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Analysis of Velocity Structure of Round Wall Jet (원형바닥젵의 유속구조 해석)

  • Kim, Dae-Geun;Seo, Il-Won
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.467-475
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    • 1997
  • In this study, breakwater model which has several outlet pipes to discharge heated water is settled in the experimental open channel and velocity distribution of wall jet is measured. Numerical simulation of velocity structure of wall jet using 3-dimensional computer model. Fluent model, is also carried out. The calculated results are verified with the experimental results and the flow characteristics of wall jet are investigated. The length of zone of flow establishment of wall jet is shorter than that of free jet, and the diminution rate of jet centerline longitudinal velocity is larger than that of free jet. Characteristics of buoyant jet and non-buoyant simple jet simulated by Fluent model are compared. Near the outlet pipe, in the region where x/lQ is over 15, this is reversed. Comparison of vertical distribution of longitudinal velocity shows that positive velocity of non-buoyant jet is bigger than that of buoyant jet in the bottom layer and in the upper layer, negative velocity of non-buoyant jet is bigger too. Flow separation in free surface of the buoyant jet occurs in smaller distances from the outlet than the non-buoyant jet. Buoyant jet expands faster than the non-buoyant jet in vertical direction.

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The Possible Involvement of the Cell Surface in Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Utilization by an Oil-Degrading Yeast, Yarrowia lipolytica 180

  • Kim, Tae-Hyun;Oh, Young-Sook;Kim, Sang-Jin
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.333-337
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    • 2000
  • An oil-degrading yeast, Yarrowia lipolytica 180, exhibits interesting cell surface characteristics under the growth on hydrocarbons. An electron microscopic study revealed that the cells grown on crude oil showed protrusions on the cell surface, and thicker periplasmic space and cell wall than the cell surface, and thicker periplasmic space and cell wall than the cells grown on glucose. Y. lipolytica cells lost its cell hydrophobicity after pronase(0.1 mg/ml) treatment. The strain produced two types of emulsifying materials during the growth on hydrocarbons; one was water-soluble extracellular materials and the other was cell wall-associated materials. Both emulsifying materials at lower concentration (0.12%) enhanced the oil-degrading activity of Moraxella sp. K12-7, which had medium emulsifying activity and negative cell hydrophobicity; however, it inhibited the oil-degrading activity of Pseudomunas sp. K12-5, which had medium emulsifying activity and cell hydrophobicity. These results suggest that the oil-degrading activity of Y. lipolytica 180 is closely associated with cell surface structure, and that a finely controlled application of Y.lipolytica 180 in combination with other oil-degrading microorganisms showed a possible enhancing efficiency of oil degradation.

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Spatial Distributions of Spanwise Vortices in a Turbulent Boundary Layer over a Micro-riblet Film (미세 리블렛 평판 상부 난류경계층 유동에서 횡방향 와의 공간적 분포특성)

  • Choi, Yong-Seok;Lee, Sang-Joon
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05b
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    • pp.2660-2665
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    • 2007
  • Turbulent boundary-layer over a micro-riblet film(MRF) was investigated experimentally. The MRF has sharp V-shaped micro scale grooves of $300{\mu}m$ in width and $176.8{\mu}m$ in height. Particle image velocimetry(PIV) system was employed to measure velocity fields of flow over the MRF coated plate. Flow over a smooth plate was also measured for comparison. The PIV measurements were taken in the streamwise wall-normal planes at Re$\theta$= 985 and 2342. Vortex structures of the flow were analyzed by extracting the swirling strength as an unambiguous vortex-identification criterion. As a result the number of spanwise vortices with clockwise(negative) rotation decreases rapidly in the near-wall region(y<0.2h), but decreases slowly in the outer region(0.2h

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Monte Carlo analysis of earthquake resistant R-C 3D shear wall-frame structures

