• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.120-128
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• 1997

The variations of the temperature field in a passenger compartment were measured by using a HSI true color image processing system and TLC(Thermochromic Liquid Crystal) solution. This temperature measurement technique was proved to be useful for analyzing the ventilation flow. The flow field in the passenger compartment was visualized using a particle streak method with pulsed laser light sheet. The temperature field and flow field in the passenger copartment were affected significantly by the ventilation mode. The panel-vent mode heating had shorter elapse time to reach a uniform temperature than the foot-vent mode under the same ventilation condition and nonuniformity inside the passenger compartment could be minimized effectively by using the bilevel heating mode. The temperature increase rate in the rear passenger compartment was iower than the front compartment, especially in the vicinity of the rear seat occupants' knee level.

• Applied Microscopy
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.150-154
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• 2015

Negative staining electron microscopy facilitates the visualization of small bio-materials such as proteins; thus, many electron microscopists have used this conventional method to visualize the morphologies and structures of biological materials. To achieve sufficient contrast of the materials, a number of imaging parameters must be considered. Here, we examined the effects of one of the fundamental imaging parameters, electron beam exposure time, on electron densities generated using transmission electron microscopy. A single site of a negatively stained biological sample was illuminated with the electron beam for different times (1, 2, or 4 seconds) and sets of micrographs were collected. Computational image processing demonstrated that longer exposure times provide better electron densities at the molecular level. This report describes technical procedures for testing parameters that allow enhanced evaluations of the densities of electron microscopy images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.154-154
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• 2021

Since the development of Bubble Image Velocimetry (BIV) technique as the complementary technique of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), the application of digital imaging technique in the field of hydraulic and coastal engineering increased rapidly. BIV works very well in multi-phase flow (air-water) flows where the PIV technique doesn't. However, the velocity field obtained from BIV technique often resulted in a velocity vector on the outside of the flow (false velocity) since the Field of View (FOV) usually not only cover the air-water flow but also the area outside the flow. In this study, a simple technique of post processing velocity field was developed. This technique works based on the average of the pixel value in the interrogation area. An image of multi-phase flow of wave overtopping was obtained through physical experiment using BIV technique. The velocity calculation was performed based on the similar method in PIV. A velocity masking technique developed in this study then applied to remove the false velocity vector. Result from non-masking, manually removed and auto removed false velocity vector were presented. The masking technique show a similar result as manually removed velocity vector. This method could apply in a large number of velocity field which is could increase the velocity map post-processing time.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.501-509
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• 2004

Unipolar diffusion charging of non-spherical particles was investigated for various particle shapes. We researched with TiO$_2$agglomerates produced by the thermal decomposition of titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) vapor. TTIP was converted into TiO$_2$, in the furnace reactor and was subsequently introduced into the sintering furnace. Increasing the temperature in the sintering furnace, aggregates were restructured into higher fractal dimensions. The aggregates were classified according to their mobility using a differential mobility analyzer. The projection area and the mass fractal dimension of particles were measured with an image processing technique performed by using transmission electron microscope (TEM) photograph. The selected aggregates were charged by the indirect photoelectric-charger and the average number of charges per particle was measured by an aerosol electrometer and a condensation particle counter. For the particles of same mobility diameter, our results showed that the particle charge quantity decreases as the sintering temperature increases. This result is understandable because particles with lower fractal dimension have larger capacitance and geometric surface area.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.836-840
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• 2007

Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry (LSPIV)는 Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)를 자연하천이나 실험실에서 넓은 영역($4m^2{\sim}45,000m^2$)에 적용할 수 있도록 확장시킨 것으로 지난 10여년 이상 세계적으로 널리 이에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. PIV는 seeding, illumination, recording 그리고 image processing으로 구성된다. LSPIV(Large Scale PIV)는 PIV의 기본원리를 근거로 하여 기존의 PIV에 비하여 실험실 내에서의 수리모형실험이나 일반 하천에서의 유속측정과 같은 큰 규모의 흐름해석을 할 수 있도록 seeding, illumination에 대한 조정이 필요하고, 촬영된 image에 대한 왜곡을 없애는 작업이 필요하다. LSPIV는 PIV의 네가지 단계를 포함하여 seeding, illumination, recording, image transformation, image processing 및 post-processing의 여섯 단계로 구성되어진다 (Li, 2002). LSPIV를 일반 하천에 적용시, 자연발생적인 tracers - 난류로 인한 표면 교란, 부유물, 수공구조물로 인해서 발생하는 자연 발생되는 거품 - 가 풍부해서 seeding이 불필요한 경우를 제외하고는 정확한 유속장의 해석을 위하여 인공적인 seeding을 필요로 한다. 일반적으로 Seeding 재료로 많이 이용되는 것은 wood mulch, Ecofoam, grain-straw 등이다. 하천에서 자연발생적 혹은 인위적 seeding을 하였을 때 이들 tracers의 물리적인 속성으로 바람에 쉽게 영향을 받고 이로 인하여 실제의 물표면유속을 대표하지 못하는 경우가 있다. 이에 실험실의 개수로에서 여러 가지 이용 가능한 tracers에 대하여 바람에 의한 오차 발생의 정도를 조사하였다. 실험에 사용된 seeding 재료로는 black polypropylene, Ecofoam, white polystyrene의 세가지를 이용하였다. black polypropylene (SG=0.92)과 white polystyrene (SG=0.0125)은 폭 1 m 이내의 개수로 실험 장치에서 유속장의 해석에 많이 이용되고 Ecofoam (SG=0.0065)은 수리 모형실험에서 많이 이용된다. seeding 물질에 따른 바람의 영향을 분석하기 위해서 폭 60cm의 개수로에서 seeding 물질을 변경하면서 펌프의 조작에 의해 3가지 단면평균유속을 발생시키고, 각 평균유속조건에 대해 4가지의 바람세기 - 바람이 없을 때와 팬의 바람세기를 1단, 2단, 3단으로 조정 - 를 발생시켰으며, 개수로위에서 촬영한 이미지의 상류측기준점으로부터 0.3556m 하류 지점을 횡단하는 단면의 표면유속을 측정하여 비교하였고, 그 단면의 중앙에서 물표면 바로 위 지점의 풍속을 측정하였다. 각 Seeding 물질에 대해 팬을 켜지 않았을 때, 즉 바람의 영향이 없을 때 측정한 표면유속을 바람의 세기가 변한 경우의 기준 표면유속으로 이용하였다. 본 연구의 결과 비중이 0.01 내외인 Ecofoam과 white polystyrene에 비해 비중이 0.92인 black polypropylene은 대부분이 물속에 잠겨 있어 흐름과 거의 일치하여 움직임을 알 수 있었다. 또한 흐름의 평균유속이 0.165 m/s의 저유속에서 바람이 tracers에 미치는 영향이 평균유속 0.558m/s인 경우보다 커서, 바람의 세기의 증가에 따라 표면유속 측정값이 급속히 감소되었다. 흐름의 평균유속이 큰 경우에는 바람이 tracer에 마치는 영향이 현격히 줄어듬을 보이고 있다. 결론적으로 유속이 증가함에 따라 바람의 영향은 감소하나, 바람의 영향을 최소화시키기 위해서는 가급적 비중이 큰 물질(0.5

