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Performance Improvement of a Vacuum Cleaner by CFD Analysis around Motor (진공청소기 흡입효율 개선을 위한 모터 주위의 유동해석)

  • Park, J.W.;Ki, M.C.;Park, H.K.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.522-525
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    • 2008
  • A vacuum cleaner is the widely used home equipment. However, it has a trouble with too much power consumption. Most losses occur at the centrifugal fan. To remedy this trouble the investigation of motor, which is the main component of vacuum cleaner, is required. The flow characteristics around the high-speed rotating centrifugal fan which is influenced by the very low inlet pressure is quite different from a commonly used fan. Hence it is quite difficult to analyze the flow by the experimental means or by the numerical simulation. In this research, it is aimed to improve the air-suction performance of a vacuum cleaner through the flow analysis around a motor. The efficiency of the centrifugal fan is affected by blade shape, blade number, blade pitch, etc. The influence of the shape of impeller on the flow is investigated in this study. The flow around the centrifugal fan is simulated by applying the moving mesh. To verify the validity of the computation results, the air flow rate and the pressure field to the cleaner is compared with the experimental data. All simulations are performed by using commercial code SC/Tetra. The calculated results show good agreement with the experimental ones and it is believed to be promising to use computational simulation in the improvement of the vacuum cleaner performance.

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Alphabetical Gesture Recognition using HMM (HMM을 이용한 알파벳 제스처 인식)

  • Yoon, Ho-Sub;Soh, Jung;Min, Byung-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 1998.10c
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    • pp.384-386
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    • 1998
  • The use of hand gesture provides an attractive alternative to cumbersome interface devices for human-computer interaction(HCI). Many methods hand gesture recognition using visual analysis have been proposed such as syntactical analysis, neural network(NN), Hidden Markov Model(HMM) and so on. In our research, a HMMs is proposed for alphabetical hand gesture recognition. In the preprocessing stage, the proposed approach consists of three different procedures for hand localization, hand tracking and gesture spotting. The hand location procedure detects the candidated regions on the basis of skin-color and motion in an image by using a color histogram matching and time-varying edge difference techniques. The hand tracking algorithm finds the centroid of a moving hand region, connect those centroids, and thus, produces a trajectory. The spotting a feature database, the proposed approach use the mesh feature code for codebook of HMM. In our experiments, 1300 alphabetical and 1300 untrained gestures are used for training and testing, respectively. Those experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach yields a higher and satisfying recognition rate for the images with different sizes, shapes and skew angles.

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A study on influence of cutting angle on the thermal characteristics in the linear heat cutting of EPS foam in case of generally sloped cutting (EPS foam 의 선형 열선절단시 일반 절단경사각의 제품 정밀도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • 안동규;이상호;김효찬;양동열
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.176-180
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    • 2002
  • All types of VLM-s process include the linear heat cutting of EPS foam to generate a layer with 3D shape. The dimensional accuracy and part quality of the cut part are dependent on the thermal characteristics in the EPS foam. The thermal characteristics are determined by operating parameters such as an effective heat input and cutting angle. The objective of this study is to investigate into the influence of cutting angle on the kerfwidth and the melted length of the cut part using the numerical analysis and the experiments in generally sloped cutting with two cutting angles. In order to estimate an accurate temperature field, the transient thermal analysis using moving coordinate system, the fully conformed mesh and the heat flux model with two cutting angles is carried out. From the results of the analysis and the experiments, it has been found that the influence of the rotational angle about x-axis in which the rotational axis is normal with hotwire cutting direction is appreciably negligible in comparison with that of the rotational angle about y-axis.

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A Numerical Study on Flow Analysis of a Valveless Bidirectional Piezoelectric Micropump (밸브 없는 양방향 피에조 마이크로펌프의 유동해석)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyuk;Hur, Janet;Hur, Nahm-Keon
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.14-21
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    • 2008
  • A numerical simulation on the flow field of a valveless bidirectional piezoelectric micropump has been performed. In this type of micropump, the oscillation of the piezoelectric diaphragm generates the blowing and suction flow through the oblique channel from the pumping chamber. The angle between the oblique and main channel causes the variation of flow distribution through upstream and downstream channels in suction and blowing modes. In the suction flow mode, the working fluid flows from both the upstream and downstream of the main channel to the pumping chamber through the oblique channel. However, in the blowing flow mode, the fluid pushed out of the pumping chamber flows more toward the downstream of the main channel due to the inertia of the fluid. In the present study, the effects of geometries such as the angle of oblique channel and the shape of main channel on the flow rate of the up/downstream were investigated. The flow rate obtained from the pump and the energy required to the pump were also analyzed for various displacements and frequencies of the oscillation of the diaphragm.

A Experimental Study on the Complex Waterproofing Method of Exposure using PE Textiles of Mesh type and Highly Viscous Urethane (망사형 PE직물과 고점도 우레탄을 이용한 복층형 노출 방수공법에 관한연구)

  • Shao, Xu-Dong;Song, Je-Young;Kim, Young-Suk;Oh, Sang-Keun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.127-130
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    • 2011
  • The duplex waterproofing construction method has been investigated to improve various problems (how to fix the sheet, breaking, air/water pocket, and cracks caused by different materials) of the existing rooftop exposed waterproofing construction method. By using fiber sheet, Net PE fabric, and thixotropy urethane with high viscosity, the waterproofing construction method is to glue the ground and waterproof course by circular dot. The method is also to construct the waterproof course with high hardness by using waterproof membrane coatings in upper hybrid system. By gluing the ground and the waterproof course by circular dot, the study is expected to be useful to minimize the simultaneous breaking in the waterproof course as tensile stress is buffer in case of the ground crackling. Also, since the waterproofing construction method is good at moving and emitting vapor from the ground, it is considered to be effective to minimize any damages caused by air/water pocket and get loose of the waterproof course.

