Effect of packing structure on anisotropic effective thermal conductivity of thin ceramic pebble bed

Wang, Shuang,Wang, Shuai,Wu, Bowen,Lu, Yuelin,Zhang, Kefan,Chen, Hongli Korean Nuclear Society 2021 Nuclear Engineering and Technology Vol.53 No.7

Helium cooled solid breeder blanket as an important blanket candidate of the Tokamak fusion reactor uses ceramic pebble bed for tritium breeding. Considering the poor effective thermal conductivity of the ceramic breeder pebble bed, thin structure of tritium breeder pebble bed is usually adopted in the blanket design. The container wall has a great influence on the thin pebble bed packing structure, especially for the assembly of mono-sized particles, and thin pebble bed will appear anisotropic effective thermal conductivity phenomenon. In this paper, thin ceramic pebble beds composed of 1 mm diameter Li₄SiO₄ particles are generated by the EDEM 2.7. The effective thermal conductivity of different thickness pebble beds in the three-dimensional directions are analyzed by three-dimensional thermal network method. It is observed that thin Li₄SiO₄ pebble bed showing anisotropic effective thermal conductivity under the practical design size. Normally, the effective thermal conductivity along the bed vertical direction is higher than the horizontal direction due to the gravity effect. As the thickness increases from 10 mm to 40 mm, the effective thermal conductivity of the pebble bed gradually increases.

Sample holder design for effective thermal conductivity measurement of pebble-bed using laser flash method

Lee, Youngmin,Ku, Duck Young,Park, Yi-Hyun,Ahn, Mu-Young,Cho, Seungyon Elsevier 2017 Fusion engineering and design Vol.124 No.-

<P><B>Abstract</B></P> <P>Since the stress due to the thermal load on breeding blanket structure is one of the main design driver, the thermal conductivity is necessary input data for thermal-structural and thermo-hydraulic analyses performed in order to understand the heat transfer phenomena and estimate the thermal stress. Since for the functional materials of solid type breeding blanket a pebble-bed form is mainly adopted instead of a bulk form such as a block or a disk, it should be needed to measure the thermal conductivity of pebble-bed. In this study, the effective thermal conductivity of pebble-bed is measured by laser flash method, which is one of the various thermal conductivity measurement methods, because this method has several advantages such as a wide thermal conductivity range of the measurement and a small amount of pebbles. A sample holder considering the heat transfer mechanism from the laser source to pebble-bed has been specially designed in order to apply the laser flash technique to the pebble-bed sample and it has been validated by the experiments. This paper introduces preliminary results of the effective thermal conductivity on the pebble-bed using this sample holder.</P> <P><B>Highlights</B></P> <P> <UL> <LI> The effective thermal conductivity of a graphite pebble-bed was successfully measured by Laser Flash Method. </LI> <LI> For the measurement on pebble-bed form, the new sample holder was specially designed. </LI> <LI> The 3-layers measurement technique was designed in order to make the laser flash method successful. </LI> <LI> The effective thermal conductivity of a graphite pebble-bed was converged around 3.2W/mK. </LI> <LI> The effect of the temperature (RT∼200°C) in a graphite pebble-bed was negligible. </LI> </UL> </P>

Cr4+ : YAG 레이저에서 열 렌즈 효과에 따른 공진기의 안정영역과 빔 허리 및 비점수차의 보상

이봉연 한국광학회 2006 한국광학회지 Vol.17 No.5

We obtained analytic solutions of boundary conditions to the stable region of Z-fold Cr4+ :YAG laser cavity when the conditions are with and without thermal lensing effect. Also we investigated the influence of the thermal lensing effect on the stability of cavity, beam waist, and astigmatic compensation using aberration transformation matrices. The thermal lensing effect almost has no influence on the stable region of the cavity when the crystal is located in the middle of two concave mirrors and when the distances from the concave mirror to the reflecting mirror and the output coupler are the same. The beam waist, however, is affected more in a tangential plane than in a sagittal plane, and so it is difficult to have astigmatic compensation when the thermal lensing effect exists. This result means that the thermal lensing effect should be considered even for the Kerr-lens mode-locking.

An investigation into the influence of thermal loading and surface effects on mechanical characteristics of nanotubes

Farzad Ebrahimi,Gholam Reza Shaghaghi,Mahya Boreiry 국제구조공학회 2016 Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An Int'l Jou Vol.57 No.1

In this paper the differential transformation method (DTM) is utilized for vibration and buckling analysis of nanotubes in thermal environment while considering the coupled surface and nonlocal effects. The Eringen’s nonlocal elasticity theory takes into account the effect of small size while the Gurtin- Murdoch model is used to incorporate the surface effects (SE). The derived governing differential equations are solved by DTM which demonstrated to have high precision and computational efficiency in the vibration analysis of nanobeams. The detailed mathematical derivations are presented and numerical investigations are performed while the emphasis is placed on investigating the effect of thermal loading, small scale and surface effects, mode number, thickness ratio and boundary conditions on the normalized natural frequencies and critical buckling loads of the nanobeams in detail. The results show that the surface effects lead to an increase in natural frequency and critical buckling load of nanotubes. It is explicitly shown that the vibration and buckling of a nanotube is significantly influenced by these effects and the influence of thermal loadings and nonlocal effects are minimal.

