• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.151-160
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• 2012

The advantages for using Monte Carlo methods to analyze full-core reactor configurations include essentially exact representation of geometry and physical phenomena that are important for reactor analysis. But this substantial advantage comes at a substantial cost because of the computational burden, both in terms of memory demand and computational time. This paper focuses on the challenges facing full-core Monte Carlo for keff calculations and the prospects for Monte Carlo becoming a routine tool for reactor analysis.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.368-372
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• 2011

The aerodynamic characteristics of the L-type side jet thruster are examined by using computational fluid dynamics methods. The critical design points of L-type side jet thruster with bent nozzle by 90degrees are studied in terms of the relation between side jet nozzle geometry and thrust efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.162-164
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• 2000

The numerical simulation of air movement in a room using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) requires a complicated set of input data, This includes physical data, such as space geometry, characteristics of supply air flow and contaminant source, etc. as well as computational domain. Among the input data, the boundary conditions related to the inlet are particularly crucial in order to achieve accurate computation results, although there are many other parameters which may also affect the results. (omitted)

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.19-26
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• 1998

The isoparametric spline finite strip method for degenerated shells is presented. In the formulation, both the geometry and the displacement field are represented by uniform cubic B-spline curves. Spline shell strip is degenerated stress-resultant shell with 6 dof at each node;and the penalty function method is used to incorporated the six dof,

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.117-124
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• 1998

New Thrie-Beam guardrail section has been developed. The Characteristic of its geometry, energy absorbing capability and response to impact has been studied and compared with those of conventional W-Beam guardrail system. To compare the response to impact computer simulation using Barrier Ⅶ program was made. Stretch tests and static loading tests were conducted for the performance verifications.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.167-176
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• 1994

A local remeshing algorithm using Delaunay property is developed for the analysis on the phenomenon of quasi-static crack propagation, which is a typical problem of accompanying constantly varying geometry. The algorithm performs both remeshing and refinement. The use of M-integral is demonstrated to simulate crack propagation under mixed mode with the edge spalling problem.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.159-165
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• 2004

Fuel cell makes electricity through chemical reaction. Bipolar-plate distribute hydrogen, oxidation using channel geometry condensation of water vapor inside channels of bipolar-plates lowers efficiency of fuel cell. Usually high pressured gas supply is used to solve the water condensation problem with serpentine type channel geometry. In this study, a new channel geometry shows feasible to minimize lowering efficiency due to water condensation through numerical and experimental analysis.

• Water for future
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.259-266
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• 1986

A numerical study of the process of wave deformation, such as reflection and transmission coefficients and wave forms with bottom change was carried out by Boundary Element Method using linear elements. It is assumed that the incident wave is normal and oblique to the bottom and the wave may be described by linear theory The accuracy of the computational scheme is investigated by comparing the results of other researchers in the following several cases. (1) Simple and sloping stepped bottom geometry (2) Submerged breakater type bottom geometry (3) Trench type bottom geometry

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.7-12
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• 2009

This paper presents a numerical study on the design of side-suction inlet geometry which is used for multi stage centrifugal pumps or inline centrifugal pumps. In order to achieve an optimum inlet geometry and to explain the interactions between the different geometric configurations, the three dimensional computational fluid dynamics and the design of experiment methods have been applied. Geometric design variables describing the cross sectional area distribution through the inlet were selected. The objective functions are defined as the non-uniformity of the velocity distribution at the passage exit which is just in front of the impeller eyes. From the 2k factorial design results, the most important design variable was found and the performance of the side suction inlet was improved compared to the base line shape.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.223-243
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• 1995

We describe the implementation of a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve the equations for idea! magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in cylindrical geometry. It is based on an explicit finite difference scheme on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme, which is a second-order-accurate extension of the Roe-type upwind scheme. Multiple spatial dimensions are treated through a Strang-type operator splitting. Curvature and source terms are included in a way to insure the formal accuracy of the code to be second order. The constraint of a divergence-free magnetic field is enforced exactly by adding a correction, which involves solving a Poisson equation. The Fourier Analysis and Cyclic Reduction (FACR) method is employed to solve it. Results from a set of tests show that the code handles flows in cylindrical geometry successfully and resolves strong shocks within two to four computational cells. The advantages and limitations of the code are discussed.