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In situ Particle Size and Volume Concentration of Suspended Sediment in Seomjin River Estuary, Determined by an Optical Instrument,'LISST-100' (현장입도분석기를 이용한 섬진강하구 부유퇴적물의 특성 연구)

  • KIM Seok Yun;LEE Byoung Kwan
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.323-329
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    • 2004
  • In situ particle size and volume concentration of suspended sediment was measured at the mouth of Seomjin River Estuary In February 2001, using an optical instrument, 'LISST-100'. Time variation of in situ particle size and concentration shows: (1) during ebb tide, Seomjin River supplies relatively fine-grained particles with less-fluctuated, compared to during flood tide, and well-behaved concentrations following the tidal cycle; and (2) during flood tide, relatively coarse-grained particles with highly variable in size distribution and concentration flow upstream from Kwangyang Bay. This explains a poor correlation $(r^{2}=0.10)$ between sediment concentration and beam attenuation coefficient during flood and a high degree of correlation $(r^{2}=0.80)$ during ebb tide. Relatively fine grained and well defined, monotonous size distribution may promote the correlation between concentration and beam attenuation coefficient due to optical homogeneity of particles during ebb tide. Abundance of large aggregates with time-varying size and shape distributions may be mainly responsible for variations in optical properties of the sediment during flood tide, and thus may confound the relationship between the two variables. The difference in particle sizes and shapes between flood and ebb tides can also be observed on SEM images.

Effects of Reynolds Number and Shape of Manifold on Flow Rate in Separator for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell (ICCAS 2004)

  • Huang, Chaii;Ozawa, Yoshikuni;Ennoji, Hisayuki;Iijima, Toshio
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.68-71
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    • 2004
  • Recently, a great deal of research and development of a fuel cell have been carried out to solve problems on the drain of fossil fuel, air pollution and global warning. In order to improve the efficiency of a fuel cell, it is necessary to clarify the flow in separator. In this study, distributions of velocity flow rate and pressure, and streamlines are examined in detail from numerical analysis with CFD code. In the experiment the distribution of flow rate is measured and flow in the each grooves of the separator is visualized by dye method changing Reynolds number. Furthermore, effects of size of the inlet and outlet manifolds and shape of ribs near the inlet outlet on the distributions of flow and pressure are examined.

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On Fleet Sizing and Distribution Policy of Transportation Equipments in Pure Hub-and-Spoke Networks : The Case of Compound Poisson Process (순 방사형 물류체계에서 수송장비의 보유대수 결정과 분배정책 : 복합포아송과정을 따를 경우)

  • 서순근;이병호
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.109-123
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    • 1999
  • Fleet sizing and empty equipment redistribution are two of the most critical problems in managing a fleet of equipment over a transportation network. Where the demand pattern followed the compound Poisson process(CPP) which can be generated one or more at a time under homogeneous Poisson process(HPP), this paper presented a mathematical model to determine control parameters of a decentralized distribution policy and fleet size in case of the pure hub-and-spoke system, a popular form of a logistics system. and validated this model by simulation. That is, where the number of demanded equipments followed geometric and binomial distributions, respectively, cost models on the pure hub-and-spoke logistics system with deterministic trans-portation times, which could be solved analytically, were established and analyzed. We also compared the deterministic case with stochastic one that the transportation time follows some probability distributions.

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An Experimental Study on the Characteristic of Sprays and Spray Flames by Twin-Fluid Atomizer (2유체 분사노즐을 이용한 분무 및 연소특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 백민수;오상헌
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.548-558
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    • 1995
  • An experimental investigation has been conducted to study the spray and combustion characteristics using the air-assisted twin fluid atomizer. Axial mean and fluctuating velocity components as well as drop-size distributions in non-reaction spray were measured with a nonintrusive phase doppler technique. Droplet number density distributions were also visualized using high speed CCD camera. Locations of spray and flame boundaries are obtained by direct photographic method. It is confirmed that at the fixed fuel flow rate, the increase of the atomizing air flow causes improvements on both spray and combustion characteristics under stable flame conditions. Internal group combustion modes where flame is located inside the spray boundary are observed to exist in the upstream region of higher droplet number density.

The Safety Stock Determination by the Optimal Service Level and the Forecasting Error Correcting (최적서비스수준과 예측오차수정에 의한 안전재고 결정)

  • 안동규;이상용
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.19 no.37
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 1996
  • The amount of safety stock is decided from various information such as the forecasted demand, the lead time, the size of the order quantity and the desired service level. There are two cases to consider the problem of setting safety stock when both the demand in a period and the lead time are characterized as random variables: the first case is the parameters of the demand and lead time distributions are known, the second case is they are unknown and must be estimated. The objective of this study is to present the procedure for setting safety stocks in the case the parameters of the demand and lead time distributions are unknown and must be estimated. In this study, a simple exponential smoothing model is used. to generate the estimates of demand in each period and a discrete distribution of the lead time is developed from historical data, and the optimal service level is used which determined to consider both of a backorder and lost sale.

