In this study, numerical analysis was performed on a type IV hydrogen storage tank to analyze the temperature change of hydrogen inside the tank and the filling performance by changing the inlet nozzle outlet angle and the number of outlets. Considering the residual state of charge (SOC) inside the initial tank, the initial pressure was 10 MPa, and the temperature of hydrogen inside the tank and the SOC results were analyzed when hydrogen with a temperature of 233 K was introduced under the conditions of liner, wrap, and outside temperature of 298 K. The results of the analysis showed that the charging completion rate reached the charging limit pressure. The analysis showed that time of filling completion, when the filling limit pressure is reached, the SOC result is about 94% for all geometry change conditions, and the filling completion time increases by 5s as the number of outlets decreases. The temperature change of the wrap area at the end of filling is up to 3.6K, which shows that the outside air temperature has a negligible effect on the hydrogen temperature change inside the tank.

In this study, numerical analysis was performed for the purpose of analyzing the flow characteristics and performance according to the change in the inflow hydrogen temperature and differential pressure of the receptacle of the hydrogen charging system. The pressure distribution and turbulent kinetic energy in the filter area were analyzed by changing the outlet pressure condition under the inlet hydrogen temperature condition, and the flow velocity change at the outlet was compared and analyzed. As a result of the analysis, as the differential pressure decreased, the flow rate at the outlet of the receptacle decreased by up to about 70% at the 2.86 MPa condition compared to the 1.86 MPa condition, and the mass flow rate decreased by about 56.5% at the maximum. It was found that the standard CV performance was not satisfied when the differential pressure at the inlet and outlet was 1.12 MPa or less under the 363K temperature condition.

As the demand for appropriate heat dissipation measures to improve product stability and performance continues to increase and product design becomes highly integrated, research to improve heat transfer performance while maintaining the same area or size is required. In this study, the sample-shaped aluminum plate was treated as upper-coating, and the thickness of the coating was divided into 1mm, 2mm, and 3mm, respectively, and the coating material was applied with silver, copper, and graphene. The temperature condition of the heat source was set to 473K, and heat dissipation analysis was performed under natural convection. The thermal performance was compared and analyzed through temperature distribution, flow velocity distribution, and heat flux, and it was confirmed that the high thermal conductivity of graphene compared to other materials had a dominant effect on the increase in the conduction heat transfer rate. And it was confirmed that the high surface temperature of the graphene coating also increased the heat transfer rate by convection, thereby enhancing the heat dissipation effect.

This study is to investigate the effect of material for GPF on the PM reduction characteristics before the improvement of filter efficiency in GPF. The material of GPF was changed to ceramic and metal. The ceramic material was applied to SiC, and the metal materials were employed to STS 310s, STS 316s, and STS 410s. The number of honeycomb and wall thickness were set to 200CPSI, 0.3987mm, respectively. The inlet mass flow was fixed at 0.00695kg/s. The inlet air temperature was changed from 500K(0s∼350s) to 1000K(400s∼900s). It was found that the differences in loading amount according to the GPF materials were difficult to observe because the pore density and porosity were set to be the same to affect only the mechanical properties. STS 310s with the highest temperature value had the fastest regeneration time. However, as time goes on, SiC had the highest regeneration rate characteristics. The reason is that the high-temperature region in the GPF by the high-temperature exhaust gas was rapidly transferred toward the outlet due to the high thermal conductivity of SiC.

In this study, the cooling performance of the motor was analyzed according to the number and the length of the fins of the heat sink, and at the same time, the effect of forced convection on the cooling performance improvement by changing the air flow speed of the cooling fan was conducted. In order to find out the cooling performance in terms of turbulent kinetic energy, pressure, and temperature according to the number of heat sink fins, length of fins, and wind speed of the cooling fan, an aluminum heat sink was modeled according to the size of the motor. The heating value of the motor was calculated, and it was set to be the same under all analysis conditions. The turbulence model applied for numerical analysis in this study used the standard k-ε model. As a result, it was confirmed that the cooling effect of the heat sink increases as the air flow speed of the cooling fan, the number of fins, and the length of fins increase.

