• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권7호
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• pp.2678-2686
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• 2023

This work demonstrates the results of full-scale numerical experiments of a hybrid thorium-containing fuel plant operating in a state close to critical due to a controlled source of D-T neutrons. The proposed facility represented a level of generated power (~10-100 MW_t) in a small pilot. In this work, the simulation of the D-T neutron plasma source operation in conjunction with the facility blanket was performed. The fission of fuel nuclei and the formation of spatial-energy release were studied in this simulation, in pulsed and stationary modes of the facility operation. The optimization results of neutronic and fluid dynamics studies to level the emerging offsets of the radial energy formed in the volume of the facility multiplying part due to the pulsed operation of the D-T neutron plasma source were presented. The results will be useful in improving the power control-based subcriticality monitoring method in coupled systems of the "pulsed neutron source-subcritical fuel assembly" type.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.737-749
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• 2009

The problem of estimating the dynamic response of a distributed parameter system excited by a moving vehicle with random initial velocity and random vehicle body mass is investigated. By adopting the Galerkin's method and modal analysis, a set of approximate governing equations of motion possessing time-dependent uncertain coefficients and forcing function is obtained, and then the dynamic response of the coupled system can be calculated in deterministic sense. The statistical characteristics of the responses of the system are computed by using improved perturbation approach with respect to mean value. This method is simple and useful to gather the stochastic structural response due to the vehicle-passenger-bridge interaction. Furthermore, some of the statistical numerical results calculated from the perturbation technique are checked by Monte Carlo simulation.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2012

This work was devoted to compare two different cavitation models to study the dependency of model constants. The cavitation model of Merkle et al.(2006) and Kunz et al.(2000) were used for the present computational study. The cavitation models were coupled with the incompressible unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes solver to indicate the vaporization and condensation processes. For this purpose, a preconditioning method was added as the pseudo-time term to solve the unsteady stiffness problems. For the validation of the numerical simulation, the computation was performed for the cavitating flow in a converging-diverging channel. The present results show that Merkle's cavitation model is independent to the model constants, and the higher numerical accuracy over Kunz's cavitation model.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.343-354
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• 2008

시추공을 이용한 초기응력 측정을 위한 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 이 새로운 개념의 측정법은 기본적으로 응력 해방과 파쇄 기술을 결합한 방법이다. 액화질소와 같은 극저온 액체를 이용하여 시추공 주변의 인장 열응력을 유도하여 시추공 주변의 응력을 해방시킬 수 있다. 종국에는 시추공 주변의 인장 강도가 암반의 인장 강도에 초기 지압으로 존재하는 압축 응력의 합을 초과할 때 시추공벽에 균열을 발생시킨다. 이와 같은 개념을 인장 응력으로부터 초기 응력 수준을 평가하는데 적용하기 위한 이론적 분석을 수행하였다. 또한, 제안한 방법의 유효성을 검토하기 위해 FLAC3D를 이용한 열-역학 상호작용 연속체 해석을 수행하였다. 사전 이론적 검토 및 수치해석으로부터 저온 열균열 발생 현상을 이용한 초기 응력 측정법이 시추공벽에서의 인장 균열 형성을 감시하고 시추공벽에서의 균열 개시 시점의 온도를 기록함으로써 초기 응력을 정밀하게 측정할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.60-64
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• 2004

In this paper calculations of magnetisation and magnetoresistance characteristics of the Spin Valve (SV) and Pseudo Spin Valve (PSV) spintronics structures are reported and compared with the experimental data. The magnetisation reversal process was analysed with respect to the Stoner- Wohlfahrt model of total surface energy in terms of uniaxial anisotropy, exchange coupling between ferromagnetic layers, unidirectional exchange anisotropy of pinned layer (modelled by exchange coupling between magnetisation of pinned layer and net magnetisation of antiferromagnetic layer with high anisotropy). The numerical simulation of the model to the experimental magnetisation data yielded the above parameters for SV and PSV structures. These parameters were used to more sophistically micromagnetic modelling tool originating from the project called Object Oriented Micromagnetic Framework. Influence of the shape anisotropy of the Magnetic Tunnelling Junction cell used in MRAM was simulated by means of micromagnetic simulations. Results were compared to those obtained from the spot Kerr measurements.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.507-535
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• 2017

In the strong wind shutdown state, the blade position significantly affects the streaming behavior and stability performance of wind turbine towers. By selecting the 3M horizontal axis wind turbine independently developed by Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as the research object, the CFD method was adopted to simulate the flow field of the tower-blade system at eight shutdown positions within a single rotation period of blades. The effectiveness of the simulation method was validated by comparing the simulation results with standard curves. In addition, the dynamic property, aerostatic response, buckling stability and ultimate bearing capacity of the wind turbine system at different shutdown positions were calculated by using the finite element method. On this basis, the influence regularity of blade shutdown position on the wind-induced response and stability performance of wind turbine systems was derived, with the most unfavorable working conditions of wind-induced buckling failure of this type of wind turbines concluded. The research results implied that within a rotation period of the wind turbine blade, when the blade completely overlaps the tower (Working condition 1), the aerodynamic performance of the system is the poorest while the aerostatic response is relatively small. Since the influence of the structure's geometrical nonlinearity on the system wind-induced response is small, the maximum displacement only has a discrepancy of 0.04. With the blade rotating clockwise, its wind-induced stability performance presents a variation tendency of first-increase-then-decrease. Under Working condition 3, the critical instability wind speed reaches its maximum value, while the critical instability wind speed under Working condition 6 is the smallest. At the same time, the coupling effect between tower and blade leads to a reverse effect which can significantly improve the ultimate bearing capacity of the system. With the reduction of the area of tower shielded by blades, this reverse effect becomes more obvious.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.468-479
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• 2019

최근 대두되고 있는 지하공간 활용의 필요성 증대에 따라 지하공간의 안정적인 활용을 위해서는 수리-역학적 복합거동에 대한 이해가 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 향후 국내 다양한 현장 및 지중 조건을 고려한 연구를 수행하는데 도구가 될 수 있는 수치해석을 위한 시뮬레이터를 개발하였다. 이를 위해 지중의 유체역학과 열역학, 역학을 해석하는 과학 소프트웨어 중 하나인 OpenGeoSys와 지반의 여러 역학적 문제들을 해석하는데 전문성을 지닌 FLAC3D를 연계하기로 하였다. 연동해석 기법에 대한 조사를 통해 OpenGeoSys를 주(master)로, FLAC3D를 종속(slave)으로 하여 연계 해석하는 파일 기반의 순차적 연계 방식으로 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 또한, 개발된 시뮬레이터의 검증을 위해 포화된 상태에서의 단상 유체 거동과 관련한 Terzaghi의 압밀 문제를 벤치마크 모델로 선정하여 비교 검증을 수행하였으며, 해석적 해와 수치해석의 결과가 잘 일치하는 것을 확인하였다.