• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.2699-2708
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• 2020

Helical-coil steam generator (HCSG) technology is a major design candidate for small modular reactors due to its compactness and capability to produce superheated steam with high generation efficiency. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of the passively autonomous power maneuvering by coupling the 3-D transient multi-physics of a soluble-boron-free (SBF) core with a time-dependent HCSG model. The predictor corrector quasi-static method was used to reduce the cost of the transient 3-D neutronic solution. In the numerical system simulations, the feedwater flow rate to the secondary of the HCSGs is adjusted to extract the demanded power from the primary loop. This varies the coolant temperature at the inlet of the SBF core, which governs the passively autonomous power maneuvering due to the strongly negative coolant reactivity feedback. Here, we simulate a 100-50-100 load-follow operation with a 5%/minute power ramping speed to investigate the feasibility of the passively autonomous load-follow in a 450 MW_th SBF PWR. In addition, the passively autonomous frequency control operation is investigated. The various system models are coupled, and they are solved by an in-house Fortran-95 code. The results of this work demonstrate constant steam temperature in the secondary side and limited variation of the primary coolant temperature. Meanwhile, the variations of the core axial shape index and the core power peaking are sufficiently small.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2013년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.102-105
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• 2013

최근 멀티코어 시스템은 컴퓨터의 성능을 향상시키기 위해 더 많은 수의 코어를 연결시키는 다중코어 시스템으로 발전하고 있다. 그러나 멀티코어 시스템은 사용하는 코어의 아키텍처 구조와 개수에 따라 성능 차이가 발생한다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 코어의 아키텍처 구조와 코어의 개수가 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위해 Tilera의 다중코어 시스템인 Tile-Gx36, TilePro64와 Intel의 x86-64 멀티코어 시스템인 Core i5의 성능을 비교하였다. 코어의 사용률이 늘어남에 따른 성능차이를 알아보기 위해 벤치마크 프로그램인 SPEC CPU 2006을 이용하여 각 시스템 내 단일코어의 성능을 측정하고, OpenMP 벤치마크 프로그램을 이용하여 시스템의 모든 코어를 사용했을 때의 입력 데이터 크기에 따른 성능을 측정하였다. 실험 결과, 단일코어에서의 성능은 정수형 데이터를 사용하여 측정하였을 경우 Core i5가 Tile-Gx36보다 약 87%, 실수형 데이터를 사용하여 측정하였을 경우 약 94% 더 빠른 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 코어 전체를 이용한 성능 결과에서는 정수형 배열 크기가 이상일 경우 Tile-Gx36 시스템의 처리 속도가 Core i5 시스템 보다 평균적으로 약 7.6배 향상됨을 확인할 수 있었다. 따라서 Tilera의 다중코어 시스템은 클럭 속도와 아키텍처 구조의 영향으로 단일코어의 성능은 떨어지나, 병렬 처리를 이용한 고속연산에서는 성능이 향상된다고 할 수 있다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.477-496
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• 2021

The main objective of this paper is to study vibration of sandwich open cylindrical panel with damaged core and FG face sheets based on three-dimensional theory of elasticity. The structures are made of a damaged isotropic core and two external face sheets. These skins are strengthened at the nanoscale level by randomly oriented Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and are reinforced at the microscale stage by oriented straight fibers. These reinforcing phases are included in a polymer matrix and a three-phase approach based on the Eshelby-Mori-Tanaka scheme and on the Halpin-Tsai approach, which is developed to compute the overall mechanical properties of the composite material. Three complicated equations of motion for the panel under consideration are semi-analytically solved by using 2-D differential quadrature method. Several parametric analyses are carried out to investigate the mechanical behavior of these multi-layered structures depending on the damage features, through-the-thickness distribution and boundary conditions. It is seen that for the large amount of power-law index "P", increasing this parameter does not have significant effect on the non-dimensional natural frequency parameters of the FG sandwich curved panel. Results indicate that by increasing the value of isotropic damage parameter "D" up to the unity (fully damaged core) the frequency would tend to become zero. One can dictate the fiber variation profile through the radial direction of the sandwich panel via the amount of "P", "b" and "c" parameters. It should be noticed that with increase of volume fraction of fibers, the frequency parameter of the panels does not increase necessarily, so by considering suitable amounts of power-law index "P" and the parameters "b" and "c", one can get dynamic characteristics similar or better than the isotropic limit case for laminated FG curved panels.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.65-79
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• 2022