The objective of this study is to find the optimal production process in the aluminum IMS core parts. To reduce the production process, the total stage was designed at a total of 2 stages and 3 stages. In the total 2 stages process, the production stage was divided into a shaft part production and a yoke part production. In the total 3 stages process, the yoke production stages were subdivided into the 2 stages for distributing the stress. The results were compared and analyzed in terms of effective stress, folding characteristics and load characteristics. The stress distributions according to the production total stages were almost the same, the yoke production stage was received high stress due to the high strain. Both the tubular shaft yoke and solid shaft yoke according to the production total stages did not have any problems in the production because there did not occur the folding, metal flow and under-fill. When the total 2 stages were employed, the load for producing the tubular shaft yoke and the solid shaft yoke was decreased by 35.0% and 27.1%, respectively. As the results, when the total 2 stages process is applied rather than 3 stages process, the product is produced quickly and it is expected to be advantageous for the production cost due to the low load.

The objective of this study is to optimize the diameter of tubular shaft yoke and solid shaft yoke, which are the core components of Al IMS for xEV. The processes of both products were designed totally 6 steps to manufactured the shaft part and the yoke part. The diameter of solid shaft yoke and tubular shaft yoke were changed from 20mm to 25mm and from 30mm to 35mm, respectively. Al 6082 was applied to the material of both products. The friction condition between die and material was employed Oil_Cold (Aluminum) with reference to the library in the program. The results were analyzed and compared in terms of effective stress, effective strain, and nodal velocity characteristics. The effective strain value for manufacturing the yoke part was higher than the shaft part because its part has a complex geometry. The value of nodal velocity was also higher with high effective strain region. However, in 6 stage process of tubular shaft yoke, although it had the high effective strain value, the nodal velocity value was the lowest due to the piercing process. The effect of shaft part diameter on effective stress in the tubular shaft was difficult to observe, however, in the solid shaft yoke, when the shaft part of one increased, the effective stress value was increased due to the larger yoke size.

The objective of this numerical study is to investigate the effect of shaft part’s diameter on the load distribution, under-fill, and metal-flow line characteristics in tubular & solid shaft yoke of Al-IMS. The outer diameter of tubular shaft yoke was changed from 30mm to 35mm, and the shaft diameter of solid shaft yoke was varied from 20mm to 25mm. In this results, the required load for production was linearly increased with increasing the tubular shaft yoke outer diameter. In the solid shaft yoke, the loads for the shaft part extending process were almost constant by 10,000kg, however, the loads for generating the yoke process, which were needed a lot of strain, were increased by 4,000kg with increasing the diameter of shaft part. The under-fill regions according to diameter of the shaft part were not observed in both products, and the metal-flow lines were also straight without folding phenomena.

The objective of this numerical study is to investigate the effect of aluminium material on the weight reduction in tubular shaft yoke and solid shaft yoke. The tubular shaft and the solid shaft were designed by 6 stage processes and the results were analyzed by using a finite element analysis method. The coefficient of friction was set to Oil_cold as referred to the analysis library. It was found that the weight was reduced as 65% with applying the aluminium alloy due to lower density than carbon steel. Von-mises stress values of applying aluminium alloy to the tubular shaft yoke and solid shaft yoke were lower than those of carbon steel because of the low yield stress of aluminium alloy. The folding and underfill phenomenon were not observed on the aluminium alloy in tubular shaft yoke and solid shaft yoke. From these results, the weight reduction of products and the extend life of dies can be expected when aluminium alloy is applied.

The objective of this study is to solve a problem that is occurred during the spline machining of tubular shaft yoke in both side IMS module. In order to simulate the problem, the movement direction of upper die was set as standard case and error case. The material of tubular shaft yoke was set to S20C as refer to the analysis library. The movement directions of upper die were separated with standard case and error case. The error case was set to simulate the problem in the spline machining of tubular shaft yoke. In order to solve the problem, the outer radius of upper die were modelled from 9.40mm to 9.44mm. The simulation results were analyzed and compared in terms of effective stress, metal flow line and folding phenomena characteristics. In case of the outer radius of upper die was 9.42mm, it was observed a relatively uniform effective stress distribution and had a straight metal flow line.

The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of torque variation on stress distributions in A-IMS module with both side tubular shaft yoke by numerically. In order to achieve this, the torque value was increased from 10Nm to 40Nm, and the results of this work were confirmed in terms of Von-mises Stress and the displacement characteristics. As the torque in module assembly was increased, the stress in tubular shaft york and splined shaft york was increased linearly. The indentation due to the steel ball was occurred in over 40N·m torque which is over the yield strength condition. The largest displacement occurred in the tubular shaft yoke 1, however, it does not exceed the yield strength and is supposed to be restored due to the elasticity. Therefore, it was concluded that there is no problem for the manufacturing of A-IMS with both side tubular shaft yoke.

