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A Study on the Safe Operations of Ships under Heavy Weather Conditions in the North Pacific(II) (북태평양의 악기상조건과 선박의 안전운항에 관한 연구(II))

  • 민병언
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.33-59
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    • 1990
  • In cold season, the developed extratropical cyclones and associated cold fronts, and NW winter monsoon are encountered very frequently in the North Pacific, especially in the northwest part of it. The two sea areas, namely, the northwest part of North Pacific, especially the eastern area far off Japan east coast, and Burmuda Triangle in the North Atlantic are generally known as two of the most dangerous areas in the world because of high incidence of sea casualties. Even large ocean going vessels were sunk frequently due to strong winds and very high seas caused by NW monsoon or developed cyclones during the winter months. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the real state of heavy weather and high sea phenomena on the vesscls at sea, thus helping mariners operate in such conditions.

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Topology Optimization of Shell Structures Using Adaptive Inner-Front Level Set Method (AIFLSM) (적응적 내부 경계를 갖는 레벨셋 방법을 이용한 쉘 구조물의 위상최적설계)

  • Park, Kang-Soo;Youn, Sung-Kie
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.354-359
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    • 2007
  • A new level set based topology optimization employing inner-front creation algorithm is presented. In the conventional level set based topology optimization, the optimum topology strongly depends on the initial level set distribution due to the incapability of inner-front creation during optimization process. In the present work, an inner-front creation algorithm is proposed, in which the sizes, positions, and number of new inner-fronts during the optimization process can be globally and consistently identified. To update the level set function during the optimization process, the least-squares finite element method is employed. As demonstrative examples for the flexibility and usefulness of the proposed method, the level set based topology optimization considering lightweight design of 3D shell structure is carried out.

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A Basic Study for the Propagation Characteristics Due to the Horizontal Water Temperature Variations in the Sea (해양에서의 수평적 수온변화가 음파전달에 미치는 영향에 대한 기초적 연구)

  • Ha, Kang-Lyeol;Kim, Moo-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.395-401
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    • 1996
  • In this paper, the propagation characteristics due to the horizontal water temperature variations in the sea such as thermal fronts is analyzed by the ray theory. Two models for the temperature anomaly layer are chosen. One is a plane type and the other is a cylindrical type. In the plane type, the temperature increases linearly from a isothermal region to 5km with the gradient of about $2^{\circ}C.$/km, and decreases with the same gradient in next 5km. In the cylindrical type, water temperature increases only with the same gradient from a half cylindrical thermal boundary surface. The result showed that the gradient of acoustic rays decreases in the temperature increasing region and vice versa in temperature decreasing region. And, the transmission loss due to the temperature variation was less than O.2dB in the plane type model as well as in the cylindrical one.

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An efficient multi-objective cuckoo search algorithm for design optimization

  • Kaveh, A.;Bakhshpoori, T.
    • Advances in Computational Design
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.87-103
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    • 2016
  • This paper adopts and investigates the non-dominated sorting approach for extending the single-objective Cuckoo Search (CS) into a multi-objective framework. The proposed approach uses an archive composed of primary and secondary population to select and keep the non-dominated solutions at each generation instead of pairwise analogy used in the original Multi-objective Cuckoo Search (MOCS). Our simulations show that such a low computational complexity approach can enrich CS to incorporate multi-objective needs instead of considering multiple eggs for cuckoos used in the original MOCS. The proposed MOCS is tested on a set of multi-objective optimization problems and two well-studied engineering design optimization problems. Compared to MOCS and some other available multi-objective algorithms such as NSGA-II, our approach is found to be competitive while benefiting simplicity. Moreover, the proposed approach is simpler and is capable of finding a wide spread of solutions with good coverage and convergence to true Pareto optimal fronts.

Numerical Modeling for Turbulent Premixed Flames (난류 예혼합 화염장에 대한 수치 모델링)

  • Kang, Sung-Mo;Kim, Yomg-Mo
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.198-203
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    • 2005
  • The LES-based level-set flamelet model has been applied to analyze the turbulent propane/air premixed bluff-body flame with a highly wrinkled flame fronts. The present study has been motivated to investigate the interaction between the flame front and turbulent eddies. Special emphasis is given to study the effect of G equation filtering treatment on the precise structure of turbulent premixed flames as well as the effect of sub-grid scale (SGS) eddies on the wrinkling of the flame surface. The level-set/flamelet model has been adopted to account for the effect of turbulence-flame interaction as well as to properly capture the flame front. Numerical results indicate that the present LES-based level-set flamelet approach has a capability to realistically simulate the highly non-stationary turbulent premixed flame.

