method and the IGE-GMRES(Incomplete Gaussian Elimination-The Generalized Minimal RESidual) algorithm was adopted to solve the linear equation at each iterative step. Numerical calculations were carried out to investigate the validity of the adopted algorithm using KCS(KRISO 3600 TEU Container) hull. Possible cases for attachment of the plate were checked. The results showed that the numerical algorithm could be physically appropriate.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2016

배열회수 보일러의 전열관군은 외부에 고온의 배기가스가 흐르면서 유동 유발 진동을 야기 시키며 배열회수 보일러의 전열관군에서 파손을 야기할 수 있어서 열교환기의 구조적 안정성을 위해 열교환기의 전열관군에서 유동 유발 진동 특성을 규명할 필요가 있다. 일반적인 열교환기 전열관군에서 유동 유발 진동에 관한 실험적 연구는 기존에 많이 진행되어 오고 있으며 단일 원관이나 전열관군의 원관들에서 유동 유발 진동에 대한 무차원 PSD(Power Spectral Density) 함수를 무차원 주파수인 Strouhal 수, fD/U의 함수로 도출된 실험적 결과들이 도출되어 있다. 본 연구는 배열회수 보일러에 사용하는 휜튜브 전열관군에서 유동 유발 진동 특성을 규명하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이러한 것을 위해 단일 휜튜브에서 비정상 상태 유동해석을 수행하여 주기적인 와동 발생 특성과 단일 휜튜브에서의 양력과 항력 변화 특성을 살펴보았다. 또한 단일 휜튜브에서 양력과 항력 변동 특성으로부터 유동 유발 진동에 따른 PSD 특성 결과를 도출하여 기존에 단순 원관에서 이루어졌던 연구들과 비교를 통해 단일 휜튜브 주위의 PSD 특성을 정립하였다.

• 에너지공학
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.211-216
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• 2015

배열회수 보일러의 전열관군은 외부에 고온의 배기가스가 흐르면서 유동 유발 진동을 야기 시키며 배열회수 보일러의 전열관군에서 파손을 야기할 수 있어서 열교환기의 구조적 안정성을 위해 열교환기의 전열관군에서 유동 유발 진동 특성을 규명할 필요가 있다. 일반적인 열교환기 전열관군에서 유동 유발 진동에 관한 실험적 연구는 기존에 많이 진행되어 오고 있으며 단일 원관이나 전열관군의 원관들에서 유동 유발 진동에 대한 무차원 PSD(Power Spectral Density) 함수를 무차원 주파수인 Strouhal 수, fD/U의 함수로 도출된 실험적 결과들이 도출되어 있다. 본 연구는 배열회수 보일러에 사용하는 휜튜브 전열관군에서 유동 유발 진동 특성을 규명하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이러한 것을 위해 단일 휜튜브 원관에서 비정상 상태 유동해석을 수행하여 주기적인 와동 발생 특성과 휜튜브 원관에서의 양력 변화 특성을 살펴보았다. 또한 휜튜브 원관에서 양력 변동 특성으로부터 유동 유발 진동에 따른 PSD 특성 결과를 도출하여 기존에 단순 원관에서 이루어졌던 연구들과 비교를 통해 휜튜브 원관 주위의 PSD 특성을 정립하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권12호
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• pp.3892-3901
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• 2021

The pressure drop of a moisture separator in a steam generator is the important design parameter to ensure the successful performance of a nuclear power plant. The moisture separators have a wide range of operating conditions based on the arrangement of them. The prediction of the pressure drop in a moisture separator is challenging due to the complexity of the multi-dimensional two-phase vortex flow. In this study, the moisture separator test facility using the air/water two-phase flow was used to predict the pressure drop of a moisture separator in a Korean OPR-1000 reactor. The prototypical steam/water two-phase flow conditions in a steam generator were simulated as air/water two-phase flow conditions by preserving the centrifugal force and vapor quality. A series of experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of hydraulic characteristics such as the quality and liquid mass flux on the two-phase pressure drop. A new prediction model based on the scaling law was suggested and validated experimentally using the full and half scale of separators. The suggested prediction model showed good agreement with the steam/water experimental results, and it can be extended to predict the steam/water two-phase pressure drop for moisture separators.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.1310-1323
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• 2023

A reactor coolant pump (RCP) is essential for transporting coolant in the primary loop of pressurized water reactors. In the advanced passive reactor, the absence of a long pipeline between the steam generator and RCP serves as a transition section, resulting in a non-uniform flow field at the pump inlet. Therefore, the characteristics of the pump should be investigated under non-uniform flow to determine its influence on the pump. In this study, the pressure pulsation characteristics were examined in the time and frequency domains, and the sources of low-frequency and high-amplitude signals were analyzed using wavelet coherence analysis and numerical simulation. From computational fluid dynamics (CFD) results, non-uniform inflow has a great effect on the flow structures in the pump's inlet. The pressure pulsation in the pump at the rated flow increased by 78-128.7% under the non-uniform inflow condition in comparison with that observed under the uniform inflow condition. Furthermore, a low-frequency signal with a high amplitude was observed, whose energy increased significantly under non-uniform flow. The wavelet coherence and CFD analysis verified that the source of this signal was the low-frequency pulsating vortex under the steam generator.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.63-68
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• 2011

The flow-field of a liquid-metal system is very important for the safety analysis and the design of the steam generator of liquid-metal fast breeder reactor. Dynamic neutron radiography (DNR) is suitable for a visualization and measurement of a liquid metal flow and a two-phase flow in a metallic duct. However, the three dimensional DNR techniques is not enough to obtain the velocity information in the wide channel up to now. In this research, a high speed DNR technique was applied to visualize the heavy liquid-metal flow field in the narrow channel with the HANARO-beam facility. The images were taken with a high frame-rate neutron radiography at 250 fps and analyzed with a Particle Image Velocimetry(PIV) method. The images were compared with the results of the commercial CFX code to study the feasibility of DNR technique for the measuring the heavy liquid-metal flow field. The PIV images could discern the turbulent vortex flow in the two-dimensional narrow channel.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.265-275
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• 1989

An experimental study of decaying swirl air flow has been obtained by tangential inlet in a straight tube with Reynolds number range 20,000~40,000. The friction factor, swirl angle, velocity profiles and turbulent intensity are measured by using micro-manometer and hot-wire anemometer. It is found that the swirl flow behaviors depend on the swirl intensity along the test tube.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제29권10호
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• pp.1139-1147
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• 2005

The shape optimal design of the plate-fin type heat sink with vortex generator is performed to minimize the pressure loss subjected to the desired maximum temperature numerically. Evaluation of the performance function, in general, is required much computational cost in fluid/thermal systems. Thus, global approximate optimization techniques have been introduced into the optimization of fluid/thermal systems. In this study, Kriging method Is used to obtain the optimal solutions associated with the computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The results show that when the temperature .rise is less than 40 K, the optimal design variables are $B_1=2.44\;mm,\;B_2=2.09\;mm$, and t=7.58 mm. Kriging method can dramatically reduce computational time by 1/6 times compared to SQP method so that the efficiency of Kriging method can be validated.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.504-507
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• 2009

The purpose of this work is to predict the low frequency aero-acoustic noise generated from the horizontal axis wind turbine, NREL Phase VI using large eddy simulation and Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings model provided in the commercial code, FLUENT. Calculated aerodynamic performances such as shaft torque and power are compared with experimentally measured value. Performance results show a good agreement with experimental data within about 0.8%. If the distance by two times is changed from 32D to 64D toward the downstream region, sound pressure level is reduced by about 6.4dB.