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Experimental study of bubble flow behavior during flow instability under uniform and non-uniform transverse heat distribution

  • Al-Yahia, Omar S.;Yoon, Ho Joon;Jo, Daeseong
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.12
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    • pp.2771-2788
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    • 2020
  • Experiments are conducted to study bubble flow behavior during the instability of subcooled boiling under uniform and non-uniform transverse heating. The non-uniform heat distribution introduces nonuniform bubble generation and condensation rates on the heated surface, which is different from the uniform heating. These bubble generation and condensation characteristics introduce a non-uniform local pressure distribution in the transverse direction, which creates an extra non-uniform pressure on the flowing bubbles. Therefore, different bubble flow behavior can be observed between uniform and non-uniform heating conditions. In the uniform heating, bubble velocity fluctuations are low, and the bubbles travel straight along the axial direction. In the non-uniform heating, more fluctuation in the bubble velocity occurs at low mass flow rate and high subcooled inlet temperatures, and reverse flow is observed. Additionally, the bubbles show a zigzag trajectory when they pass through the channel, which indicates the existence of cross flow in the transverse direction.

Experimental Study on Heat Release in a Lean Premixed Dump Combustor Using OH Chemiluminescence Images (희박 예혼합 덤프 연소기에서 OH 자발광을 이용한 열 방출에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Moon, Gun-Feel;Lee, Jong-Ho;Jeon, Chung-Hwan;Chang, Young-June
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.28 no.11
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    • pp.1368-1375
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    • 2004
  • Measurements of OH chemiluminescence in an atmospheric pressure, laboratory-scale dump combustor at equivalence ratios ranging from 0.63 to 0.89 were reported. The signal from the first electronically excited state of OH to ground state was detected through a band-pass filter with an ICCD. The objectives of this study are two: One is to see the effects of equivalence ratio on global heat release rate and local Rayleigh index distribution. To get the local Rayleigh index distribution, the line-of-sight images were inverted by tomographic method, such as Abel do-convolution. Another aim is to investigate the validity of using OH chemiluminescence acquired with an ICCD as a qualitative measure of local heat release. For constant inlet velocity and temperature, the overall intensities of OH emission acquired at different equivalence ratio showed periodic and higher value at high equivalence ratio. OH intensity averaged over one period of pressure increased exponentially with equivalence ratio. Local Rayleigh index distribution clearly showed the region of amplifying or damping the combustion instability as equivalence ratio increased. It could provide an information/insights on active control such as secondary fuel injection. Finally, local heat release rate derived from reconstructed OH images were presented fur typical locations.

Influence of the cylinder height on the elasto-plastic failure of locally supported cylinders

  • Jansseune, Arne;De Corte, Wouter;Vanlaere, Wesley;Van Impe, Rudy
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.291-302
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    • 2012
  • Frequently, steel silos are supported by discrete supports or columns to permit easy access beneath the barrel. In such cases, large loads are transferred to the limited number of supports, causing locally high axial compressive stress concentrations in the shell wall above the supports. If not dealt with properly, these increased stresses will lead to premature failure of the silo due to local instability in the regions above the supports. Local stiffening near the supports is a way to improve the buckling resistance, as material is added in the region of elevated stresses, levelling these out to values found in uniformly supported silos. The aim of a study on the properties of local stiffening will then be to increase the failure load, governed by an interaction of plastic collapse and elastic instability, to that of a discrete supported silo. However, during the course of such a study it was found that, although the failure remains local, the cylinder height is also a parameter that influences the failure mechanism, a fact that is not properly taken into account in current design practice and codes. This paper describes the mechanism behind the effect of the cylinder height on the failure load, which is related to pre-buckling deformations of the shell structure. All results and conclusions are based on geometrically and materially non-linear finite element analyses.

A study of solitary wave trains generated by an injection of a blob into plasmas

  • Choe, Jeong-Rim;DokGo, Gyeong-Hwan;Choe, Eun-Jin;Min, Gyeong-Uk;Lee, Eun-Sang
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.93.1-93.1
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    • 2012
  • In this study, we investigated the generation of consecutive electrostatic solitary waves (ESWs) using by one-dimensional electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. For a given Gaussian perturbation, it is found that electron two-stream instability occurs in local grids region. Thus because of this instability, the electrostatic potential grows rapidly so as to be separated into electron and ion in perturbation region, and then electrons are trapped with heating during growing instability. It is found that these heated and trapped electrons are caused the generation of ESW, and ions are reflected backward and forward at the boundary of the initial perturbation, then form cold ion beam whereas electrons are confined to inside of the potential. Furthermore backward reflected ion beam forms ion holes by ion two-stream instability. On the other hand, as the confined electrons are released, and then released electrons also form hot electron beam, which play an important role in the generation of consecutive ESWs such as broadband electrostatic noise (BEN) observed frequently in space environment. Therefore the reason of the generation of consecutive ESWs is the existence of heated electrons which can sufficiently support energy to produce ESWs.

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Power System Voltage Stability Classification Using Interior Point Method Based Support Vector Machine(IPMSVM)

  • Song, Hwa-Chang;Dosano, Rodel D.;Lee, Byong-Jun
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.238-243
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    • 2009
  • This paper present same thodology for the classification of power system voltage stability, the trajectory of which to instability is monotonic, using an interior point method based support vector machine(IPMSVM). The SVM based voltage stability classifier canp rovide real-time stability identification only using the local measurement data, without the topological information conventionally used.