Thermal effects on nonlinear vibration of a carbon nanotube-based mass sensor using finite element analysis

Kang, D.K.,Kim, C.W.,Yang, H.I. North-Holland 2017 Physica E, Low-dimensional systems & nanostructure Vol.85 No.-

In the present study we carried out a dynamic analysis of a CNT-based mass sensor by using a finite element method (FEM)-based nonlinear analysis model of the CNT resonator to elucidate the combined effects of thermal effects and nonlinear oscillation behavior upon the overall mass detection sensitivity. Mass sensors using carbon nanotube (CNT) resonators provide very high sensing performance. Because CNT-based resonators can have high aspect ratios, they can easily exhibit nonlinear oscillation behavior due to large displacements. Also, CNT-based devices may experience high temperatures during their manufacture and operation. These geometrical nonlinearities and temperature changes affect the sensing performance of CNT-based mass sensors. However, it is very hard to find previous literature addressing the detection sensitivity of CNT-based mass sensors including considerations of both these nonlinear behaviors and thermal effects. We modeled the nonlinear equation of motion by using the von Karman nonlinear strain-displacement relation, taking into account the additional axial force associated with the thermal effect. The FEM was employed to solve the nonlinear equation of motion because it can effortlessly handle the more complex geometries and boundary conditions. A doubly clamped CNT resonator actuated by distributed electrostatic force was the configuration subjected to the numerical experiments. Thermal effects upon the fundamental resonance behavior and the shift of resonance frequency due to attached mass, i.e., the mass detection sensitivity, were examined in environments of both high and low (or room) temperature. The fundamental resonance frequency increased with decreasing temperature in the high temperature environment, and increased with increasing temperature in the low temperature environment. The magnitude of the shift in resonance frequency caused by an attached mass represents the sensing performance of a mass sensor, i.e., its mass detection sensitivity, and it can be seen that this shift is affected by the temperature change and the amount of electrostatic force. The thermal effects on the mass detection sensitivity are intensified in the linear oscillation regime and increase with increasing CNT length; this intensification can either improve or worsen the detection sensitivity.

반도체 레이저 측면 여기 Nd:YAG 매질에서의 열영향

양동옥,김병태 한국광학회 2003 한국광학회지 Vol.14 No.1

반도체 레이저 측면 여기시 Nd:YAG 레이저 매질에서 발생하는 열영향에 대해 분석하였다. 열영향을 고감도로 측정하기 위해 편광자와 Nd:YAG 매질 사이에 λ/4판을 삽입하여 여기 파워에 따라 발생하는 depolarization양을 측정하였다. CCD로 는 열영향에 의한 매질 내에서의 탐침광 분포 변화를 측정하고 해석하여 반도체 레이저 측면 여기시 발생하는 열영향을 최소화하기 위한 공진기 설계의 효과적인 방법을 제시하였다. This paper describes the thermal effect at Nd:YAG using a laser-diode side-pumping. To detect the depolarization loss and the retardation caused by the thermal effect, a λ/4 plate is inserted between the polarizer and the Nd:YAG laser material. Using a CCD has allowed detection of the variation of the beam pattern that could analyze the change of the refractive index of the Nd:YAG laser material by the thermal effect. Through the change of the probe beam power, we know that 21% of the pumping power was converted into heat in the material. The depolarization loss was 24.7% under a temperature of $25^{\circ}C$ of the laser material and a pumping power of 15 W. The inhomogeneous distribution showed that the retardation angle was 7$^{\circ}$ in the center of the material and 19$^{\circ}$ on the edge of it. It is confirmed that the thermal effect is analyzed at the each point of the laser material and it suggests an effective method to reduce the thermal effect on the LD side-pumped laser material.

MICROSTRUCTURAL EFFECTS ON MACROSCALE THERMAL PROPERTIES IN NANOFLUIDS

JING FAN,LIQIU WANG 성균관대학교(자연과학캠퍼스) 성균나노과학기술원 2010 NANO Vol.5 No.2

The recent first-principle model shows that heat conduction in nanofluids can be diffusion-dominant or thermal-wave-dominant depending on their microscale physics (structures, properties and activities). As the first attempt of quantifying when and to what extent thermal waves become important, we numerically examine effects of particle–fluid conductivity ratio, particle shape, volume fraction and nondimensional particle–fluid interfacial area in the unit-cell on macroscale thermal properties for nanofluids consisting of in-line arrays of perfectly dispersed two-dimensional circular, square and hollow particles, respectively. In simple and perfectly dispersed nanofluids, the heat conduction is diffusion-dominant so the effective thermal conductivity can be predicted adequately by the mixture rule with the effect of particle shape and particle–fluid conductivity ratio incorporated into its empirical parameter. Thermal waves appear more likely at smaller particle–fluid conductivity ratio (< 1) and lower particle-volume-fraction, which agrees with the experimentally observed significant conductivity enhancement in the oil-in-water emulsion. The computed thermal conductivity predicts some experimental data in the literature very well and shows the sensitivity to the nondimensional particle–fluid interfacial area in the unit-cell.

