• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1991.04a
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• pp.84-90
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• 1991

Underground structures usually consist of rock masses or concretes which can be cracked or have cracks. This study aims to develop an analysis program which can deal with the effect of discontinuous behavior due to those cracks using the block theory. It is assumed that rock masses form blocks along the discontinuity lines, and deformation within the block is relatively small. The behavior of discontinuity plane of the structures is divided into sliding along the discontinuity plane. separation of discontinuity by tensile force, and degradation of asperity angle of discontinuity plane by external force with sliding of rock Basses. These behaviors are implemented using constitutive relation and relevent load-displacement relation defined through normal and shear stiffnesses. Time varying displacements and block velocities are calculated by explicit time stepping algorithm. The effect of rock supports including rockbolts is also considered, and the tending effects which occurs in relatively thin lining is also considered.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.23-28
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• 2018

We derive a gap of specific heat discontinuity of superconducting crystals theoretically at the critical temperature $T_{CH}$ as an explicit function of applied magnetic field H by using the thermodynamic relations for Gibbs free energy and the linear model for the critical magnetic field $H_{CT}$. The derived a gap of specific heat discontinuity is compared with experimental results by J. Kacmarcik et al. for superconducting MgCNi3 crystal. Our specific heat gap function well explain the jump up phenomena of the superconducting crystals.

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.271-279
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• 2014

Let $T_l$ be a transformation on the interval [-1, 1] defined by Chebyshev polynomial of degree $l(l{\geq}2)$, i.e., $T_l(cos{\theta})=cos(l{\theta})$. In this paper, we consider $T_l$ as a measure preserving transformation on [-1, 1] with an invariant measure $\frac{1}{\sqrt[\pi]{1-x^2}}dx$. We show that If f(x) is a nonconstant step function with finite k-discontinuity points with k < l-1, then it satisfies the Central Limit Theorem. We also give an explicit method how to check whether it satisfies the Central Limit Theorem or not in the cases of general step functions with finite discontinuity points.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.375-388
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• 2008

Crack opening governs many transfer properties that play a pivotal role in durability analyses. Instead of trying to combine continuum and discrete models in computational analyses, it would be attractive to derive from the continuum approach an estimate of crack opening, without considering the explicit description of a discontinuous displacement field in the computational model. This is the prime objective of this contribution. The derivation is based on the comparison between two continuous variables: the distribution if the effective non local strain that controls damage and an analytical distribution of the effective non local variable that derives from a strong discontinuity analysis. Close to complete failure, these distributions should be very close to each other. Their comparison provides two quantities: the displacement jump across the crack [U] and the distance between the two profiles. This distance is an error indicator defining how close the damage distribution is from that corresponding to a crack surrounded by a fracture process zone. It may subsequently serve in continuous/discrete models in order to define the threshold below which the continuum approach is close enough to the discrete one in order to switch descriptions. The estimation of the crack opening is illustrated on a one-dimensional example and the error between the profiles issued from discontinuous and FE analyses is found to be of a few percents close to complete failure.

• Water for future
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.173-182
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• 1988

Characteristics of finite difference schemes for St. Venant equation were compared with two input cases. One is the monoclinal wave which has large friction slope without discontinuity and the other is the shock wave with discontinuity. For monoclinal wave, Keller Box scheme is the best in terms of accuracy, efficiency and stability when two parameters were selected with a rele : $0.5{\leq}{\theta}{\leq}1.0$, ${\theta}+{\psi}$=1, But for shock wave only the Preissmann type of parameter ${\psi}$(=0.5) showed stable results. Numerical experiments of monoclinal wave showed that Lax-Wendroff and Richtmyer schemes were more stable than leap Frog and more accurate than Lax-Fredrich scheme. For shock wave Lax-Fredrich showed larger numerical dissipation than other explicit schemes and Leap Frog produced slower mass transport.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.289-297
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• 2011

The explicit finite element method is an essential tool for solving large problems with severe nonlinear characteristics, but its results can be difficult to interpret. In particular, it can be impossible to evaluate its acceleration responses because of severe discontinuity, extreme noise or aliasing. We suggest a new post-processing method for transient responses and their response spectra. We propose smoothing methods using a Gaussian kernel without in depth knowledge of the complex frequency characteristics; such methods are successfully used in the filtering of digital signals. This smoothing can be done by measuring the velocity results and monitoring the response spectra. Gaussian kernel smoothing gives a better smoothness and representation of the peak values than other approaches do. The floor response spectra can be derived using smoothed accelerations for the design.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.48-58
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• 1999

The Characteristic Flux Difference Splitting (CFDS) scheme designed to adapt the characteristic boundary conditions at the wall and inflow/outflow boundary planes satisfies Roe's property U, although the CFDS Jacobian matrix is decomposed by a product of elaborate transformation matrices and explicit eigenvalue matrix. When the CFDS algorithm, thus a variant of Roe's scheme, is applied straightforwardly to hypersonic flows over a blunt body, the strong bow shock gradually breaks down near the stagnation point. This numerical instability is widely observed by many researchers employing flux-difference method, known in the literature as the carbuncle phenomenon. Many remedies have been proposed and resulted in partial cures. When the idea of Sanders et al. which identifies the minimum eigenvalues near the discontinuity present is applied to CFDS method, it is shown that the instability problem can be controlled successfully. A few flux splitting methods have also been tested and results are compared against the Nakamori's Mach 8 blunt body flow.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.670-679
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• 1998

The solution of hyperbolic equation with wave nature has sharp discontinuties in the medium at the wave front. Difficulties encounted in the numrtical solution of such problem in clude among oth-ers numerical oscillation and the representation of sharp discontinuities with good resolution at the wave front. In this work inviscid Burgers equation and modified heat conduction equation is intro-duced as hyperboic equation. These equations are caculated by numerical methods(explicit method MacCormack method Total Variation Diminishing(TVD) method) along various Courant numbers and numerical solutions are compared with the exact analytic solution. For inviscid Burgers equa-tion TVD method remains stable and produces high resolution at sharp wave front but for modified heat Conduction equation MacCormack method is recommmanded as numerical technique.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1995.05b
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• pp.643-650
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• 1995

A numerical method for treating transient diffusion Involving change of phase is presented. In other methods of dealing with this class of problems, the mass flux balance at the moving phase boundary requires explicit treatment of two distinct phases. The technique, originating from the apparent heat capacity method in transient heat conduction with the phase change, avoids the difficulty by transferring the concentration discontinuity at the boundary to smoothed physical property variations near the moving front. This technique accomodates the nonlinearities which preclude use of analytical solutions. It was tested against known analytical solutions for simple cases and turned out to be quite accurate.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.233-236
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• 2008

To analyze the saline intrusion in the place, such as an estuary, the three-dimensional numerical model is developed. In this study, the advection terms of the governing equations are discretized by upwind scheme. By using an explicit scheme for the longitudinal direction and an implicit scheme for the vertical direction, the numerical model is free from the restriction of temporal step size caused by a relatively small grid ratio. The equation of state is used to consider the density, and the scalar transport equation for salinity is employed the third order TVD to scheme to prevent unphysical oscillation near discontinuity. In order to verify saline intrusion, the numerical model is conducted to compare the previous model in the lock exchange. The present model generally show a good agreement with the previous one.