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Effect of Water Velocity on Foraging Behavior of Planktivore on Zooplankton in Aquatic Ecosystems (유속조건에 따른 수중 생태계내 소형어류의 동물플랑크톤 포식 행동 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Bae Kyung;Park, Seok Soon
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.79-83
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    • 2005
  • Foraging behaviour of false dace, Pseudorasbora parva, was investigated in water flowing at various velocities with the existence of a cavity for rest. The pursuit comprised three succeeding processes such as, approaching, chasing and attacking. Angles between the fish body and the water flow direction and swimming speeds increased in the latter stages of approaching, chasing and attacking. All pursuit angles, swimming speeds and distances increased with flow velocity and peaked at the flow velocity of 7 cm/sec. At higher velocities, however, the fish avoided the use of much energy against the large drag force. The probability of capture and the feeding rate steadily decreased with increasing flow velocity. Under the fast flow, the fish adjusted their swimming speed to get the optimum velocity relative to the flowing water for the energetic budget. Fish spent more time in the cavity as flow velocity increased to avoid the energy expenditure necessitated by the high velocity.

Consideration of a Circumsolar Dust Ring in Resonant Lock with the Venus

  • Jeong, Jin-Hoon;Ishiguro, Masateru
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.54-54
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    • 2010
  • Interplanetary space is filled with dust particles originating mainly from comets and asteroids. Such interplanetary dust particles lose their angular momentum by olar radiation pressure, causing the dust grains to slowly spiral inward Poynting-Robertson effect). As dust particles move into the Sun under the influence of Poynting-Robertson drag force, they may encounter regions of resonance just outside planetary orbits, and be trapped by their gravities, forming the density enhancements in the dust cloud (circumsolar resonance ring). The circumsolar resonance ring near the Earth orbit was detected in the zodiacal cloud through observations of infrared space telescopes. So far, there is no observational evidence other than Earth because of the detection difficulty from Earth bounded orbit. A Venus Climate Orbiter, AKATSUKI, will provide a unique opportunity to study the Venusian resonance ring. It equips a near-infrared camera for the observations of the zodiacal light during the cruising phase. Here we consider whether Venus gravity produces the circumsolar resonance ring around the orbit. We thus perform the dynamical simulation of micron-sized dust particles released outside the Earth orbit. We consider solar radiation pressure, solar gravity, and planetary perturbations. It is found that about 40 % of the dust particles passing through the Venus orbit are trapped by the gravity. Based on the simulation, we estimate the brightness of the Venusian resonance ring from AKATSUKI's locations.

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Development & Test of A Small-Sized Autonomous Underwater Vehicle "BOTO" (소형 자율무인잠수정 "BOTO"의 개발 및 실험)

  • Byun, Seung-Woo
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.49 no.11
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    • pp.103-109
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    • 2012
  • Samsung Thales has developed a small-sized autonomous underwater vehicle "BOTO" verified by a mathematical model simulation. The hydrodynamic coefficients and drag force were experimented at circulating water channel for validating cruising performance of the AUV. Based on the mathematical model, we simulated turning radius and way-point tracking on horizontal plane using way-point tracking algorithm. In this paper we introduce the vehicle system and the sea trial test results will be shown.

An Experimental Study on Diesel Spray Dynamics and Auto-Ignition Characteristics in the Rapid Compression Machine (RCM을 이용한 디젤 분무거동 및 자발화 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, P.J.;Kim, H.M.;Kim, Y.M.;Kim, S.W.
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2000.04b
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    • pp.447-452
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    • 2000
  • The low-emission and high-performance diesel combustion is an important issue in the combustion research community. In order to understand the detailed diesel flame field involving the complex Physical Processes, It Is quite desirable to study diesel spray dynamics, auto-ignition and spray flame propagation. Dynamics of fuel spray is a crucial element for air-fuel mixture formation flame stabilization and pollutant formation. In the present study, the diesel RCM (Rapid Compression Machine) and the Electric Control injection system have been designed and developed to investigate the effects of injection Pressure, injection timing, and intake air temperature on spray dynamics and diesel combustion processes. In terms of the macroscopic spray combustion characteristics it is observed that the fuel jet atomization and the droplet breakup processes become much faster by increasing the injection pressure and the spray angle. With increasing the cylinder pressure there is a tendency that the shape of spray pattern in the downstream region tends to be spherical due to the increase of air density and the corresponding drag force. Effects of intake temperature and injection pressure on auto-ignition is experimently analysed and discussed in detail.

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Design and Fabrication of Single-person Neighborhood Electric Vehicle with Streamlined Car Body (유선형 차체가 적용된 1인용 저속 전기 자동차의 설계 및 제작)

  • Na, Yeong-min;Park, Jong-kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.55-63
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    • 2018
  • In recent years, with the growing interest in electric vehicles, the development of a Neighborhood Electronic Vehicle (NEV) made for urban driving is accelerating. Existing NEVs are set to ~0.3 - 0.35 with more emphasis on performance rather than minimizing air resistance. In this paper, a NEV with a streamlined car body is proposed. The shape of dolphins and sharks was applied to the car body to minimize the air resistance generated when driving. Also, the performance of the vehicle was estimated by calculating the traction force and the roll couple, etc. To check the drag coefficient of the car body, finite element analysis software (COMSOL Multiphysics) was used. The frame of the vehicle is divided into the forward and the rear parts. Carbon pipe is used for the frame by MIG welding. The car body of the vehicle was fabricated by forming carbon fiber. This study confirmed the general possibility of using NEVs through driving experiments.

