″Drifting Cups on a Meandering Stream″in Korea

  • Chang, Keun-Shik (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 2001.12.01

Abstract

The Posuk-Chung Pavilion if a defunct irregular stone water channel in Kyongju, Korea, once used for the meandering stream feast'by kings of Silla Dynasty during the first millennium. The poets were seated around this stone water channel who composed the Chinese poems, overlooking the streams. They load to take the punishment drinks unless they finished the poem before the drifting cup filled with the rice wine arrived at their seats on the meandering stream. In this paper, we have made computer simulation as well as well as model experiment on the ancient meandering stream of the Posuk-Chung Pavilion. The computational results are compared with the experiment and the channel flow characteristics are delineated here. It is discussed how the present Posuk-Chung channel is morphologically distinguished from the Chinese and Japanese meandering streams.

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References

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  2. Chang K. S., and Shim E. B., 1997, 'Numerical Flow Visualization of Posuk-Chung, the Ninth Century Remains of Poetry-Making Curved Water Channel in Korea,' Atlas of Visualization III, pp. 241-255, CRC Press, New York
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