• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.635-641
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• 2016

Because of prohibitive data storage requirements in large-scale simulations, the memory problem is an obstacle for Monte Carlo (MC) codes in accomplishing pin-wise three-dimensional (3D) full-core calculations, particularly for whole-core depletion analyses. Various kinds of data are evaluated and quantificational total memory requirements are analyzed based on the Reactor Monte Carlo (RMC) code, showing that tally data, material data, and isotope densities in depletion are three major parts of memory storage. The domain decomposition method is investigated as a means of saving memory, by dividing spatial geometry into domains that are simulated separately by parallel processors. For the validity of particle tracking during transport simulations, particles need to be communicated between domains. In consideration of efficiency, an asynchronous particle communication algorithm is designed and implemented. Furthermore, we couple the domain decomposition method with MC burnup process, under a strategy of utilizing consistent domain partition in both transport and depletion modules. A numerical test of 3D full-core burnup calculations is carried out, indicating that the RMC code, with the domain decomposition method, is capable of pin-wise full-core burnup calculations with millions of depletion regions.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.1030-1040
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• 1998

One of the main unresolved issues in large-eddy simulation(LES) of wall-bounded turbulent flows is the requirement of high spatial resolution in the near-wall region, especially in the spanwise direction. Such high resolution required in the near-wall region is generally used throughout the computational domain, making simulations of high Reynolds number, complex-geometry flows prohibitive. A grid-embedding strategy using a nonconforming spectral domain-decomposition method is proposed to address this limitation. This method provides an efficient way of clustering grid points in the near-wall region with spectral accuracy. LES of transitional and turbulent channel flow has been performed to evaluate the proposed grid-embedding technique. The computational domain is divided into three subdomains to resolve the near-wall regions in the spanwise direction. Spectral patching collocation methods are used for the grid-embedding and appropriate conditions are suggested for the interface matching. Results of LES using the grid-embedding strategy are promising compared to LES of global spectral method and direct numerical simulation. Overall, the results show that the spectral domain-decomposition grid-embedding technique provides an efficient method for resolving the near-wall region in LES of complex flows of engineering interest, allowing significant savings in the computational CPU and memory.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.629-633
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• 2006

We investigated a new longitudinal acceleration wave decomposition method in time domain. The proposed method separates up- and down-stream waves with an axial strain and axial acceleration measured at a single point on the transmission path. The advantages such as low computation load and easy implementation would be possible by developing time domain under the following assumptions; low frequency range, uniform cross sectional area and elastic wave propagation. We confirmed the feasibility and performance of the method through experiment using Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB). The method can be effective in several applications, including active vibration control with wave view point, where real time wave decomposition is necessary.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2002년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.575-582
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• 2002

A new coupling method of Element-Free Galerkin Method(EFGM) and Boundary Element Method(BEM) using the domain decomposition method is presented in this paper. This proposed methodology is that the problem domain is decomposed into sub-domains being modeled by the EFGM and BEM respectively and the respective EFGM and BEM domains share a partially overlapped region over an entire domain. Then, the each sub-domain is separately computed and the variables on common region are iteratively updated until converging. It is an important note that in the developed coupling method, there is no need to combine the coefficient matrices of EFGM and BEM sub-domains, in contrast with the other conventional coupling methods. In the first part of this paper, a theory of EFGM and BEM is summarized, and then a brief introduction of domain decomposition method is described. Then, a new coupling method is presented. Also, patch test and Some numerical examples are studied to verify stability, accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method, in which numerical performance of the method is compared with that of conventional method such as EFGM-BEM variational coupling method, EFGM and BEM.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제17권3_4호
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• pp.445-466
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• 2004

In this paper, several modal identification techniques for output-only structural systems are extensively investigated. The methods considered are the power spectral method, the frequency domain decomposition method, the Ibrahim time domain method, the eigensystem realization algorithm, and the stochastic subspace identification method. Generally, the power spectral method is most widely used in practical area, however, the other methods may give better estimates particularly for the cases with closed modes and/or with large measurement noise. Example analyses were carried out on typical structural systems under three different loading cases, and the identification performances were examined throught the comparisons between the estimates by various methods.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2024

