• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.953-967
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• 2017

In this paper, a complete station blackout (SBO) or complete loss of electrical power supplies is simulated and analyzed in a downward cooling 5-MW pool-type Material Testing Reactor (MTR). The scenario is traced in the absence of active cooling systems and operators. The code nodalization is successfully benchmarked against experimental data of the reactor's operating parameters. The passive heat removal system includes downward water cooling after pump breakdown by the force of gravity (where the coolant streams down to the unfilled portion of the holdup tank), safety flapper opening, flow reversal from a downward to an upward cooling direction, and then the upward free convection heat removal throughout the flapper safety valve, lower plenum, and fuel assemblies. Both short-term and long-term natural core cooling conditions are simulated and investigated using the RELAP5 code. Short-term analyses focus on the safety flapper valve operation and flow reversal mode. Long-term analyses include simulation of both complete SBO and long-term operation of the free convection mode. Results are promising for pool-type MTRs because this allows operators to investigate RELAP code abilities for MTR thermal-hydraulic simulations without any oscillation; moreover, the Tehran Research Reactor is conservatively safe against the complete SBO and long-term free convection operation.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.40-47
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• 2013

하이브리드 로켓은 고체로켓과 매우 흡사한 내부유동 특성을 가지고 있으므로 와류흘림(vortex shedding)은 하이브리드 로켓에서도 연소안정성에 영향을 미치는 중요한 인자로 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 예연소실에서 와류를 발생시켜 연료 표면와류와의 간섭과 연소특성 변화를 관찰하였다. 기본 형상과 디스크를 장착한 실험 결과, 5개의 주파수 특성이 관찰되었으며 이들은 각각 추진제의 열적지연에 의한 주파수, 디스크, 연료 단면, 후연소실 단면 변화에 의한 와류흘림과 관련된 주파수임을 확인하였다. 특히 디스크 1과 3의 결과를 비교해 보면 디스크 위치에 따라 변화하는 와류흘림이 연소실의 특정 주파수 특성과 상호 간섭하여 공진이 발생하기도 하지만, 또 다른 경우에는 어떠한 간섭도 일어나지 않는 것을 확인하였다. 이러한 선택적 공진현상은 하이브리드 로켓의 비선형 연소안정성 발생을 설명할 수 있는 중요한 메카니즘으로 판단된다.

• 천문학회지
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• 제36권spc1호
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• pp.75-81
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• 2003

Changes in the earth's climate depend on changes in the net sunlight reaching us. The net depends on the sun's output and earth's reflectance, or albedo. Here we develop the limits on the changes in the sun's output in historical times based on the physics of the origin of solar cycle changes. Many have suggested that the sun's output could have been $0.5\%$ less during the Maunder minimum, whereas the variation over the solar cycle is only about $0.1\%$. The frequencies of solar oscillations (f- and p-modes) evolve through the solar cycle, and provide the most exact measure of the cycle-dependent changes in the sun. But precisely what are they probing? The changes in the sun's output, structure and oscillation frequencies are driven by some combination of changes in the magnetic field, thermal structure and velocity field. It has been unclear what is the precise combination of the three. One way or another, this thorny issue rests on an understanding of the response of the solar structure to increased magnetic field, but this is complicated. Thus, we do not understand the origin of the sun's irradiance increase with increasing magnetic activity. Until recently, it seemed that an unphysically large magnetic field change was required to account for the frequency evolution during the cycle. However, the problem seems to have been solved (Dziembowski, Goode & Schou 2001) using f-mode data on size variations of the sun. From this and the work of Dziembowski & Goode (2003), we suggest that in historical times the sun couldn't be much dimmer than it is at activity minimum.

• 에너지공학
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.237-246
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• 2002

한국형차세대원자로 APR-1400의 안전감압계통이 작동하면 물, 공기 및 증기가 sparger를 통해 격납건물 내 핵연료재장전 수조로 차례로 방출된다. 방출 과정 중 생기는 여러 현상 중에서 수조 내의 공기 기포군은 저주파, 고진폭의 진동 하중을 발생하며, 주파수가 침수 구조물의 고유 주파수와 거의 같은 경우에는 구조물에 심각한 영향을 줄 수 있다. 이러한 현상은 복잡하기 때문에 주파수와 하중에 대한 규명은 주로 실험에 의존해 왔으며 수치해석적 연구는 이루어지지 않았다. 본 연구에서는 sparger를 통해 수조 내로 방출되는 공기 기포군의 거동에 대한 수치해석을 상용 열수력 해석 코드인 FLUENT Version 4.5를 사용하여 수행하였다. 다상유동 해석모델중 VOF(Volume Of Fluid)모델을 사용하여 물, 공기 및 증기 등의 다상유동을 모의하였다. 해석결과를 sparger 개발을 위해 ABB-Atom이 수행하였던 실험결과와 비교하여 만족할만한 결과를 얻었다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.53-62
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• 1999

