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Two-Way Coupled Fluid Structure Interaction Simulation of a Propeller Turbine

  • Schmucker, Hannes;Flemming, Felix;Coulson, Stuart
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.342-351
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    • 2010
  • During the operation of a hydro turbine the fluid mechanical pressure loading on the turbine blades provides the driving torque on the turbine shaft. This fluid loading results in a structural load on the component which in turn causes the turbine blade to deflect. Classically, these mechanical stresses and deflections are calculated by means of finite element analysis (FEA) which applies the pressure distribution on the blade surface calculated by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as a major boundary condition. Such an approach can be seen as a one-way coupled simulation of the fluid structure interaction (FSI) problem. In this analysis the reverse influence of the deformation on the fluid is generally neglected. Especially in axial machines the blade deformation can result in a significant impact on the turbine performance. The present paper analyzes this influence by means of fully two-way coupled FSI simulations of a propeller turbine utilizing two different approaches. The configuration has been simulated by coupling the two commercial solvers ANSYS CFX for the fluid mechanical simulation with ANSYS Classic for the structure mechanical simulation. A detailed comparison of the results for various blade stiffness by means of changing Young's Modulus are presented. The influence of the blade deformation on the runner discharge and performance will be discussed and shows for the configuration investigated no significant influence under normal structural conditions. This study also highlights that a two-way coupled fluid structure interaction simulation of a real engineering configuration is still a challenging task for today's commercially available simulation tools.

Resonant Mode Analysis of Microwave Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonator using 3D Finite Element Method (3차원 유한 요소법을 이용한 초고주파 압전 박막 공진기의 공진 모드해석)

  • 정재호;송영민;이용현;이정희;고광식;최현철
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.18-26
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, the resonant characteristics and modes of the film bulk acoustic wave resonator (FBAR) used in 1~2 GHz frequency region are analyzed by it's input impedance which was calculated by three dimensional finite element method formulated as eigenvalue problem using electro-mechanical wave equation and boundary condition. It was extracted that the resonant and the spurious characteristics considering the effects of electrode area and shape variation and unsymmetry of upper and lower electrode. Those effects couldn't be analyzed by on dimensional analysis, e.g. Mason equivalent model. The simulation result was confirmed by comparing with the simulation data from Mason model analysis and the measured data of the ZnO FBAR fabricated using micro-machining technique. Also, through the simulation of the area variations of FBAR, it was obtained that the optimum ratio of length and thickness is 20:1 and the minimum ratio is 5:1 to operate thickness vibration mode.

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Experimental Study on Interaction of Side-by-Side Moored Vessels (병렬계류 선박의 동유체력 상호간섭에 관한 실험연구)

  • Kim, Jin-Ha;Hong, Sa-Young;Cho, Seok-Gyo;Choi, Yoon-Rak;Song, Myong-Jae;Kim, Duk-Su
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.208-213
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    • 2003
  • Recently, Side-by-side mooring system of LNG FPSO and shuttle tanker is one of hot issues in offshore floating body dynamics, which requires accurate analysis of hydrodynamic interactions between side by side moored LNG FPSO and shuttle tanker than tandem moored vessels. This paper aims to investigate basic interaction characteristics of side-by-side moored multiple vessels both numerically and experimentally. A higher-order boundary element method combined with generalized nwde approach will be applied to analysis of motion and drift force of side by side moored multiple-body. Model tests were carried out for the same multiple floating bodies in regular and irregular waves. Motion responses and drift forces of vessels for two mooring situation(coupled & uncoupled) were compared with those of calculations. Discussions will be highlighted on applicability of numerical method to prediction of sophisticated multi-body interaction problem of which motion behavior is very important to analysis of mooring dynamics of deep sea floating bodies.

