• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.7-12
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• 2010

We have developed a SPICE compatible model of thermoelectric devices, and a parameter extracting technique only by electrical and temperature measurement by using Harman method was proposed. The proposed model and parameter extraction technique do not require experimental data from thermal conductivity measurements. The maximum error between extracted parameters extracted by proposed method and conventional method was about 14%, which is not a severe mismatch for real application. The proposed model is applicable to design of both for thermoelectric coolers and thermo electric generators.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.27.1-27.1
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.05b
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• pp.1004-1006
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• 2010

차량에 사용되는 무시동 히터 열교환기의 효율 개선을 위하여 열전달 해석을 수행하였다. 연구에 사용된 히터는 연료 공급관을 통해 연소부로 연료를 공급하고 연소시켜, 열교환기에 열을 전달한다. 열전달 효율을 증대시키기 위하여 열전달면 및 연소면의 형상을 해석적으로 개발하였다. 개선된 열교환기 모델은 외부 형상을 기존 제품과 동일하게 설계하여 단품상으로 교체가 가능하도록 설계 하였다. 해석 결과 기존 모델에 대비 개선된 모델에서 열전달 효율이 약 5.6배 향상되었다.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.26-34
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• 2016

In a number of industries, porous insulations have been frequently used, reducing thermal insulation space through excellent performance of the thermal insulation's characteristics. This paper suggests an effective thermal conductivity prediction model. Firstly, we perform a literature review of traditional effective thermal conductivity prediction models and compare each model with experimental heat transfer results. Furthermore, this research defines the effectiveness of thermal conductivity prediction models using experimental heat transfer results and the Zehner-Schlunder model. The newly defined effective thermal conductivity prediction model has been verified to better predict performance than other models. Finally, this research performs a transient heat transfer analysis of a thermal protection system with a porous insulation in a high speed vehicle using the finite element method and confirms the validity of the effective thermal conductivity prediction model.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.171-180
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• 2011

For 21 rock samples consisting of granite, sandstone and the effective thermal conductivity (TC) was measured with the LFA-447 Nanoflash, and mineralogical compositions were also determined from XRD analysis. The structural models were used to examine the effects of quartz content and the size of minerals on TC of rocks. The experimental results showed that TC of rocks was strongly related to quartz content with $R^2$ value of 0.75. Therefore, the proposed regression model can be a useful tool for an approximate estimation of TC only from quartz content. Some samples with similar values of quartz content, however, illustrated great differences in TC, presumably caused by differences in the size of minerals. An analysis from structural models showed that TC of rocks with fine-grained minerals was likely to fall in the region between Series and EMT model, and it moved up to ME and Parallel model as the size of minerals increased. This progressive change of structural models implies that change of TC depending on the size of minerals is possibly related to the scale of experiments; TC was measured from a disk sample with a thickness of 3 mm. Therefore, in case of measurements with a thin sample, TC can be overestimated as compared to the real value in the field scale. The experimental data illustrated that the scale effect was more pronounced for rocks with bigger size of minerals. Thus, it is worthwhile to remember that using a measured TC as a representative value for the real field can be misleading when applied to many geothermal problems.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.540-545
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• 1999

The classical Fourier heat conduction equation is invalid at temperatures near absolute zero or at very early times in highly transient heat transfer processes. In such situations, a hyperbolic equation model for heat conduction based on the modified Fourier law is introduced because the wave nature of heat propagation becomes dominant. The Fourier model and the hyperbolic model for heat conduction are analyzed by using the Green's function technique together with the integral transform. Analytical expressions for the heat flux and temperature distributions in a finite slab subjected to a periodic surface heating at one of its surfaces are presented and the results obtained from each model are compared with each other. The thermal wave implied b the hyperbolic model is shown to travel through a medium and to reflect back toward the origin at the other insulated surface. On the other hand, the heat by the Fourier model propagates at an infinite speed instantaneously after a thermal disturbance is felt throughout the medium.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.629-639
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• 2011

