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Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Heat Transfer to Fluids at Supercritical Pressure Flowing in Vertical Tubes (직접수치모사를 이용한 수직원형관내 초임계압 유체의 난류 열전달 특성 연구)

  • Bae, Joong-Hun;Yoo, Jung-Yul;Choi, Hae-Cheon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.28 no.11
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    • pp.1302-1314
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    • 2004
  • Turbulent heat transfer to $CO_2$ at supercritical pressure flowing in vertical tubes is investigated using direct numerical simulation (DNS). A conservative space-time discretization scheme for variable-density flows at low Mach numbers is adopted in the present study to treat steep variations of fluid properties at supercritical pressure just above the thermodynamic critical point. The fluid properties at these conditions are obtained using PROPATH and used in the form of tables in the simulations. The buoyancy influence induced by strong variation of density across the pseudo-critical temperature proved to play a major role in turbulent heat transfer at supercritical state. Depending on the degree of buoyancy influence, turbulent heat transfer may be enhanced or significantly deteriorated, resulting in local hot spots along the heated surface. Based on the results of the present DNS combined with theoretical considerations, the physical mechanism of this local heat transfer deterioration is elucidated.

Dissipation Inequality of LTI System Based on Pencil Model

  • Shibasato, Koki;Shiotsuki, Tetsuo;Kawaji, Shigeyasu
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.135-140
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    • 1998
  • The concept of dissipativity and passivity are of interest to us from a theoretical as well as a practical point of view. It is well known that the Riccati equation is derived from the dissipation inequality which expresses the fact that the system is dissipative; the energy stored inside the system doesn't exceed the amount of supply which flows into the system. The pencil model is regarded as a representation based on behavioral approach introduced by J.C. Willems. It has first order in the internal variable and zeroth order in the external variable. In general, any matrix pencil is transformed into a canonical form which is consist of several kind of sub-pencils, One of them has row full rank for $^\forall S\;\in\;\mathds{C}\;\bigcup{\infty}$, we call it under-determined mode of the model. In our opinion, most important properties of dynamical system lay in the mode. According to the properties of canonical form for pencil, it is shown that the storage function which characterizes the dissipativity of the system can be written as a LMI for the under-determined mode, if the system doesn't include impulse mode.

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The probabilistic Analysis of Degree of Consolidation by Spatial Variability of Cv (압밀계수의 공간변동성에 따른 압밀도의 확률론적 해석)

  • Bong, Tae-Ho;Son, Young-Hwan;Noh, Soo-Kack;Park, Jae-Sung
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.54 no.3
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    • pp.55-63
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    • 2012
  • Soil properties are not random values which is represented by mean and standard deviation but show spatial correlation. Especially, soils are highly variable in their properties and rarely homogeneous. Thus, the accuracy and reliability of probabilistic analysis results is decreased when using only one random variable as design parameter. In this paper, to consider spatial variability of soil property, one-dimensional random fields of coefficient of consolidation ($C_v$) were generated based on a Karhunen-Loeve expansion. A Latin hypercube Monte Calro simulation coupled with finite difference method for Terzaghi's one dimensional consolidation theory was then used to probabilistic analysis. The results show that the failure probability is smaller when consider spatial variability of $C_v$ than not considered and the failure probability increased when the autocorrelation distance increased. Thus, the uncertainty of soil can be overestimated when spatial variability of soil property is not considered, and therefore, to perform a more accurate probabilistic analysis, spatial variability of soil property needed to be considered.

Evaluation of Creep Crack Growth Failure Probability at Weld Interface Using Monte Carlo Simulation (몬테카를로 모사에 의한 용접 계면에서의 크리프 균열성장 파손 확률 평가)

