• Title/Summary/Keyword: Whale

Search Result 98, Processing Time 0.029 seconds

Heavy Metal Concentrations in Cetaceans from Korean Coast

  • Choi Hee Gu;Kim Pyoung Joong;Lee Pil Yong;Kim Sang Soo;Kim Zang Geun;Moon Hyo Bang
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
    • /
    • v.4 no.2
    • /
    • pp.65-69
    • /
    • 2001
  • For the first time the concentrations of copper, zinc, lead, cadmium and crome in the tissues from 17 specimens of cetaceans of Korean coast were determined. The measured concentrations of trace elements were considerably lower than the concentrations previously reported in cetaceans. In inter-species, Cd levels were higher in the kidney of Stejneger's beaked whales and the stomach, liver and lung of Risso's dolphin than in the tissues of minke whale and humpback whale.

  • PDF

Feasibility study on model-based damage detection in shear frames using pseudo modal strain energy

  • Dehcheshmeh, M. Mohamadi;Hosseinzadeh, A. Zare;Amiri, G. Ghodrati
    • Smart Structures and Systems
    • /
    • v.25 no.1
    • /
    • pp.47-56
    • /
    • 2020
  • This paper proposes a model-based approach for structural damage identification and quantification. Using pseudo modal strain energy and mode shape vectors, a damage-sensitive objective function is introduced which is suitable for damage estimation and quantification in shear frames. Whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is used to solve the problem and report the optimal solution as damage detection results. To illustrate the capability of the proposed method, a numerical example of a shear frame under different damage patterns is studied in both ideal and noisy cases. Furthermore, the performance of the WOA is compared with particle swarm optimization algorithm, as one the widely-used optimization techniques. The applicability of the method is also experimentally investigated by studying a six-story shear frame tested on a shake table. Based on the obtained results, the proposed method is able to assess the health of the shear building structures with high level of accuracy.

The Effects of Drag Reduction by Flow Control Grooves using CFD (CFD를 이용한 유동제어 띠에 의한 저항감소 효과 조사)

  • Park, Dong-Woo;Yoon, Hyun-Sik;Koo, Bon-Guk
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
    • /
    • v.38 no.4
    • /
    • pp.335-341
    • /
    • 2014
  • Faced with global agenda of greenhouse abatement program including regulations and $CO_2$ emission trading scheme, shipping companies are enforced to a high level of efficiency in fuel consumption. Accordingly shipbuilding companies worldwide are required to develop fuel-efficient ships which otherwise traditionally consume a great amount of fossil fuels. In this dissertation, relevant to the improvement of fuel efficiency for commercial ships, design methodology through the numerical simulations are intensively described. This work consists of derivation of effective hydrodynamic design practice based on the application of longitudinal grooves to effectively improve the pressure distribution around ship hull. The primary objective of the present study is to improve ship resistance performance using longitudinal grooves which originate from long strips on the abdomen of humpback whale. Several groove shapes have been extensively investigated and the proposed shape efficiently controlled the variation of pressure distributions acting on the hull surface.

Lipid Oxidative Browning in Dried Fish Meat 1. Oxidation of Fish Oil and Browning (건어육의 지질산화에 의한 갈변에 관한 연구 1. 어육의 산화와 갈변)

  • LEE Kang-Ho;SUH Jae-Soo;LEE Jong-Ho;Ryu Hong-Soo;JEONG In-Hak;SONG Sung-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
    • /
    • v.20 no.1
    • /
    • pp.33-40
    • /
    • 1987
  • This paper aims to study the browning reactions of lipid originated carbonyl compounds with nitrogenous compounds in dried fishes, flounder, mackerel, shrimp, hair tail fish, and whale. The major fatty acids in the flounder, the mackerel, the shrimp, and the hair tail fish were $C_{16:0},\;C_{18:1},\;C_{22:5},\;C_{22:6}$, and those in the whale meat were $C_{16:0},\;C_{18:1},\;C_{20:4}$. The nonpolar lipid contained higher percent of $C_{18:1}$ while the polar lipid contained higher percent of $C_{22:6}$. When those fishes were dried and stored, the PoV and CoV were high in the mackerel and the hair tail fish, whereas low in the flounder, the shrimp, and, the whale. The browning was developed more rapidly in the lipid soluble fraction than in the water soluble fraction of each sample, and the loss of available lysine and polyenoic acids were accompanied. The polyunsaturated fatty acids markedly decreased, particularly, in phospholipid than in neutral lipid, and $C_{20:5},\;C_{22:5},\;C_{22:6}$ were rapidly decreased during the storage.

