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Experimental study on hydrodynamic coefficients for high-incidence-angle maneuver of a submarine

  • Park, Jong-Yong;Kim, Nakwan;Shin, Yong-Ku
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.100-113
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    • 2017
  • Snap rolling during hard turning and instability during emergency rising are important features of submarine operation. Hydrodynamics modeling using a high incidence flow angle is required to predict these phenomena. In the present study, a quasi-steady dynamics model of a submarine suitable for high-incidence-angle maneuvering applications is developed. To determine the hydrodynamic coefficients of the model, static tests, dynamic tests, and control surface tests were conducted in a towing tank and wind tunnel. The towing tank test is conducted utilizing a Reynolds number of $3.12{\times}10^6$, and the wind tunnel test is performed utilizing a Reynolds number of $5.11{\times}10^6$. In addition, least squares, golden section search, and surface fitting using polynomial models were used to analyze the experimental results. The obtained coefficients are presented in tabular form and can be used for various purposes such as hard turning simulation, emergency rising simulation, and controller design.

A New Control Scheme of the Line-Interactive UPS Using the Series Active Compensator (직렬 능동 보상기를 이용한 Line-Interactive UPS의 새로운 제어 기법)

  • Jang, Hoon;Lee, Woo-Cheol;Hyun, Dong-Seok
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.52 no.8
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    • pp.405-412
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents a three-phase Line-Interactive uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system with series-parallel active power-line conditioning capabilities, using synchronous reference frame (SRF) based controller, which allows an effective power factor correction, source harmonic voltage compensation, load harmonic current suppression, and output voltage regulation. The three-phase UPS system consists of two active power compensator topologies. One is a series active compensator, which works as a voltage source in phase with the source voltage to have the sinusoidal source current and high power factor under the deviation and distortion of the source voltage. The other is a parallel active compensator which works as a conventional sinusoidal voltage source in phase with the source voltage, providing to the load a regulated and sinusoidal voltage with low THD (total harmonic distortion). The control algorithm using SRF method and the active power flow through the Line-interactive UPS systems are described and studied. The simulation and experimental results are depicted in this paper to show the effect of the proposed algorithm.

Characterization of Helicon Plasma by H$_2$ Gas Discharge and Fabrication of Diamond Tinn Films

  • Hyun, June-Won;Kim, Yong-Jin;Noh, Seung-Jeong
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.12-17
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    • 2000
  • Helicon waves were excited by a Nagoya type III antenna in magnetized plasma, and hydrogen and methane are fed through a Mass Flow Controller(MFC). We made a diagnosis of properties of helicon plasma by H$_2$gaseous discharge, and fabricated the diamond thin film. The maximum measured electron density was 1${\times}$10$\^$10/ cm$\^$-3/. Diamond films have been growo on (100) silicon substrate using the helicon plasma chemical vapor deposition. Diamond films were deposited at a pressure of 0.1 Torr, deposition time of 40~80 h, a substrate temperature of 700$^{\circ}C$ and methane concentrations of 0.5~2.5%. The growth characteristics were investigated by means of X-ray Photoelectron (XPS) and X-ray Diffraction(XRD), XRD and XPS analysis revealed that SiC was formed, and finally diamond particles were definitely deposited on it. With increasing deposition time, the thickness and crystallization of the daimond thin film increased, For this system the optimum condition of methane concentration was estimated to near to 1.5%.

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Performance Evaluation of Regenerative Braking System Based on a HESS in Extended Range BEV

  • Kiddee, Kunagone;Khan-Ngern, Werachet
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.1965-1977
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    • 2018
  • This paper proposed a regenerative braking system (RBS) strategy for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) with a hybrid energy storage system (HESS) driven by a brushless DC (BLDC) motor. In the regenerative braking mode of BEV, the BLDC motor works as a generator. Consequently, the DC-link voltage is boosted and regenerative braking energy is transferred to a battery and/or ultracapacitor (UC) using a suitable switching pattern of the three-phase inverter. The energy stored in the HESS through reverse current flow can be exploited to improve acceleration and maintain the batteries from frequent deep discharging during high power mode. In addition, the artificial neural network (ANN)-based RBS control mechanism was utilized to optimize the switching scheme of the vehicular breaking force distribution. Furthermore, constant torque braking can be regulated using a PI controller. Different simulation and experiments were implemented and carried out to verify the performance of the proposed RBS strategy. The UC/battery RBS also contributed to improved vehicle acceleration and extended range BEVs.

UPFC Device: Optimal Location and Parameter Setting to Reduce Losses in Electric-Power Systems Using a Genetic-algorithm Method

  • Mezaache, Mohamed;Chikhi, Khaled;Fetha, Cherif
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2016
  • Ensuring the secure operation of power systems has become an important and critical matter during the present time, along with the development of large, complex and load-increasing systems. Security constraints such as the thermal limits of transmission lines and bus-voltage limits must be satisfied under all of a system’s operational conditions. An alternative solution to improve the security of a power system is the employment of Flexible Alternating-Current Transmission Systems (FACTS). FACTS devices can reduce the flows of heavily loaded lines, maintain the bus voltages at desired levels, and improve the stability of a power network. The Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) is a versatile FACTS device that can independently or simultaneously control the active power, the reactive power and the bus voltage; however, to achieve such functionality, it is very important to determine the optimal location of the UPFC device, with the appropriate parameter setting, in the power system. In this paper, a genetic algorithm (GA) method is applied to determine the optimal location of the UPFC device in a network for the enhancement of the power-system loadability and the minimization of the active power loss in the transmission line. To verify our approach, simulations were performed on the IEEE 14 Bus, 30 Bus, and 57 Bus test systems. The proposed work was implemented in the MATLAB platform.

