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COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF THE CANADIAN DEUTERIUM URANIUM MODERATOR TESTS AT THE STERN LABORATORIES INC.

  • KIM, HYOUNG TAE;CHANG, SE-MYONG
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.284-292
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    • 2015
  • A numerical calculation with the commercial computational fluid dynamics code CFX-14.0 was conducted for a test facility simulating the Canadian deuterium uranium moderator thermal-hydraulic. Two kinds of moderator thermal-hydraulic tests at Stern Laboratories Inc. were performed in the full geometric configuration of the Canadian deuterium uranium moderator circulating vessel, which is called a calandria tank, housing a matrix of horizontal rod bundles simulating calandria tubes. The first of these tests is the pressure drop measurement of a cross flow in the horizontal rod bundles. The other is the local temperature measurement on the cross section of the horizontal cylinder vessel simulating the calandria system. In the present study, the full geometric details of the calandria tank are incorporated in the grid generation of the computational domain to which the boundary conditions for each experiment are applied. The numerical solutions are reviewed and compared with the available test data.

The Effects of Thermal Stress on Seal Dynamics (시일 동특성에 미치는 열응력의 영향에 관한 연구)

  • 양보석
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.36-40
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    • 1991
  • The dynamic characteristics of the annular pressure seal employed in pump have been theoretically deduced with consideration of the effects of elastic deformation due to the thermal stress. The thermal deformation is developed for the two-dimensional steady thermal stress distribution in a infinite circular cylinder subject to heating of the seal and shaft surface into the surrounding fluid. To demonstrate this analysis, the effects of thermal stress on rotordynamic coefficients and logarithmic decrement for annular plain seals was shown.

Manufacture and experiments of thermal process for comparative study of adaptive control (적응제어방식 성능비교를 위한 실험실용 프로세스의 제작 및 실험)

  • 주성준;공재섭;박용식;김영철;양홍석
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1990.10a
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    • pp.333-338
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    • 1990
  • Most verification of improvements for adaptive control schemes are. dependent on computer simulations, but these computer simulations have much limitation, because (if complex actual conditions of system. This paper is concerned with the constructions of a thermal process system for experiments with various control schemes. This thermal process system is composed of a water tank, PC-XT, AD/DA converters power supply and thermal sensors. We estimate. the algorithms of pole-assignment adaptive control in the manifold disturbances and environments, changing system dynamics. The system equations for thermal press are included.

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Thermal modeling and analysis of single phase LSPM (단상 LSPM의 열해석 모델링 및 특성 해석)

  • Ham, Sang-Hwan
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.64 no.3
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    • pp.411-416
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents the thermal modeling and analysis of Line power Start Permanent magnet Motor (LSPM). Thermal analysis of electrical machines is important because temperatures that are consistently too high will reduce the life time of machines and may lead to serious failure. Coefficients of convection are calculated according to the types of operating conditions. And computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique is performed in order to predict thermal characteristic. The results are compared to the test results.

Modification of DC Flashover Voltage at High Altitude on the Basis of Molecular Gas Dynamics

  • Liu, Dong-Ming;Guo, Fu-Sheng;Sima, Wen-Xia
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.625-633
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    • 2015
  • The effect of altitude on thermal conduction, surface temperature, and thermal radiation of partial arc was investigated on the basis of molecular gas dynamics to facilitate a deep understanding of the pollution surface discharge mechanism. The DC flashover model was consequently modified at high altitude. The validity of the modified DC flashover model proposed in this paper was proven through a comparison with the results of high-altitude simulation experiments and earlier models. Moreover, the modified model was found to be better than the earlier modified models in terms of forecasting the flashover voltage. Findings indicated that both the thermal conduction coefficient and the surface thermodynamics temperature of partial arc had a linear decrease tendency with the altitude increasing from 0 m to 3000 m, both of which dropped by approximately 30% and 3.6%, respectively. Meanwhile, the heat conduction and the heat radiation of partial arc both had a similar linear decrease of approximately 15%. The maximum error of DC pollution flashover voltage between the calculation value according to the modified model and the experimental value was within 6.6%, and the pollution flashover voltage exhibited a parabola downtrend with increasing of pollution.

The Thermal Dynamics of Fe Ion on the M-type Ba-ferrite (M형 Ba-Ferrite에서 Fe 이온의 열 진동에 관한 연구)

  • Sur, Jung-Chul;Ghim, Jin-Soo;Choi, Jong-Wan
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.5-9
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    • 2011
  • M$\ddot{o}$ssbauer and Raman spectrum studies have been carried out on the 2b-site Fe ion in the Ba-ferrite (M-type). The thermal dynamics of Fe ion was analyzed by M$\ddot{o}$ssbauer spectra at different angles between the $\gamma$-ray direction and c-axis. The vibration on the 2b-site was more active compare to other direction and had very strong intensity in the Raman spectrum.