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Fish Schooling Simulator Using Crowd Behavior Patterns (군중 행동 패턴을 이용한 Fish 군중 시뮬레이터)

  • Kim, Jong-Chan;Cho, Seung-Il;Kim, Eung-Kon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.106-112
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    • 2007
  • Recently the crowd environment in the department of the animation is necessary to the digital industry. The goal of researching a proper crowd animation is to design character animation that is defined by the reality of scenes, performance of system and interaction with users to show the crowd vividly and effectively in cyber underwater. It is important to set up the crowd behavior patterns to represent for moving crowd naturally in cyber space. In the paper, we expressed the behavior patterns for flocks of fish in cyber underwater, and compared with the number of mesh, the number of fish, the number of frame, elapsed time, and resolution and analyzed them with the fish behavior simulating system.

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Design of a Home ATM Network Protocol : Comparisons based on topologies (댁내 ATM 망 프로토콜 설계: 토폴로지에 따른 비교)

  • Jeon, Young-ae;Hwang, Min-Tae;Jang, Woong;Kim, Jang-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.417-429
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    • 1998
  • The advance of the MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group) and the DSP (Digital Signal Processing) technologies lead the emergence of the information appliances, which are gradually digitalized and embedded the high-speed networking function. However, there are some difficulties in establishing any one specific model, since standardization of the scale and function of home ATM network is being progressed by standardization organizations and no absolute model has been defined. This paper consider topologies for a home ATM network, such a star-type, tree-type, and mesh-type topology, by comparing the structure, functional characteristics and performance. From this analysis we suggest the design method of the home ATM network.

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Creation of 3D Maps for Satellite Communications to Support Ambulatory Rescue Operations

  • Nakajima, Isao;Nawaz, Muhammad Naeem;Juzoji, Hiroshi;Ta, Masuhisa
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2019
  • A communications profile is a system that acquires information from communication links to an ambulance or other vehicle moving on a road and compiles a database based on this information. The equipment (six sets of HDTVs, fish-eye camera, satellite antenna with tracking system, and receiving power from the satellite beacon of the N-star) mounted on the roof of the vehicle, image data were obtained at Yokohama Japan. From these data, the polygon of the building was actually produced and has arranged on the map of the Geographical Survey Institute of a 50 m-mesh. The optical study (relationship between visibility rate and elevation angle) were performed on actual data taken by fish-eye lens, and simulated data by 3D-Map with polygons. There was no big difference. This 3D map system then predicts the communication links that will be available at a given location. For line-of-sight communication, optical analysis allows approximation if the frequency is sufficiently high. For non-line-of-sight communication, previously obtained electric power data can be used as reference information for approximation in certain cases when combined with predicted values calculated based on a 3D map. 3D maps are more effective than 2D maps for landing emergency medical helicopters on public roadways in the event of a disaster. Using advanced imaging technologies, we have produced a semi-automatic creation of a high-precision 3D map at Yokohama Yamashita Park and vicinity and assessed its effectiveness on telecommunications and ambulatory merits.

Numerical Simulation of the Oscillating Flow Effect in the Channel of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (왕복 유동을 통한 확산증대 효과가 연료전지 성능에 미치는 영향에 대한 수치해석)

  • Kim, Jongmin;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.7-13
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    • 2018
  • This study investigates the enhancement of the oxygen diffusion rate in the cathode channel of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) by pure oscillating flow, which is the same as the mechanism of human breathe. Three-dimensional numerical simulation, which has the full model of the fuel cell including electrochemical reaction, ion and electronic conduction, mass transfer and thermal variation and so on, is performed to show the phenomena in the channel at the case of a steady state. This model could analysis the oscillating flow as a moving mesh calculation coupled with electrochemical reaction on the catalyst layer, however, it needs a lot of calculation time for each case. The two dimensional numerical simulation has carried on for the study of oscillating flow effect in the cathode channel of PEMFC in order to reduce the calculation time. This study shows the diffusion rate of the oxygen increased and the emission rate of the water vapor increased in the channel by oscillating flow without any forced flow.

Numerical Analysis of the Effect of Fuselage of Fan-in-body Aircraft on the Pusher Propeller

  • Kang, Jiwook;Jang, Jisung;You, Younghyun;Hyun, Youngo;Lee, Jonghun
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.26-35
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    • 2021
  • In this study, CFD analysis was conducted to compare the aerodynamic performance of the isolated propeller and pusher propeller, which is affected by the wake of wide fuselage. The moving reference frame (MRF) method was used for isolated propeller analysis, while the MRF and sliding mesh method were used sequentially for the pusher propeller to analyze the change in the aerodynamic characteristics based on the azimuth angle. Under the same torque condition, the thrust of the pusher propeller was greater than that of the isolated propeller. Thrust increment of the pusher propeller was mainly generated near the root of the blade where the fuselage wake was concentrated. The net efficiency of the pusher propeller was greater than or equal to that of the isolated propeller. Because of the flat fuselage shape, thrust and torque of the pusher propeller periodically changed with the rotation of the propeller.