• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권5호
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• pp.1416-1428
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• 2021

Pebble flow characteristics can be significantly affected by the configuration of pebble bed, especially for HTGR pebble beds. How to achieve a desired uniform flow pattern without stagnation is the top priority for reactor design. Pebbles flows inside some specially designed pebble bed with arc-shaped contraction configurations at the bottom, including both concave-inward and convex-outward shapes are explored based on discrete element method. Flow characteristics including pebble retention, residence-time frequency density, flow uniformity as well as axial velocity are investigated. The results show that the traditionally designed pebble bed with cone-shape bottom is not the most preferred structure with respect to flow pattern for reactor design. By improving the contraction configuration, the flow performance can be significantly enhanced. The flow in the convex-shape configuration featured by uniformity, consistency and less stagnation, is much more desirable for pebble bed design. In contrast, when the shape is from convex-forward to concave-inward, the flow shows more nonuniformity and stagnation in the corner although the average cross-section axial velocity is the largest due to the dominant middle pebbles.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2023년도 학술발표회
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• pp.177-177
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• 2023

The impacts of dams on transboundary flow are complex and challenging to project and manage, given the potential moderating influence of a broad range of anthropogenic and natural factors. This study presents a global meta-analysis of 168 studies that examines the effect magnitude of dams on downstream seasonal, annual flow, and hydrological extremes risk on 39 hotspot transboundary river basins. The study also evaluates the impact of 13 factors, such as climate, basin characteristics, dams' design and types, level of transboundary cooperation, and socioeconomic indicators, on the heterogeneity of outcomes. The findings reveal that moderators significantly influence the impact of dams on downstream flow, leading to considerable heterogeneity in outcomes. Transboundary cooperation emerges as the key factor that determines the severity of dams' effect on both dry and wet season's flows at a significance level of 0.01 to 0.05, respectively. Specifically, the presence of water-supply and irrigation dams has a significant (0.01) moderating effect on dry-season flow across basins with high transboundary cooperation. In contrast, for wet-season flow, the basin's vulnerability to climate extremes is associated with a large negative effect size. The various moderators have varying degrees of influence on the heterogeneity of outcomes, with the aridity index, population density, GDP, and risk level of hydro-political tension being the most significant factors for dry-season flow, and the risk level of hydro-political tension and basin vulnerability to climate extremes being the most significant for wet-season flow. The results suggest that transboundary cooperation is crucial for managing the impacts of dams on downstream flow, and that various other factors, such as climate, basin characteristics, and socioeconomic indicators, have significant moderating effects on the outcomes. Thus, context-specific approaches are necessary when predicting and managing the impacts of dams on transboundary flow.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제27권9호
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• pp.1433-1438
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• 2006

An AsFlFFF channel was designed and built, and then tested for analysis of pullulans and proteins. Pullulans and proteins having various nominal molecular weights were injected at various conditions of the cross-flow rate ($F_c$) and the channel-out flow rate ($F_{out}$). The retention (measured by the retention ratio R) and the zone broadening (measured by the plate height H) were measured, and then compared with theory. When the incoming flow rate, $f_{in}$ (and thus $F_{out}$) was varied with $F_c$ fixed at 2.5 mL/min, the plate height measured for the pullulan with nominal molecular weight (M) of about 100,000 showed the trend expected by the longitudinal diffusion theory (H decreases with increasing flow rate). In contrast, when $F_{out}$ was varied with the flow rate ratio, $F_c/F_{out}$, fixed constant at 5, the plate height measured for the same sample showed the trend expected from the non-equilibrium theory (H increases with increasing flow rate). Calibration plots (log D vs. log M) obtained with pullulans and proteins were not coincide, probably due to the difference in molecular conformation, suggesting the analysis of pullulans and proteins using AsFlFFF requires independent calibration. It was found that the linearity of the protein-calibration plot was improved by using a buffer solution as the carrier.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제40권7호
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• pp.435-440
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• 2016

