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A WEIGHTED EULER METHOD FOR SOLVING STIFF INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS

  • BEONG IN, YUN
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.353-361
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    • 2022
  • For an initial value problem, using a weighted average between two adjacent approximates, we propose a simple one-step method based on the Euler method. This method is useful for solving stiff initial value problem, even when the step size is not very small. Moreover, it can be seen that the proposed method with some selected weights results in improved approximation errors.

Improved definition of dynamic load allowance factor for highway bridges

  • Zhou, Yongjun;Ma, Zhongguo John;Zhao, Yu;Shi, Xiongwei;He, Shuanhai
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.54 no.3
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    • pp.561-577
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    • 2015
  • The main objective of this paper is to study the dynamic load allowance (DLA) calculation methods for bridges according to the dynamic response curve. A simply-supported concrete bridge with a smooth road surface was taken as an example. A half-vehicle model was employed to calculate the dynamic response of deflection and bending moment in the mid-span section under different vehicle speeds using the vehicle-bridge coupling method. Firstly, DLAs from the conventional methods and code provisions were analyzed and critically evaluated. Then, two improved computing approaches for DLA were proposed. In the first approach, the maximum dynamic response and its corresponding static response or its corresponding minimum response were selected to calculate DLA. The second approach utilized weighted average method to take account of multi-local DLAs. Finally, the DLAs from two approaches were compared with those from other methods. The results show that DLAs obtained from the proposed approaches are greater than those from the conventional methods, which indicate that the current conventional methods underestimate the dynamic response of the structure. The authors recommend that the weighted average method based on experiments be used to compute DLAs because it can reflect the vehicle's whole impact on the bridge.

Prediction of the long-term deformation of high rockfill geostructures using a hybrid back-analysis method

  • Ming Xu;Dehai Jin
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.83-97
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    • 2024
  • It is important to make reasonable prediction about the long-term deformation of high rockfill geostructures. However, the deformation is usually underestimated using the rockfill parameters obtained from laboratory tests due to different size effects, which make it necessary to identify parameters from in-situ monitoring data. This paper proposes a novel hybrid back-analysis method with a modified objective function defined for the time-dependent back-analysis problem. The method consists of two stages. In the first stage, an improved weighted average method is proposed to quickly narrow the search region; while in the second stage, an adaptive response surface method is proposed to iteratively search for the satisfactory solution, with a technique that can adaptively consider the translation, contraction or expansion of the exploration region. The accuracy and computational efficiency of the proposed hybrid back-analysis method is demonstrated by back-analyzing the long-term deformation of two high embankments constructed for airport runways, with the rockfills being modeled by a rheological model considering the influence of stress states on the creep behavior.

Design Optimization of a Channel Roughened by Dimples Using Weighted Average Surrogate Model (가중평균 대리모델을 사용한 딤플 유로의 최적설계)

  • Lee, Ki-Don;Kim, Kwang-Yong
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.52-60
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    • 2008
  • Staggered dimples printed on opposite walls of an internal cooling channel are formulated numerically and optimized to enhance heat transfer performance. Nusselt number and friction factor based objectives are considered and a weighted average surrogate model is used to approximate the data generated by numerical simulation. The dimpled channel shape is defined by three geometric design variables, and the design point within design space are selected using Latin hypercube sampling. A weighted-sum method for multi-objective optimization is applied to integrate multiple objectives into a single objective. By the optimization, the objective function value is improved largely and heat transfer rate is increase much higher than pressure loss increase due to shape deformation. Channel with vertically non-symmetric optimum dimples is tested and found that the best appears if dimples on opposite wall are displaced by one quarter of dimple spacing.

The study on the improvement of estimating back-calculated fish growth equation by weighted average method (가중평균에 의한 역계산 어류 성장식추정법 개선 연구)

  • YANG, Woo Sung;LEE, Jae Bong;HEO, Yo Won;KWON, Dae Hyeun;CHOI, Seok Gwan;CHUNG, Sang Deok;AN, Doo Hae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.471-475
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    • 2017
  • This study aims to suggest the methodology to improve to estimate back-calculated fish growth parameters using weighted average. It is to contribute to correct errors in the calculation of back-calculated growth equation with unequal numbers of sample by age. If the numbers of sample were evenly collected by age, each back-calculated length at age was equal between arithmetic and weighted averages. However, most samples cannot be evenly collected by age in reality because of different catchability by fishing gear and limitation of environment condition. Therefore, the estimation of back-calculated length by weighted average method is essential to calculate growth parameters. There were some published growth equations from back-calculated length using a simple arithmetic average with different numbers of samples by age when searching for back-calculated growth equations from 91 relevant papers. In this study, the process of deriving growth equation was investigated and two different average calculations were applied to a fish growth equation, for example of Acheilognathus signifer. Growth parameters, such as $L_{\infty}$, k and $t_0$, were estimated from two different back-calculated averages and the growth equations were compared with growth performance index. Based on the correction of back-calculated length using weighted average by age, the changes by female and male were -14.19% and -5.23% for $L_{\infty}$, and 59.28% and 18.91% for k, respectively. The corrected growth performance index by weighted average improved at 7.05% and 2.46% by female and male, respectively, compared to the arithmetic averages.