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Measuring Nano-Width of Wave Fronts in Combustion: a Numerical Approach (연소시 발생하는 파면의 나노 사이즈 두께 측정: 수치적 접근)

  • Yoh, Jai-Ick
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.20-27
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    • 2005
  • I consider the structure of steady wave system which is admitted by the continuum equations for materials that undergo phase transformations with exothermic chemical reaction. In particular, the dynamic phase front structures between liquid and gas phases, and solid and liquid phases are computationally investigated. Based on the one-dimensional continuum shock structure analysis, the present approach can estimate the nano-width of waves that are present in combustion. For illustration purpose, n-heptane is used in the evaporation and condensation analysis and HMX is used in the melting and freezing analysis of energetic materials of interest. On-going effort includes extension of this idea to include broad range of liquid and solid fuels, such as rocket propellants.

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REMOTE SENSING OF ATMOSPHERIC FRONTAL DYNAMICS OVER THE OCEAN

  • Levy, Gad;Patoux, Jerome
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.1003-1006
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    • 2006
  • Frontal regions in midlatitude storms exhibit a wide range of behavior, which can be observed by remote sensors. These include decay, strengthening, rotating, and sometimes spawning of new cyclones. Here we refine and apply recent theories of front and frontal wave development to a case of a front clearly observed and analyzed in remote sensing data. By applying innovative analysis techniques to the data we assess the respective roles of ageostrophy, background deformation, and Boundary Layer processes in determining the evolution of the surface front. Our analysis comprises of diagnosis of the terms appearing in the vorticity and divergence equations using remotely sensed observations.

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An Interference Avoidance Method Using Two Dimensional Genetic Algorithm for Multicarrier Communication Systems

  • Huynh, Chuyen Khoa;Lee, Won Cheol
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.486-495
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    • 2013
  • In this article, we suggest a two-dimensional genetic algorithm (GA) method that applies a cognitive radio (CR) decision engine which determines the optimal transmission parameters for multicarrier communication systems. Because a CR is capable of sensing the previous environmental communication information, CR decision engine plays the role of optimizing the individual transmission parameters. In order to obtain the allowable transmission power of multicarrier based CR system demands interference analysis a priori, for the sake of efficient optimization, a two-dimensionalGA structure is proposed in this paper which enhances the computational complexity. Combined with the fitness objective evaluation standard, we focus on two multi-objective optimization methods: The conventional GA applied with the multi-objective fitness approach and the non-dominated sorting GA with Pareto-optimal sorting fronts. After comparing the convergence performance of these algorithms, the transmission power of each subcarrier is proposed as non-interference emission with its optimal values in multicarrier based CR system.

Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis for Compression Molding of Step-Type Random/Unidirectional Polymer Composite Laminates (단부형상을 갖는 무배향/일방향 복합적층판의 압축성형에 있어서 3차원 유한요소해석)

  • 송강석;채경철;김이곤
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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    • 1999.11a
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    • pp.101-106
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    • 1999
  • Fiber reinforced plastic composites is widely used to make be lightening of aircraft and automotive owing to having high specific strength and specific modulus. And it is very important to know a charge shape in order to have good products in the compression molding. In particular, the product such as a bumper beam is composed of the random and unidirectional composite mats. Its deformation and charge shape are very different by stack type of random and unidirectional mats. In this paper, the characteristics of flow fronts such as a bulging phenomenon for step-type random/unidirectional composite mats and slip parameters are studied numerically. And the effects of viscosity ratio and stack type on the mold filling parameters are also discussed.

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Modeling Environmental Effects on Detection Performances for Variable Depth Sonars in the East Sea of Korea

  • Na, Young-Nam;Cho, Chang-Bong;Han, Sang-Kyu
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.23 no.2E
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    • pp.68-73
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    • 2004
  • In the East Sea of Korea, the ocean environments are known to have strong variations in space and time. Their effects are very important factors in sound propagation and sonar performance. We consider the environmental factors such as eddies and thermal fronts affecting underwater sound propagation and target detection performance by sonars. Unfortunately, however, the detailed structure of eddies is usually difficult to understand by using the sea surface temperatures from infrared images alone or a few profiles from the CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth) castings. The temperature fields of eddy and thermal front are simulated with typical patterns of those obtained from several observations. This paper delivers the overviews of environments and acoustic models with their simulation results on sonar performance.