• 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 the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.103-107
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• 2021

Temperature dependences of electronic and thermal transport properties of narrow band gap thermoelectric materials are dependent on the transport behavior of minority carriers as well as majority carriers. Thus, weighted mobility ratio, which is defined the ratio of weighted mobility for majority carriers to that for minority carriers, must be one of the important parameters to enhance the performance of thermoelectric materials. Herein, we provided a practical guide for the development of high-performance Bi-Te-based thermoelectric materials based on the weighted mobility ratio control by considering theoretical backgrounds related to the electronic transport phenomena in semiconductors.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.25.2-25.2
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.9.1-9.1
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• 2005

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.18-25
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• 2012

This work investigated the influence of the chimney dimensions(exit and entrance length, and diameter) on the heat transfer of a vertical cylinder in a duct. The measured mass transfer rates for the natural convection of vertical cylinder in a duct were presented for Prandlt number 2,094, Rayleigh number in the range of $4.55{\times}10^9$, $5.79{\times}10^{10}$, and $1.69{\times}10^{11}$. Experiments were performed using a copper sulfate electroplating system to simulate heat transfer based upon the analogy concept. The diameter of the duct was varied from 0.06 m to 0.14 m, and the heights from 0.30 m to 1.10 m. Nusselt numbers measured at open channel condition agreed well with the existing laminar heat transfer correlations for vertical plate developed by Le Fevre. The increase of the exit length enhanced the heat transfer up to a certain duct height but further increase does not affects the heat transfer. The heat transfer decreased with increasing the entrance length up to a certain duct height and was constant at further increase. The Nusselt number decreased with increasing the diameter of duct, until Nusselt number becomes similar to that at open channel beyond a certain diameter.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.280-287
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• 2011

The heat temperature of a light emitting diode (LED) is investigated with the thermoelectric device (TED). The Peltier effect of the thermoelectric device is used to control the heat radiation and the junction temperature of high-power LEDs. For the typical specific current (350 mA) of high-power (1 W) LEDs, the LED temperature and the p-n junction temperature become $64.5^{\circ}C$ and $79.1^{\circ}C$, respectively. For 0.1~0.2 W driving power of TED, the LED temperature and the junction temperature are reduced to be $54.2^{\circ}C$ and $68.9^{\circ}C$, respectively. As the driving power of the TED increases over 0.2 W, the temperature of LED itself and the junction temperature are increased due to the heat reversed from the heat-sink to LED. As the difference of temperature between LED and the heat-sink is increased, the quantity of reversed heat becomes larger and it results to degrade the cooling capability of TED.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.315-321
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• 2012

In this study, a sequential multiscale homogenization method to characterize the effective thermal conductivity of nano particulate polymer nanocomposites is proposed through a molecular dynamics(MD) simulations and a finite element-based homogenization method. The thermal conductivity of the nanocomposites embedding different-sized nanoparticles at a fixed volume fraction of 5.8% are obtained from MD simulations. Due to the Kapitza thermal resistance, the thermal conductivity of the nanocomposites decreases as the size of the embedded nanoparticle decreases. In order to describe the nanoparticle size effect using the homogenization method with accuracy, the Kapitza interface in which the temperature discontinuity condition appears and the effective interphase zone formed by highly densified matrix polymer are modeled as independent phases that constitutes the nanocomposites microstructure, thus, the overall nanocomposites domain is modeled as a four-phase structure consists of the nanoparticle, Kapitza interface, effective interphase, and polymer matrix. The thermal conductivity of the effective interphase is inversely predicted from the thermal conductivity of the nanocomposites through the multiscale homogenization method, then, exponentially fitted to a function of the particle radius. Using the multiscale homogenization method, the thermal conductivities of the nanocomposites at various particle radii and volume fractions are obtained, and parametric studies are conducted to examine the effect of the effective interphase on the overall thermal conductivity of the nanocomposites.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.165-171
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• 2017

We suggested the novel actuator mechanism to apply to wearable assistive system for the improvement of quality of life of the elderly or the people with disability using it. Characteristics of metal-hydride (MH) actuator is investigated in the novel actuating concept. The hydrogen equilibrium pressure increases when hydrogen is desorbed by heating a SMH alloys, whereas by cooling that alloys, the hydrogen equilibrium pressure decreases and hydrogen is absorbed. However, there are too long times in heat transfer mechanism to apply the assistive and rehabilitative device. In this study, 3 different SMH module were designed and characteristics of heat transfer in each SMH module were investigated based on the heat simulation.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.37-45
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• 1986

열교환기의 확장 표면이 2가지 또는 3가지의 서로 다른 재질들로써 구성되는 경우, 직선 및 환상 의 Composit Fin Assembly에서 구성 재질들의 열전도율들이 각 Assembly 에서의 온도 분포와 열유동량에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. Composite Fin Assembly에서의 온도 분포를 구하기 위 하여 유한 요소법을 사용하여 수치 계산하였다. Composite Fin Assembly를 구성하는 재료들의 열전도율들이 열유동량에 미치는 효과는 상당히 크며, 따라서 확장 표면의 설계 계산에 있어서 이러한 효과들을 필수적으로 고려하여야 함이 밝혀졌다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.27-27
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• 1998

제트에 있어서 유동특성은 제트초기의 생성되는 불안정성이 하류에서의 와류성장에 영향을 끼치게 되기 때문에 중요하게 되며, 와류의 조절을 통해 충돌면에의 열전달 효과의 변화를 가져올 수 있게 된다 따라서 본 연구에서는 FFT를 이용하여 제트의 와류생성과 병합의 주파수 특성을 연구하고, 이에 적절한 주파수로 와류를 여기 하여 자유제트의 유동특성 변화와 이에 따른 충돌 면에서의 충돌제트의 유동 및 열전달 특성을 고찰하였다. 제트의 음향을 통한 여기를 함으로써 생성되는 와류형성 및 병합 특성 변화는 연기열선법(smoke-wire method)과 속도 및 난류강도 특성 결과를 통해 확인 할 수 있었는데, 이는 자연적으로 생성되는 와류의 주파수(고유 주파수)와 관련하여 고유주파수의 조화성분 또는 부조화성분의 주파수를 가함으로써 와류의 병합을 촉진시키거나 억제하는 효과를 나타내기 때문이다.