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The Change of Flow depending upon the Discharge and Approaching Angle at Channel Junctions (합류부의 유량 및 접근각도에 따른 흐름변화)

  • Choi, Gye-Woon;Park, Young-Suop;Han, Man-Shin
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.37 no.8
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    • pp.623-630
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, the hydraulic model tests are conducted for the hydraulic characteristics at channel junctions. The experiments are examined through the variation of approaching angle, discharge in the upstream main channel and the discharge ratio between the main channel and the tributary. The experiments are conducted in the channel model having the length of 450cm, the widths of 40cm and 32cm. Four water tanks and pumps are installed in the experimental channel. The length of stagnation zone is increased by Increasing of approaching angle and the discharge in the upstream channel. The length of stagnation increase with the discharge ratio between the main channel and the tributary. However, the variation of the stagnation zone near the channel junctions is little at the same approaching angles and the discharge ratioes between the main channel and tributary. However, the variation of the stagnation zone near the channel junctions is little at the same approaching angles and the discharge ratioes between the main channel and tributary. Accelerating zone of the velocity is occurred in the middle of the channel in the small approaching angle. However, the influence zone of the accelerating velocity is increased by increasing the approaching angle.

Flow Characteristics of a Side-Weir in Rectangular Channel (구형 수로내 횡월류 흐름의 특성)

  • Park, Tae-Seon
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.251-259
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    • 2002
  • Flow characteristics occurring a side-weir overflow in rectangular channel is investigated in this study. A numerical model based on the two -dimensional shallow-water equations is employed to review the factors influencing on the side- weir overflow discharge and the change of flow depths and velocities. It is found that the discharge coefficient which has the most significant influence on the overflow is affected by geometric characteristics of a side-weir, Froude number of the main channel flow and the flow depth of the main channel at the starting point of a side-weir. And the discharge coefficient applicable to a practical design of a side-weir is proposed by deriving a relationship between Froude number of the main channel flow at the starting point of a side-weir and Froude number of the main channel flow.

Investigation on the Liquid Water Droplet Instability in a Simulated Flow Channel of PEMFC (고분자전해질형 연료전지의 유로 채널 모사를 통한 단일 액적의 불안정성 관찰)

  • Kim, Bo-Kyung;Kim, Han-Sang;Min, Kyung-Doug
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.93-98
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    • 2008
  • To investigate the characteristics of water droplet on the gas diffusion layer from both top-view and side-view of the flow channel, a rig test apparatus was designed and fabricated with prism attached plate. This experimental device is used to simulate the growth of single liquid water droplet and its transport process with various air flow velocity and channel height. The contact angle hysteresis and height of water droplet are measured and analyzed. It is found that droplet tends towards to be instable by decreasing channel height, increasing flow velocity or making GDL more hydrophobic. Also, the simplified force balance model matches with experimental data only in a restricted range of operating conditions and shows discrepancy as the air flow velocity and channel height increases.

A Comparative Study on Hydraulic Characteristics of Curved Channel by Hydraulic Model Experiments and Numerical Analysis (수리모형과 수치해석을 통한 만곡부 하천의 수리학적 특성 비교 고찰)

  • Seo, Dong-Il;Choi, Han-Kuy
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.27 no.A
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    • pp.85-94
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    • 2007
  • This study, regarding curved channel, was performed to compare and analyze hydraulic characteristics and the speed of water and water level for left bank and right bank through hydraulic model experiments and numerical analysis. Real channels that had characteristics of curved channel were selected as objectives. In order to easily operate one and two dimensional numerical analysis and comparison for total 2.4Km model channel, measuring point was set up as 200m. HEC-RAS model was applied as one dimensional numerical analysis program and SMS model was used as two dimensional numerical analysis program. In respect of speed of water, the average speed of water for right bank recorded 8.33m/s in a model experiment and 3.08m/s, 8.57m/s were average speed of water for right bank in one dimensional and two dimensional numerical analysis. The average speed of water of two dimensional numerical analysis was quite similar to that of model experiments. Also, as for water level, maximum observational errors between one and two dimensional numerical analysis for right and left bank of model experiments were 0.66m, 0.84m and 0.28m, 0.48m for each. It was found that two dimensional numerical analysis had a similar result to hydraulic model experiments. Accordingly, from the result of this study, two dimensional numerical analysis should be used rather than one dimensional numerical analysis, when numerical analysis for curved channel is conducted.

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The Channel Scheduler based on Water-filling Algorithm for Best Effort Forward Link Traffics in AMC/TDM/CDM System (AMC/TDM/CDM 다중접속방식에서의 Best Effort 순방향 서비스를 위한 Water-filling Based 채널 스케줄러)

  • Ma, Dongl-Chul;Ki, Young-Min;Kim, Dong-Ku
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.59-71
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    • 2003
  • The channel scheduler is suggested the radio resource management method in order to provide service with guaranteeing fairness and throughput to the users who use limited wireless channel. Proportional fairness scheduling algorithm is the channel scheduler used in the AMC(Adaptive Modulation and Coding)/TDM system, and this algorithm increases the throughput considering the user's time fairness. In this paper is suggested the channel scheduler combining CDM scheme available in AMC/TDM/CDM system. Unlike the system which only uses TDM which provide the only one user at the same slot, this scheduler can service a lot of users since this uses the CDM scheme with multi-cord channel. At every moment, allocation of transmission power to multi-channel users is problematic because of CDM scheme. In this paper, we propose a water-filling scheduling algorithm to solve the problem. Water-filling fairness(WF2) scheduling algorithm watches the average channel environment. So, this modified method guarantees fairness for each user in terms of power and service time.