  • Lee Jin-Sang;Yoon Kee-Bong
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.61-66
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    • 2005
  • A probabilistic approach for evaluating failure risk is suggested in this paper. Probabilistic fracture analyses were performed for a pressurized pipe of a Cr-Mo steel reflecting variation of material properties at high temperature. A crack was assumed to be located along the weld fusion line. Probability density functions of major variables were determined by statistical analyses of material creep and creep crack growth data measured by the previous experimental studies by authors. Distributions of these variables were implemented in Monte Carlo simulation of this study. As a fracture parameter for characterizing growth of a fusion line crack between two materials with different creep properties, $C_t$ normalized with $C^*$ was employed. And the elapsed time was also normalized with tT, Resultingly, failure probability as a function of operating time was evaluated fur various cases. Conventional deterministic life assessment result was turned out to be conservative compared with that of probabilistic result. Sensitivity analysis for each input variable was conducted to understand the most influencing variable to the analysis results. Internal pressure, creep crack growth coefficient and creep coefficient were more sensitive to failure probability than other variables.

Topology-optimization-based Partition Design for Maximizing or Minimizing the Eigenfrequency of a Double Cavity (이중 공동의 고유 주파수 최대/최소화를 위한 위상 최적화 기반 격벽 설계)

  • Lee, Jin-Woo;Kim, Yoon-Young
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.1118-1127
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    • 2008
  • The position and size of holes in the partition of a double cavity are known to strongly affect the eigenfrequency of the longitudinal eigenmodes of the double cavity. To maximize or minimize the eigenfrequency of the hole-partitioned double cavity, two acoustical topology optimization problems are formulated and solved. While two sub-cavities are filled with air, a partition between them is assumed to consist of sub-partitions of variable acoustical properties. One design variable is assigned to each sub-partition, whose material properties are interpolated as those of an intermediate material between air and a rigid body. The penalty parameter of the used interpolation function is adjusted to obtain a distinct air and rigid body distribution at the converged stage in each acoustical topology optimization problem. A special attention is paid to the selection of initial values of design variables to obtain solutions as close to global optimum and symmetric as possible. To show numerical characteristics of these optimization problems, the formulated problems are first solved for the one-dimensional partition design domain and then for the two-dimensional partition design domain.

A Numerical Analysis of Heat Transfer in Bright Annealing Furnace of Stainless Steel Strip (Strainless steel strip 광휘어닐링로 내의 열전달 해석)

  • Ryou, H.S.;Jeong, Y.T.;Jang, B.L.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.228-233
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    • 2009
  • In order to predict the temperature distribution of stainless steel strip in Bright Annealing (BA) furnace, we performed the analysis of heat transfer and fluid flow using STAR-CCM+. The analysis model included unsteady fluid flow, heat transfer with radiation and moving grid. Two kinds of radiative properties, emissivity and reflectivity, were applied to the stainless steel strip, one is constant and the other is variable with time. As we call, the BA furnaces of stainless steel strip have two different types, muffle and no-muffle. The using of muffle type has been faced with some problems such as rising in material price and shortening of life cycle, etc. So the development of no-muffle type BA furnace is very important in order to save energy cost, lower environmental load and increase the productivity. The designed (or expected) temperature of stainless steel strip coming out of BA furnace was about $1065^{\circ}C$ while the environment temperature maintains around $1100^{\circ}C$. The result of our calculation was very close (or similar) to design temperature, and the application of radiative properties variable with time produced more accurate result than applying constant ones.

Similar Sub-Trajectory Retrieval based on k-warping Algorithm for Moving Objects in Video Databases (비디오 데이타베이스에서 이동 객체를 위한 k-워핑 알고리즘 기반 유사 부분궤적 검색)

  • 심춘보;장재우
    • Journal of KIISE:Databases
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.14-26
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    • 2003
  • Moving objects' trajectories play an important role in indexing video data on their content and semantics for content-based video retrieval. In this paper, we propose new similar sub-trajectory retrieval schemes based on k-warping algorithm for efficient retrieval on moving objects' trajectories in video data. The proposed schemes are fixed-replication similar sub-trajectory retrieval(FRSR) and variable-replication similar sub-trajectory retrieval(VRSR). The former can replicate motions with a fixed number for all motions being composed of the trajectory. The latter can replicate motions with a variable number. Our schemes support multiple properties including direction, distance, and time interval as well as a single property of direction, which is mainly used for modeling moving objects' trajectories. Finally, we show from our experiment that our schemes outperform Li's scheme(no-warping) and Shan's scheme(infinite-warping) in terns of precision and recall measures.