  • Taskin, Beyza;Hasgur, Zeki
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.371-399
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    • 2006
  • The theoretical background and capabilities of the developed program, SAR-CWF, for stochastic analysis of 3D reinforced-concrete shear wall-frame structures subject to seismic excitations is presented. Incremental stiffness and strength properties of system members are modeled by extended Roufaiel-Meyer hysteretic relation for bending while shear deformations for walls by Origin-Oriented hysteretic model. For the critical height of shear-walls, division to sub-elements is performed. Different yield capacities with respect to positive and negative bending, finite extensions of plastic hinges and P-${\delta}$ effects are considered while strength deterioration is controlled by accumulated hysteretic energy. Simulated strong motions are obtained from a Gaussian white-noise filtered through Kanai-Tajimi filter. Dynamic equations of motion for the system are formed according to constitutive and compatibility relations and then inserted into equivalent It$\hat{o}$-Stratonovich stochastic differential equations. A system reduction scheme based on the series expansion of eigen-modes of the undamaged structure is implemented. Time histories of seismic response statistics are obtained by utilizing the computer programs developed for different types of structures.

Effects of Cell Wall on the Transformation of Microalgae by a Digital Microfluidic System (디지털 미세유체를 이용한 미세녹조류 형질전환에서의 세포벽의 영향 분석)

  • Im, Do Jin
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.90-95
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    • 2015
  • Digital microfluidic electroporation system was used for the transformation of microalgae and we have obtained higher transformation efficiency and viability than that of conventional method. Key parameters of electroporation such as pulse voltage, number, and duration time were systematically investigated for two different microalgal strains with and without cell wall. We have found that cell wall does not always have negative effects on the gene transformation of microalgae. Parallel processing of proposed digital microfluidic electroporation was demonstrated together with on chip culture of microalgae.

Extra-Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Presenting as an Anterior Chest Wall Mass

  • Lim, Junghyeon;Cho, Sung Woo;Lee, Hee Sung;Kim, Hyoung Soo;Kim, Yong Han;Park, Bong Suk
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.308-311
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    • 2017
  • A 71-year-old man was referred for an anterior chest wall mass. Chest computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography-CT suggested a malignant tumor. Surgical biopsy through a vertical subxiphoid incision revealed an extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumor (EGIST). En bloc resection of the tumor, including partial resection of the sternum, costal cartilage, pericardium, diaphragm, and peritoneum, was performed. Pathologic evaluation revealed a negative resection margin and confirmed the tumor as an EGIST. On postoperative day 17, the patient was discharged without any complications. At the 2-week follow-up, the patient was doing well and was asymptomatic.

Thymol and eugenol in essential oils enhance phage endolysin LysECP26-mediated cell wall disruption of Escherichia coli O157:H7

  • Park, Do-Won;Lee, Jong Hun;Park, Jong-Hyun
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.53 no.6
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    • pp.819-822
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    • 2021
  • To enhance phage endolysin-mediated cell wall disruption of Escherichia coli O157:H7, the cells were co-treated with aromatic compounds, namely thymol or eugenol, found in essential oils and endolysin LysECP26. Interestingly, the minimal inhibitory concentrations of LysECP26 was four times lower when used in combination with either of the two compounds than when it was used alone. This synergistic activity was also confirmed by viable cell counting. Within 1 h of LysECP26 and eugenol or thymol co-treatment to the cells, there was a 2.3 or 3.8 log CFU/mL reductions, respectively. Additionally, field emission scanning electron microscopy showed cell wall disruption and severe morphological alterations of the cells in case of the combination treatments. Therefore, endolysin and thymol or eugenol co-treatment can help in developing efficient bio-control strategies against gram-negative pathogen E. coli O157:H7.

