• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.81-89
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• 1991

An interesting property of meandering river patterns is that they slowly deform, as bank erosion on one side of a channel and deposition on the other side result in the location of the channel. In this study we used a sine-generated meander pattern proposed by Langbein and Leopold(1966) to develop a solution of a linear, second-order differential equation of transverse bed slope(bed topography) proposed by Odgaard(1986). A new model for transverse bed slope(bed topography), that accounts for the phase lag and the influence of the width to depth aspect ratio, was developed in this study and compared with results of field measurements.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.288-297
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• 2009

A serpentine channel geometry often used in a fuel cell has a strong pressure gradient between adjacent channels in specific regions. The pressure gradient helps some amount of reactant gas penetrate through a gas diffusion layer(GDL). As a result, the overall serpentine flow structure is slightly different from the intention of a designer. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of serpentine flow structure on current density distribution. By using a commercial code, STAR-CD, a numerical simulation is performed to analyze the fuel cell with high aspect ratio of active area. To increase the accuracy of the numerical simulation, GDL permeabilities are measured with various compressive forces. Three-dimensional flow field and current density distribution are calculated. For the verification of the numerical simulation results, water condensation process in the cathode channel is observed through a transparent bipolar plate. The result of this study shows that the region of relatively low current density corresponds that of dropwise condensation in cathode channels.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.7-12
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• 2008

근래에 들어 급속한 산업화에 따라 하천 고유의 특성을 간과한 채 개발 위주의 하천 정비사업이 시행되고 있으며 이는 하천의 인공화 및 생태계의 교란 등 많은 문제점을 낳고 있다. 이에 따라 하천 및 하도 환경에 미치는 영향이 심각할 뿐만 아니라 홍수 피해 또한 급격히 증가하고 있다. 지금까지의 치수 위주의 하천 정비를 벗어나 친환경적인 하천으로의 복원 사업이 필요한 실정이며, 이는 새로운 하천 관리 기술의 도입이 필요함을 의미한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 항공사진과 GIS기반의 하천 시계열 분석을 수행하여 새로운 하천 관리 기술 도입에 응용할 수 있는 방안을 제시하고자 하였다. 분석을 위하여 댐 하류의 하천교란 및 적응현장 시범지역을 선정한 후 대상 지역의 항공사진을 GIS화하여 하천 교란 실태를 분석하는 데에 필요한 저수로와 제방 및 기타 자료를 shape 파일 형태로 생성하였다. 생성된 자료를 바탕으로 하천의 사행도 및 유로 변동 현황 분석을 실시함에 따라 하천의 변화 양상을 확인하였으며 대상 하천의 사행도 및 저수의 구체적인 제반 수치를 제시할 수 있었다. 또한 분석 결과를 바탕으로 현재 이루어지고 있는 하천의 정비 및 복원 사업이 하천의 흐름에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 지 예측을 가능하게 하였다. 본 연구에서 규명된 경년별 하천 형태의 변화 추세와 하천 부지의 물리적 특성 변화 양상을 기본 자료로 한다면 하천 관리에 있어 수리 수문학적 분석이 용이하리라 사료된다. 향후 연구에서는 GIS기반의 하천 관리 방안 수립에 대한 심층 연구가 뒤따라야 할 것이다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.1753-1764
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• 2014

Numerical flow simulation models in the riverine environments have been widely utilized for analyzing flow dynamics in various degrees in researches and practical applications. However, most of the simulated results have been validated based on the data from indoor experimental models or very limited in-situ measurements. Therefore, it has been required to more accurately validate the performance of the numerical models in terms of the detailed field observations. In particular, it was also hard to validate the performances of the existing numerical models in the real meandered river channels that encompass more sophisticated flow and geometric structures. Recently, advancements of the modern flow measuring instrumentations such as acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) enabled us to efficiently acquire the detailed flow field in the broad range of river channels, thus that it became to be possible to accurately validate any numerical models with the field observations. In this study, based on the detailed flow measurements in a actual meandered river channel using ADCP, we validated FaSTMECH model in iRIC in terms of water surface elevation, which is relatively new but began to get highlighted in the research areas. As the validation site, a meandering channel in River Experiment Center of KICT was chosen, which has 6.5 m of width, 0.38m of flow depth, 1.54 m3/s of flow discharge, 0.61 m/s of mean flow velocity, and 1.2 of sinuosity. As results, whereas the FaSTMECH precisely simulated water surface elevation, simulated velocity field in the bend did not match well with ADCP dataset.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.1345-1349
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• 2004

