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On the Sediment Transport Characteristics of the Bottom Turbulent Boundary Layer (저면난류경계층(底面亂流境界層)의 저질이동특성(底質移動特性))

  • Kim, Nam Hyeong;Kiyoshi, Takikawa
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.267-277
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    • 1993
  • A finite element method(FEM) is presented and applied to the two-dimensional bottom turbulent boundary layer. The time-dependent incompressible motion of a viscous fluid is formulated by using the well-known Navier-Stokes equations and vorticity equation in terms of the velocity and pressure fields. The general numerical formulation is based on Galerkin method and solved by introducing the mixing length theory of Prandtl for eddy kinematic viscosity of a turbulent flow field. Numerical computations of the transport of sediment on an arbitrary sea-bed due to wave motion in the turbulent boundary layer are carried out. The results obtained by the FEM made clear the difference in characteristic features between the boundary layer due to oscillatory flow and the boundary layer due to wave motion.

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Analysis of rarefied compressible boundary layers in transition regime (천이영역의 희박기체 압축성 경계층 해석)

  • Choe, Seo-Won
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.509-517
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    • 1997
  • Results of flat plate compressible boundary layer calculation, based on discrete formulation of DSMC method, are presented in low Mach number and low Knudsen number range. The free stream is a uniform flow of pure nitrogen at various Mach numbers in low pressures (i.e. rarefied gas). Complete thermal accommodation and diffuse molecular reflections are used as the wall boundary condition, replacing unreal no-slip condition used in continuum calculations. In the discrete formulation of DSMC method, there is no need to use ad hoc assumptions on transport properties like viscosity and thermal conductivity, instead viscosity is calculated from values of other field variables (velocity and shear stress). Also the results are compared with existing self-similar continuum solutions. In all Mach number cases computed, velocity slip is most pronounced in regions near the leading edge where continuum formulation renders the solution singular. As the boundary layer develops further downstream, velocity slips asymptote to values that are between 10 to 20% of the magnitude of free stream velocity. When the free stream number density is reduced, so the gas more rarefied, the velocity slip increases as expected.

Open Boundary Conditions in Parabolic Approximation Model (포물형 근사식 수치모형의 투과 경계조건)

  • Seo, Seung-Nam;Lee, Dong-Young
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.170-178
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    • 2007
  • Most of parabolic approximation models employ a relatively limited open boundary condition in which there is no depth variation in the longshore direction outside of the computation domain so that Snell's law may be presumed to hold. Existing Kirby's condition belongs to this category and in the paper both modified Kirby's method and Dirichlet boundary condition are presented in detail and numerical results of three methods were shown. Judging from computation to wave propagations over a circular shoal in a constant depth, the method based on present Dirichlet boundary condition with fictitious numerical adjusting regions in both sides of the computation domain gives the least distorted amplitude ratio distribution.

Flow-induced Instability of Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes for Various Boundary Conditions (경계조건에 따른 다중벽 탄소나노튜브의 유체유발 불안정성 변화)

  • Yun, Kyung-Jae;Song, Oh-Seop
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.20 no.9
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    • pp.805-815
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    • 2010
  • This paper studies the influence of internal moving fluid and flow-induced structural instability of multi-wall carbon nanotubes conveying fluid. Detailed results are demonstrated for the variation of natural frequencies with flow velocity, and the flow-induced divergence and flutter instability characteristics of multi-wall carbon nanotubes conveying fluid and modelled as a thin-walled beam are investigated. Effects of various boundary conditions, Van der Waals forces, and non-classical transverse shear and rotary inertia are incorporated in this study. The governing equations and three different boundary conditions are derived through Hamilton's principle. Numerical analysis is performed by using extended Galerkin's method which enables us to obtain more exact solutions compared with conventional Galerkin's method. This paper also presents the comparison between the characteristics of single-wall and multi-wall carbon nanotubes considering the effect of van der Waals forces. Variations of critical flow velocity for different boundary conditions of two-wall carbon nanotubes are investigated and pertinent conclusion is outlined.

A Technique for the Extreme nodes of Boundary Element Method with Clamped Boundary Condition (변위구속조건을 받는 경계요소법의 최외측 절점 처리 기법)

  • Kim, Moon Kyum;Yun, Ik Jung
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.30 no.2A
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    • pp.131-136
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    • 2010
  • In this study, most of famous algorithms for the corner problem are listed. By comparing these with implemented codes and theoretical dissections, new algorithms are developed. These algorithms are combined by the existing auxiliary equations. All relating algorithms are numerically tested with 3 problems. Two problems have well-known analytical solutions and the result of another example is compared with the one of the published paper. The conducted research reveals the characteristics of existing algorithms and demonstrates newly developed algorithms can produce a reasonable solution by reflecting various type of boundary conditions.