The main goal of this paper is to study the vibration of damaged core laminated annular plates with FG face sheets based on a three-dimensional theory of elasticity. The structures are made of a damaged isotropic core and two external face sheets. These skins are strengthened at the nanoscale level by randomly oriented Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and are reinforced at the microscale stage by oriented straight fibers. These reinforcing phases are included in a polymer matrix and a three-phase approach based on the Eshelby-Mori-Tanaka scheme and on the Halpin-Tsai approach, which is developed to compute the overall mechanical properties of the composite material. In this study the effect of microcracks on the vibrational characteristic of the sandwich plate is considered. In particular, the structures are made by an isotropic core that undergoes a progressive uniform damage, which is modeled as a decay of the mechanical properties expressed in terms of engineering constants. These defects are uniformly distributed and affect the central layer of the plates independently from the direction, this phenomenon is known as "isotropic damage" and it is fully described by a scalar parameter. Three complicated equations of motion for the sectorial plates under consideration are semi-analytically solved by using 2-D differential quadrature method. Using the 2-D differential quadrature method in the r- and z-directions, allows one to deal with sandwich annular plate with arbitrary thickness distribution of material properties and also to implement the effects of different boundary conditions of the structure efficiently and in an exact manner. The fast rate of convergence and accuracy of the method are investigated through the different solved examples. The sandwich annular plate is assumed to have any arbitrary boundary conditions at the circular edges including simply supported, clamped and, free. Several parametric analyses are carried out to investigate the mechanical behavior of these multi-layered structures depending on the damage features, through-the-thickness distribution, and boundary conditions.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.245-256
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• 2014

I-core sandwich panel that has been used more widely is assembled using high power $CO_2$ laser welding. Kim et al. (2013) proposed a circular cone type heat source model for the T-joint laser welding between face plate and core. It can cover the negative defocus which is commonly adopted in T-joint laser welding to provide deeper penetration. In part I, a volumetric heat source model is proposed and it is verified thorough a comparison of melting zone on the cross section with experiment results. The proposed model can be used for heat transfer analysis and thermal elasto-plastic analysis to predict welding deformation that occurs during laser welding. In terms of computational time, since the thermal elasto-plastic analysis using 3D solid elements is quite time consuming, shell element model with multi-layers have been employed instead. However, the conventional layered approach is not appropriate for the application of heat load at T-Joint. This paper, Part II, suggests a new method to arrange different number of layers for face plate and core in order to impose heat load only to the face plate.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2005년도 추계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.39-44
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• 2005

In HANARO, a multi-purpose research reactor of 30 MWth, the emergency water supply system consists essentially of an emergency water storage tank located in the level of about thirteen meter (13 m) above the reactor core, a three inch ('3\%') diameter water injection pipe line including injection valves from the tank to the reactor cooling inlet pipe and a test loop to do periodic system performance test. When the water level of the reactor pool comes down to the extremely low due to a loss of reactor pool water accident the emergency water stored in the tank should be fed to the core by the gravity force and at that time the design flow rate is eleven point four kilogram per second (11.4 kg/s). But it is impossible periodically to measure the injection flow rate under the emergency condition because the normal water level should be maintained during the reactor operation. This paper describes a flow network analysis to simulate the flow rate under the emergency condition. As results, it was confirmed through the analysis results that the calculated flow rate agrees with the design requirement under the emergency condition.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.470-476
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• 2005