Seismic performance of L-shaped RC walls sustaining Unsymmetrical bending

  • Zhang, Zhongwen;Li, Bing
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.78 no.3
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    • pp.269-280
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    • 2021
  • Reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls with L-shaped sections are commonly used in RC buildings. The walls are often expected to sustain biaxial load and Unsymmetrical bending in an earthquake event. However, there currently exists limited experimental evidence regarding their seismic behaviour in these lateral loading directions. This paper makes experimental and numerical investigations to these walls behaviours. Experimental evidences are presented for four L-shaped wall specimens which were tested under simulated seismic load from different lateral directions. The results highlighted some distinct behaviour of L-shaped walls sustaining Unsymmetrical bending relating to their seismic performance. First, due to the Unsymmetrical bending, out-of-plane reaction forces occur for these walls, which contribute to accumulation of the out-of-plane deformations of the wall, especially when out-of-plane stiffness of the section is reduced by horizontal cracks in the cyclic load. Secondly, cracking was found to affect shear centre of the specimens loaded in the Unsymmetrical bending direction. The shear centre of these specimens distinctly differs in the flange in the positive and negative loading direction. Cracking of the flange also causes significant warping in the bottom part of the wall, which eventually lead to out-of-plane buckling failure.

The clustering of critical points in the evolving cosmic web

  • Shim, Junsup;Codis, Sandrine;Pichon, Christophe;Pogosyan, Dmitri;Cadiou, Corentin
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.47.2-47.2
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    • 2021
  • Focusing on both small separations and baryonic acoustic oscillation scales, the cosmic evolution of the clustering properties of peak, void, wall, and filament-type critical points is measured using two-point correlation functions in ΛCDM dark matter simulations as a function of their relative rarity. A qualitative comparison to the corresponding theory for Gaussian random fields allows us to understand the following observed features: (i) the appearance of an exclusion zone at small separation, whose size depends both on rarity and signature (i.e. the number of negative eigenvalues) of the critical points involved; (ii) the amplification of the baryonic acoustic oscillation bump with rarity and its reversal for cross-correlations involving negatively biased critical points; (iii) the orientation-dependent small-separation divergence of the cross-correlations of peaks and filaments (respectively voids and walls) that reflects the relative loci of such points in the filament's (respectively wall's) eigenframe. The (cross-) correlations involving the most non-linear critical points (peaks, voids) display significant variation with redshift, while those involving less non-linear critical points seem mostly insensitive to redshift evolution, which should prove advantageous to model. The ratios of distances to the maxima of the peak-to-wall and peak-to-void over that of the peak-to-filament cross-correlation are ~2-√~2 and ~3-√~3WJ, respectively, which could be interpreted as the cosmic crystal being on average close to a cubic lattice. The insensitivity to redshift evolution suggests that the absolute and relative clustering of critical points could become a topologically robust alternative to standard clustering techniques when analysing upcoming surveys such as Euclid or Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).

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Assessment of the performance of composite steel shear walls with T-shaped stiffeners

  • Zarrintala, Hadi;Maleki, Ahmad;Yaghin, Mohammad Ali Lotfollahi
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.297-313
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    • 2022
  • Composite steel plate shear wall (CSPSW) is a relatively novel structural system proposed to improve the performance of steel plate shear walls by adding one or two layers of concrete walls to the infill plate. In addition, the buckling of the infill steel plate has a significant negative effect on the shear strength and energy dissipation capacity of the overall systems. Accordingly, in this study, using the finite element (FE) method, the performance and behavior of composite steel shear walls using T-shaped stiffeners to prevent buckling of the infill steel plate and increase the capacity of CSPSW systems have been investigated. In this paper, after modeling composite steel plate shear walls with and without steel plates with finite element methods and calibration the models with experimental results, effects of parameters such as several stiffeners, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and a combination of T-shaped stiffeners located in the composite wall have been investigated on the ultimate capacity, web-plate buckling, von-Mises stress, and failure modes. The results showed that the arrangement of stiffeners has no significant effect on the capacity and performance of the CSPSW so that the use of vertical or horizontal stiffeners did not have a significant effect on the capacity and performance of the CSPSW. On the other hand, the use of diagonal hardeners has potentially affected the performance of CSPSWs, increasing the capacity of steel shear walls by up to 25%.