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Improvement of the Resistivity in High Field for the New Piezoelectric Compositions in the Bi(NiaX1-a)O3-PbTiO3(X=Ti,Nb) System (Bi(NiaX1-a)O3-PbTiO3 계 압전 신조성(X-Ti,Nb)의 내전압 특성 향상)

  • Choi, Soon-Mok;Seo, Won-Seon
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.220-225
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    • 2008
  • Lead-free ferroelectric ceramics are widely researched today for industrial applications as sensors, actuators and transducers. Since $Pb(Zr_aTi_{1-a})O_3$-(PZT) has high Curie temperature($T_C$), high piezoelectric properties near its morphotropic phase boundary(MPB) composition and small temperature dependence electrical behavior, it has been used to commercial materials for wide temperature range and different application fields. According to the tolerance factor concept, since the $Bi^{3+}$ cation with 12-fold coordinate has a smaller ionic radius than 12-fold coordinate $Pb^{2+}$, most bismuth based perovskites possess a smaller tolerance factor. Therefore, MPBs with a higher $T_C$ may be expected in $Bi(Me^{3+})O_3PbTiO_3$ solid solutions. As in lead based perovskite systems, it is clear that we need to explore more materials in simple or complex bismuth based MPB systems. The objective of this study is to investigate the $Bi(Ni_{1_a}X_a)O_3-PbTiO_3(X=Ti^{4+},\;Nb^{5+})$ perovskite solid-solution. For improving the electronic conduction problem, the magnesium and manganese modified system was also studied.

Determination of stay cable force based on effective vibration length accurately estimated from multiple measurements

  • Chen, Chien-Chou;Wu, Wen-Hwa;Huang, Chin-Hui;Lai, Gwolong
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.411-433
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    • 2013
  • Due to its easy operation and wide applicability, the ambient vibration method is commonly adopted to determine the cable force by first identifying the cable frequencies from the vibration signals. With given vibration length and flexural rigidity, an analytical or empirical formula is then used with these cable frequencies to calculate the cable force. It is, however, usually difficult to decide the two required parameters, especially the vibration length due to uncertain boundary constraints. To tackle this problem, a new concept of combining the modal frequencies and mode shape ratios is fully explored in this study for developing an accurate method merely based on ambient vibration measurements. A simply supported beam model with an axial tension is adopted and the effective vibration length of cable is then independently determined based on the mode shape ratios identified from the synchronized measurements. With the effective vibration length obtained and the identified modal frequencies, the cable force and flexural rigidity can then be solved using simple linear regression techniques. The feasibility and accuracy of the proposed method is extensively verified with demonstrative numerical examples and actual applications to different cable-stayed bridges. Furthermore, several important issues in engineering practice such as the number of sensors and selection of modes are also thoroughly investigated.

THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF STRESS DISTRIBUTION AND PRELOAD OF DIFFERENT CONNECTION TYPES IMPLANT WITH INITIAL CLAMPING (임플랜트의 체결방식에 따른 초기조임력에 의한 응력분포 및 전하중에 관한 연구)

  • Lee Bum-Hyun;Chun Heoung-Jae;Lee Soo-Hong;Han Chong-Hyun
    • The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.197-206
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    • 2006
  • Statement of problem: One of common problems associated with single teeth dental implant prosthetic is the loosening of screws that retain the implants. Purpose: The maintenance of screw joint stability is considered a function of the preload achieved in the screw when the suggested initial tightening torque is applied. The purpose of this study was to investigate acquired preload after initial clamping torque for estimating screw joint stability. Material and methods: A comparative study on the effect of initial clamping of two types of implant systems with different connections was conducted Three dimensional non-linear finite element analysis is adopted to compare the characteristics of screw preloads and stress distributions between two different types of implant systems composed with abutment, screw, and fixture under the same loading and boundary conditions. Results: 1. When the initial clamping torque of 32Ncm was applied to the implant systems, all types of implants generated the maximum effective stress at the first helix region of screw. 2. Morse taper connection types of implants generate lower stress distributions compared to those by butt joint connection types or implants due to large contact surface between abutment and fixture. 3. The internal types of implant systems with friction grip type implant systems have higher resistance to screw loosening than that of the external types of implant systems since the internal types of implant systems generated larger preload than that generated by the external types for the same tightening moments.