  • PDF

Characterizing nonlinear oscillation behavior of an MRF variable rotational stiffness device

  • Yu, Yang;Li, Yancheng;Li, Jianchun;Gu, Xiaoyu
    • Smart Structures and Systems
    • /
    • v.24 no.3
    • /
    • pp.303-317
    • /
    • 2019
  • Magneto-rheological fluid (MRF) rotatory dampers are normally used for controlling the constant rotation of machines and engines. In this research, such a device is proposed to act as variable stiffness device to alleviate the rotational oscillation existing in the many engineering applications, such as motor. Under such thought, the main purpose of this work is to characterize the nonlinear torque-angular displacement/angular velocity responses of an MRF based variable stiffness device in oscillatory motion. A rotational hysteresis model, consisting of a rotatory spring, a rotatory viscous damping element and an error function-based hysteresis element, is proposed, which is capable of describing the unique dynamical characteristics of this smart device. To estimate the optimal model parameters, a modified whale optimization algorithm (MWOA) is employed on the captured experimental data of torque, angular displacement and angular velocity under various excitation conditions. In MWOA, a nonlinear algorithm parameter updating mechanism is adopted to replace the traditional linear one, enhancing the global search ability initially and the local search ability at the later stage of the algorithm evolution. Additionally, the immune operation is introduced in the whale individual selection, improving the identification accuracy of solution. Finally, the dynamic testing results are used to validate the performance of the proposed model and the effectiveness of the proposed optimization algorithm.

Spatial relationship between distribution of common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) and satellite sea surface temperature observed in the East Sea, Korea in May from 2003 to 2020 (2003-2020년 5월 한국 동해안 밍크고래(Balaenoptera acutorostrata) 분포와 위성 표층수온과의 공간적 관계)

  • YAMADA, Keiko;YOO, Joon-Taek
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
    • /
    • v.58 no.3
    • /
    • pp.281-287
    • /
    • 2022
  • The distributions of common minke whales observed in the East Sea in ten surveys in May of 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2020 were investigated using satellite sea surface temperature (SST) derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS). Most of the minke whales were observed in the waters off the Korean Peninsula at 36-38.5° N, which is expected as the highly productive coastal upwelling area. Yet, no minke whale was observed in 2006 when a relatively larger scale coastal upwelling occurred with SST at 11℃. In 2016 and 2020, the warm water higher than 17℃ extended widely in the area, and the minke whales were observed in the offshore waters, deeper than 1,000 m. 87.5% of minke whales observed in May appeared in the SST from 13 to 16℃, and they seemed to avoid relatively high temperatures. This suggests that optimum habitat water temperature of minke whales in May is 13-16℃. The SST in the area had risen 1.67℃ from 2003 to 2021, and it was remarkably higher than in other parts of the surrounding areas. The future temperature rising may change the route and timing of the migration of minke whales in the study area.

Baleen Whale Sound Synthesis using a Modified Spectral Modeling (수정된 스펙트럴 모델링을 이용한 수염고래 소리 합성)

  • Jun, Hee-Sung;Dhar, Pranab K.;Kim, Cheol-Hong;Kim, Jong-Myon
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
    • /
    • v.17B no.1
    • /
    • pp.69-78
    • /
    • 2010
  • Spectral modeling synthesis (SMS) has been used as a powerful tool for musical sound modeling. This technique considers a sound as a combination of a deterministic plus a stochastic component. The deterministic component is represented by the series of sinusoids that are described by amplitude, frequency, and phase functions and the stochastic component is represented by a series of magnitude spectrum envelopes that functions as a time varying filter excited by white noise. These representations make it possible for a synthesized sound to attain all the perceptual characteristics of the original sound. However, sometimes considerable phase variations occur in the deterministic component by using the conventional SMS for the complex sound such as whale sounds when the partial frequencies in successive frames differ. This is because it utilizes the calculated phase to synthesize deterministic component of the sound. As a result, it does not provide a good spectrum matching between original and synthesized spectrum in higher frequency region. To overcome this problem, we propose a modified SMS that provides good spectrum matching of original and synthesized sound by calculating complex residual spectrum in frequency domain and utilizing original phase information to synthesize the deterministic component of the sound. Analysis and simulation results for synthesizing whale sounds suggest that the proposed method is comparable to the conventional SMS in both time and frequency domain. However, the proposed method outperforms the SMS in better spectrum matching.