• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제70권4호
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• pp.479-497
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• 2019

In the current code design, the use of a uniform internal pressure coefficient of cooling towers as internal suction cannot reflect the 3D characteristics of flow field inside the tower body with different ventilation rate of shutters. Moreover, extreme weather such as heavy rain also has a direct impact on aerodynamic force on the internal surface and changes the turbulence effect of pulsating wind. In this study, the world's tallest cooling tower under construction, which stands 210m, is taken as the research object. The algorithm for two-way coupling between wind and rain is adopted. Simulation of wind field and raindrops is performed iteratively using continuous phase and discrete phase models, respectively, under the general principles of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Firstly, the rule of influence of 9 combinations of wind speed and rainfall intensity on the volume of wind-driven rain, additional action force of raindrops and equivalent internal pressure coefficient of the tower body is analyzed. The combination of wind velocity and rainfall intensity that is most unfavorable to the cooling tower in terms of distribution of internal pressure coefficient is identified. On this basis, the wind/rain loads, distribution of aerodynamic force and working mechanism of internal pressures of the cooling tower under the most unfavorable working condition are compared between the four ventilation rates of shutters (0%, 15%, 30% and 100%). The results show that the amount of raindrops captured by the internal surface of the tower decreases as the wind velocity increases, and increases along with the rainfall intensity and ventilation rate of the shutters. The maximum value of rain-induced pressure coefficient is 0.013. The research findings lay the basis for determining the precise values of internal surface loads of cooling tower under extreme weather conditions.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2018

Structures, systems and components of nuclear power plants should be able to maintain safety even in the event of design-basis accidents such as high-energy line breaks. The high-pressure steam jet ejected from the broken pipe may cause damage to the adjacent structures. The ANSI/ANS 58.2 code has been adopted as a technical standard for evaluating the jet impingement load. Recently, the U.S. NRC pointed out the non-conservativeness of the ANSI/ANS 58.2, because it does not take into account the blast wave effect, dynamic behavior of the jet, and oversimplifies the shape and load characteristics of the supersonic steam jet. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the evaluation method for the high-energy line break accident. In order to evaluate the behavior of supersonic steam jet, an appropriate numerical analysis technique considering compressible flow effect is needed. In this study, numerical analysis methodology for evaluating supersonic jet impingement load was developed and verified. In addition, the conservativeness of the ANSI/ANS 58.2 model was investigated using the numerical analysis methodology. It is estimated that the ANSI jet model does not sufficiently reflect the physical behavior of under-expanded supersonic steam jet and evaluates the jet impingement load lower than CFD analysis result at certain positions.

• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.7-18
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• 2022

Secondary batteries used in electric vehicles have a potential risk of ignition and explosion. Various safety measures are being taken to prevent these risks. A numerical study was performed using a computational fluid dynamics code on the cases where pressure relief vents that can reduce the blast overpressures of batteries were installed in the through-compression test room, short-circuit drop test room, combustion test room, and immersion test room in facilities rleated to battery used in electric vehicles. This study was conducted using the weight of TNT equivalent to the energy release from the battery, where the the thermal runaway energy was set to 324,000 kJ for the capacity of the lithium-ion battery was 90 kWh and the state of charge (SOC) of the battery of 100%. The explosion energy of TNT (△H_TNT) generally has a range of 4,437 to 4,765 kJ/kg, and a value of 4,500 kJ/kg was thus used in this study. The dimensionless explosion efficiency coefficient was defined as 15% assuming the most unfavorable condition, and the TNT equivalent mass was calculated to be 11 kg. The internal explosion generated in a test room shows the very complex propagation behavior of blast waves. The shock wave generated after the explosion creates reflected shock waves on all inner surfaces. If the internally reflected shock waves are not effectively released to the outside, the overpressures inside are increased or maintained due to the continuous reflection and superposition from the inside for a long time. Blast simulations for internal explosion targeting four test rooms with pressure relief vents installed were herein conducted. It was found that that the maximum blast overpressure of 34.69 bar occurred on the rear wall of the immersion test room, and the smallest blast overpressure was calculated to be 3.58 bar on the side wall of the short-circuit drop test room.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권7호
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• pp.2184-2194
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• 2021