본 논문에서는 유동체를 해석할 수 있는 수치해석기법 중 하나인 SPH(Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics)의 병렬해석 알고리즘이 소개된다. 무요소법(meshless method)의 SPH는 연속체 거동을 입자기반으로 표현하기 때문에 컴퓨팅하는데 높은 자원을 요구한다. 그래서 병렬해석 알고리즘은 SPH 시뮬레이션에서 필수적으로 고려되어야 한다. 계산영역을 일정한 간격으로 분할시켜 독립적으로 해석하는 영역분할 알고리즘은 병렬해석 알고리즘 중에 가장 대표적인 방법이다. 그리고 그 중 Cartesian 좌표계의 영역분할 방법은 입자들의 좌표를 빠르고 편리하게 검색할 수 있는 장점이 있어, DEM(Discrete Element Method)이나 MD(Molecular Dynamics)에서 대중적으로 사용되고 있다. 그러나 SPH의 경우 입자들이 smoothing 길이 이내의 주위 입자 정보가 필요하기 때문에 분할 영역 간의 입자정보 공유가 중요하다. 그리고 이에 따른 CPU의 로드밸런스가 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 직교 영역분할의 크기를 동적으로 미소화 시켜 잉여 CPU가 발생하지 않도록 하는 높은 병렬효율성의 알고리즘이 제안되었다. 그리고 수치해석 모델을 통하여 효율성을 검증하였다. 유동체 모델에 대해 총 30 CPU까지 제안된 방법의 병렬효율성을 검토하였고, 28개의 물리적 코어 수까지 90%의 병렬효율성을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2006

In this paper a new shape reconstruction method that allows us to construct surface models from very large sets of points is presented. In this method the global domain of interest is divided into smaller domains where the problem can be solved locally. These local solutions of subdivided domains are blended together according to weighting coefficients to obtain a global solution using partition of unity function. The suggested approach gives us considerable flexibility in the choice of local shape functions which depend on the local shape complexity and desired accuracy. At each domain, a quadratic polynomial function is created that fits the points in the domain. If the approximation is not accurate enough, other higher order functions including cubic polynomial function and RBF(Radial Basis Function) are used. This adaptive selection of local shape functions offers robust and efficient solution to a great variety of shape reconstruction problems.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.2007-2015
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• 2005

A large-scale analysis to evaluate complex material and structural behaviors is one of interesting topic in diverse engineering and scientific fields. Also, the utilization of massively parallel processors has been a recent trend of high performance computing. The objective of this paper is to introduce a parallel process system which consists of general purpose finite element analysis solver as well as parallelized PC cluster. The later was constructed using eight processing elements and the former was developed adopting both hierarchical domain decomposition method and balancing domain decomposition method. Then, to verify the efficiency of the established system, it was applied for structural analysis of steam generator in nuclear power plant. Since the prototypal evaluation results agreed well to the corresponding reference solutions it is believed that, after reinforcement of PC cluster by increasing number of processing elements, the promising parallel process system can be utilized as a useful tool for advanced structural integrity evaluation.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권spc1호
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• pp.429-436
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• 2005

This paper presents a precise and stable time integration method for dynamic analysis of vibration or multibody systems. A total system is divided into several subsystems and their responses are calculated separately, while the coupling effect is treated equivalently as constant force during time steps. By using iterative procedure to improve equivalent coupling forces, a precise and stable solution is obtained. Some examples such as a seismic response and multibody analyses were carried out to demonstrate its usefulness.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.404-411
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• 2007

접촉 문제의 효율적인 유한요소 해석을 위하여 부영역, 공유면 및 접촉 공유면의 개념에 근거한 영역/경계 분할법을 제시하였다. 부영역과 공유면 또는 접촉 공유면을 결합하기 위한 등식 적합 조건을 벌칙 함수로 처리함으로써 모든 유효 강성 행렬이 양 정치화되므로, 역행렬과 같은 각종 행렬의 연산이 매우 간편해진다. 또한 전체 영역 형상이 복잡하더라도, 임의의 부영역으로 분할한 후 공유면에서의 절점 연속성을 고려하지 않고 각각의 부영역을 독립적으로 이산화할 수 있다. 간단한 수치 예제 해석을 통하여 본 기법의 기본적인 특성을 고찰하였다.