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Development of Adjusted Subcatchment Width Equation in SWMM (SWMM의 수정유역폭식 개발)

  • Bae, Deg-Hyo;Jang, Min-Seok
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.105-115
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    • 2009
  • The objectives of this study are to deduce a problem of existing subcatchment width equation in Storm Water Management Model(SWMM) and to analyze the suitability of a new adjusted subcatchment width equation on both ideally assumed watersheds and an actual urban watershed area. The problems of existing subcatchment equation are issued on the theoretical review of the equation and from the model application on different types of simplified assumed watershed. The adjusted equation, proposed in this study, that considers the pipe flows in addition to the surface flows on small subcatchment can improve the limitation of existing equation when applied on the assumed watersheds. Also, Gunja watershed with 96.3 ha is selected and collected rainfall-runoff events for the feasibility study of the proposed equation on actual urban watershed area. The results represent that the simulated flows from adjusted equation rather than the simulated flows from existing equation are well agreed with observed ones.

Water Allocation Policy and its Implications in the Waikato Region

  • Brown, Edmund
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2012
  • The Waikato River is New Zealand's longest River, though relatively small on international scales. It drains the central North Island and has New Zealand's largest lake (Lake Taupo) at its headwaters. The upper reaches have sustained flows fed by large aquifers which are recharged by rainfall events providing relatively constant river flows, whereas the lower reaches respond more directly to rainfall events having more peaky flows after rainfall and extreme low flows during dry periods. Consumptive allocation from the river is relatively low with only about 3% of the mean annual flow being allocated. However, more than seven times the river's flow is allocated for non-consumptive purposes before discharging to the Tasman Sea. The majority of this non-consumptive allocation is for hydro power generation and as cooling water at both thermal and geothermal power stations which produce up to 25% of New Zealand's electricity. The upper half of the river has been heavily modified with the construction of eight dams for power generation. This has resulted in a succession of cascading dams replacing the previously uncontrolled river. The Waikato River also provides drinking water for Auckland City (NZ's largest city) and Hamilton City (NZ's 4th largest city). In recent years there has also been considerable growth in water requirements for pasture irrigation to support the intensification of dairy farming in the catchment. Operators of the power stations are concerned that any further consumptive allocation will further reduce their ability to generate electricity. The Waikato Regional Council, who is charged with managing the river and allocation of water, has recently set new rules for managing the conflicting allocation demands on the Waikato River. This has resulted in an end to further allocation of water where it results in a loss of water for electricity generation from renewable resources (fresh water and geothermal water). The exception to this is the prioritisation of water for municipal supplies ahead of other consumptive uses such as industries and irrigators.

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A study on comparison of a ground water influx quantity in Seoul subway tunnel (서울지하철 터널내의 지하수 유입량에 대한 비교 연구)

  • Woo, Jong-Tae
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.353-359
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    • 2009
  • As ground water influx quantity which flows into the tunnel inside from the 7.937 km section of Han River and small and 7 medium-sized rivers which pass through subway line 5 is average $34,444\;m^3/day$ and it's 55.3% of the underground water influx quantity $62,272\;m^3/day$ which flows into whole tunnel section 31.29 km. If we suppressed the underground water influx from the rivers, it would be expect that the maintenance and management expenses would be able to reduce a lot. In addition, as the result of investigating the difference between the ground water influx quantity which flows into the river section and that of the design standard, the ground water influx quantity is $3.01\;m^3/min$ and it is flowing to similar level of tunnel design standard $3.00\;m^3/min$. However, when it is compared with tunnel average influx quantity $1.38\;m^3/min$, it has been found that 2.18 times of ground water flows into rivers.

Mixing Method of Water and Chemicals in a Small-Scale Water Supply System (간이상수도에서 물과 약품의 혼합방법)

  • Yoo, Young-Hyun;Ki, Hyun;Choi, Jong-Wook;Kim, Sung-Cho;Kim, Jeong-Soo;Kim, Yong-Seon
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05b
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    • pp.3128-3133
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    • 2007
  • The mixing method of water and chemicals is significant in a small-scale water supply system because drinking water should be supplied with a certain quantity of remaining chemicals maintained. In the present study, the concentration distribution and the mixing index were obtained from four models, which were to find out the optimal mixing method of water and chemicals. The two models brought the good mixing effects out of the four, one for providing chemicals from the center of water supply pipe and the other for setting up the semicircle block at the downstream of the chemicals-providing pipe. As a result, the mixing effect was found out to be increased due to the diffusion and the disturbance of flows. In conclusion, these results are expected to contribute to designing the optimal mixing system.