The Free-Piston Stirling engine (FPSE) is of interest for many research in aerospace due to its advantages of long operating life, higher efficiency, and zero maintenance. In this study, a 1-kW FPSE was proposed by analyzing the requirements of Space Reactor Power Systems (SRPS), of which performance was evaluated by developing a code through the Simple Analysis Method. The results of SAM showed that the critical parameters of FPSE could satisfy the designed requirements. The heater of the FPSE was designed with the copper rectangular fins to enhance heat transfer, and the parametric study of the heater was performed with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software STAR-CCM⁺. The Performance Evaluation Criteria (PEC) was used to evaluate the heat transfer enhancement of the fins in the heater. The numerical results of the CFD program showed that pressure drop and Nusselt number ratio had a linear growth with the height of fins, and PEC number decreased as the height of fins increased, and the optimum height of the fin was set as 4 mm according to the minimum heat exchange surface area. This paper can provide theoretical supports for the design and numerical analysis of an FPSE for SRPSs.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.30-44
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• 2021

동축 반전 프로펠러는 기존의 단일 프로펠러와 달리 추가적인 설계 변수의 증가로 인해 실험적 성능평가에 비용과 시간 측면에서 여러 제약이 따른다. 또한 상/하단 프로펠러 사이의 상호 간섭으로 인하여 수치 해석에 있어서도 많은 시간과 자원이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 시간 효율적인 수치해석기법인 actuator 기법을 활용하여 제자리 비행하는 동축 반전 프로펠러의 공력 성능에 관한 수치적 연구를 수행하였다. 상용 CFD 코드인 ANSYS Fluent 결과와 비교하여 해석기법의 정확성을 검증하였다. 해석 변수로는 동축 반전 프로펠러의 축 간극과 회전속도를 선정하였으며, 다양한 조건에서 동축 반전 프로펠러의 공력 성능을 획득하였다. 획득한 공력 성능을 바탕으로 단일 프로펠러와 동축 반전 프로펠러의 제자리 비행 효율 계수를 획득하고, 단일 프로펠러의 성능으로 동축 반전 프로펠러의 성능을 예측할 수 있는 예측 인자를 도출하여 actuator 기법의 활용성을 평가하였다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.413-423
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• 2023

Wind turbines are usually steel hollow structures that can be vulnerable to dramatic failures due to high-intensity wind (HIW) events, which are classified as a category of localized windstorms that includes tornadoes and downbursts. Analyzing Wind Turbines (WT) under tornadoes is a challenging-to-achieve task because tornadoes are much more complicated wind fields compared with the synoptic boundary layer wind fields, considering that the tornado's 3-D velocity components vary largely in space. As a result, the supporting tower of the wind turbine and the blades will experience different velocities depending on the location of the event. Wind farms also extend over a large area so that the probability of a localized windstorm event impacting one or more towers is relatively high. Therefore, the built-in-house numerical code "HIW-WT" has been developed to predict the straining actions on the blades considering the variability of the tornado's location and the blades' pitch angle. The developed HIWWT numerical model incorporates different wind fields that were generated from developed CFD models. The developed numerical model was applied on an actual wind turbine under three different tornadoes that have different tornadic structure. It is found that F2 tornado wind fields present significant hazard for the wind turbine blades and have to be taken into account if the hazardous impact of this type of unexpected load is to be avoided.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권9호
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• pp.1945-1954
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• 2020

Subchannel code is one of the effective simulation tools for thermal-hydraulic analysis in nuclear reactor core. In order to reduce the computational cost and improve the calculation efficiency, empirical correlation of turbulent mixing coefficient is employed to calculate the lateral mixing velocity between adjacent subchannels. However, correlations utilized currently are often fitted from data achieved in central channel of fuel assembly, which would simply neglect the wall effects. In this paper, the CFD approach based on spectral element method is employed to predict turbulent mixing phenomena through gaps in 3 × 3 bare tight lattice rod bundle and investigate the flow pulsation through gaps in different positions. Re = 5000,10000,20500 and P/D = 1.03 and 1.06 have been covered in the simulation cases. With a well verified mesh, lateral velocities at gap center between corner channel and wall channel (W-Co), wall channel and wall channel (W-W), wall channel and center channel (W-C) as well as center channel and center channel (C-C) are collected and compared with each other. The obvious turbulent mixing distributions are presented in the different channels of rod bundle. The peak frequency values at W-Co channel could have about 40%-50% reduction comparing with the C-C channel value and the turbulent mixing coefficient β could decrease around 25%. corrections for β should be performed in subchannel code at wall channel and corner channel for a reasonable prediction result. A preliminary analysis on fluctuation at channel gap has also performed. Eddy cascade should be considered carefully in detailed analysis for fluctuating in rod bundle.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.335-349
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• 2017