Ultra light metal structures have been studied for several years because of their superior specific stiffness, strength and potential of multi functions. Many studies have been focused on how to manufacture ultra light metal structures and optimize them. In this study, we introduced a new idea to make sandwich panels having octet truss cores. Wires bent in a shape of triangular wave were assembled to construct an Octet truss core and it was bonded with two face sheets to be a sandwich panel. The bending & compressive strength and stiffness were estimated through elementary mechanics for the sandwich specimens with two kinds of face sheets and the results were compared with the ones measured by experiments. Some aspects of assembling and mechanical behavior were discussed compared with Kagome core fabricated from wire, which had been introduced in the authors' previous work.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.37-45
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• 2018

현재 프로그램이 운용되는 시스템은 기존의 싱글코어 및 멀티코어 환경을 넘어서 매니코어, 부가 프로세스 및 이기종 환경까지 그 영역이 확장되고 있는 중이다. 하지만, 기존 연구의 경우 NVIDIA 벤더에서 나온 아키텍쳐 및 CUDA로의 병렬화가 주로 이루어졌고 AMD에서 나온 범용 GPU 아키텍쳐인 GCN 아키텍쳐에 대한 성능향상에 관한 연구는 제한적으로 이루어졌다. 이런 점을 고려해 본 논문에서는 GCN 아키텍쳐의 GPGPU 환경인 OpenCL 내에서의 성능향상 기법에 대해 연구하고 실질적인 성능향상을 보였다. 구체적으로, 행렬 곱셈과 컨볼루션을 적용한 GPGPU 프로그램을 본 논문에서 제시한 성능향상 기법을 통해 최대 30% 이상의 실행시간을 감소시켰으며, 커널 이용률 또한 40% 이상 높였다.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2011년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.38 No.1(C)
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• pp.1-4
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• 2011

악취 유발 사업장 및 지자체에서 사용하고 있는 악취 관리 모델링 시스템의 핵심 모듈을 최근 Intel에서 발표한 멀티코어(multi-core) 기술과 OpenMP 기술을 이용하여 고성능 병렬처리에 의한 실시간 시스템으로 개선하였다. 기존의 기상 모델인 CALMET 모델과 대기질 모델인 CALPUFF 모델은 배출원 갯수와 모델링 영역의 격자 갯수 증가에 따라 모델링 수행 시간이 기하급수적으로 증가한다. 악취는 그 특성상 모델링 수행시간을 짧게 할수록 악취모델링 결과를 효과적으로 사용할 수 있다. 따라서 모델링 수행시간을 단축하기 위해 여러 개의 CPU Core를 동시에 사용하여 병렬로 작업을 처리하는 멀티코어 기술을 접목하여, 기존의 CALPUFF를 실시간 모델링이 가능한 고성능 모델링 시스템으로 개발하였다. 실험 결과 Core의 수가 증가하면 Amdahl의 법칙에 준하여 가속화되었다.

• 천문학논총
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.481-483
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• 2015

Multi-dimensionality in the inner working of core-collapse supernovae has long been considered one of the most important ingredients to understand the explosion mechanism. We perform a series of numerical experiments to explore how rotation impacts the 3-dimensional hydrodynamics of core-collapse supernova. We employ a light-bulb scheme to trigger explosions and a three-species neutrino leakage scheme to treat deleptonization effects and neutrino losses from the neutron star interior. We find that the rotation can help the onset of neutrino-driven explosions for models in which the initial angular momentum is matched to that obtained from recent stellar evolutionary calculations (${\sim}0.3-3rad\;s^{-1}$ at the center). For models with larger initial angular momenta, a shock surface deforms to be oblate due to larger centrifugal force. This makes a gain region, in which matter gains energy from neutrinos, more concentrated around the equatorial plane. As a result, the preferred direction of the explosion in 3-dimensional rotating models is perpendicular to the spin axis, which is in sharp contrast to the polar explosions around the axis that are often obtained from 2-dimensional simulations.