Effect of Improved Runoff Module in SWAT on Water Quality Simulation (SWAT 모형의 유출해석모듈 개선이 수질모의에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Nam-Won;Shin, Ah-Hyun;Lee, Jeong-Woo
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.297-307
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    • 2009
  • For reliable water quality simulation by semi distributed model, accurate daily runoff simulation should have preceded. In this study, newly developed channel routing method which is nonlinear storage method is combination of Muskingum routing method and variable storage routing method and temporally weighted average curve number method were applied for effect analysis of water quality simulation. Developed modules, which are added in SWAT models and simulation, were conducted for the Chungju dam watershed. The simulation result by each module applied effect. As a result of analysis contribute water quality modeling, nonlinear storage method is more effective than temporally weighted average curve number method. Nutrient loading discharge was affected by development of runoff delaying from improvement of channel routing, because of characteristics of nonpoint source pollution.

Evaluation Method of College English Education Effect Based on Improved Decision Tree Algorithm

  • Dou, Fang
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.500-509
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    • 2022
  • With the rapid development of educational informatization, teaching methods become diversified characteristics, but a large number of information data restrict the evaluation on teaching subject and object in terms of the effect of English education. Therefore, this study adopts the concept of incremental learning and eigenvalue interval algorithm to improve the weighted decision tree, and builds an English education effect evaluation model based on association rules. According to the results, the average accuracy of information classification of the improved decision tree algorithm is 96.18%, the classification error rate can be as low as 0.02%, and the anti-fitting performance is good. The classification error rate between the improved decision tree algorithm and the original decision tree does not exceed 1%. The proposed educational evaluation method can effectively provide early warning of academic situation analysis, and improve the teachers' professional skills in an accelerated manner and perfect the education system.

Improved Edge Enhanced Error Diffusion Halftoning Using Local Mean and Spatial Variation (국부 평균과 공간 변화량을 이용한 개선된 에지 강조 오차확산법)

  • Kwak Nae-Joung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.221-228
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    • 2005
  • The paper proposes the improved error diffusion halftoning system to enhance the edges using the spatial perceptual characteristics of the human visual system. The proposed method computes a spatial variation(SV), which is the difference between a pixel luminance and the average of its $3{\times}3$ neighborhood pixels' luminances weighted according to the spatial positioning. Information of edge enhancement(IEE) Is computed using the SV and the local average luminance. The IEE is added to the quantizer's input pixel and feeds into the halftoning quantizer. The quantizer produces the halftone image having the enhanced edge. The performance of the proposed method is compared with conventional methods by measuring the edge correlation. The halftone images by using the proposed method show better quality due to the enhanced edge. And the detailed edge is preserved in the halftone images by using the proposed method.

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A Study on UBM Method Detecting Mean Shift in Autocorrelated Process Control

  • Jun, Sang-Pyo
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.25 no.12
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    • pp.187-194
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    • 2020
  • In today's process-oriented industries, such as semiconductor and petrochemical processes, autocorrelation exists between observed data. As a management method for the process where autocorrelation exists, a method of using the observations is to construct a batch so that the batch mean approaches to independence, or to apply the EWMA (Exponentially Weighted Moving Average) statistic of the observed value to the EWMA control chart. In this paper, we propose a method to determine the batch size of UBM (Unweighted Batch Mean), which is commonly used as a management method for observations, and a method to determine the optimal batch size based on ARL (Average Run Length) We propose a method to estimate the standard deviation of the process. We propose an improved control chart for processes in which autocorrelation exists.

Short-term Electric Load Prediction Considering Temperature Effect (단파효과를 고려한 단기전력 부하예측)

  • 박영문;박준호
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.193-198
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    • 1986
  • In this paper, 1-168 hours ahead load prediction algorithm is developed for power system economic weekly operation. Total load is composed of three components, which are base load, week load and weather-sensitive load. Base load and week load are predicted by moving average and exponential smoothing method, respectively. The days of moving average and smoothing constant are optimally determined. Weather-sensitive load is modeled by linear form. The paramiters of weather load model are estimated by exponentially weighted recursive least square method. The load prediction of special day is very tedious, difficult and remains many problems which should be improved. Test results are given for the day of different types using the actual load data of KEPCO.

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