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Parametric study for Welding Residual Stresses in Nozzle of Nuclear Power Plants using Finite Element Method (유한요소법을 사용한 원전 노즐 용접잔류응력의 변수해석)

  • Kim, Wan-Jae;Lee, Kyoung-Soo;Kim, Tae-Ryong;Song, Tae-Kwang
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.104-109
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    • 2008
  • Distribution of welding residual stresses are mainly characterized by degrees and frequencies of thermal loads applied to materials. However, other effects as component size and clamping condition can also affect stress distributions to a certain extent thus careful manipulation of these parameters based on clear understanding of how they affect residual stresses distributions and why can be additional measure to mitigate residual stresses. This paper discusses aforementioned issues for the case of safety and relief nozzle in nuclear power plant through finite element analysis.

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Conformational Dependent Energy Migration on Cyclic Porphyrin Arrays

  • Song, Suwhan;Han, Minwoo;Sim, Eunji
    • Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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    • 2015.03a
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    • pp.163-166
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    • 2015
  • Intramolecular energy migration in a cyclic porphyrin array is spontaneous transfer of energy from one excited site to another. Since the efficiency of energy migration is inversely proportional to distance, the energy migration is occurred on their adjacent sites more often than distant ones. Therefore, the energy migration in the cyclic porphyrin array is largely dependent on their conformational characters. However, evaluation of conformational information by means of experimental tools is ambiguous since their limited resolution. In this work, we calculate the internal angle and distance distributions of cyclic porphyrin arrays using molecular dynamics simulations to obtain conformational information. To evaluate the angle and distance distributions respect to molecular size, we constructed molecules with n porphyrin dimers (n=1,3,7) in implicit solvent environment. Performing molecular dynamics simulations, we modulated alkyl groups to investigate additional conformational effects of the system.

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On Testing Exponentiality Against NBURFR Class Of Life Distributions

  • Mahmoud, M.A.W.;Abdul Alim, N.A.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.57-69
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    • 2003
  • A non-parametric test based on U-statistic for testing exponentiality against the new better than used renewal failure rate (NBURFR) alternatives is introduced and the percentiles of this test statistic are tabulated for sample size 5(1)50. Its properties are also discussed including the Pitman asymptotic efficiency relative to the tests of the new better than used and new better than used failure rate (Ahmed (1994) and Hendi (2000)). The powers of this test are also calculated for some used life distributions. An example from blood cancer patients demonstrates a practical application of our test in the medical sciences is presented. Finally the problem when right-censored data is available is handled.

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The Probabilistic Forcasting of Product's Surface Quality (제품 표면품질의 확률적 예측)

  • 여명구;양정회
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.20 no.43
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    • pp.47-57
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    • 1997
  • As a general index in surface quality of machined products, surface roughness is to measure worker's skill level, a ground product quality and machining accuracy, etc. The surface roughness is defined by a function of rotational speed and radius of a grinding wheel, distances of active grains composed of the wheel, and feed of a grinder's worktable. To predict surface roughness in horizontal surface grinding operations, probability distributions were used. Probability distribution functions(p.d.f.) of surface roughness were found as results when the size of active grains(=the radius of a grinding wheel) is given as uniform, exponential distribution, and the distance between active grains follows the distributions of uniform, exponential. For each pdf case, probabilistic features of surface roughness were also analyzed and presented. This study is a substantial step for determining mathematically the surface roughness instead of using empirical approaches. More works should be presented to develop a general model by which an accurate roughness value can be obtained in horizontal surface grinding operations.

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Effects of Overdispersion on Testing for Serial Dependence in the Time Series of Counts Data

  • Kim, Hee-Young;Park, You-Sung
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.829-843
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    • 2010
  • To test for the serial dependence in time series of counts data, Jung and Tremayne (2003) evaluated the size and power of several tests under the class of INARMA models based on binomial thinning operations for Poisson marginal distributions. The overdispersion phenomenon(i.e., a variance greater than the expectation) is common in the real world. Overdispersed count data can be modeled by using alternative thinning operations such as random coefficient thinning, iterated thinning, and quasi-binomial thinning. Such thinning operations can lead to time series models of counts with negative binomial or generalized Poisson marginal distributions. This paper examines whether the test statistics used by Jung and Tremayne (2003) on serial dependence in time series of counts data are affected by overdispersion.