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″Drifting Cups on a Meandering Stream″ in Japan

  • Nakayama, Yasuki;Aoki, K.;Oki, M.;Kobayashi, T.;Saga, T.;Maruoka, H.;Kato, S.
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.15 no.12
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    • pp.1768-1774
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    • 2001
  • Drifting Cups on a Meandering Stream (Kyokusui-no-En) is a Poetry Party that had its origin In ancient China, and was introduced to Japan passing through Korea. The flow of the meandering stream was made clear using the flow visualization techniques, surface floating method, PTV and the numerical simulation. At the same time, the motions of floating cup, the floating speed, relating speed and the trajectory of the cup were also analysed by using an originally developed image processing technique. Based on these researches, the model channel was considered. To make this party interesting the channel must has the characteristic that the drifting cups take the random pass and stagnant at the unexpected place. This model channel is satisfied with these conditions and the fluid mechanics consideration is performed on the both points of the experimental visualization and numerical simulation.

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A Passive Control of Cavity-Induced Pressure Oscillations Using Sub-Cavity System (보조공동계를 이용한 공동 유기 압력진동의 피동제어)

  • Kang, M.S.;Kwon, J.K.;Lee, J.S.;Kim, H.D.;Setoguchi, T.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.452-455
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    • 2008
  • A new passive control technique of cavity-induced pressure oscillations has been investigated numerically for a supersonic two-dimensional flow over open rectangular cavities at Mach number 1.83 just upstream of a cavity, in which a sub-cavity system is installed on the backward-facing step of the main cavity. A third-order TVD (Total Variation Diminishing) finite difference scheme with MUSCL is used to discretize the spatial derivatives in the unsteady compressible Navier-Stokes equations. The results obtained show that the present sub-cavity system is very effective in reducing cavity-induced pressure oscillations. The results also showed that the resultant amount of attenuation of cavity-induced pressure oscillations was dependent on the length and thickness of the flat plate, and also on the depth of the sub-cavity used as an oscillation suppressor.

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Passive control of condensation shock wave in supersonic nozzles (초음속 노즐에서 발생하는 응축충격파의 피동제어)

  • Kim, Hui-Dong;Gwon, Sun-Beom;Setoguchi, Toshiaki
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.20 no.12
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    • pp.3980-3990
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    • 1996
  • When a moist air is rapidly expanded in a supersonic nozzle, nonequilibrium condensation occurs at a supersaturation state. Condensation shock wave appears in the nozzle flow if the releasing latent heat due to condensation goes beyond a critical value. It has been known that self-excited oscillations of the condensation shock wave generate in an air or a steam nozzle flow with a large humidity. In the present study, the passive control technique using porous wall with a cavity underneath was applied to the condensation shock wave. The effects of the passive control on the steady and self-excited condensation shock waves were experimentally investigated by Schlieren visualization and static pressure measurements. The result shows that the present passive control is a useful technique to suppress the self-excited oscillations of condensation shock wave.

Cryopreservation of Sporothalli of the Genus Porphyra (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) from Korea

  • Jo, Young-Hyun;Kang, Sung-Pil;Seo, Tae-Ho;Choi, Sung-Je;Kho, Kang-Hee;Kuwano, Kazuyoshi;Saga, Naotsune;Kim, Min-Yong;Shin, Jong-Ahm
    • ALGAE
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.321-331
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    • 2003
  • Cryopreservation of sporothalli of the red alga Porphyra (P. seriata, P. yezoensis, P. tenera, P. pseudolinearis and P. dentata) was performed by the two-step cooling method in liquid nitrogen. The algal samples were suspended in various cryoprotective solutions, and slowly cooled to -40$^{\circ}C$ in 4 hours using a programmed freezer. After the first slow cooling the suspensions with cryoprotectants were immediately immersed in liquid nitrogen. The suspension from the programmed freezer was thawed quickly by agitation of the vial in a water bath at 40°C. When ice in the suspension of cryogenic vial was mostly melted, the vial was transferred to an ice bath for complete melting of the residual ice. The cryoprotectants in the vial were washed off by gradual dilution with seawater. The viability of the cell was assessed with neutral red staining. The viability of Porphyra samples ranged 54.6-70.9% when the mixed suspension of 10% dimethylsulfoxide and 0.5 M sorbitol in 50% seawater used as a cryoprotectant.

Propagation Characteristics of Compression Waves Reflected from the Open End of a Duct

  • Kim, Heuy-Dong;Lee, Dong-Hoon;H. Kashimura;T. Setoguchi
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.718-725
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    • 2003
  • The present study addresses the distortion of the compression wave reflected from an open end of a shock tube. An experiment is carried out using the simple shock tube with an open end Computational work is also performed to represent the experimented flows. The second-order Total Variation Diminishing scheme is employed to numerically solve the unsteady, axisy-mmetric, inviscid, compressible governing equations. Both the experimented and predicted results are in good agreement. The generation and development mechanisms of the compression wave, which Is reflected from the open end of the shock tube, are obtained in detail from the present computations. The effect of size of the baffle plate at the open-end that causes the reflection of the incident expansion wave is found negligible. A good correlation is obtained for transition of the reflected compression wave to a shock wave inside the tube. The present data show that for a given wave length of the incident expansion wave the transition of the reflected compression wave to a shock wave can be predicted with good accuracy.

