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Dynamic Interaction of Waves with a Moored Structure (계류된 구조물에 작용하는 파도의 동적작용에 대하여)

  • Kim, Chang-Je
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.94-102
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    • 1992
  • This paper presents the method of numerical analysis concerned with the hydropdynamic forces and moments of the floating bodies exerted by waves. The analytic methods of hydrodynamic wave forces and moments for large volume structures are generally classified into four categories ; the strip method, the boundary element method, the finite element method, and the potential matching method. In the case of the comparatively large structures, diffraction theory can be applied. However, there are no application limits of diffraction theory which have been known concerning with the analytic method of the rectangular structures. In this paper, the two-dimensional B.E.M. is treated for a moored small rectangular structure in order to evaluate applicability of diffraction theory. Numerical calculation is carried out for the structure. The results are compared with some other ones for verification. The result shows that diffraction theory is applicable to structures smaller than 0.15 in the ratio of the representative structure length d to wave length L for rectangular ones.

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A bivariate extension of the Hosking and Wallis goodness-of-fit measure for regional distributions

  • Kjeldsen, Thomas Rodding;Prosdocimi, Ilaria
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2015.05a
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    • pp.239-239
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    • 2015
  • This study presents a bivariate extension of the goodness-of-fit measure for regional frequency distributions developed by Hosking and Wallis [1993] for use with the method of L-moments. Utilising the approximate joint normal distribution of the regional L-skewness and L-kurtosis, a graphical representation of the confidence region on the L-moment diagram can be constructed as an ellipsoid. Candidate distributions can then be accepted where the corresponding the oretical relationship between the L-skewness and L-kurtosis intersects the confidence region, and the chosen distribution would be the one that minimises the Mahalanobis distance measure. Based on a set of Monte Carlo simulations it is demonstrated that the new bivariate measure generally selects the true population distribution more frequently than the original method. An R-code implementation of the method is available for download free-of-charge from the GitHub code depository and will be demonstrated on a case study of annual maximum series of peak flow data from a homogeneous region in Italy.

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A new generalization of exponentiated Frechet distribution

  • Diab, L.S.;Elbatal, I.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.65-84
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    • 2016
  • Motivated by the recent work of Cordeiro and Castro (2011), we study the Kumaraswamy exponentiated Frechet distribution (KEF). We derive some mathematical properties of the (KEF) including moment generating function, moments, quantile function and incomplete moment. We provide explicit expressions for the density function of the order statistics and their moments. In addition, the method of maximum likelihood and least squares and weighted least squares estimators are discuss for estimating the model parameters. A real data set is used to illustrate the importance and flexibility of the new distribution.

Numerical Simulation of Radar Backscattering from Oil Spills on Sea Surface for L-band SAR (기름이 유출된 바다 표면의 L-밴드 전파 산란에 대한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Park, Seong-Min;Yang, Chan-Su;Oh, Yi-Sok
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.21-27
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents a numerical simulation of the radar backscattering from oil spills on ocean surface. At first, a one-dimensionally rough sea surface is numerically generated for a given wind speed at HEBEI SPIRIT accident. Then, an oil-spilled sea surface is represented with a two-layered medium, which is generated by adding a thin low-dielectric oil layer on the randomly-rough highdielectric sea surface. The backscattering coefficients of various oil-spilled sea surfaces are obtained using the Method of Moments and Monte Carlo technique for various surface roughness, oil-layer thicknesses, frequencies, polarizations and incidence angles. The numerical method is verified with theoretical models for simple structures. The reduction of the backscattering coefficients due to the lowdielectric oil-layers on sea surfaces has been analyzed. These numerical results will help to detect any oil spills on sea surfaces, and consequently, to classify SAR images.

Regional flood frequency analysis of extreme rainfall in Thailand, based on L-moments

  • Thanawan Prahadchai;Piyapatr Busababodhin;Jeong-Soo Park
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.37-53
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    • 2024
  • In this study, flood records from 79 sites across Thailand were analyzed to estimate flood indices using the regional frequency analysis based on the L-moments method. Observation sites were grouped into homogeneous regions using k-means and Ward's clustering techniques. Among various distributions evaluated, the generalized extreme value distribution emerged as the most appropriate for certain regions. Regional growth curves were subsequently established for each delineated region. Furthermore, 20- and 100-year return values were derived to illustrate the recurrence intervals of maximum rainfall across Thailand. The predicted return values tend to increase at each site, which is associated with growth curves that could describe an increasing long-term predictive pattern. The findings of this study hold significant implications for water management strategies and the design of flood mitigation structures in the country.