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Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Pressure Drop in a Bipolar Plate channel of a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (연료전지 분리판 압력손실 감소를 위한 수치해석 및 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Hee-Su;Kang, Kyung-Tae;Choi, Yun-Ki;Lee, Su-Dong
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.159-165
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    • 2004
  • Fuel cell makes electricity through chemical reaction. Bipolar-plate distribute hydrogen, oxidation using channel geometry condensation of water vapor inside channels of bipolar-plates lowers efficiency of fuel cell. Usually high pressured gas supply is used to solve the water condensation problem with serpentine type channel geometry. In this study, a new channel geometry shows feasible to minimize lowering efficiency due to water condensation through numerical and experimental analysis.

A Fluid Flow Numerical Study on the Design Factor of Inlet Distribution Channel for Flocculation/Sedimentation Basin (유동(流動) 수치해석(數値解析)을 이용한 응집·침전지 유입 분배수로 설계인자 연구)

  • Yoon, Jang-Ken;Kim, Jeong-Hyun;Oh, Jung-Woo;Ha, Eun-Jung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.337-342
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    • 2000
  • In water treatment plants, open channel is used to distribute incoming flow to parallel treatment unit, such as flocculation basin and sedimentation basin. These control devices must be designed so that the incoming flow evenly distributed to the process unit. this is important in the view of optimizing process unit. In the recent past. significant insights into the sedimentation process have been developed. In this study, the 2-D computer program is developed to investigate fluid flow field and velocity vectors in flocculation sedimentation inlet distribution weir and calculate flow rates in each inlet weir. The specific purpose of this study is to analyze physical design factors, such as now rates, shape of channel, tapered angle in tapered type channel and main channel width.

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Turbulence Characteristics in a Circular Open Channel by PIV Measurements

  • Kim, Sun-Gu;Sung, Jae-Yong;Lee, Myeong-Ho
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.35 no.7
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    • pp.930-937
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    • 2011
  • The characteristics of mean velocity and turbulence have been analyzed in the circular open channel flow using PIV measurement data for a wide range of water depth. The measured data are fitted to a velocity distribution function over the whole depth of the open channel. Reynolds shear stress and mean velocity in wall unit are compared with the analytic models for fully-developed turbulent boundary layer. Both the mean velocity and Reynolds shear stress have different distributions from the two-dimensional boundary layer flow when the water depth increases over 50% since the influence of the side wall penetrates more deeply into the free surface. The cross-stream Reynolds normal stress also has considerably different distribution in view of its peak value and decreasing rate in the outer region whether the water depth is higher than 50% or not.

Open-channel discharges evaluation by the application of smart sensors

  • Khatatbeh, Arwa;Kim, Young-Oh
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2022.05a
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    • pp.138-138
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    • 2022
  • Understanding a stream's or river's discharge is essential for a variety of hydrological and geomorphological applications at various sizes. However, depending on the stream environment and flow conditions, it is crucial to use the appropriate techniques and instruments. This will ensure that discharge estimations are as reliable as possible. This study presents developed smart system for continuous measurement of open channel discharge and evaluate streamflow measurement over various techniques. This includes developed smart flow meter as flow point measurements, smart water level sensor (installed on Hydraulic Structure ? Weir) and current meters. Advantages and disadvantages of each equipment are presented to ensure that the most appropriate method can be selected. we found that smart water level sensor is more prominent once used during flood event as compared to smart flow meter and current meters, while current meters seems to show better accuracy once applied for open channel.

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Design of Serpentine Flow-field Stimulating Under-rib Convection for Improving the Water Discharge Performance in Polymer Electrolyte fuel cells (고분자전해질 연료전지의 물 배출 성능 향상을 위한 촉매층 공급 대류 촉진 사행성 유동장 설계)

  • Choi, Kap-Seung;Bae, Byeong-Cheol;Park, Ki-Won;Kim, Hyung-Man
    • Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.74-82
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    • 2012
  • Proton exchange membrane fuel cell performance is changed by the complicated physical phenomenon. In this study, water discharge performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cell were performed numerically to compare serpentine channel flow fields of 5-pass 4-turn serpentine and 25 $cm^2$ reaction surface between with and without sub-channel at the rib. Through the supplement of sub channel flow field, it is shown from the results that water removal characteristic inside channel improves because the flow direction of under-rib convection is changed into the sub channel. Reacting gases supplied from entrance disperse into sub channel flow field and electrochemical reaction occurs uniformly over the reaction surface. The results obtained that total current density distributions become uniform because residence time of reacting gases traveling to sub-channel flow field is longer than to main channel.