• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.167-176
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• 2008

Atmospheric N deposition has far-reaching impacts on forest ecosystems, including on-site impacts such as soil acidification, fertilization, and nutrient imbalances, and off-site environmental impacts such as nitrate leaching and nitrous oxide emission. Although chronic N deposition has been believed to lead to forest N saturation, recent evidence suggests that N retention capacity, particularly in the forest floor, can be surprisingly high even under high N deposition. This review aims to provide an overview of N retention processes in the forest floor and the implications of changing C-N interactions for C sequestration. The fate of available N in forest soils has been explained by the competitive balance between tree roots, soil heterotrophs, and nitrifiers. However, high rates of N retention have been observed in numerous N addition experiments without noticeable increases in tree growth and soil respiration. Alternative hypotheses have been proposed to explain the gap between the input and loss of N in N-enriched, C-limited systems, including abiotic immobilization and mycorrhizal assimilation, both of which do not require additional C sources to incorporate N in soil N pools. Different fates of N in the forest floor have different implications for C sequestration. N-induced tree growth can enhance C accumulation in tree biomass as observed across temperate regions. C loss from forests can amount to or outweigh C gain in N-saturated, declining forests, while another type of 'C-N decoupling' can have positive or neutral effects on soil C sequestration through hampered organic matter decomposition or abiotic N immobilization, respectively.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권9호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 소형 위성용 하이브리드 로켓 점화장치에 적용되는 N2O 촉매 베드의 유동 및 열적 현상에 대한 이론적인 고찰을 하였다. 허니콤 형상을 가지는 촉매 베드 내의 열적 현상을 분석하기 위해서 다공성 매질 접근법을 사용하였다. 유동장은 Brinkman- extended Darcy 모델을 사용하였고, 온도장은 One-equation 모델을 사용하여 촉매 베드 내에서 유동장 및 온도장에 대한 해석해들을 구하였다. 다공성 매질 접근법을 적용한 모델의 해석해와 기존 실험결과를 비교하여 본 모델의 정확성을 검증하였다. 해석해에 근거하여 N2O 촉매 베드에 영향을 미치는 중요한 변수들이 촉매 베드의 기공률, 유효 체적비, 촉매 베드와 기공의 직경비, 공급열, 그리고 펌핑파워임을 확인하였으며 촉매 베드 내에서의 열적현상에 대한 중요 변수들의 효과를 연구하였다.