A Substitute Model Learning Method Using Data Augmentation with a Decay Factor and Adversarial Data Generation Using Substitute Model (감쇠 요소가 적용된 데이터 어그멘테이션을 이용한 대체 모델 학습과 적대적 데이터 생성 방법)

  • Min, Jungki;Moon, Jong-sub
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.1383-1392
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    • 2019
  • Adversarial attack, which geneartes adversarial data to make target model misclassify the input data, is able to confuse real life applications of classification models and cause severe damage to the classification system. An Black-box adversarial attack learns a substitute model, which have similar decision boundary to the target model, and then generates adversarial data with the substitute model. Jacobian-based data augmentation is used to synthesize the training data to learn substitutes, but has a drawback that the data synthesized by the augmentation get distorted more and more as the training loop proceeds. We suggest data augmentation with 'decay factor' to alleviate this problem. The result shows that attack success rate of our method is higher(around 8.5%) than the existing method.

A Strategy using Updatable Message for Retaining the Cache Consistency in the Mobile Computing Environment (이동 컴퓨팅 환경에서 갱신가능 메시지를 이용한 캐쉬 일과성 유지 정책)

  • Park, Seong-Bae;Hwang, Bu-Hyun
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.4 no.7
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    • pp.1694-1705
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    • 1997
  • In the future mobile computing environment, it will be generalized that a mobile host with portable Laptop of Palmtop accesses to database through wireless communication channel. For solving the problems which are caused from low bandwidth of wireless communication, mobile hosts cache the datum used frequently on them. Thus the mobile hosts must always retain the cache consistency for the correctness of the cached datum. the cache consistency is mainly affected from the unrestricted host mobility and the disconnection of the communication between mobile hosts and mobile support station. In this situation, the strategy to retain efficiently cache consistency is required. In this paper, we propose a strategy using updatable message for retaining the cache consistency, in the mobile computing environment, with replicated database supporting 2 phase commit protocol. This strategy makes use of a updatable message to resolve the cache consistency problem, since mobile host crosses the boundary of cell. In using of this updatable, it find out and cache only the update data of missing invalidation message. As a result, the proposed strategy utilizes network bandwidth efficiently because it is not need to delete all the cached datum with any datum change.

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An Iterative Image Reconstruction Method for the Region-of-Interest CT Assisted from Exterior Projection Data (Exterior 투영데이터를 이용한 Region-of-Interest CT의 반복적 영상재구성 방법)

  • Jin, Seung Oh;Kwon, Oh-Kyong
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.132-141
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    • 2014
  • In an ordinary CT scan, a large number of projections with full field-of-view (FFOV) are necessary to reconstruct high resolution images. However, excessive x-ray dosage is a great concern in FFOV scan. Region-of-interest (ROI) CT or sparse-view CT is considered to be a solution to reduce x-ray dosage in CT scanning, but it suffers from bright-band artifacts or streak artifacts giving contrast anomaly in the reconstructed image. In this study, we propose an image reconstruction method to eliminate the bright-band artifacts and the streak artifacts simultaneously. In addition to the ROI scan for the interior projection data with relatively high sampling rate in the view direction, we get sparse-view exterior projection data with much lower sampling rate. Then, we reconstruct images by solving a constrained total variation (TV) minimization problem for the interior projection data, which is assisted by the exterior projection data in the compressed sensing (CS) framework. For the interior image reconstruction assisted by the exterior projection data, we implemented the proposed method which enforces dual data fidelity terms and a TV term. The proposed method has effectively suppressed the bright-band artifacts around the ROI boundary and the streak artifacts in the ROI image. We expect the proposed method can be used for low-dose CT scans based on limited x-ray exposure to a small ROI in the human body.

Performance Analysis of Sonar System Applicable to Underwater Construction Sites with High Turbidity (탁도가 높은 수중작업현장에 사용 가능한 소나시스템의 성능 분석)

  • Shin, Changjoo;Jang, In-Sung;Kim, Kihun;Choi, Hyun-Tack;Lee, Seung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.9
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    • pp.4507-4513
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    • 2013
  • The developing unmanned underwater equipment can be used for underwater construction site such as underwater leveling works. If a optical camera is applied to the unmanned underwater equipment, recognition in underwater can be gone to low due to high turbidity in working field. To overcome this problem, a sonar will be installed to the unmanned underwater equipment. In this study, the resolution of the sonar and the quality test of the sonar image under high turbidity environment were conducted. And the method to indicate the boundary of the underwater construction site was proposed. By these results, the basic performance of the sonar was evaluated.