MEMS(Microelectromechanical System) 기술분야에서 폭넓게 사용하고 있는 폴리실리콘 박막을 이용하여 폴리실리콘 미소 공진 구조체를 제작하였다. 폴리실리콘 증착은 저압기상화학증착 장비를 사용하여 대칭적 두께로 박막을 적층하였고 폴리실리콘의 응력과 응력구배를 최소화시키기 위한 적층, 도핑 방법 및 열처리에 따른 특성을 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 브리지 빔과 캔티레바 테스트 패턴을 제작하여 기계적 응력 특성을 측정하였으며, 아울러 공정 조건별 개별 시료에 대한 물성을 XRD, SIMS등으로 분석하였다. 공진 구조체는 대칭적 증착 구조를 가지며, 최종적으로 $6.5{\mu}m$의 두께로 적층되었다. 제작된 평면형 공진 구조체의 진동특성은 직류 15V, 교류 0.05V의 구동전압, 1000mtorr 압력에서 공진 진폭이 $5{\mu}m$ Q값이 1270임을 보였으며, 개발된 마이크로 폴리실리콘 공진체는 마이크로 자이로 및 가속도 센서에 응용될 수 있다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.465-472
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• 2003

Pd/Ge/Ti/Pt and Pd/Ge/Pd/Ti/Au ohmic contacts to n-type InGaAs were investigated for applications to AlGaAs/GaAs HBT emitter ohmic contacts. In the Pd/Ge/Ti/Pt ohmic contact minimum specific contact resistivity of $3.7${\times}$10^{-6}$ $\Omega$$\textrm{cm}^2$ was achieved by rapid thermal annealing at $^400{\circ}C$/10 sec. In the Pd/Ge/Ti/Au ohmic contact, minimum specific contact resistivity of $1.1${\times}$10^{-6}$ $\Omega$$\textrm{cm}^2$ was achieved by annealing at 40$0^{\circ}C$/10 sec but the ohmic performance was degraded with increasing annealing temperature due to the reaction between the ohmic contact materials and the InGaAs substrate. However, non-spiking planar interface and relatively good ohmic contact (high-$10^{-6}$ /$\Omega$$\textrm{cm}^2$) were maintained after annealing at $450^{\circ}C$/10 sec. Therefore, these thermally stable ohmic contact systems are promising candidates for compound semiconductor devices. RF performance of the AlGaAs/GaAs HBT was also examined by employing the Pd/Ge/Ti/Pt and Pd/Ge/Pd/Ti/Au systems as emitter ohmic contacts. Cutoff frequencies were 63.5 ㎓ and 65.0 ㎓, respectively, and maximum oscillation frequencies were 50.5 ㎓ and 51.3 ㎓, respectively, indicating very successful high frequency operations.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.2032-2039
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• 2005

The lattice Boltzman method (LBM) and the finite difference-based lattice Boltzmann method (FDLBM) are quite recent approaches for simulating fluid flow, which have been proven as valid and efficient tools in a variety of complex flow problems. They are considered attractive alternatives to conventional finite-difference schemes because they recover the Navier-Stokes equations and are computationally more stable, and easily parallelizable. However, most models of the LBM or FDLBM are for incompressible fluids because of the simplicity of the structure of the model. Although some models for compressible thermal fluids have been introduced, these models are for monatomic gases, and suffer from the instability in calculations. A lattice BGK model based on a finite difference scheme with an internal degree of freedom is employed and it is shown that a diatomic gas such as air is successfully simulated. In this research we present a 2-dimensional edge tone to predict the frequency characteristics of discrete oscillations of a jet-edge feedback cycle by the FDLBM in which any specific heat ratio $\gamma$ can be chosen freely. The jet is chosen long enough in order to guarantee the parabolic velocity profile of a jet at the outlet, and the edge is of an angle of $\alpha$=23$^{o}$. At a stand-off distance w, the edge is inserted along the centerline of the jet, and a sinuous instability wave with real frequency is assumed to be created in the vicinity of the nozzle exit and to propagate towards the downstream. We have succeeded in capturing very small pressure fluctuations resulting from periodic oscillation of the jet around the edge.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제42회 동계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.196-196
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• 2012

