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Comparison of Injection Uniformity as the Dividing Plate Installation in Fuel Manifold (연료 매니폴드내의 분리판 장착에 따른 분사균일성 비교)

  • Yoo Doc-Koon;Cho Won-Kook;Seol Woo-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.130-134
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    • 2006
  • The injection uniformity of the fuel manifold in a liquid rocket engine has been analyzed with dividing plates to improve the cooling performance at the face plate. Three dimensional computational fluid dynamics analysis has been performed to compare the injection uniformity for 5 candidate designs and has been verified to compare with the measured data for the optimal manifold design. For the case I and II, the coolant mass flux increases as the whole working fluid is enforced to flow under the dividing plate. The injection uniformity decreases due to the variation of mass flux at the end of dividing plate and the concentration of mass flow rate at the center of manifold. However case III and IV have uniform injection performance due to reduced mass flux concentration as the coolant can flow along both upper passage and lower passage of the dividing plate. Among the candidate designs, case IV is thought to be the optimal dividing plate with regard to cooling performance and injection uniformity.

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Uncontrolled Manifold Analysis of Whole Body CoM of the Elderly: The Effect of Training using the Core Exercise Equipment

  • Park, Da Won;Koh, Kyung;Park, Yang Sun;Shim, Jae Kun
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.213-218
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    • 2018
  • Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the core muscle strength enhancement of the elderly on 8 weeks training using the core exercise equipment for the elderly on the ability to control the whole-body center of mass in posture stabilization. Method: 16 females (10 exercise group, 6 control group) participated in this study. Exercise group took part in the core strength training program for 8 weeks with total of 16 repetitions (2 repetitions per week) using a training device. External perturbation during standing as pulling force applied at the pelvic level in the anterior direction was provided to the subject. In a UCM model, the controller selects within the space of elemental variables a subspace (a manifold, UCM) corresponding to a value of a performance variable that needs to be stabilized. In the present study, we were interested in how movements of the individual segment center of mass (elemental variables) affect the whole-body center of mass (the performance variable) during balance control. Results: At the variance of task-irrelevant space, there was significant $test^*$ group interactions ($F_{1,16}=7.482$, p<.05). However, there were no significant main effect of the test ($F_{1,16}=.899$, p>.05) and group ($F_{1,16}=1.039$, p>.05). At the variance of task-relevant space, there was significant $test^*$ group interactions ($F_{1,16}=7.382$, p<.05). However, there were no significant main effect of the test ($F_{1,16}=.754$, p>.05) and group ($F_{1,16}=1.106$, p>.05). Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the 8 weeks training through the core training equipment for the elderly showed a significant decrease in the $Vcm_{TIR}$ and $Vcm_{TR}$. This result indicates that the core strength training affects the trunk stiffness control strategy to maintain balance in the standing position by minimizing total variability of individual segment CMs.

Cooling Performance Enhancement of a Rocket Engine Injector Face Plate (로켓엔진 분사면의 냉각성능 향상)

  • Cho Won Kook;Seol Woo Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.92-100
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    • 2005
  • An optimal fuel manifold is suggested to improve the cooling performance of an injector face plate. The cooling performance at the center area of the injector face plate is to be augmented while the spatial injection uniformity is maintained. The comparison of the cooling performance of f candidates gives the conclusion that the dividing plate from 2-3 injector .ow to 9-10 injector. row is an optimal. The maximum face plate temperature decreases by 27$\%$ while the injection uniformity is close to that of the original design. The pressure drop in the fuel manifold of the optimal design is also same as the original design.

Operating Characteristics of Advanced 500W class Anode-supported Flat Tubular SOFC stack in KIER (500W 급 연료극 지지체 평관형 고체산화물연료전지 스택의 운전 특성)

  • Lim, Tak-Hyoung;Kim, Gwan-Yeong;Park, Jae-Layng;Song, Rak-Hyun;Lee, Seung-Bok;Shin, Dong-Ryul
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.193-198
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    • 2007
  • KIER has been developing the anode supported flat tubular SOFC stack for the intermediate temperature $(700{\sim}800^{\circ}C)$ operation. for this purpose, we have first fabricated anode supported flat tubular cells by the optimization between the current collecting method and the induction brazing process. After that we designed the compact fuel & air manifold by adopting the simulation technique to uniformly supply fuel & air gas and the unique seal & insulation method to make the more compact stack. For making stack, the prepared anode-supported flat tubular cells with effective electrode area of $90cm^2$ of connected in series with 12 modules, in which one module consists of two cells connected in parallel. The performance of stack in 3 % humidified $H_2$ and air at $800^{\circ}C$ shows maximum power of 507 W. Through these experiments, we obtained basic & advanced technology of the anode-supported flat tubular cell and established the proprietary concept of the anode-supported flat tubular SOFC stack in KIER.