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SHOCK FOCUSING PHENOMENON BY CARTESIAN EMBEDDED BOUNDARY METHOD AND WAVE PROPAGATION ALGORITHM (내장 카티지안 경계법과 파동전파 알고리즘을 사용한 충격파 집속 현상의 수치적 시뮬레이션)

  • Jung, Y.G.;Chang, K.S.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.14-20
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    • 2010
  • Shock-focusing concave reflectors can have parabolic, circular or elliptic cross-sections. They produce effectively a very high pressure at the focusing point. In the past, many optical images have been obtained on shock focusing via experiments. Measurement of field variables is, however, difficult in the experiment. Using the wave propagation algorithm and the Cartesian embedded boundary method, we have successfully obtained numerical Schlieren images that appear very much like the experimental results. In addition, we obtained the detailed field variables such as pressure, velocity, density and vorticity in the unsteady domain. The present numerical results have made it possible to understand the shock focusing phenomenon in more detail than before.

A Study on Characteristics of Shear Strength in Rock-soil Contacts (암석과 토층 경계면의 전단강도 특성연구)

  • Lee, Su Gon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.49-54
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    • 2001
  • It is common that the soil layer is a few meters below the earth's surface and the rock mass is below the soil layer in the view of geological characteristics in Korea. And the boundary between rock and soil is clearly divided. When dealing with the stability of rock masses, as in the case of rock slopes or dam foundations, the majority of the collapses is not within the soil layer, but within the soil-rock boundary. Therefore it is important to identify the shear strength characteristics between soil-rock boundary. And then in the method of reinforcement on landslide this chose a cut slope near Daemo elementary school in Seoul, surveyed shear strength between soil-rock contacts and considered a large scale collapse using a limit equilibrium method.

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Combined effects of material properties and boundary conditions on the large deflection bending analysis of circular plates on a nonlinear elastic foundation

  • Altekin, Murat
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.537-549
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    • 2020
  • Geometrically nonlinear axisymmetric bending analysis of shear deformable circular plates on a nonlinear three-parameter elastic foundation was made. Plates ranging from "thin" to "moderately thick" were investigated for three types of material: isotropic, transversely isotropic, and orthotropic. The differential equations were discretized by means of the finite difference method (FDM) and the differential quadrature method (DQM). The Newton-Raphson method was applied to find the solution. A parametric investigation using seven unknowns per node was presented. The novelty of the paper is that detailed numerical simulations were made to highlight the combined effects of the material properties and the boundary conditions on (i) the deflection, (ii) the stress resultants, and (iii) the external load. The formulation was verified through comparison studies. It was observed that the results are highly influenced from the boundary conditions, and from the material properties.

A Robotic Medical Palpation using Contact Pressure Distribution (접촉 압력 분포를 이용한 로봇 의료 촉진)

  • Kim, Hyoungkyun;Choi, Seungmoon;Chung, Wan Kyun
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.322-331
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    • 2017
  • In this paper we present a novel robotic palpation method for the lump shape estimation using contact pressure distribution. Many previous researches about the robotic palpation have used a stiffness map, which is not suitable to obtain geometrical information of a lump. As a result, they require a large data set and long palpation time to estimate the lump shape. Instead of using the stiffness map, the proposed palpation method uses the difference between the normal force direction and the surface normal to detect the lump boundary and estimate its normal. The palpation trajectory is generated by the normal of the lump boundary to track the lump boundary in real-time. The proposed approach requires small data set and short palpation time for the lump shape estimation since the shape can be directly estimated from the optimally generated palpation trajectory. An experiment result shows that our method can find the lump shape accurately in real-time with small data and short time.

Small scale effect on the vibration of non-uniform nanoplates

  • Chakraverty, S.;Behera, Laxmi
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.55 no.3
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    • pp.495-510
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    • 2015
  • Free vibration of non-uniform embedded nanoplates based on classical (Kirchhoff's) plate theory in conjunction with nonlocal elasticity theory has been studied. The nanoplate is assumed to be rested on two-parameter Winkler-Pasternak elastic foundation. Non-uniform material properties of nanoplates have been considered by taking linear as well as quadratic variations of Young's modulus and density along the space coordinates. Detailed analysis has been reported for all possible casesof such variations. Trial functions denoting transverse deflection of the plate are expressed in simple algebraic polynomial forms. Application of the present method converts the problem into generalised eigen value problem. The study aims to investigate the effects of non-uniform parameter, elastic foundation, nonlocal parameter, boundary condition, aspect ratio and length of nanoplates on the frequency parameters. Three-dimensional mode shapes for some of the boundary conditions have also been illustrated. One may note that present method is easier to handle any sets of boundary conditions at the edges.