HCCI에 적용하기 위한 EGR이 PRF70/공기 혼합기의 점화지연에 미치는 영향

백동훈(D. H. Baik),이수룡(S. R. Lee) 대한기계학회 2018 대한기계학회 춘추학술대회 Vol.2018 No.12

The effects of EGR on ignition delay of PRF70/air mixture was numerically investigated with detailed chemical reaction mechanism. The Chemkin-III was utilized to evaluate the delay time of autoignition for isobaric conditions and simulate the HCCI engine conditions. For water vapour adding, the dilution and thermal effects cause the ignition delay to increase, while the chemical effect makes the ignition delay shortened. The ignition delay by the chemical effect is reduced by the increase of fuel oxidation rate. In the case of CO₂ addition, the higher value of specific heat of CO₂ makes thermal effect more important. The addition of CO₂ does not affect the quantity of radicals like H, O, and OH, which results in the reduction of chemical effect. In HCCI engine, adding EGR gas makes pressure rise rates decreased. As a result, the load range can be prolonged and even in higher load PRR remains acceptable. The dilution and thermal effects are more important than the chemical effect.

위성 열평형 시험에서 챔버 벽 영향에 관한 연구

김동운(Dong-Woon Kim),장영근(Young-Keun Chang) 한국항공우주학회 2006 韓國航空宇宙學會誌 Vol.34 No.12

위성 열평형 시험에 사용하는 열진공 챔버의 벽은 흑체 거동을 하는 우주공간과는 달리 위성의 복사 에너지를 완벽하게 흡수하지 못하고 일부를 반사한다. 챔버의 크기가 작을수록 이러한 챔버 벽 효과는 커지는 것으로 알려져 있다. 이것은 시험비용을 줄이기 위해 대형 챔버를 사용하기 힘든 소형위성의 개발에 걸림돌이 된다. 본 연구에서는 챔버 벽 효과를 예측하고 이를 보정하기 위한 정량적인 분석을 진행하였다. 그 결과로 챔버 벽 효과에 의한 온도 오차를 계산하여 시험 데이터를 보정할 수 있게 하였다. 또, 최적 면적비를 정의하여 소형위성의 열평형 시험용 열진공 챔버의 크기를 정하는데 기준을 마련하였다. 덧붙여 챔버 벽을 투명한 재질로 코팅하여 챔버 벽 효과를 줄일 수 있는 방안에 대해 이론적인 분석을 수행하였다. The wall of thermal vacuum chamber which is used for the satellite thermal balance test doesn't absorb satellite's IR emission perfectly and reflects some part of that. It is estimated that small thermal vacuum chamber has relatively larger wall effect than the big one. The small thermal vacuum chamber is required for the small satellite test to reduce the test cost. A quantitative analysis was carried out to investigate the chamber wall effect. As a result, temperature errors caused by chamber wall effect was calculated, and the temperature data acquired in the thermal balance test have been compensated. By defining the optimized area ratio between chamber surface and satellite surface area, the baseline to be able to determine the minimum size of thermal vacuum chamber was established to minimize the wall effect. Also, theoretical analysis about transparent material coating which can reduce the chamber wall effect is conducted

영향선을 이용한 강상판 교량의 구스 아스팔트 포장에 대한 근사해석 연구

서기홍,가훈,공민식,임성순 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 2006 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집 Vol.10 No.4

본 연구는 포장재의 높은 온도로 인해 발생하는 교량의 구조거동을 해석대상모델로 선택하여 열효과로 인한 변형이론를 정리하고 시공단계별 포장에 따른 교좌장치의 열 효과를 고려한 근사법의 제시를 연구목적으로 한다. 일반적으로 열영향은 대상 구조물의 형상, 크기 및 경계조건과 시간에 종속되는 대표적인 초기응력문제이다. 본 연구는 열영향을 시간에 독립된 초기응력문제로 가정하고 이를 등가의 초기하중으로 변환하여 이동하중처럼 재하함으로서 교좌장치에 발생하는 반력 및 변위에 대한 영향선 해석을 수행하였다. 임의로 선정한 연속된 포장구간에 대해 계산된 영향선을 이용하여 교좌장치들에 발생하는 열영향을 최소화하는 최적의 시공단계를 결정하였다. In this study, steel deck bridges are chosen as analytic model to show the structural behaviors generated by high temperature of pavement and to formulate the simplified approximate analysis of thermal effects. In general, the thermal effect is changed by the material property of pavements and environmental temperature as well as shape, size and boundary conditions of bridge. Specially, this effect is the representative initial stress problem dependent on time. The thermal effect, however, does not depend on time and thermal effect is regarded as initial load in this study. After these thermal loading is modelled as moving loads, influence lines of reactions of shoes are calculated and the successive pavement steps with arbitrary segments are determined to minimize the thermal effect of shoes by influence line.