Effect of the Change in Ambient Gas Density on the Mixture Formation Process in Evaporative Free Diesel Spray (주위기체 밀도변화가 증발자유디젤분무의 혼합기형성과정에 미치는 영향)

  • Yeom, J.K.;Chung, S.S.
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.209-213
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    • 2005
  • The effects of density change of ambient gas on mixture formation process have been investigated in high temperature and pressure field. To analyze the mixture formation process of evaporating diesel spray is important for emissions reduction in actual engines. Ambient gas density was selected as experimental parameter. The ambient gas density was changed from $r_a=5.0kg/m^3\;to\;r_a=12.3kg/m^3$ with a high pressure injection system(ECD-U2). For visualization of the experiment phenomenon, a CVC(Constant Volume Chamber) was used in this study. The ambient temperature and injection pressure are kept as 700K and 72MPa, respectively. The images of liquid and vapor phase in the evaporating free spray were simultaneously taken by exciplex fluorescence method. As experimental results, with increasing ambient gas density, the tip penetration of the evaporating free spray decreases due to the increase in the drag force from ambient gas.

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Flow Characteristics around Archimedes Wind Turbine according to the Change of Angle of Attack (받음각 변화에 따른 아르키메데스 풍력발전 날개 주위의 유동장 변화)

  • Li, Qiang;Kim, Hyun Dong;Ji, Ho Seong;Kim, Kyung Chun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.28-33
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    • 2013
  • This paper describes aerodynamic characteristics of an Archimedes spiral wind turbine with various angles of attack. The range of angles was controlled from $-30^{\circ}$ (clockwise) to $+30^{\circ}$ (clockwise). The rotating speed of wind turbine at the same angle of attack in both directions was different. The reason why the-maximum rotational speed was observed at $15^{\circ}$ in clockwise direction can be explained based on angular momentum conservation. Quantitative flow visualization around Archimedes wind turbine blade was carried out between $-15^{\circ}$ (clockwise) and $+15^{\circ}$ (counter clockwise) using high resolution PIV method. The relationship between drag force and rotating speeds was discussed. From these results, optimum design on yawing system of Archimedes spiral wind turbine may provide high efficiency on small wind power system.

Numerical Analysis on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of Thin Airfoil with Flapping and Pitching Motion (플래핑 운동 및 키놀이 운동을 하는 얇은 에어포일의 공력특성에 대한 수치 해석)

  • Kim, Woo-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.45-50
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    • 2013
  • In this study, lumped-vortex element method and thin airfoil theory were used to analyze aerodynamic characteristics of airfoils with relative motion that had camber lines of NACA $44{\times}{\times}$ airfoil in 2-dimensional unsteady incompressible potential flow. Velocity disturbance due to airfoil was calculated by lumped-vortex element model and force distribution on airfoil by unsteady Bernoulli's equation. Variables in relative motion were considered the period p, the amplitude of flapping $A_f$ and pitching $A_p$, and the phase difference between flapping and pitching ${\phi}_p$ and the angle of attack ${\alpha}$. Due to movement of an airfoil, dag was induced in 2-dimensional unsteady incompressible potential flow. The numerical results show that the aerodynamic characteristics of the airfoil with flapping and pitching at the same time are illustrated. Especially the mean lift coefficient became smaller, but drag coefficient became larger.

Measuring rheological properties using a slotted plate device

  • Kee, Daniel-De;Kim, Young-Dae;Nguyen, Q. Dzuy
    • Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.75-80
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    • 2007
  • The slotted plate technique has previously been shown to be a successful method for directly measuring the static yield stress of suspensions. In this study, we further establish the usefulness of the slotted plate device as a rheometer especially at low shear rates, taking advantage of the extremely low speeds of the slotted plate technique. Newtonian fluids, a shear thinning fluid, and yield stress fluids were tested using the slotted plate device and the results were compared with those from a commercial rheometer using different standard flow geometries. The relationship between the stress on the plate and the viscosity for the slotted plate device obtained by dimensional analysis (drag) predicts a linear relationship between the force at the plate and the plate speed, consistent with the experimental data. The slotted plate device can measure viscosities at very low shear rates. The apparent viscosity - shear-rate data obtained from the slotted plate device are complementary to those obtained using a commercial rheometer. That is : the slotted plate can measure viscosity in the shear rate range $10^{-7}<\dot{\gamma}<10^{-3}\;s^{-1}$, while the commercial rheometer measures viscosity at shear rates higher than $10^{-3}\;s^{-1}$.

A Fundamental Study on Suppressing the Bubbling in the Injector of LPDi Engine by High Pressurization of Fuel (연료 고압화에 의한 LPDi 기관의 인젝터 내 기포발생 억제에 관한 기초 연구)

  • Noh, Ki-Chol;Lee, Jong-Tai
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.47-53
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    • 2007
  • To suppress the bubble generated in the liquid LPG direct injector is the most important to develop the LPDi engine. It was found in the previous study that bubbling phenomenon in the injector of the LPDi engine is decisively influenced by pressure of fuel and temperature around the injector. Therefore, in this study, the effect on suppressing the bubbling in the LPDi injector by high pressurization of fuel is analyzed and the spray characteristics are also studied. As a result, it is found that the bubbling in the LPDi injector is radically suppressed when the pressure of fuel is over 50MPa. The bubbling is suppressed when the pressure of fuel is over 3MPa if the inserted position of the injector is considered. Also, it is confirmed that the higher the pressure of fuel is the longer spray tip penetration and is the larger spray angle. As the ambient pressure increases, spray tip penetration decreases and spray angle increases due to the increase of drag force.