Treatment of Chronic Ankle Lateral Instability using Modified Br$\ddot{o}$strom Procedure with Anchor suture & Arthroscopy (봉합 나사를 이용한 변형 Br$\ddot{o}$strom 술식 및 관절경 검사를 이용한 족관절 외측 불안정성의 치료)

  • Lee, Jin-Young;Kim, Gab-Lae;Lee, Eun-Soo;Park, Hyun-Jin
    • Journal of Korean Foot and Ankle Society
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.175-178
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    • 2009
  • Purpose: To evaluate the result of modified Br$\ddot{o}$strom procedure with anchor suture and explore associate lesion under arthroscopy for chronic lateral instability. Materials and Methods: From May 2005 to March 2009, Retrospective analysis of 126 patients with chronic lateral instability who underwent modified Br$\ddot{o}$strom procedure with anchor suture and arthroscopic procedure was done. Mean follow-up period was 13 months. Results: Chronic lateral instability of the ankle almost had local synovitis by arthroscopic examination. There were osteochondral lesion of talus on the anteromedial aspect in 63 cases, on the anterolateral aspect in 25 cases, osteochondral lesion of tibia side in 8 cases, fat hypertrophy of tibiofibular space in 120 cases, anterior fat impingement in 26 cases, intra-articular loose body in 13 cases. Mean Karlsson scoring scale was improve from 53 preoperatively to 91 postoperatively, There were 70 cases excellent, 27 cases good, 26 cases fair, 3 cases poor result according to the Sefton procedure. Conclusion: Modified Br$\ddot{o}$strom procedure with anchor suture and arthroscopic procedure are reliable treatment method for chronic ankle lateral instability which has intraarticular pathology.

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The Nonlinear Combustion Instability Prediction of Solid Rocket Motors (고체로켓모터의 비선형 연소 불안정성 예측 기법)

  • Hong, Ji-Seok;Moon, Hee-Jang;Sung, Hong-Gye;Um, Won-Seok;Seo, Seonghyeon;Lee, Do-hyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.20-27
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    • 2016
  • The prediction of combustion instability is important to avoid an obvious threat to the structural safety and the motor performance because it affects the apparent response function of the propellant, the burning rate, and a mean flow Mach number at the local surface. The combustion instability occurs in case acoustic waves were coupled with the combustion/flow dynamic frequency. In this paper, an acoustic instability model is derived from the nonlinear wave equation for analysing acoustic dynamics in solid rocket motors. The chamber pressure and burning rate effects on combustion instability have been investigated.

Modulation Instability in Dispersion and Gain Managed Fibers (이득과 분산을 조절한 광섬유의 변조 불안정성 분석)

  • Choi, Byung-Hoon;Kim, Sang-In
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.93-99
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    • 2007
  • We investigated analytically and numerically the occurrence of modulation instability in fibers with periodic changes both in dispersion and gain. Previously, it has been known that the modulation instability is suppressed in dispersion managed solitons where dispersion is managed in such a way that the local dispersion alternates between the normal and the anomalous regimes. In this work, we enhanced the advantage of the dispersion management scheme by additionally introducing proper gain/loss profiles in fibers. The gain/loss profile is given by $\Gamma(z)=0.5/D(z)*(dD/dz)$, where D(z) represents the dispersion profile. The fundamental gain spectra of the modulation instability in the dispersion and gain managed fibers have been derived analytically and confirmed by numerical calculation. Our investigation reveals that in the dispersion and gain fibers the modulation instabilities are always much more suppressed compared to the case with only dispersion managed. In practical dispersion management schemes, dispersion profiles show discontinuity. and thus. the corresponding gain/loss profiles tend to be finite. In these cases, the gain/loss profiles were approximated by lumped gains/losses of finite values. Our numerical calculations confirm that this approximation also works well.

Clinical presentation and specific stabilizing exercise management in Lumbar segmental instability (요추분절의 불안정성에 대한 임상적 소개와 안정성 운동관리)

  • Jung Yeon-Woo;Bae Sung-Soo
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.155-170
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    • 2003
  • Lumbar segmental instability is considered to represent a significant sub-group within the chronic low back pain population. This condition has a unique clinical presentation that displays its symptoms and movement dysfunction within the neutral zone of the motion segment. The loosening of the motion segment secondary to injury and associated dysfunction of the local muscle system renders it biomechanically vulnerable in the neutral zone. There in evidence of muscle dysfunction related to the control of the movement system. There is a clear link between reduced proprioceptive input, altered slow motor unit recruitment and the development of chronic pain states. Dysfunction in the global and local muscle systems in presented to support the development of a system of classification of muscle function and development of dysfunction related to musculoskeletal pain. The global muscles control range of movement and alignment, and evidence of dysfunction is presented in terms of imbalance in recruitment and length between the global stability muscles and the global mobility muscles. The local stability muscles demonstrate evidence of failure of aeequate segmental control in terms of allowing excessive uncontrolled translation or specific loss of cross-sectional area at the site of pathology Motor recruitment deficits present as altered timing and patterns of recruitment. The evidence of local and global dysfunction allows the development of an integrated model of movement dysfunction. The clinical diagnosis of this chronic low back pain condition is based on the report of pain and the observation of movement dysfunction within the neutral zone and the associated finding of excessive intervertebral motion at the symptomatic level. Four different clinical patterns are described based on the directional nature of the injury and the manifestation of the patient's symptoms and motor dysfunction. A specific stabilizing exercise intervention based on a motor learning model in proposed and evidence for the efficacy of the approach provided.

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