Graphene, two-dimensional one-atom-thick planar sheet of carbon atoms densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice, has grabbled appreciable attention due to its extraordinary mechanical, thermal, electrical, and optical properties. Based on the graphene's high carrier mobility, high frequency graphene field effect transistors have been developed. Graphene is useful for photonic components as well as for the applications in electronic devices. Graphene's unique optical properties allowed us to develop ultra wide-bandwidth optical modulator, photo-detector, and broadband polarizer. Graphene can support SPP-like surface wave because it is considered as a two-dimensional metal-like systems. The SPPs are associated with the coupling between collective oscillation of free electrons in the metal and electromagnetic waves. The charged free carriers in the graphene contribute to support the surface waves at the graphene-dielectric interface by coupling to the electromagnetic wave. In addition, graphene can control the surface waves because its charge carrier density is tunable by means of a chemical doping method, varying the Fermi level by applying gate bias voltage, and/or applying magnetic field. As an extended application of graphene in photonics, we investigated the characteristics of the graphene-based plasmonic waveguide for optical signal transmission. The graphene strips embedded in a dielectric are served as a high-frequency optical signal guiding medium. The TM polarization wave is transmitted 6 mm-long graphene waveguide with the averaged extinction ratio of 19 dB at the telecom wavelength of $1.31{\mu}m$. 2.5 Gbps data transmission was successfully accomplished with the graphene waveguide. Based on these experimental results, we concluded that the graphene-based plasmonic waveguide can be exploited further for development of next-generation integrated photonic circuits on a chip.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.369-378
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• 2012

A load-following operation in APR+ nuclear plants is necessary to reduce the need to adjust the boric acid concentration and to efficiently control the control rods for flexible operation. In particular, a disproportion in the axial flux distribution, which is normally caused by a load-following operation in a reactor core, causes xenon oscillation because the absorption cross-section of xenon is extremely large and its effects in a reactor are delayed by the iodine precursor. A model predictive control (MPC) method was used to design an automatic load-following controller for the integrated thermal power level and axial shape index (ASI) control for APR+ nuclear plants. Some tracking controllers employ the current tracking command only. On the other hand, the MPC can achieve better tracking performance because it considers future commands in addition to the current tracking command. The basic concept of the MPC is to solve an optimization problem for generating finite future control inputs at the current time and to implement as the current control input only the first control input among the solutions of the finite time steps. At the next time step, the procedure to solve the optimization problem is then repeated. The support vector regression (SVR) model that is used widely for function approximation problems is used to predict the future outputs based on previous inputs and outputs. In addition, a genetic algorithm is employed to minimize the objective function of a MPC control algorithm with multiple constraints. The power level and ASI are controlled by regulating the control banks and part-strength control banks together with an automatic adjustment of the boric acid concentration. The 3-dimensional MASTER code, which models APR+ nuclear plants, is interfaced to the proposed controller to confirm the performance of the controlling reactor power level and ASI. Numerical simulations showed that the proposed controller exhibits very fast tracking responses.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.267-275
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• 2001

Friction and wear properties of brake friction materials containing different metal fibers (Al, Cu or Steel fibers) were investigated. Based on a simple experimental formulation, friction materials with the same amount of metal fibers were tested using a pad-on-disk type friction tester. Two different materials (gray cast iron and aluminum metal matrix composite (MMC)) were used for disks rubbing against the friction materials. Results front ambient temperature tests revealed that the friction material containing Cu fibers sliding against gray cast iron disk showed a distinct negative $\mu$-v (friction coefficient vs. sliding velocity) relation implying possible stick-slip generation at low speeds. The negative $\mu$- v relation was not observed when the Cu-containing friction materials were rubbed against the Al-MMC counter surface. Elevated temperature tests showed that the friction level and the intensity of friction force oscillation were strongly affected by the thermal conductivity and melting temperature of metallic ingredients of the friction couple. Friction materials slid against cast iron disks exhibited higher friction coefficients than Al-MMC (metal matrix composite) disks during high temperature tests. On the other hand, high temperature test results suggested that copper fibers in the friction material improved fade resistance and that steel fibers were not compatible with Al-MMC disks showing severe material transfer and erratic friction behavior during sliding at elevated temperatures.