An analysis of Center-Fed Planar Dipole Antenna by method of moments (모멘트 방법에 의한 중앙급전식 평판 다이폴 안테나의 해석)

  • Yang, Sang-Yong;Lee, Tack-Kyung;Ra, Jung-Woong;Lee, Soo-Young
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1989.07a
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    • pp.647-650
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    • 1989
  • The driving-point impedance of the center-fed planar dipole antenna is obtained using the method of moments (MOM). For the thin dipole antenna, our numerical result is compared with that of the inverse method by D. R. Rhodes as well as the known solutions of equivalent wire antenna. For the frequencies of L-band and S-band, the driving-point impedances of the thick planar dipole antennas are measured by experiment and compared with the numerical results.

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Numerical Analysis of the Backscattering Amplitude for a Partially Buried Cylinder on a Flat Interface Using Method of Moments (모멘트법을 이용한 경계면에 부분적으로 파묻힌 실린더의 음향 후방산란에 대한 수치해석)

  • Baik, Kyungmin;Marston, Philip L.
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.282-290
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    • 2014
  • Though there have been advances in the numerical analysis of the acoustic scattering by smooth objects, numerical analysis of the acoustic scattering by the objects that are partially exposed on the interface are still rare. In determining the backscattering amplitude by a partially buried cylinder on a seabed, reverberation by the interface changes the feature of the scattering form function. Current study adopted the Method of moments (MoM) to provide the numerical analysis on the backscattering amplitude for a partially buried cylinder on a flat interface. Suggested numerical analysis showed the good agreements with the measurements and the analytic solution obtained by the Kirchhoff approximation. Numerical analysis described in the current study can be applied to the backscattering problem of any shape of the objects partially imbedded on a seabed by combining the reverberation from the seabed with the scattered wave from the objects.

Regional Drought Frequency Analysis of Monthly Rainfall Data by the Method of L-Moments (L-Moment법을 이용한 월 강우량 자료의 지역가뭄빈도 해석)

  • Yun, Yong-Nam;Park, Mu-Jong
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 1997
  • To quantitatively investigate the nationwide drought characteristics and to comparatively evaluate the 1994-1995 drought with several past droughts of significant magnitude regional frequency analysis is made for the meteorological stations in each of the 47 subbasins covering the whole nation. With monthly precipitation data for the period of records at the stations in each subbasin low precipitation data series of various durations are formulated with the running totals of monthly data and fitted to probability distributions. The method of L-method of L-moments is used to determine the unbiased parameters of each distribution, and using the best-fit distribution for each subbasin the low precipitations of various durations with return periods of 5, 10, 20, 30, and 50 years are estimated. The drought frequency maps are drawn with the low drought frequency analysis the drought of 1994-1995 is evaluated in its severity and areal extent in comparison with four other past drought of significance. The current practice of safety standards for the design of impounding facilities is also evaluated with reference to the recurrence interval of the severe drought, and a recommendation is made for the future design standard.

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A data-adaptive maximum penalized likelihood estimation for the generalized extreme value distribution

  • Lee, Youngsaeng;Shin, Yonggwan;Park, Jeong-Soo
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.493-505
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    • 2017
  • Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of the generalized extreme value distribution (GEVD) is known to sometimes over-estimate the positive value of the shape parameter for the small sample size. The maximum penalized likelihood estimation (MPLE) with Beta penalty function was proposed by some researchers to overcome this problem. But the determination of the hyperparameters (HP) in Beta penalty function is still an issue. This paper presents some data adaptive methods to select the HP of Beta penalty function in the MPLE framework. The idea is to let the data tell us what HP to use. For given data, the optimal HP is obtained from the minimum distance between the MLE and MPLE. A bootstrap-based method is also proposed. These methods are compared with existing approaches. The performance evaluation experiments for GEVD by Monte Carlo simulation show that the proposed methods work well for bias and mean squared error. The methods are applied to Blackstone river data and Korean heavy rainfall data to show better performance over MLE, the method of L-moments estimator, and existing MPLEs.

Design of Dipole Array Antennas for PCS/IMT-2000 (PCS/IMT-2000을 위한 다이폴 배열 안테나의 설계)

  • 최학윤
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.13 no.9
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    • pp.873-881
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, the rectangular reflector antenna with 8-dipole array for PCS band (1,750 MHz ~ l,870 MHz) and IMT-2000 band(1,885 MHz ~ 2,200 MHz) is designed and the radiation characteristics are analyzed using the method of moments and HFSS(High Frequency Structure Simulator). To verify the analysis results, rectangular reflector antenna with 8-dipole array is fabricated and the calculated results are compared with the measured results. The measured results show good agreement with the calculated results. As a result of measurements, bandwidth(VSWR< 1.5) of 450 MHz is achieved at PCS and IMT-2000 band and gain is 16 dBi. The designed antenna can be used as the base station antenna for PCS/IMT-2000.