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Performance Analysis of a Dolphin-tail Rudder

  • Min K. S.;Chung K. N.;Kim Y. L
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.137-139
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    • 2003
  • As a part of numerical and experimental research works for the prediction and improvement of ship's maneuvering performance, a study on the performance analysis of two different rudders has been carried out. While the planform shape and the aspect ratio of the rudders have been fixed, section shape has been changed. Conventional type of HMRI NP section and special type of dolphin-tail section have been employed. Performances of the rudders have been investigated by using CFD and compared with experimental data obtained in a wind tunnel. A commercial CFD program has been used to solve the RANS equations. Two-equation k-ro model has been applied to close the governing equations. Block-structured grids are used in the numerical calculation. Based upon the calculation results, the rudder with dolphin-tail section has shown a possibility of significantly improving rudder performance if utilized as the section of ship rudders.

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Accurate and efficient GPU ray-casting algorithm for volume rendering of unstructured grid data

  • Gu, Gibeom;Kim, Duksu
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.608-618
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    • 2020
  • We present a novel GPU-based ray-casting algorithm for volume rendering of unstructured grid data. Our volume rendering system uses a ray-casting method that guarantees accurate rendering results. We also employ the per-pixel intersection list concept in the Bunyk algorithm to guarantee an accurate result for non-convex meshes. For efficient memory access for the lists on the GPU, we represent the intersection lists for all faces as an array with our novel construction algorithm. With the intersection lists, we perform ray-casting on a GPU, and a GPU thread handles each ray. To increase ray-coherency in a thread block and improve memory access efficiency, we extend a prior image-tile-based work distribution method to fit modern GPU architectures. We also show that a prior approach using a per-thread local buffer to reduce redundant computation is not appropriate for modern GPU architectures. Instead, we take an on-demand calculation strategy that achieves better performance even though it allows duplicate computations. We applied our method to three unstructured grid datasets with different characteristics. With a GPU, our method achieved up to 36.5 times higher performance for the ray-casting process and 19.7 times higher performance for the whole volume rendering process compared with the Bunyk algorithm using a CPU core. Also, our approach showed up to 8.2 times higher performance than a GPU-based cell projection method while generating more accurate rendering results. These results demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of our method.

Thermal and Electrical Energy Mix Optimization(EMO) Method for Real Large-scaled Residential Town Plan

  • Kang, Cha-Nyeong;Cho, Soo-Hwan
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.513-520
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    • 2018
  • Since Paris Climate Change Conference in 2015, many policies to reduce the emission of greenhouse gas have been accelerating, which are mainly related to renewable energy resources and micro-grid. Presently, the technology development and demonstration projects are mostly focused on diversifying the power resources by adding wind turbine, photo-voltaic and battery storage system in the island-type small micro-grid. It is expected that the large-scaled micro-grid projects based on the regional district and town/complex city, e.g. the block type micro-grid project in Daegu national industrial complex will proceed in the near future. In this case, the economic cost or the carbon emission can be optimized by the efficient operation of energy mix and the appropriate construction of electric and heat supplying facilities such as cogeneration, renewable energy resources, BESS, thermal storage and the existing heat and electricity supplying networks. However, when planning a large residential town or city, the concrete plan of the energy infrastructure has not been established until the construction plan stage and provided by the individual energy suppliers of water, heat, electricity and gas. So, it is difficult to build the efficient energy portfolio considering the characteristics of town or city. This paper introduces an energy mix optimization(EMO) method to determine the optimal capacity of thermal and electric resources which can be applied in the design stage of the real large-scaled residential town or city, and examines the feasibility of the proposed method by applying the real heat and electricity demand data of large-scale residential towns with thousands of households and by comparing the result of HOMER simulation developed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL).

