• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.172-180
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• 2007

Among the nuclear medicine imaging methods available today, $H_2^{15}O-PET$ is most widely used by cognitive neuroscientists to examine regional brain function via the measurement of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF). The short half-life of the radioactively labeled probe, $^{15}O$, often allows repeated measures from the same subjects in many different task conditions. $H_2^{15}O-$ PET, however, has technical limitations relative to other methods of functional neuroimaging, e.g., fMRI, including relatively poor time and spatial resolutions, and, frequently, insufficient statistical power for analysis of individual subjects. However, recent technical developments, such as the 3-D acquisition method provide relatively good image quality with a smaller radioactive dosage, which in turn results in more PET scans from each individual, thus providing sufficient statistical power for the analysis of individual subject's data. Furthermore, the noise free scanner environment $H_2^{15}O$ PET, along with discrete acquisition of data for each task condition, are important advantages of PET over other functional imaging methods regarding studying state-dependent changes in brain activity. This review presents both the limitations and advantages of $^{15}O-PET$, and outlines the design of efficient PET protocols, using examples of recent PET studies both in the normal healthy population, and in the clinical population.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.537-542
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• 2004

오염물질의 이송${\cdot}$확산 과정을 해석하기 위하여 계산효율이 높은 3차원 퍼프모형을 개발하였다. 본 연구에서 개발된 퍼프모형은 추적방법에 따라 전방추적모형과 후방추적모형으로 나눌 수 있으며, 이 두 가지 추적방법은 계산효율과 수치오차에 있어서 상이한 특성을 나타내었다. 전방추적 퍼프모형은 일정한 시간간격을 가지므로 정상상태의 연속오염원의 경우에 각각의 퍼프들이 동일한 질량을 갖는다. 그러므로 전방추적 퍼프 모형은 각 퍼프들간의 중첩정도가 일정하지 않다. 이에 관한 오차분석을 수행하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 무차원 퍼프중첩계수를 정의하였다. 퍼프중첩계수란 퍼프의 크기에 대하여 퍼프중심간의 거리가 떨어진 정도를 나타내는 무차원수로서 너무 작은 경우에는 정확도가 떨어지고 너무 큰 경우에는 계산효율이 감소한다. 전방 추적 퍼프모형의 경우, 중첩계수가 작은 초기구간에는 정확도가 떨어지며, 시간이 지남에 따라 중첩계수가 필요이상으로 증가하여 계산효율이 떨어지는 것으로 나타났다. 이에 비해 일정한 중첩정도를 갖는 후방추적 퍼프모형의 경우에는 전 영역에 걸쳐서 정확도와 계산효율이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 일정한 시간간격 마다 농도장을 계산하고자 할 때, 전방추적법은 단 한번의 전체계산을 통하여 수행가능하지만 후방추적법의 경우에는 매 출력시간마다 초기시점까지 반복해서 계산해야하는 단점이 있다. 경계처리에 있어서 입자추적모형과 상이한 방법을 사용하는 퍼프모형은 폐경계에서는 입자추적모형과 동일한 결과를 나타내지만 개경계에서는 다른 결과를 나타내었다. 또한 오염원이 임의의 공간적 분포를 갖는 경우, 퍼프모형은 입자추적모형보다는 적은 수의 퍼프를 사용할 수 있지만 이에 따른 경계면에서의 수치오차를 발생하였다. 본 연구에서는 개발된 퍼프모형을 검증하고 장${\cdot}$단점을 분석하기 위하여 흐름이 일정한 경우와 전단흐름의 경우에 대하여 이송${\cdot}$확산 수치모의를 수행하였으면, 이를 각각의 경우의 해석해 결과와 비교${\cdot}$분석하였다. 후방추적 퍼프모형은 전방추적 퍼프모형에 비하여 사용된 퍼프수와 관계없이 작은 오차를 발생하였으며, 전체적으로 퍼프 모형이 입자모형보다는 훨씬 적은 수의 계산을 통해서도 작은 오차를 나타낼 수 있다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 그러나 Gaussian 분포를 갖는 퍼프모형은 전단흐름에서의 긴 유선형 농도분포를 모의할 수 없었고, 이에 관한 오차는 전단계수가 증가함에 따라 비선형적으로 증가하였다. 향후, 보다 다양한 흐름영역에서 장${\cdot}$단점 분석 및 오차해석을 수행한 후에 각각의 Lagrangian 모형의 장점만을 갖는 모형결합 방법을 제시할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.32 no.6B
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• pp.379-385
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• 2012