수중에 설치되는 잠제는 해안침식을 방어하기 위한 대표적인 연안구조물로 지금까지 다양한 형태의 잠제가 제안 연구되어 왔다. 이와 같은 잠제는 천단에서의 급격한 수심변화에 의해 구조물 주변에서 복잡한 파동장을 형성한다. 본 연구는 3차원투과성잠제를 대상으로 잠제 주변에서 형성되는 파고분포 및 평균수위분포를 수치적으로 검토하였다. 수치해석에는 오픈소스 CFD 소스코드인 OLAFOAM을 적용하였으며, 투과성직립벽 및 불투과성 잠제에 대한 기존의 실험결과와의 비교를 통해 수치해석모델의 적용성을 검증하였다. 이를 바탕으로 설상사주의 형성조건에 있는 투과성잠제 주변에서 형성되는 파고분포 및 평균수위분포를 검토하였다. 수치해석결과, 잠제 사이의 개구부 폭이 감소할수록 개구부 중앙에서는 파고가 증가하지만 개구부 배후에서는 개구폭이 증가할수록 파고가 증가하며, 연안으로부터의 잠제 설치위치는 파고의 변화에 크게 영향을 미치지 않음을 확인하였다. 또한, 잠제의 개구부 폭이 감소함에 따라 잠제 개구부의 제두부 근방에서 평균수위 하강이 증가함을 확인하였다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.10-19
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• 2014

항공기 추진 시스템의 IR 피탐지성은 노즐형상 및 대기조건에 큰 영향을 받게 된다. 그 영향성을 분석하기 위해 대표적 스텔스 무인 항공기와 그 추진 시스템의 형상변형 수축노즐을 고려하였다. 먼저 압축성 CFD 코드를 이용하여 IR 신호 계산에 필요한 열유동장 및 노즐표면 온도 정보를 산출하였다. 플룸 IR 신호를 계산해 본 결과 축방향 신호수준은 상당히 감소하는 반면, 노즐의 좌우 측면에서는 노즐의 가로세로비 증가로 인해 플룸이 좌우로 확장되어 특정 가로세로비에서 상대적으로 증가된 플룸 IR 신호가 발생함을 확인하였다. 다음으로 LOWTRAN 7 코드와 연계하여 계절 및 관측거리 변화에 따른 대기 투과율을 분석하고 그 결과를 바탕으로 대기효과가 고려된 플룸 IR 신호를 계산하였다. 계산결과 계절이 여름일 경우와 비교적 근접의 관측거리에서 이산화탄소 밴드에서 IR 신호가 현저히 감소하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.180-198
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• 2019

최근, 유럽이나 일본 등은 해빈유실방지대책공법의 하나이며, 잠제의 대안으로 여겨지는 저천단구조물(LCS)에 관한 많은 연구를 수행하였고, 그의 결과들을 집약하여 설계매뉴얼까지 편찬하였다. 지금까지 LCS에 관한 연구는 2차원적인 파랑전달율과 피복재의 안정중량산정에 치우쳐 있으며, 이들은 주로 실험에 기초하여 검토 논의되었다. 본 연구에서는 투과성의 LCS를 대상으로 3차원수치해석을 수행한다. 수치해석에 Navier-Stokes 운동방정식에 기반한 오픈소스 CFD Code인 olaFlow를 적용하였으며, 이는 쇄파와 난류해석까지도 가능한 강비선형해석법이다. 이로부터 수위, 흐름 및 난류운동에너지 등의 분포특성을 검토 논의하였으며, 동시에 잠제의 경우와도 비교 검토하였다. 이로부터 해안선 근방에서 연안류의 흐름패턴과 평균난류운동에너지의 연안방향 및 종단방향의 공간분포에 관해 잠제와 LCS의 경우에 각각 차이가 발생하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 결과의 차이는 모래이동에서의 차이로 이어질 것으로 판단된다.