2D and quasi 3D computational models for thermoelastic bending of FG beams on variable elastic foundation: Effect of the micromechanical models

  • Merzoug, Mostafa;Bourada, Mohamed;Sekkal, Mohamed;Abir, Ali Chaibdra;Chahrazed, Belmokhtar;Benyoucef, Samir;Benachour, Abdelkader
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.361-374
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    • 2020
  • This paper is concerned with the thermoelastic bending of FG beams resting on two-layer elastic foundations. One of these layers is Winkler springs with a variable modulus while the other is considered as a shear layer with a constant modulus. The beams are considered simply supported and subjected to thermo-mechanical loading. Temperature-dependent material properties are considered for the FG beams, which are assumed to be graded continuously across the panel thickness. The used theories contain undetermined integral terms which lead to a reduction of unknowns functions. Several micromechanical models are used to estimate the effective two-phase FG material properties as a function of the particles' volume fraction considering thermal effects. Analytical solutions for the thermo-mechanical bending analysis are obtained based on Navier's method that satisfies the boundary conditions. Finally, the numerical results are provided to reveal the effect of explicit micromechanical models, geometric parameters, temperature distribution and elastic foundation parameters on the thermoelastic response of FG beams.

Effects of Variable Properties on the Laminar Heat Transfer around a Circular Cylinder in a Uniform Flow (물성치의 변화를 고려한 균일유동 중에 있는 원형 실린더 주위의 층류 열전달)

  • 강신형;홍기혁;고상근
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.1584-1595
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    • 1993
  • Many researches were carried out to estimate heat transfer rate on a circular cylinder in a uniform flow. Various empirical correlations were suggested in the past through expermental studies, however there are considerable discrepancies in the estimated values of heat transfer coefficient. Effects of variable properties of fluid on the heat transfer between a circular cylinder and the external uniform flow were numerically investigated in the present study. The flow and temperature fields were solved using a finite volume method for the uniform flow temperature of 200-900K and the wall temperature of 300-900K. The cold as well as the hot cylinders in the uniform flow of constant temperature were investigated. A unified correlation was obtained for the both cases.

Call for an Open Discussion on Empirical Viability of Causal Indicators

  • Kim, Gi Mun;Shin, Bong Sik;Grover, Varun;Howell, Roy D.;Kim, Ki Joo
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.71-84
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    • 2017
  • Over the past decade, we have witnessed Serious Debates in MISQ and Other Journals Between Two Camps that have Differing Views on the use of Causal Indicators to Measure Constructs. There is the Camp that advocates Causal Indicators (ADVOCATE) and the Camp that opposes Their Usage (OPPONENT). The Debates have been primarily centered on the OPPONENT's Argument that the Meaning of a Latent Variable is determined by its Outcome Variables. However, Little Effort has been made to Validate the ADVOCATE's Dispute (Against the OPPONENT's Arguments) that the Meaning of a Latent Variable is decided by its Causal Indicators if there is no Misspecification. Our Study precisely examines the Integrity of the Argument. For this, we empirically examine how the two Primary Psychometric Properties-Comprehensiveness and Interrelationship-of Causal Indicators Influence Theory Testing between Latent Variables through Three Different Tests (i.e., Comprehensive Test, Interrelationship Test, and Mixed Test). Conducted on Two Different Datasets, Our Analysis Consistently Reveals that Structural Path Coefficients are Hardly Sensitive to the Changes (i.e., Misspecification) in the Properties of Causal Indicators. The Discovery offers Important Evidence that the Sound Theoretical Logic of a Causal Model is not in Sync with the Empirical Mechanism of Parameter Estimation. This Underscores that a Latent Variable Formed by Causal Indicators is empirically an elusive notion that is Difficult to Operationalize. As Our Results have Significant Implications on the Integrity of Numerous IS studies which have conducted Theory or Hypothesis Testing Using Causal Indicators, we strongly advocate Open Discussions among Methodologists regarding Our Findings and Their Implications for Both Published IS Research and Future Practices.