Recent development of computing power and theoretical advances in computational fluid dynamics have made possible numerical simulations of water waves with full Navier-Stokes equations. In this study, an internal wave maker using the mass source function approach was combined with the level set finite element method for generation of waves. The model is first applied to the two-dimensional linear wave generation and propagation. Then, it is applied to the three-dimensional simulation of the same problem. To effectively utilize computational resources and enhance the speed of execution, parallel algorithms are developed and applied for the three-dimensional problem. The results of numerical simulations are compared with theoretical values and good agreements are observed.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.9-14
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• 1985

In this research mass of a plane strain two dimensional elastic concrete dam under gravitational and hydrostatic loads is minimized, through shape optimization of the dam cross section. Cross sectional area of the dam is taken as cost function of the optimization problem while constraints on the principal stress distribution and dam thickness are imposed. Shape of the boundary of the model is chosen as design variable. Variational formulation of the optimization problem, the material derivative idea of continuum mechanics, and an adjoint variable method are employed for the shape design sensitivity calculation. Then the gradient projection algorithm is utilized to obtain an optimum design iteratively. Research results fully demonstrate that the theory and procedure adopted are quite efficient and can be applicable to a wide class of practical elastic structural design problems.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.97-106
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• 2009

In this paper, a realtime approach to the simulation of virtual paper with an adaptive mesh structure is proposed. The proposed method can be applied to arbitrary triangular mesh structures and efficiently produces wrinkles and creases on the paper surface with stable numerical integration and deformation-based mesh refinement. In order to plausibly represent the crumples on the paper object, we employed an adaptive mesh structure with breakable springs. Because the adaptive structure continuously inserts or removes vertices and edges to or from the mesh structure, the conservation of the mass and the momentum should be carefully taken into account for the plausible simulation of the virtual paper. The proposed method produced plausible animation of paper-like thin shell in realtime environments.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.65-73
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• 1987

An efficient plate bending finite element has been developed using higher-order inplane displacement profiles of the plate. The 6-noded, 21-d.o.f. triangular element including shear deformation effect has been derived from the plate-like continuum by the Galerkin's weighted residual method. Square plate examples were tested with selected element meshes and several aspect ratios for their static behavior under uniformly distributed load. The result of the example tests indicated consistently good performance of the present higher-order plate bending element in comparison with the thin and thick plate solution and other existing finite element solutions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.942-948
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• 2011

Solid propulsion systems have simple structures compared to other propulsion systems and are suitable for long-term storage. However the systems generally have limits on control of thrust levels. In this paper we introduce controllers for combustion chamber pressure using on-off control techniques which have been known for relatively easy implementation and energy efficiency. For this, we use a simple pressure change model by considering only mass conservation within the combustion chamber and we design a classical controllers and on-off controllers with are Pulse Width Modulation(PWM) and Pulse Width Pulse Frequency Modulation (PWPFM). Then we compare the performance results of the controllers through numerical simulations.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.239-244
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• 2006

As an effective means to convey crushed materials from seabed to onboard ship, air-lift pump provides a reliable mechanism due to its simple configuration and easy-to-operate principle. The present study is focused on fundamental investigation of related performance through analysis program based on the gas-liquid two-phase flow in circular pipes. It is summarized as important result that an optimum air mass flow rate exists for the maximum lifted liquid mass flow rate in terms of a given submergence rates.

• Water for future
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.87-101
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• 1993

A finite element model RIV-FEM2 for the hydrodynamic study in a river is developed based on two-dimensional shallow water wave equation and dissipative Galerkin's method. RIV-FEM2 consists of pre-processing, analysis processing and post-processing. Pre- and analysis processing is programmed with Fortran-77 and post-processing with turbo-Pascal respectively. The model is tested with two dimensional problems, including flow through bends, bridges, and symmetric contraction. The two dimensional tests shows stable and efficient results for various situations. Applicability of the model is verified by applying to natural river. The model will provide a basic contribution to the hydrodynamic analysis in a river.

• Water for future
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.173-182
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• 1988

Characteristics of finite difference schemes for St. Venant equation were compared with two input cases. One is the monoclinal wave which has large friction slope without discontinuity and the other is the shock wave with discontinuity. For monoclinal wave, Keller Box scheme is the best in terms of accuracy, efficiency and stability when two parameters were selected with a rele : $0.5{\leq}{\theta}{\leq}1.0$, ${\theta}+{\psi}$=1, But for shock wave only the Preissmann type of parameter ${\psi}$(=0.5) showed stable results. Numerical experiments of monoclinal wave showed that Lax-Wendroff and Richtmyer schemes were more stable than leap Frog and more accurate than Lax-Fredrich scheme. For shock wave Lax-Fredrich showed larger numerical dissipation than other explicit schemes and Leap Frog produced slower mass transport.