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The Hydrodynamic Stability of Natural Convection Flows Adjacent to an Inclined Isothermal Surface Submerged in Cold, Pure Water (순수한 찬물속에 잠겨있는 경사진 등온벽면 부근의 자연대류에 관한 수동력학적 안정성)

  • Hwang, Y.K.;Jang, M.R.
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.268-278
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    • 1990
  • Hydrodynamic stability equations are formulated for natural convection flows adjacent to a heated or cooled, inclined, isothermal surface in pure water at $4^{\circ}C$, where the density variation with temperature becomes nonlinear. The resulting stability equations, when reduced to ordinary differential equations by a similarity transformation, constitute a two-point boundary-value problem, which was solved numerically. It is found from the obtained stability results that the neutral stability curves are systematically shifted to have lower critical Grashof numbers, as the inclination angle of upward-facing plate increases. Also, the nose of the neutral stability curve becomes blunter as the angle increases. It implies that the greater the inclination of the upward-facing plate, the more susceptible of the flow to instability for the wide range of disturbance wave number and frequency.

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Optimum Design Condition of the Collins Cryocooler (Collins 내동기의 최적 설계조건)

  • Lee, S.W.;Kim, S.Y.;Jung, P.S.
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.183-190
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    • 1992
  • The Collins cryocooler is numerically analysed with the optimization technique, and the optimum operating and design conditions are searched. This paper shows that liquefied helium quantity has an external maximum w.r.t. the total mass flow rate, the mass flow rates through expander and the capacities of heat exchangers. The liquefied helium quantity increases as the compressor exit pressure of the cryocooler does. The maximum quantity of liquefied helium and the maximum coefficient of performance have been found to exist in extremum, depending on the ratios of each heat exchanger capicities to the total one. At the optimum condition, the capacity of heat exchanger in high temperature region is larger than that in low temperature region.

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Reduced record method for efficient time history dynamic analysis and optimal design

  • Kaveh, A.;Aghakouchak, A.A.;Zakian, P.
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.639-663
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    • 2015
  • Time history dynamic structural analysis is a time consuming procedure when used for large-scale structures or iterative analysis in structural optimization. This article proposes a new methodology for approximate prediction of extremum point of the response history via wavelets. The method changes original record into a reduced record, decreasing the computational time of the analysis. This reduced record can be utilized in iterative structural dynamic analysis of optimization and hence significantly reduces the overall computational effort. Design examples are included to demonstrate the capability and efficiency of the Reduced Record Method (RRM) when utilized in optimal design of frame structures using meta-heuristic algorithms.

Detection of Low-Level Human Action Change for Reducing Repetitive Tasks in Human Action Recognition (사람 행동 인식에서 반복 감소를 위한 저수준 사람 행동 변화 감지 방법)

  • Noh, Yohwan;Kim, Min-Jung;Lee, DoHoon
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.432-442
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    • 2019
  • Most current human action recognition methods based on deep learning methods. It is required, however, a very high computational cost. In this paper, we propose an action change detection method to reduce repetitive human action recognition tasks. In reality, simple actions are often repeated and it is time consuming process to apply high cost action recognition methods on repeated actions. The proposed method decides whether action has changed. The action recognition is executed only when it has detected action change. The action change detection process is as follows. First, extract the number of non-zero pixel from motion history image and generate one-dimensional time-series data. Second, detecting action change by comparison of difference between current time trend and local extremum of time-series data and threshold. Experiments on the proposed method achieved 89% balanced accuracy on action change data and 61% reduced action recognition repetition.

The Effect of Pressure on the Solvolysis of Benzylchlorides(Ⅰ). p-Methylbenzyl Chloride in Ethanol-Water Mixtures

  • Kwun, Oh-Cheun;Kyong, Jin-Burm
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.6 no.5
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    • pp.259-263
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    • 1985
  • Rate Constants for the solvolysis of p-methylbenzyl chloride in various ethanol-water mixtures were studied at 30 and $40^{\circ}C$ under various pressures up to 1600 bar. The rates of reaction were increased with increasing temperature and pressure, and decreased with increasing solvent composition of ethanol mole fraction. From the rate constants, the values of the activation parameters (${\Delta}V^{\neq},{\Delta}{\beta}^{\neq},{\Delta}H^{\neq}\;and\;{\Delta}S^{\neq}$) were evaluated. The values of ${\Delta}V^{\neq}\;and\;{\Delta}{\beta}^{\neq}$ exhibit the extremum behavior at about 0.30 mole fraction of ethanol. This behavior is discussed in terms of solvent structure variation (electrostriction). From the relation between the reaction rate and the dielectric constant of solvent or the number of water molecule participated in the transition state, it could be postulated that the reaction proceeds through $S_N1$ mechanism.