Exploring Air Traffic Controllers' Expertise through Cognitive Task Analysis (인지과제분석(Cognitive Task Analysis)을 통한 항공교통관제사의 전문성 확인)

  • Song, Chang-Sun;Kwon, Hyuk-Jin;Kim, Kyeong-Tae;Kim, Jin-Ha;Lee, Dong-Sik;Sohn, Young-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.42-55
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this research was to identify expertise in ait traffic control by using cognitive skill analysis for novices and experts in routine and non-routine situations. The result of study was to understand expertise in air traffic control tasks in terms of what cognitive processes are responsible for the expert's high performance levels. The problem solving task was difficult for novices, but performed relatively automatically by experts in a routine situation. The difficulty could indicate the presence of controlled processing. Rather than rules and strategies, novices focused more on environmental factors, which merely increase cognitive load. In a non-routine situation, novices showed that they did not categorize the information consistently and alternative resources were not available for them. Experts, however, performed automatically a task by arranging and organizing information related to problem solving components in contexts without regard to a routine and non-routine situation. Especially experts developed a stable representation and directed alternative resources for air traffic flow and efficiency. Based on the results, cognitive processes of experts could be useful to understand expert performance and analyze the learning process, which imply the necessity of developing expertise systematically.

Development of Pediatric VAD(VICT) and its in-vivo Test (소아용 좌심실 보조장치(VICT)의 개발 및 in-vivo 실험)

  • Lee, S.H.;Park, I.T.;Kim, S.H.;Lee, K.W.;Lee, K.H.;Ahn, H.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1996 no.05
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    • pp.207-212
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    • 1996
  • We developed pneumatic blood pump and its driving system as a pediatric ventricular assist device. The blood pump is diaphragm type system and its blood contacting area is coated with Bio-Span. The driving unit Is consists of dual pumps, valves for the reliable blood pumping and its controller uses 80C196(Intel) as a main processor. The acute animal experiment was performed with dogs and its body weight is about 20 kg. The maximum cardiac output is about 2.1 l/min and the pressure and flow curves showed reliable operation as assist device.

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Development of Synthetic-Jet based micro air pump for BOP system of mobile fuel cell (모바일 연료전지 BOP를 위한 Synthetic-Jet 기반 마이크로 에어펌프 개발)

  • Kim, K.S.;Choi, J.P.;Koo, B.S.;Jang, J.H.;Seo, Y.H.;Kim, B.H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.247-251
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents a micro air pump actuated by PZT actuator (synthetic jet actuator) for air supply for micro fuel cells. The synthetic jet actuators are usually created by a traditional PZT-driven actuator, which consists of a small cylindrical cavity, in/outlet channel and PZT diaphragms. To design the micro air pump, a numerical analysis has been conducted for flow characteristics with respect to various geometries. A prototype of the micro air pump, with a size of $mm{\times}mm{\times}mm$, was fabricated by PDMS replication process and was conducted performance test. To control the PZT actuator, we used the SP4423 micro chips that can be amplified input voltage to reduce the controller size and the power consumption. With a voltage of 3V at 100Hz, the air pump's pumping pressure is 600pa and its power consumption is only 0.1mW.

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A Study on Damping Characteristic under the Thermo-acoustic Condition using the Rijke Tube (Rijke Tube를 이용한 열환경에서의 음향공 감쇠 특성연구)

  • Kim, Geun-Cheol;Jeon, Jun-Soo;Kim, Joong-Il;Ko, Young-Sung;Kim, Hong-Jip
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.47-50
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    • 2011
  • A Rijke tube which has an electric heater and a flow controller was designed and thermo-acoustic instability was induced by the Rijke tube. The thermo-acoustic instability was damped by a resonator and the damping characteristics were investigated and compared to room temperature acoustic test. Results show that decay time of the thermo-acoustic condition was increased by about 40% compared to that of room temperature acoustic test.

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SD-WLB: An SDN-aided mechanism for web load balancing based on server statistics

  • Soleimanzadeh, Kiarash;Ahmadi, Mahmood;Nassiri, Mohammad
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.197-206
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    • 2019
  • Software-defined networking (SDN) is a modern approach for current computer and data networks. The increase in the number of business websites has resulted in an exponential growth in web traffic. To cope with the increased demands, multiple web servers with a front-end load balancer are widely used by organizations and businesses as a viable solution to improve the performance. In this paper, we propose a load-balancing mechanism for SDN. Our approach allocates web requests to each server according to its response time and the traffic volume of the corresponding switch port. The centralized SDN controller periodically collects this information to maintain an up-to-date view of the load distribution among the servers, and incoming user requests are redirected to the most appropriate server. The simulation results confirm the superiority of our approach compared to several other techniques. Compared to LBBSRT, round robin, and random selection methods, our mechanism improves the average response time by 19.58%, 33.94%, and 57.41%, respectively. Furthermore, the average improvement of throughput in comparison with these algorithms is 16.52%, 29.72%, and 58.27%, respectively.