Transport Properties of Lennard-Jones Mixtures: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

  • Lee, Song-Hi
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.641-646
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    • 2008
  • Equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations in a canonical ensemble are performed to evaluate the transport coefficients of several Lennard-Jones (LJ) mixtures at a liquid argon states of 94.4 K and 1 atm via modified Green-Kubo formulas. Two component mixture of A and B is built by considering the interaction between A and A as the attractive (A) potential, that between A and B as the attractive potential (A), and that between B and B as the repulsive potential (R), labelled as AAR mixture. Three more mixtures - ARA, ARR, and RAR are created in the same way. The behavior of the LJ energy and the transport properties for all the mixtures is easily understood in terms of the portion of attractive potential (A %). The behavior of the thermal conductivities by the translational energy transport due to molecular motion exactly coincides with that of diffusion constant while that of the thermal conductivities by the potential energy transport due to molecular motion is easily understood from the fact that the LJ energy of AAR, ARR, and RAR mixtures increases negatively with the increase of A % from that of the pure repulsive system while that of ARA changes rarely.

Analysis on Thermal Boundary Resistance at the Interfaces in Superlattices by Using the Molecular Dynamics (분자동역학법을 이용한 초격자 내부의 경계면 열저항의 해석)

  • Choi, Soon-Ho;lee, Jung-Hye;Choi, Hyun-Kue;Yoon, Seok-Hun;Oh, Cheol;Kim, Myoung-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.1382-1387
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    • 2004
  • From the viewpoint of a macro state, there is no thermal boundary resistance (TBR) at an interface if both surfaces at an interface are perfectly contacted. However, recent molecular dynamics (MD) studies reported that there still exists the TDR at the interface in an ideal epitaxial superlttice. Our previous studies suggested the model to predict the TBR not only quantitatively also qualitatively in superlattices. The suggested model was based on the classical theory of a wave reflection, and provided highly satisfactory results for an engineering purpose. However, it was not the complete model because our previous model was derived by considering only the effects from a mass ratio and a potential ratio of two species. The interaction of two species presented by the Lennard-Jones (L-J) potential is governed by the mutual ratio of the masses, the potential well depths, and the diameters. In this study, we performed the preliminary simulations to investigate the effect resulting from the diameter ratio of two species for the completion of our model and confirmed that it was also a ruling factor to the TBR at an interface in superlattices.

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Numerical Study on the Thermal Stratification Behavior in Underground Rock Cavern for Thermal Energy Storage (TES) (열에너지 저장을 위한 지하 암반공동 내 열성층화 거동에 대한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Park, Do-Hyun;Kim, Hyung-Mok;Ryu, Dong-Woo;Choi, Byung-Hee;SunWoo, Choon;Han, Kong-Chang
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.188-195
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    • 2012
  • Using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, FLUENT, the present study investigated the thermal stratification behavior of Lyckebo storage in Sweden, which is the very first large-scale rock cavern for underground thermal energy storage. Heat transfer analysis was carried out for numerical cases with different temperatures of the surrounding rock mass in order to examine the effect of rock mass heating due to periodic storage and production of thermal energy on thermal stratification and heat loss. The change of thermal stratification with respect to time was quantitatively examined based on an index of the degree of stratification. The results of numerical simulation showed that in the early operational stage where the surrounding rock mass was less heated, the stratification of stored thermal energy was rapidly degraded over time, but the degradation and heat loss tended to reduce as the surrounding rock mass was heated during a long period of operation.

Basic Investigation into the Validity of Thermal Analysis of 18650 Li-ion Battery Pack Using CFD Simulation (CFD 해석을 적용한 18650 리튬-이온 배터리 팩의 열 해석 신뢰도 기초 분석)

  • SIM, CHANG-HWI;KIM, HAN-SANG
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.489-497
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    • 2020
  • The Li-ion battery is considered to be one of the potential power sources for electric vehicles. In fact, the efficiency, reliability, and cycle life of Li-ion batteries are highly influenced by their thermal conditions. Therefore, a novel thermal management system is highly required to simultaneously achieve high performance and long life of the battery pack. Basically, thermal modeling is a key issue for the novel thermal management of Li-ion battery systems. In this paper, as a basic study for battery thermal modeling, temperature distributions inside the simple Li-ion battery pack (comprises of nine 18650 Li-ion batteries) under a 1C discharging condition were investigated using measurement and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation approaches. The heat flux boundary conditions of battery cells for the CFD thermal analysis of battery pack were provided by the measurement of single battery cell temperature. The temperature distribution inside the battery pack were compared at six monitoring locations. Results show that the accurate estimation of heat flux at the surface of single cylindrical battery is paramount to the prediction of temperature distributions inside the Li-ion battery under various discharging conditions (C-rates). It is considered that the research approach for the estimation of temperature distribution used in this study can be used as a basic tool to understand the thermal behavior of Li-ion battery pack for the construction of effective battery thermal management systems.