하천수를 취수원으로 하는 우리나라의 많은 취수장의 경우, 유사유입 및 유로 변경에 따른 취수장애를 겪고 있으나 유로의 변화특성을 분석하고 취수장 위치선정에 활용한 수 있는 실무적 기법에 대한 연구는 거의 없는 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 유로가 좌${\cdot}$우안으로 수시로 바뀌어 갈수기는 물론 평수기에도 취수장애를 겪고 있어 대책 강구가 요구되는 국내 취수장을 선정하고 취수지점의 계속적인 하상 및 유로변동 현상을 규명하여 안정적인 취수를 가능케 하는 근본적인 대책을 수립하기 위한 유로변화 특성 분석기법을 제시하였다. 연구내용으로는 과거 30여년에 걸친 하도의 평면학적 변화양상을 인공위성영상자료, 지형도자료 및 하도단면 실측자료를 활용하여 각 지점별 유로변화에 대한 동계분석을 실시하였다. 또한 하도의 전단응력, 마찰 속도 등을 산정하여 하상형태를 분석하여 대상구간의 흐름특성을 분석하였다. 분석결과 하도의 사행은 지속적으로 진행되고 있음을 알 수 있으며 특히 취수장부터 상류 수km구간 하도에서는 밤섬이 지속적으로 생긴다 사라지는 현상이 반복되고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 취수장 주변에서는 유로의 변동이 하폭의 $70\%$에 달하는 심한 유로변화 특성을 나타내고 있어 취수지점으로 적당치 못함을 알수 있었으며 주변 상하류 십수 km구간 중에는 유로의 변화가 거의 없는 구간도 존재함을 알 수 있이 본 연구의 유로변화 분석기법이 향후 유로변화 분석 및 취수장 건설 위치 선정에 효과적인 분석기법으로 활용 가능함을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.96.1-96.1
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• 2005

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.173-181
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• 1993

Under natural conditions, rivers do not in general take straight courses but instead take winding courses. This is known as meandering of rivers. Meandering of rivers are so complicated because of the mutual interactions between flow and movable boundaries. In quantitative information, it is important to predict the future location of a river channel(channel migration) because in selecting a bridge site or a location of a road. It may be valuable to know the future impact of a nearby river on those structures. When the prediction model of the migration of channel is used in domestic rivers with high coefficient of river regime, it is rational to use the periodical dominant discharge (PDD), which is named firstly by the author, instead of the average discharge. According to the analysis of the erosion coefficient, the mean deviation on the channel migration, and the bed scour factor, it can bring shedding light on the fact that the discharge is one of the dominant components in channel migration. In project area, the discharge that can shift the channel is slightly greater than 6,000CMS. The prediction model of the migration of channel estimated the erosion coefficient, $E_0$ by the data from the South Han River. This estimated value from the South Han River was also used to predict the migration of the South Han River in year 2000.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.81-93
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• 2008

Current re-arrangement of river and waterway has been made uniformly ignoring characteristics of individual rivers thereby aggravating artificial river restructuring. Subsequently this severely affects the rivers' physical, chemical, and biological phenomenon. On the contrary, quantitative techniques to evaluate the aftermath of artificial river disturbance such as uprising of river bed, intrusion of foreign fisheries, and changes of ecological habitats are not available. To establish such quantitative techniques, analysis of river changes to evaluate the major causes of the river disturbance and its impacts is essential. Therefore, this study mainly focused on proposing a method which can be applied for the development of techniques to investigate river disturbance according to the major factors for the domestic rivers using airphotos and GIS techniques. For the analysis, the study area on the downstream of the river was selected and airphotos of the area were converted into GIS format to generate 'shape' files to secure waterways, river banks, and auxiliary data required for analyzing river disturbance. Trend analysis of the waterway sinuosity and changes of the flow path leaded to detailed verification of the river disturbance for specific location or time period, and this enabled to relatively accurate numbers representing sinuosity of the waterway and relevant changes. As the major results from the analysis, the relocation of waterways and the level of river sinuosity were quantified and used to verify the impacts on the stability of the waterways especially in the downstream of the dam. The results from this study enabled effective establishing proper measures against waterways' unstability, and emphasized subsequent researches for identifying better alternatives against river disturbances.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.65-72
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• 2011

Natural streams meander, forming pools at the outer part of bend and riffles at the crossing. Pools are deep at a lower flow velocity, and riffles are shallow at a higher flow velocity. Attentions are being paid to pool-riffle sequences in meandering streams because pool-riffle sequences tend to increase biodiversity of the stream ecosystem. This study investigates the characteristics of distribution of bed sediment particles in the upstream reach of the Gap Stream, which is a tributary of the Geum River in Korea. The upstream part of the Gap Stream, the study reach, is a gravel-bed stream, showing a pool and three riffles due to meandering. The reach also includes pools at the upstream and downstream parts of the weir. The characteristics of bed sediment particles sampled at the wetland and in the side channel are studied, revealing that the median particle diameter in the riffle is about four times larger than that in the pool. In addition, flow simulations are carried out for ordinary discharge and design flood, and such parameters important to sediment transport as velocity, shear stress, dimensionless shear stress (or Shields number), and dimensionless shear velocity are provided to see the mobility of sediment particles in the pool-riffle sequence.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.15-22
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• 1997

The flow in meandering channel has a great influence on curved bank revetment in river morphology. It is difficult to state generalized cirteria for channel improvement applicable to any paricular river. But it is very important to provide some principles and guidelines for design engineers. The objective of this experimental study in fixed bed model is to povide effective data that find out maximum velocity size by the mean velocity and the radius of curvature in curved channel, for the purpose of improving small stream without hydraulic modeling test each time.