A Design of an AMI System Based on an Extended Home Network for the Smart Grid (스마트 그리드를 위한 확장 홈 네트워크 기반의 AMI 시스템 설계)

  • Hwang, Yu-Jin;Lee, Kwang-Hui
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.49 no.7
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    • pp.56-64
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    • 2012
  • A smart grid is the next generation power grid which combines the existing power grid with information technology, so an energy efficient power grid can be provided. In this paper, in order to build an efficient smart grid an AMI system, which gears with the existing home network and provides an user friendly management function, is proposed. The proposed AMI system, which is based on an extended home network, consists of various functional units; smart meters, communication modules, home gateway, security modules, meter data management modules (MDMM), electric power application modules and so on. The proposed home network system, which can reduce electric power consumption and transmit data more effectively, is designed by using IEEE 802.15.4. The extended home gateway can exchange energy consumption information with the outside management system via web services. The proposed AMI system is designed to enable two-way communication between the home gateway and MDMM via the Internet. The AES(Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm, which is a symmetric block cipher algorithm, is used to ensure secure information exchange. Even though the results in this study could be limited to our experimental environment, the result of the simulation test shows that the proposed system reduces electric power consumption by 4~42% on average compared to the case of using no control.

Turbulent Flow Calculation around Yacht Sails (요트 세일 주위의 난류유동 계산)

  • Chi, Hye-Ryoun;Kim, Wu-Joan;Park, Jong-Hwan
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.44 no.2 s.152
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    • pp.64-73
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    • 2007
  • Turbulent flows around yacht sails were calculated to access the applicability of CFD for yacht design. Multi-block grid system was generated by using Gridgen package and Fluent was used to calculate flows around two sail system. A 30ft class sailing yacht designed and tested by KRISO was chosen. The interference effect between main and jib sails was analyzed. Pressure distribution on the sails was obtained and the center of effort was estimated. It was found that the jib angle affects the flow phenomena around a main sail due to the change of inflow angle. The location of center of effort is much different from the empirical formula based on a simple geometrical consideration. The calculated results are compared with the previous numerical and experimental results. Both CFD results are similar, but there are some discrepancies with experimental data. However, it is certain that CFD can be a very useful tool for yacht design.

Effect of DVI Nozzle Location on the Thermal Mixing in the RVDC (DVI 노즐 위치가 원자로 하향유로내의 냉각수 열적혼합에 미치는 영향 분석)

  • Kang Hyung Seok;Cho Bong Hyun;Kim Hwan Yeol;Yoon Juhyeon;Bae Yoon Yeong
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.89-99
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    • 1998
  • 한국형 차세대원자로에서는 비상노심 안전주입수가 저온관을 통하지 않고 원자로용기에 직접 주입된다. 원자로용기의 가압열충격과 열수력적 관점에서 최적의 노즐위치를 결정하기 위해서 전산유체역학을 활용하였다. 상용 전산유체코드인 CFX를 이용하여 원자로 하향유로를 모사하는 해석대상 격자를 다중불록으로 형성한 다음 유동장을 비압축성 Navier-Stokes 운동량 방정식, 에너지 방정식과 표준 k-ε 난류모형 등으로 모형화하여 3차원 비정상상태 계산을 수행하였다. CFX에서는 경계 밀착좌표계, 비엇물림격자와 SIMPLE 알고리즘을 사용한다. 본 연구결과 원자로용기의 가압열충격 관점에서 가장 보수적인 사고인 증기관 파단사고시에도 열적혼합이 잘 일어나 가압열충격이 발생할 가능성이 없는 것으로 판단되며 안전주입수 노즐이 저온관 바로 위에 위치할 때 원자로 하향유로 내의 온도 분포가 가장 균일하여 열적 혼합 관점에서는 최적의 위치로 판단된다.

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HYLGS 모델을 활용한 수도권 매립지에서의 침출수-가스의 동시유동 해석에 관한 연구

  • 이광희;박용찬;성원모
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 1998.11a
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    • pp.225-231
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    • 1998
  • Open dump causes groundwater and soil contamination by leachate, air pollution by LFG (Landfill Gas). In this paper, in order to improve landfill researches which have been done about reduction of high leachate level and LFG collection in the Kimpo landfill separately, the effect of simultaneous flowing of leachate and LFG has been Studied. The HYLGS (Hanyang Leachate Gas Simulator) used in this study is a 3D, 2-phase, transient FDM model which can be applied to venting trenches in a landfill. From present numerical analysis it can be concluded that all the pressures of the Kimpo landfill grid system are almost the same and their maximum value in the center grid block of the system is approximately 26 m $H_2O$ (2.52 atm), that because the pressures of venting trench layer situated in the middle of the landfill have the lowest values and equal with air pressure, the venting trenches play an important role in landfill stabilization, that the flow of gas will be more difficult as time goes by owing to the increase of LGR(Leachate and gas ratio).