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On the Dynamics of Multi-Dimensional Lotka-Volterra Equations

  • Abe, Jun;Matsuoka, Taiju;Kunimatsu, Noboru
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1623-1628
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    • 2004
  • In the 3-dimensional cyclic Lotka-Volterra equations, we show the solution on the invariant hyperplane. In addition, we show the existence of the invariant hyperplane by the center manifold theorem under the some conditions. With this result, we can lead the hyperplane of the n-dimensional cyclic Lotka-Volterra equaions. In other section, we study the 3- or 4-dimensional Hamiltonian Lotka-Volterra equations which satisfy the Jacobi identity. We analyze the solution of the Hamiltonian Lotka- Volterra equations with the functions called the split Liapunov functions by [4], [5] since they provide the Liapunov functions for each region separated by the invariant hyperplane. In the cyclic Lotka-Volterra equations, the role of the Liapunov functions is the same in the odd and even dimension. However, in the Hamiltonian Lotka-Volterra equations, we can show the difference of the role of the Liapunov function between the odd and the even dimension by the numerical calculation. In this paper, we regard the invariant hyperplane as the important item to analyze the motion of Lotka-Volterra equations and occur the chaotic orbit. Furtheremore, an example of the asymptoticaly stable and stable solution of the 3-dimensional cyclic Lotka-Volterra equations, 3- and 4-dimensional Hamiltonian equations are shown.

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Casting Simulation on the Integrated Twin-Scroll Turbine Housing with Exhaust Manifold

  • Kang, Ho-Jeong;Yun, Pil-Hwan;Cheon, Joo-Yong;Kim, Hyo-Jung;Kim, Chung-Min;Park, Jin-Young
    • Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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    • v.37 no.6
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    • pp.173-180
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, the casting design of the integrated twin-scroll turbine housing with exhaust manifold using stainless steel is investigated. Due to the complexity in its geometry and the poor castability of stainless steel, it is more crucial to set up the appropriate casting design to avoid casting defects. Gas porosity and shrinkage formation with the changes of gating systems (one-/two-side), riser conditions and pouring temperatures are examined via casting simulation and virtual castings. Simulation results show that two-side gating system produced better quality casting than that of one-side gating system, minimizing the gas content of the castings and it is also verified by X-ray analysis for the virtual castings. For the changes of riser conditions and pouring temperatures in the two-side gating system, it is found that the change of the height of two risers plays an important role in obtaining the best quality by reducing shrinkage defects.

Design of Optimal Idle Speed Controller by Sliding Mode Observer (슬라이딩 모드 관측기에 의한 최적의 공회전 제어기 설계)

  • Lee, Young-Choon;Lee, Seong-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.18 no.10
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    • pp.161-167
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    • 2001
  • This paper presents an approach to nonlinear engine idle controller and intake manifold absolute pressure(MAP) observer based on mean torque production model. A stable engine idle speed is important in that the unstable engine Idle mode can make engine to drooping or stall state. A sliding fuzzy controller has been designed to control engine idle speed under load disturbance. A sliding observer is also developed to estimate the intake manifold absolute pressure and compared with the actual MAP sensor value. The sliding mode observer has shown good robustness and good tracking performance. The inputs of sliding fuzzy controller are the errors of rpm and MAP. The output is a duty cycle(DC) for driving a idle speed control valve(ISCV).

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Using Central Manifold Theorem in the Analysis of Master-Slave Synchronization Networks

  • Castilho, Jose-Roberto;Carlos Nehemy;Alves, Luiz-Henrique
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.197-202
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    • 2004
  • This work presents a stability analysis of the synchronous state for one-way master-slave time distribution networks with single star topology. Using bifurcation theory, the dynamical behavior of second-order phase-locked loops employed to extract the synchronous state in each node is analyzed in function of the constitutive parameters. Two usual inputs, the step and the ramp phase perturbations, are supposed to appear in the master node and, in each case, the existence and the stability of the synchronous state are studied. For parameter combinations resulting in non-hyperbolic synchronous states the linear approximation does not provide any information, even about the local behavior of the system. In this case, the center manifold theorem permits the construction of an equivalent vector field representing the asymptotic behavior of the original system in a local neighborhood of these points. Thus, the local stability can be determined.