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Micro Propulsion System (마이크로 추진장치)

  • 전재영;윤영빈;허환일
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.100-107
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    • 2001
  • Miro propulsion device is a literally very small propulsion system The reason why such a small propulsion system is required is that micro satellites are considered as substitutions for conventional satellites to reduce cost; the fabrication of micro satellites enables us to produce mass production Microrockets have relatively high values of thrust/weight ratio due to the cube law; weight is proportional to volume and thrust is proportional to area. Accordingly, downsizing makes the ratio of thrust/weight ratio high However, conventionally ignorable facts are not negligible any more in small scale systems. for chemical micro rockets, downsizing causes lots of heat loss as surface to volume ratio increases, which results in the destruction of radical ions. For thrusters using plasma, the generation of strong magnetic field for plasma is very difficult. Also, in the aspect of flow dynamics, the effects of drag and viscosity are important parameters in low Re flows. When these problems are solved, micro propulsion systems can be commercialized and result in spin-off effects in many fields.

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Sweden at the Innovation Frontier - Assessing Performance and Challenges in a Disruptive World

  • Deiaco, Enrico;Bager-Sjogren, Lars
    • STI Policy Review
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.1-46
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    • 2012
  • The paper assesses the innovative performance and challenges that a small innovative country like Sweden faces in an era of intense global competition. We contrast innovative performance with similar countries in Europe as well as discus the reliability and validity of indicators used to shape policy development. The conclusion from the analysis shows that available input-output indicators must be used with some caution. Even if the supply and quality of indicators has increased for policy analysis, they still lack precision and validity to make broad claims about the innovative performance of companies and nations. It is argued that understanding knowledge flows (rather than simple input-output metrics) are a key to understand innovation processes for small countries at the innovation frontier; subsequently, small countries will have to abandon failed policy orthodoxies in order to cope with future policy challenges.

Study on Source of Lava Flows Forming the Manjanggul Lava Tube (만장굴 용암동굴을 형성한 용암의 공급지에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn, Ung-San;Hwang, Sang-Koo
    • The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.237-253
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    • 2009
  • The lava flows forming the Manjanggul lava tube are commonly said to have a potential source from the Geomunoreum scoria cone. We inferred the source of lava flows with the Manjanggul lava tube, based on many studies about lava tubes within lava flows of active volcano in the world. We made a lava flow field map from lithofacies, features and latitude of lava surfaces in the northeastern part of Jeju Island, and then examined closely the distribution and mutual relation of lava tubes in each lava flow field. As result, the Geomunoreum lava tube system is divided into a series of master tubes(Utsanjeungul, Bukoreumgul, Daerimdonggul, Manjanggul, Gimnyeonggul, Yongcheondonggul and Dangcheomuldonggul lava tube), a complicated networks of small tubes(Bengdwigul lava tube), and a series of unitary tubes(Gimyeongbilemotgul~Gaeusaemgul lava tube) in Geomunoreum lava flows. Particularly a canyon, 2km in length to NNE direction from the Geomunoreum scoria cone, is interpreted to be collapse trench of lava tube roof that belongs to an upflow part of the master tube in the Geomunoreum lava tube system, according to the location and direction. Accordingly, the source of lava flows, forming the Manjanggul lava tube, is the Geomunoreum scoria cone.

Direct Solving the Boltzmann Equation for Supersonic Jet Problems with Instabilities

  • Aristov V.V.;Zabelok S.A.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.268-269
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    • 2003
  • The Boltzmann kinetic equation is solved directly by means of the conservative splitting method. Underexpanded supersonic free jet flows with small Knudsen numbers are studied. In this numerical simulation features intrinsic to appropriate experiments are observed. Streamwise vortices in a mixing layer and chaotic downstream temporal-spatial fluctuations of microscopic quantities with large amplitude are obtained.

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Flow Analysis within a Small Reverse Flow Cyclone

  • R. B Xiang;Lee, K. W.
    • Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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    • 2003.05b
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    • pp.277-278
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    • 2003
  • Cyclone separators are widely used for cleaning gas streams or for catalyst recovery. For many years, the complexity of the gas flow pattern in cyclones has been a matter of many experimental and theoretical work. At present, precise flow measurements have been performed by means of LDA and hot-wire anemometry (Patterson and Munz, 1996; Hoekstra et al., 1999; Peng et al., 2002). In the theoretical work, Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes are frequently employed for simulating cyclone gas-particle flows(Hoekstra et al., 1999). (omitted)

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SPELEOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF KAMCHATKA OBLAST

  • Ha, William R.lliday
    • Journal of the speleological society of Korea
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    • no.5
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    • pp.53-55
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    • 1997
  • In September 1996 I spent 8 days in Kamchatka Oblast of Silberia, speaking at the institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry in Petropavlovsk and participating ina field excursion to the 1740 and 1975 lava beds of Tolbachik volcano. By international standards, the caves of these flows are small. But recently it has appeared that variations in chemistry and gas content of pahoehoe basalts makes profound variations in their lava tube caves. Thus it is important to look at as many speleoliferous regions as possible. This trend continued at Tolbachik.(omitted)

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