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.7
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• pp.987-993
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• 2009

An experimental study is performed to investigate unsteady mixed convection in a horizontal channel with a heat source. Particle image velocimetry (PIV) with thermo-sensitive liquid crystal (TLC) tracers is used for visualization and analysis. This method allows simultaneous measurement of velocity and temperature fields at a given instant of time. Quantitative data of the temperature and velocity are obtained by applying the color-image processing to a visualized image, and neural network is applied to the color-to-temperature calibration. It is found that the periodic flow of mixed convection in a cavity appears at very low Reynolds numbers (Re<0.4), and the period decreases with increasing Reynolds numbers and increases with increasing aspect ratio.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.395-404
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• 2003

Quantitative data of the temperature and velocity were obtained simultaneously by using liquid crystal tracer. PIV(Particle Image Velocimety) based on a grey-level cross-correlation method was used for visualizing and analysis of the flow field. The temperature gradient was obtained by applying the color-image processing to a visualized image, and a neural-network a1gorithm was applied to the color-to-temperature calibration. This simultaneous measurement was applied to the Rayleigh-Bernard convection. This paper describes the method, and presents the quantitative visualization of Rayleigh-Bernard convection and the effect of aspect ratio and viscosity. Also the experimental results were compared with the numerical results.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.157-162
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• 2010

In this paper we propose a fractal analysis based on the discrete wavelet transform. It is well known that Fourier Transform is widely used for frequency analysis of random signal. However, the frequency domain is not used for expressing the sudden signal change and non-stationary signal at the time-axis by this method. Maximum value in the wavelet modules can be expressed by the Lipschitz exponent, which is useful to represent the characteristics of signal or the edge of an image. It is possible to reconstruct the original image only by using the few maximum points. The v possible image It iusing oil was acquired to interpret the maximum value. ufter that, it was applied to the v possible image of a ship model. In addition, the fractal dimens by by the conlapse process of the sediment particle was examined. In this paper, the fractal dimens by has been obtained by the maximum value and the experiment obtained from the visualized image also acquired the same result as existing methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.59-67
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• 2017

To verify floatability of ABB (Air bubble barrier), we compared bubble swarm behavior with and without the air-driven ejector. Experiment was conducted using the fabricated air-driven ejector with 5 mm nozzle on the bottom of 1 m3 water tank. Reynolds number of air in the nozzle was ranged 1766-13248. We analyzed data with statistical method using image processing, particle mage velocimetry (PIV) and proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) analysis. As a result of POD analysis, there was no significant eigenmode in bubbly flow generated from the ejector. It means that more complex turbulent flows were formed by the ejector, thereby (1) making bubbles finer, (2) promoting three-dimensional energy transfer between bubble and water, and (3) making evenly distributed velocity profile of water. It is concluded that the air-driven ejector could enhance the performance of ABB.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.45-54
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• 1999

The spray characteristics of a direct injection multi-hole diesel nozzle having the 2-spring nozzle holder were investigated by using the image processing system and a PDPA(phase Bowler particle analyzer) system. The spray tip penetration, the spray angle, and the droplet diameter and velocity with the variation of the pump speed, injection quantity were measured. From, the experiments, we know that there are small droplets which are not to be detected with spray image around the leading edge of the spray. In order to represent the mean characteristics of the intermittent spray very well, it is very important to set the time windows accurately. From the measurements along the axis of the spray, close to the nozzle, the initially injected droplets are overtaken by droplets that follow them. And also there are the maximum axial mean velocity and SMD at the following part of the leading edge of the spray.