Based on Maxwell-Eucken(ME) model, which is one of structural models, a new model for predicting the effective thermal conductivity of variably saturated porous materials is proposed. The new model is a linear combination of three ME models having matrix, water, and air as a continuous phase. The coefficient of the corresponding linear equation is defined by a parameter referred to as 'the continuity coefficient', which provides a relative degree of continuity of each phase. The continuity coefficient of matrix is assumed to be linearly proportional to porosity. The model can be linear or nonlinear depending on how the continuity coefficients of water and air vary with water saturation. The feasibility of the proposed model was examined by both numerical and experimental results. Both linear and nonlinear models showed a high accuracy of prediction with $R^2$ values of 0.86-0.98 and 0.88-0.99, respectively. The numerical and experimental results also showed that the continuity coefficient of matrix was linearly proportional to porosity. Therefore, the proposed prediction model can be effectively used to estimate effective thermal conductivity of unsaturated porous materials by measuring porosity, water content and mineralogical compositions of matrix.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.93-107
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• 2013

Thermal conduction of the particulate composites or granular materials can be widely used in porous materials and geotechnical engineering. And it has continued to develop "effective thermal conductivity" of medium by modeling energy relationship among particles in medium. This study focuses on the development of the effective thermal conductivity at the unsaturated conditions of soils using the modified network model approach assisted by synthetic 3D random packed systems (DEM method, Discrete Element Method) at the particle scale. To verify the network model, three kinds of glass beads and the Jumunjin sand are used to obtain experimental values at various unsaturated conditions. The PPE (Pressure Plate Extractor) test is then performed to obtain SWCC (Soil-Water Characteristic Curve) of soil samples. In the modified network model, SWCC is used to adjust the equivalent radius of thermal cylinder at contact area between particles. And cutoff range parameter to define the effective zone is also adjusted according to the SWCC at given conditions. From a series of laboratory tests and the proposed network model, the modified network model which adopts a SWCC shows a good agreement in modeling thermal conductivity of granular soils at given conditions. And an empirical correlation between the fraction of the mean radius (${\chi}$) and thermal conductivity at given saturated condition is provided, which can be used to expect thermal conductivity of the granular soils, to estimate thermal conductivity of granular soils.

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.38 no.12
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• pp.51-60
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 착상 조건 하에서 열교환기 휜의 열전도를 고려하여 휜 표면에서의 착상 거동을 예측하기 위하여 수학적 모델을 제시한다. 이 때, 공기측은 착상 현상에 대한 3차원 유동 변화의 영향을 고려한다. 서리층 두께에 대한 해석 결과는 실험 결과를 최대 10% 오차 내에서 잘 예측한다. 유동에 수직한 방향(z-dir.)의 서리층 두께 성장은 휜의 열전도에 의해 휜 바탕 근처에서 활발하고, 휜 끝으로 갈수록 지수함수적으로 둔화된다. 휜의 열전도를 고려한 경우에 비해 휜의 표면온도가 일정한 조건에서 서리층 두께는 최대 2배, 열전달량은 평군 10% 정도 과대 예측한다. 따라서, 열교환기 휜에서의 착상 거동을 정확하게 예측하기 위해 착상 모델 해석 시 휜의 열전도를 고려해야 한다. 휜의 열전도 고려 유무에 따른 착상 거동의 차이를 보완하기 위해 열전달량에 대한 등가온도를 산출하며, 이를 근거로 무차원 등가 온도 상관식을 도출한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.1022-1026
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• 2013

Recently, the waste heat recovery technique using thermoelectric generator (TEG) in automotive engine has emerged to improve thermal efficiency in commercial vehicle. It is not difficult to recognize the numerous attempts that have been made to develop the TEG simulation model, but it is hard to find the model in conjunction with a particular heat engine system. In this study, 1-D commercial software AMESim was used to develop a computational model that can assess waste heat recovery from a diesel engine exhaust using TEG. The developed TEG simulation model can be used for evaluating the TEG performance of various types of TE module, and the diesel engine model can simulate any type of on and off-road diesel engines. The simulation results demonstrated that approximately 544.75W could be recovered from the engine exhaust and 40.4W could be directly converted into electricity using one TE module. The models developed in this study can be easily coupled with each other in the same computational program; thus, the models are expected to provide a viable tool for developing and optimizing a TEG waste heat recovery system in an automotive diesel engine.