레이놀즈 수의 시간 증가율이 벽면난류 구조에 미치는 영향을 난류 채널유동에 대한 직접수치모사를 수행하여 조사하였다. 완전 발달된 $Re_{\tau}=180$의 난류 채널유동이 가속을 받게 되어 평균속도로 무차원화된 레이놀즈 수가 5600에서 13600까지 선형적으로 변화하게 된다. 다양한 가속 시간에 대한 계산을 수행하여 벽면난류에 대한 가속율의 효과를 파악하였다. 유량의 증가율이 큰 경우에는 우회 천이와 유사한 현상이 발견되었으며, 유량의 증가율이 낮은 경우에는 우회 천이 현상이 거의 나타나지 않았다. 본 연구 결과는 초기 레이놀즈 수와 최종 레이놀즈 수의 비 보다는 레이놀즈 수의 시간 증가율이 채널 내 과도유동에서의 우회 천이 현상 발생에 주요인자 임을 제시한다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2014년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.320-323
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• 2014

오늘날 교통환경의 고도화는 지능형 교통 시스템(Intelligent Transportation System)과 함께 진행되고 있으며 차량용 블랙박스, 모바일기기 등의 대중화와 함께 안전하고 편리한 서비스를 제공하는데 일조하고 있다. 교통상황은 다양한 원인에 의해 시시각각 변화하며, 특히 갑작스러운 폭우, 우박, 눈길 등과 같이 공공의 힘으로 제어할 수 없는 외부 요인으로 인해 운전자가 이를 대비하지 못하여 큰 사고로 이어지는 경우가 비일비재하다. 이를 방지하기 위해 운전자간 실시간으로 기상정보를 전달하는 시스템이 필요하다. 본 논문은 실시간 기상정보전달을 위한 기상정보 검지알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 알고리즘은 와이퍼의 움직임과 맑은날의 히스토그램 간 Contrast를 이용하여 기상상황을 검지한다. 일반적으로 악천후 상황에서 와이퍼를 사용하게 되며, 눈이나 비 등에 따라 다른 Contrast값을 가지게 된다. 이를 이용해 맑은 상황, 눈이 오는 상황, 눈이 쌓인 상황, 비오는 상황 등을 판단하였다. 우선, 연산량을 줄이기 위해 와이퍼를 검지할 수 있는 최소영역을 ROI(Region Of Interest)로 지정하고, 차량 와이퍼의 밝기를 임계값으로 하는 Thresholding 연산을 통해 와이퍼를 검출하였다. 또한, 맑은 날과 악천후상황의 Value 값을 이용해 Contrast를 구하였으며 이를 통해 각각의 기상상황을 구별하였다. 실험결과 비오는 상황은 약 87%, 눈이 내리는 상황은 약 82% 검지율을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.91-101
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• 2011

관류 자기공명영상은 크게 외인성과 내인성 조영제를 사용하는 방법으로 나눌 수 있고, 외인성 조영제를 사용하는 방법으로는 DSC 와 DCE 방법이 있으며, 내인성 조영제를 사용하는 방법으로는 ASL 이 있다. 이들 관류 자기공명영상 방법들은 환자의 상태와 나타내고자 하는 영상인자에 따라 선별적으로 최적화되어 사용되어야 한다. 그 예로 급성 뇌졸중 환자의 경우 매우 빠른 영상획득이 최우선적인 인자이므로 DSC 가 주로 이용되고 있고, 뇌종양 환자의 경우 여러 물리적 인자를 고려한 DSC 혹은 DCE 스캔이 필요하다. 또한 소아나 가임여성 및 신장병질환이 있는 경우는 ASL 을 이용되고 있다. 관류 자기공명영상 기술은 방사성 물질을 전혀 사용하지 않아 약물효과의 평가와 기타 치료 효과를 이해하는데 많은 응용이 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2009