Multiple Orifice Technique for Pressure Drop in Compressible Pipe Flows

  • Kim, Heuy-Dong;Koo, Byoung-Soo;Woo, Sun-Hoon;Setoguchi, Toshiaki
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2000.04b
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    • pp.459-464
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    • 2000
  • In order to investigate the effectiveness of an orifice system in producing pressure drops and the effect of compressibility on the Pressure drop, computations using the mass-averaged implicit Wavier-Stokes equations were applied to the axisymmetric pipe flows with the operating pressure ratio from 1.5 to 20.0. The standard k-e turbulence model was employed to close the governing equations. Numerical calculations were carried out for some combinations of the multiple orifice configurations. The present CFD data showed that the orifice systems, which have been applied to incompressible flow regime to date, can not be used for the hint operating Pressure ratio flows. The orifice interval did not strongly affect the total pressure drop but the orifice area ratio more than 2.5 led to high pressure drops. The total pressure drop rapidly increased in the range of the operating pressure ratio from 1.5 to 4.0, but it did not depend on the operating pressure ratio over 4.0.

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Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Possibility of Duct Flow Low-power Generation Using a Butterfly Wind Turbine

  • Hara, Yutaka;Kogo, Shohei;Takagaki, Katsuhiro;Kawanishi, Makoto;Sumi, Takahiro;Yoshida, Shigeo
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.19-29
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    • 2017
  • An objective of this study is to demonstrate the validity of using a small wind turbine to recover the fluid energy flowing out of an exhaust duct for the generation of power. In these experiments, a butterfly wind turbine of a vertical axis type (D = 0.4 m) is used. The output performance is measured at various locations relative to the exit of a small wind tunnel (W = 0.65 m), representing the performance expected in an exhaust duct flow. Two-dimensional numerical analysis qualitatively agrees with the experimental results for the wind turbine power coefficient and rate of energy recovery. When the turbine is far from the duct exit (more than 2.5 D), an energy recovery rate of approximately 1.3% is obtained.

Partial Biological and Molecular Characterization of Tomato yellow fruit ring virus Isolates from Potato

  • Pourrahim, Reza;Golnaraghi, Alireza;Farzadfar, Shirin;Ohshima, Kazusato
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.390-400
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    • 2012
  • Eight potato-producing provinces of Iran were surveyed during the growing seasons of 2004-2006 to detect the presence of Tomato yellow fruit ring virus (TYFRV), a tentative species in the genus Tospovirus. A total of 1,957 potato leaf samples were collected from plants with tospovirus-like symptoms of chlorotic or necrotic spots, chlorosis and necrosis. The samples were tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using TYFRV-specific antibodies. Among those tested, 498 samples (25.4%) were found to be infected with the virus. The virus was detected in 72.4% of the potato fields in all provinces surveyed. Thirteen potato isolates of TYFRV were selected for further biological and molecular studies. Based on their reactions on Nicotiana tabacum plants, the isolates were separated into two groups, namely L (local infection) and N (systemic infection). The nucleotide sequences of the nucleoprotein (N) genes of the isolates were determined and compared with the homologous sequences in Genbank. No recombination evidence was found in the isolates using different recombination-detecting programs. In the phylogenetic tree, the potato isolates fell into two major groups: IRN-1 and IRN-2 corresponding to the two biologically separated groups. This study shows for the first time the biological and phylogenetic relationships of geographically distant TYFRV isolates from potatoes in the mid-Eurasian country of Iran.

Deriving a New Divergence Measure from Extended Cross-Entropy Error Function

  • Oh, Sang-Hoon;Wakuya, Hiroshi;Park, Sun-Gyu;Noh, Hwang-Woo;Yoo, Jae-Soo;Min, Byung-Won;Oh, Yong-Sun
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2015
  • Relative entropy is a divergence measure between two probability density functions of a random variable. Assuming that the random variable has only two alphabets, the relative entropy becomes a cross-entropy error function that can accelerate training convergence of multi-layer perceptron neural networks. Also, the n-th order extension of cross-entropy (nCE) error function exhibits an improved performance in viewpoints of learning convergence and generalization capability. In this paper, we derive a new divergence measure between two probability density functions from the nCE error function. And the new divergence measure is compared with the relative entropy through the use of three-dimensional plots.

Antiviral Effect of Lithium-Ascorbate Derivatives (아스코르빈산-리듐 유도체의 바이러스에 대한 불활성화 작용)

  • Kil-Jin Kang;Akira Murata
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.466-469
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    • 1995
  • The effect of lithium-ascorbate derivatives on viruses was investigated using a wide variety of bacterial viruses(phage). Lithium-ascorbate derivatives exerted an inactivating effect on all phages examined. Lithium-ascorbate derivatives have antiviral effects. The antiviral effect of lithium 2-o-octadecyl ascorbate was stronger than that of lithium ascorbate. Even at 10∼20 times lower concentration, the lithium 2-o-octadecyl ascorbate showed very much similar phage inactivating effect to that of ascorbate and lithium ascorbate.

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