It is known that the cooling performance can be improved about 5~12% and the COP (Coefficient of Performance) can be improved about 10~15% when the IHX (Internal Heat Exchanger) was applied in a vehicle. Thus, the aim of this study was to observe the influence of the fins shape on the turbulence flow and turbulence kinetic energy gradient in IHX. All the applied parameters of the fin such as rotation angle, spacing ratio, height ratio and mass flow rate are changed. The governing equations for the flow motion simulation were applied to continuity equation and Navier-Stokes equation, and the turbulence model was applied by the Shear Stress Transport(SST) model, which has the advantage of turbulence simulation. As the rotation angles of the front and back fins were increased, the difference in the maximum turbulent kinetic energy gradient between fins was reduced. As the inlet flow mass increased, the turbulent kinetic energy difference between front and back fins were increased. The turbulence area tended to increase with increasing fin height ratio.

The objective of this study is to find the optimal size of splined shaft in IMS module. Two methods were used in this study. One is for the investigation of effect of indentation process on the tubular shaft yoke, and another is for the investigation of effect of indentation process on splined shaft. The spline outer size of splined shaft was increased from 0.00mm to 0.20mm. The simulation results were analyzed and compared in terms of under-fill, metal flow, effective strain, Von-mises stress and load characteristics. The indentation load was increased with increasing of spline size. However, in case of 0.15mm outer diameter increasing, the separation load was decreased. The case of 0.10mm diameter increasing was the best spline size based on the low indentation load and high separation load.

The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of tubular shaft hole length on the A-IMS production process in numerically. The hole length of tubular shaft was changed from 69.5mm to 79.5mm for distribution of load and stress. Then, the tubular shaft was modeled by S20C which was referred to program library. At the same time, the results of numerical analysis were compared in terms of under-fill, metal flow, principal stress, Von-mises stress and load characteristics. In the results, the load and stress were increased at 4 stage when the hole length of tubular shaft was increased. Also, folding phenomenon was observed to intensify as increasing the hole length of tubular shaft by confirmation of metal flow.

This paper aims to reveal the effects of the K- turbulence model on the performance analysis of battery cooling system for electric vehicle. The maximum temperature, the difference of temperature, and temperature distributions on the battery module were compared with and without K- turbulence model under the different flow rate. It can be expected that the maximum temperature of K- turbulence model is corrected by using the average error rate without the result of K- turbulence model.

This paper aims to reveal the effects of the K-ε turbulence model on the performance analysis of battery cooling system for electric vehicle. The maximum temperature, the difference of temperature, and temperature distributions on the battery module were compared with and without K- ε turbulence model under the different flow rate. It was found that there was no need to apply K-ε turbulence model when the flow rate is over 500m3/h because the difference of maximum temperature is under the 6℃.

The object of this study was to investigate for improving of the homogeneous stress distribution according to sliding cage geometry. In order to achieve this, the sliding cage were modelled as type A, type B and type C, then the sliding cage were applied at A-IMS assembly. The numerical simulation was performed by SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION commercial code and the torque range was applied from 10N·m to 40N·m at A-IMS assembly. The results of simulation were compared in terms of Von-mises stress, principal stress and displacement characteristics. Each stress of type B were the highest value. In other hand, Von-mises stress of type A and type C were less than yield stress.

This study was performed for the optimizations of A-IMS assembly by analyzing the stress distributions under the different torque conditions. In order to achieve this, the numerical simulation was performed by SOLIDWORKS commercial code and the torque range that applied on the A-IMS assembly was increased from 10 N·m to 40 N·m. The simulation results were analyzed and compared in terms of Von-mises stress, principal stress, and displacement characteristics. The maximum stress distributions was observed on the contact surface of needle bearing which is located between tubular and solid shaft. It was found that the fracture of A-IMS assembly won’t occur until 30 N·m of torque. Therefore, it was concluded that there is no problem for the manufacturing of A-IMS assembly.

The objective of this work is to investigate the A-IMS structural defects on the tubular shaft and solid shaft by analyzing the under-fill, metal flow, effective stress and load characteristics. The tubular shaft and solid shaft were designed 6 stage process by upper and lower die. The results were analysed by using a finite elements analysis method. The coefficient of frictions were set Oil_Cold conditions as referred to the analysis library. It was found that the actual under-fill phenomenon was not observed in both tubular and solid shaft. The load values of tubular and solid shaft were 520ton and 255ton, respectively. These values were under the limit of forging machine maximum value.