Background: Transforaminal epidural injection (TEI) may be useful to treat unilateral pain that has a dermatomal distribution. In this approach, the needle tip can be placed closer to the dorsal root ganglion and ventral aspect of the nerve root. However many studies have reported that serious complications following TEI occurred more frequently when it was conducted at the cervical level. One of the presumptive mechanisms of the complication is intravascular injection. Therefore this study was conducted to identify the incidence of complications in response to intravascular injections at cervical segments. Methods: This study included all patients, who visited our pain clinic and had radicular symptoms or herpes zoster associated pain. All procedures were conducted under fluoroscopic guidance with contrast enhancement by one of the authors. After the ideal needle position was confirmed by biplanar fluoroscopy, the blood aspiration through the needle hub was evaluated, and a 3 ml mixture of nonionic contrast (2 ml) with normal saline (1 ml) was injected at a rate of 0.3-0.5 ml/sec continuously under real time fluoroscopic visualization. We then classified the contrast spreading pattern as neural, simultaneous neural and vascular, or vascular. Results: A total 71 cervical TEIs were performed. In 26 cases (36.6%), the contrast only spread to the nerve sheath. However, 45 cases (63.4%) showed an intravascular spreading pattern, 37 (52.1%) of which showed a neural and vascular pattern and 8 (11.3%) of which showed only a vascular pattern. Conclusions: Approximately two thirds of the cases of cervical TEI were found to lead to intravascular spreading, which is much higher than the incidence reported in previous studies.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.21-35
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• 2017

Hydrogen peroxide is being considered as a monopropellant in micropropulsion systems for the next generation of miniaturized satellites ('nanosats') due to its high energy density, modest specific impulse and green characteristics. Efforts at the University of Vermont have focused on the development of a MEMS-based microthruster that uses a novel slug flow monopropellant injection scheme to generate thrust and impulse-bits commensurate with the intended micropropulsion application. The present study is a computational effort to investigate the initial decomposition of the monopropellant as it enters the catalytic chamber, and to compare the impact of the monopropellant injection scheme on decomposition performance. Two-dimensional numerical studies of the monopropellant in microchannel geometries have been developed and used to characterize the performance of the monopropellant before vaporization occurs. The results of these studies show that monopropellant in the lamellar flow regime, which lacks a non-diffusive mixing mechanism, does not decompose at a rate that is suitable for the microthruster dimensions. In contrast, monopropellant in the slug flow regime decomposes 57% faster than lamellar flow for a given length, indicating that the monopropellant injection scheme has potential benefits for the performance of the microthruster.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.35-42
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• 2009

The flow and heat/mass transfer characteristics on the squealer tip surface of a high-turning turbine rotor blade have been investigated at a Reynolds number of $2.09{\times}10^5$, by employing the oil-film flow visualization and naphthalene sublimation technique. The squealer rim height-to-chord ratio and tip gap height-to-chord ratio are fixed as typical values of $h_{st}/c$ = 5.5% and h/c = 2.0%, respectively, for turbulence intensities of Tu = 0.3% and 15%. The results show that the near-wall flow phenomena within the cavity of the squealer tip are totally different from those over the plane tip. There are complicated backward flows from the suction side to the pressure side near the cavity floor, in contrast to the plane tip gap flows moving toward the suction side after flow separation/reattachment. The squealer tip provides a significant reduction in tip surface thermal load with less severe gradient compared to the plane tip. In this study, the tip surface is divided into six different regions, and transport phenomena at each region are discussed in detail. The mean thermal load averaged over the squealer cavity floor is augmented by 7.5 percents under the high inlet turbulence level.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.1377-1382
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• 2004

Flow fields in a half ducted propeller fan have been investigated by three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations and a vortex core identification technique. The simulation at the design operating condition shows that the tip vortex onset point is located at 30 percent tip chord of the suction surface on the blade tip. There is no interaction between the tip vortex and the adjacent blade, so that the tip vortex smoothly convects to the rotor exit. However, the high vorticity in the tip vortex causes the wake and the tip leakage flow to be twined around the tip vortex and to interact with the pressure surface of the adjacent blade. This flow behavior corresponds well with experimental results by Laser Doppler Velocimetry. On the contrary, the simulation at the low-flowrate operating condition shows that the tip vortex onset point is located at the 60 percent tip chord of the suction surface. In contrast to the design operating condition, the tip vortex grows almost tangential direction, and impinges directly on the pressure surface of the adjacent blade.