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An IE-FFT Algorithm to Analyze PEC Objects for MFIE Formulation

  • Seo, Seung Mo
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.6-12
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    • 2019
  • An IE-FFT algorithm is implemented and applied to the electromagnetic (EM) solution of perfect electric conducting (PEC) scattering problems. The solution of the method of moments (MoM), based on the magnetic field integral equation (MFIE), is obtained for PEC objects with closed surfaces. The IE-FFT algorithm uses a uniform Cartesian grid to apply a global fast Fourier transform (FFT), which leads to significantly reduce memory requirement and speed up CPU with an iterative solver. The IE-FFT algorithm utilizes two discretizations, one for the unknown induced surface current on the planar triangular patches of 3D arbitrary geometries and the other on a uniform Cartesian grid for interpolating the free-space Green's function. The uniform interpolation of the Green's functions allows for a global FFT for far-field interaction terms, and the near-field interaction terms should be adequately corrected. A 3D block-Toeplitz structure for the Lagrangian interpolation of the Green's function is proposed. The MFIE formulation with the IE-FFT algorithm, without the help of a preconditioner, is converged in certain iterations with a generalized minimal residual (GMRES) method. The complexity of the IE-FFT is found to be approximately $O(N^{1.5})$and $O(N^{1.5}logN)$ for memory requirements and CPU time, respectively.

Multi-view Image Generation from Stereoscopic Image Features and the Occlusion Region Extraction (가려짐 영역 검출 및 스테레오 영상 내의 특징들을 이용한 다시점 영상 생성)

  • Lee, Wang-Ro;Ko, Min-Soo;Um, Gi-Mun;Cheong, Won-Sik;Hur, Nam-Ho;Yoo, Ji-Sang
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.838-850
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm that generates multi-view images by using various image features obtained from the given stereoscopic images. In the proposed algorithm, we first create an intensity gradient saliency map from the given stereo images. And then we calculate a block-based optical flow that represents the relative movement(disparity) of each block with certain size between left and right images. And we also obtain the disparities of feature points that are extracted by SIFT(scale-invariant We then create a disparity saliency map by combining these extracted disparity features. Disparity saliency map is refined through the occlusion detection and removal of false disparities. Thirdly, we extract straight line segments in order to minimize the distortion of straight lines during the image warping. Finally, we generate multi-view images by grid mesh-based image warping algorithm. Extracted image features are used as constraints during grid mesh-based image warping. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs better than the conventional DIBR algorithm in terms of visual quality.

Development of Integrated Start-up and Excitation System for Gas Turbine Synchronous Generator (가스터빈 동기기 통합형 기동 및 여자시스템 개발)

  • Ryu, Hoseon;Cha, Hanju
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.63 no.3
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    • pp.183-188
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    • 2014
  • Power conversion systems used in large gas turbine power plant can be divided into two main part. Because of the initial start-up characteristic of the gas turbine combustor, the gas turbine must be accelerated by starting device(LCI : Load Commutated Inverter) up to 10%~20% of rated speed to ignite it. In addition, the ECS(Excitation Control system) is used to control the rotor field current and reactive power in grid-connected synchronous generator. These two large power conversion systems are located in the same space(container) because of coordination control. Recently, many manufactures develop high speed controller based on function block available in the LCI and ECS with the newest power semiconductor. We also developed high speed controller based on function block to be using these two system and it meets the international standard IEC61131 as using real-time OS(VxWorks) and ISaGRAF. In order to install easily these systems at power plant, main controller, special module and IO module are used with high speed communication line other than electric wire line. Before initial product is installed on the site, prototype is produced and tests are conducted for it. The performance results of Integrated controller and application program(SFC, ECS) were described in this paper. The test results will be considered as the important resources for the application in future.