Parameter Identification for the Tractor Dynamic Model by use of a Forced Vibration Experiment

  • R.Noguchi;O.Kinoshita;E.Inoue;Na, K.kano
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.1117-1126
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    • 1993
  • Physical parameters in the forward direction of the tractor , which mainly affects the vibration characteristics of the tractor dynamic model, were able to be identified in a short time by using the Gauss-Newton method with extremum searching based on the data obtained from a forced vibration experiment. It was clarified that a period for the updating of the parameter estimates method has effects on the convergence accuracy of identification for the spring constant in the forward direction of the tractor.

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Multiple solutions for steady state natural convection adjacent to an inclined isothermal flat plate in the region of largely upflow (상향유동 영역에서 경상등온평면에 의하여 야기된정상장태 자연대류의 다중해)

  • 유갑종;김병하;최병철
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.731-739
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    • 1987
  • This study has been performed on multiple steady-state natural convection in the upflow region induced by an inclined isothermal plate immersed in pure cold water. The newly found additional steady-state solutions are of considerable practical interest because the heat-transfer rates for a pair of solutions with determining physical parameters and boundary conditions otherwise identical are sometimes vastly different. The results are as follows: First, in the largely upflow region, two solutions exist for 0.15157

Wind load effects and equivalent static wind loads of three-tower connected tall buildings based on wind tunnel tests

  • Ke, Shitang;Wang, Hao;Ge, Yaojun
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.58 no.6
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    • pp.967-988
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    • 2016
  • Due to the significant aerodynamic interference from sub-towers and surrounding tall buildings, the wind loads and dynamic responses on main tower of three-tower connected tall building typically change especially compared with those on the isolated single tall building. This paper addresses the wind load effects and equivalent static wind loads (ESWLs) of three-tower connected tall building based on measured synchronous surface pressures in a wind tunnel. The variations of the global shape coefficients and extremum wind loads of main tower structure with or without interference effect under different wind directions are studied, pointing out the deficiency of the traditional wind loads based on the load codes for the three-tower connected tall building. The ESWLs calculation method based on elastic restoring forces is proposed, which completely contains the quasi-static item, inertia item and the coupled effect between them. Then the wind-induced displacement and acceleration responses for main tower of three-tower connected tall building in the horizontal and torsional directions are investigated, subsequently the structural basal and floor ESWLs under different return periods, wind directions and damping ratios are studied. Finally, the action mechanism of interference effect on structural wind effects is investigated. Main conclusions can provide a sientific basis for the wind-resistant design of such three-tower connected tall building.

Autonomous Unmanned Flying Robot Control for Reconfigurable Airborne Wireless Sensor Networks Using Adaptive Gradient Climbing Algorithm (에어노드 기반 무선센서네트워크 구축을 위한 적응형 오르막경사법 기반의 자율무인비행로봇제어)

  • Lee, Deok-Jin
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.97-107
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    • 2011
  • This paper describes efficient flight control algorithms for building a reconfigurable ad-hoc wireless sensor networks between nodes on the ground and airborne nodes mounted on autonomous vehicles to increase the operational range of an aerial robot or the communication connectivity. Two autonomous flight control algorithms based on adaptive gradient climbing approach are developed to steer the aerial vehicles to reach optimal locations for the maximum communication throughputs in the airborne sensor networks. The first autonomous vehicle control algorithm is presented for seeking the source of a scalar signal by directly using the extremum-seeking based forward surge control approach with no position information of the aerial vehicle. The second flight control algorithm is developed with the angular rate command by integrating an adaptive gradient climbing technique which uses an on-line gradient estimator to identify the derivative of a performance cost function. They incorporate the network performance into the feedback path to mitigate interference and noise. A communication propagation model is used to predict the link quality of the communication connectivity between distributed nodes. Simulation study is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed reconfigurable airborne wireless networking control algorithms.

Searching and Autoalignment Method for Indoor Free-space Optical Communication (실내용 자유 공간 광 통신을 위한 수신단의 위치 탐색 및 자동 링크 정렬 방법)

  • Lee, Kwanyong;Cho, Seung-Rae;Lee, Chang-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.230-236
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    • 2019
  • We propose and demonstrate a searching and autoalignment method for indoor optical wireless communication, using a cost-effective retroreflective sheet and a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror. We use an extremum-seeking method for a single axis and beam steering with a MEMS mirror to maintain a line of sight (LOS) with the optical link. This autoalignment method shows a receiver sensitivity of -31.87 dBm for a bit rate of 2.5 Gb/s over a 7 m communication link.