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Accuracy evaluation of microwave water surface current meter for measurement angles in middle flow condition

전자파표면유속계의 측정 각도에 따른 평수기 유속 측정 정확도 분석

  • Son, Geunsoo (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Dankook University) ;
  • Kim, Dongsu (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Dankook University) ;
  • Kim, Kyungdong (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Dankook University) ;
  • Kim, Jongmin (River Experiment Center, KICT)
  • 손근수 (단국대학교 토목환경공학과) ;
  • 김동수 (단국대학교 토목환경공학과) ;
  • 김경동 (단국대학교 토목환경공학과) ;
  • 김종민 (한국건설기술연구원 하천연구센터)
  • Received : 2019.10.29
  • Accepted : 2019.11.25
  • Published : 2020.01.31
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Abstract

Streamflow discharge as a fundamental riverine quantity plays a crucial role in water resources management, thereby requiring accurate in-situ measurement. Recent advances in instrumentations for the streamflow discharge measurement has complemented or substituted classical devices and methods. Among various potential methods, surface current meter using microwave has increasingly begun to be applied not only for flood but also normal flow discharge measurement, remotely and safely enabling practitioners to measure flow velocity postulating indirect contact. With minimized field preparedness, this method facilitated and eased flood discharge measurement in the difficult in-situ conditions such as extreme flood in active ways emitting 24.125 GHz microwave without relying on natural lights. In South Korea, a rectangular shaped instrument named with Microwave Water Surface Current Meter (MWSCM) has been developed and commercially released around 2010, in which domestic agencies charging on streamflow observation shed lights on this approach regarding it as a potential substitute. Considering this brand-new device highlighted for efficient flow measurement, however, there has been few noticeable efforts in systematic and comprehensive evaluation of its performance in various measurement and riverine conditions that lead to lack in imminent and widely spreading usages in practices. This study attempted to evaluate the MWSCM in terms of instrumen's monitoring configuration particularly regarding tilt and yaw angle. In the middle of pointing the measurement spot in a given cross-section, the observation campaign inevitably poses accuracy issues related with different tilt and yaw angles of the instrument, which can be a conventionally major source of errors for this type of instrument. Focusing on the perspective of instrument configuration, the instrument was tested in a controlled outdoor river channel located in KICT River Experiment Center with a fixed flow condition of around 1 m/s flow speed with steady flow supply, 6 m of channel width, and less than 1 m of shallow flow depth, where the detailed velocity measurements with SonTek micro-ADV was used for validation. As results, less than 15 degree in tilting angle generated much higher deviation, and higher yawing angle proportionally increased coefficient of variance. Yaw angles affected accuracy in terms of measurement area.

하천 유량관측은 수자원의 관리를 위해 활용되는 기초적이고 대표적인 자료로 하천에서 정확한 유량을 관측하는 것은 중요하다. 따라서 최근에는 다양한 첨단 장비들이 개발되어 전통적인 하천의 유량관측을 대체하거나 보완하고 있다. 여러 최신 장비들 중 전자파표면유속계는 홍수기와 같이 하천에 접근하여 직접유량계측이 위험하고 정확도 확보가 어려울 경우전자파를 이용하여 비접촉식으로 유량을 계측하는 장비로 홍수기 및 평갈수기에도 하천 유량계측에 활용되기 시작하였다. 전자파표면유속계는 사용법이 간단하고 간접적으로 유속을 측정하기 때문에 기존의 직접측정 방법에 비해 안전한 장점이 있어 현재 국내에서는 홍수기 또는 접근이 어려운 하천의 유속 측정을 위해 사용되고 있다. 국내에서는 1993년 유량측정 장치 개발을 위해 전자파표면유속계(MWSCM; Microwave Water Surface Current Meter)를 개발을 연구를 수행하였고, 최근에는 국내에서 개발된 전자파표면유속계을 활용하여 유량측정을 위해 사용되고 있다. 하지만 국내에서 개발된 전자파표면유속계가 실제 하천에서 유속측정의 정확도에 대한 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 전자파표면유속계는 기기로부터 전자파를 이용해 유속을 측정하기 때문에 수직각과 편각과 같은 각도 변화에 따라 측정정확도가 바뀔 수 있고, 전자파표면유속계 본체에서 발사되는 전자파의 측정영역에 따라 유속측정에 오차가 발생할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 국내에서 개발 전자파표면유속계의 측정정확도를 분석하기 위해서 실제하천과 유사한 실규모 하천수로에서 수직각과 편각을 변화시키며 측정을 수행하여 수직각과 편각에 변화에 따른 유속측정 정확도를 분석하였다. 그리고 전자파표면유속계의 측정영역의 고려를 통해서 측정영역에 따른 유속측정결과를 분석하였다. 유속측정 결과를 통해서 수직각 15° 이하에서는 유속측정의 오차가 커지게 되는 것으로 나타났고, 편각이 커질수록 유속측정의 결과의 변동계수가 커지는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 편각에 따른 오차의 영향은 전자파표면유속계의 측정영역에 따라 결과가 달라지는 것으로 나타났다.

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