• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1231-1237
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• 1989

본 연구에서는 이러한 단열해석상의 문제점을 해결하기 위한 하나의 방식이 광방법으로서 적절한 가정을 도입하여 단열모델에 대한 해석적인 근사해를 시도하였다. 실제조건에 부합하면서도 간편하며 경제적인 해석방법의 확립은 VM 사이클로 작동되는 냉동기에 대한 최적설계의 중요한 기초가 될 것이다. 해석모델의 정립, 종속변수에 대한 근사해, 성능평가에 필요한 열역학적량들을 종속변수의 해석적 함수형태로 표시하는 과정을 내용에 포함한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.2358-2367
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• 1992

This paper deals with preliminary design conditions for a thermally actuated Vuilleumier refrigerator/heat pump. The previously reported approximate adiabatic analysis which is based on the 8-volume model makes it possible to evaluate exchanged heats per cycle as well as cyclic pressure, temperature and mass variation of each working volume. Calculated results reveal not only there exists an optimum value for the phase angle and the swept volume ratio maximizing a specific thermal output, but also design parameters can be determined independently of each other. Under a given combination of operating temperature levels, the optimum conditions for refrigeration are different from those for heat pumping and the differences between two operating modes become larger with decreasing the dead volume ratio. Both the optimum phase angle and the optimum swept volume ratio are increased asymptotically toward 0.5 pi and 1.0 respectively, as the dead volume ratio approaches to unity. When a VM machine is used for cooling and heating simultaneously, the design parameters should be carefully determined to reach the best performance.

• International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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• v.6
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• pp.80-92
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• 1998

A third-order simulation model of a Vuilleumier{VM) heat pump has been developed. This model takes into account the major losses such as the heat conduction losses through regenerators and displacers, the pumping losses and the wall-to-gas heat transfer losses in active volumes, in addition to the heat exchanger and regenerator losses. The working volume was divided into 12 control volumes and the conservation equations of mass and energy were applied to each control volume. Pressure drops were considered in regenerators only. Thermodynamic behavior of the working gas in a VM heat pump was investigated and effects of the major losses and operating conditions on the performance of a VM heat pump were shown.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.1959-1970
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• 1996

Effects of oscillatory flow upon heat transfer characteristics have been studied experimentally for oscillating flow in a circular tube. The experimental apparatus was designed to simulate the heat exchangers of the Stirling or Vuilleumier cycle machines and the test section consists of heater and cooler. Measurements were presented of heat flux, axial wall temperature distribution, and radial temperature profile of the working fluid for several cases of oscillation frequency and swept distance ratio. The influences of two main parameters, frequency and tidal displacement of the oscillation were investigated. Then the heat transfer coefficient at the heater is obtained. The carried by the authors with a assumption of oscillatory laminar slug flow.