• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2001

Crop status monitoring and yield prediction at higher spatial resolution is a valuable tool in various decision making processes including agricultural policy making by the national and local governments. A prototype crop forecasting system was developed to project the size of rice crop across geographic areas nationwide, based on daily weather pattern. The system consists of crop models and the input data for 1,455 cultivation zone units (the smallest administrative unit of local government in South Korea called "Myun") making up the coterminous South Korea. CERES-rice, a rice crop growth simulation model, was tuned to have genetic characteristics pertinent to domestic cultivars. Daily maximum/minimum temperature, solar radiation, and precipitation surface on 1km by 1km grid spacing were prepared by a spatial interpolation of 63 point observations from the Korea Meteorological Administration network. Spatial mean weather data were derived for each Myun and transformed to the model input format. Soil characteristics and management information at each Myun were available from the Rural Development Administration. The system was applied to the forecasting of national rice production for the recent 3 years (1997 to 1999). The model was run with the past weather data as of September 15 each year, which is about a month earlier than the actual harvest date. Simulated yields of 1,455 Myuns were grouped into 162 counties by acreage-weighted summation to enable the validation, since the official production statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is on the county basis. Forecast yields were less sensitive to the changes in annual climate than the reported yields and there was a relatively weak correlation between the forecast and the reported yields. However, the projected size of rice crop at each county, which was obtained by multiplication of the mean yield with the acreage, was close to the reported production with the $r^2$ values higher than 0.97 in all three years.

• 폴리머
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.313-322
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• 2003

상용화제와 교환반응 촉진제 도입에 따른 폴리(에틸렌 테레프탈레이트) (PET)/폴리(메타-자이렌 아디프아미드) (MXD-6) 블렌드의 형태구조 변화와 일축 연신한 블렌드 시료의 변형 형태구조를 조사하였다. 연신시료는 피브릴 구조의 분산상을 보여주었으며, 피브릴 구조는 연신비 증가에 따라서 점차 미세하게 변형되었다. 교환반응 촉진제나 상용화제의 첨가는 계면 접착력 향상에 기여하기보다는 분산상과 연속상 간에 결함을 야기함으로써 피브릴 구조의 균일성을 감소시켰다. H$_{v}$ 모드의 광산란을 이용하여 블렌드 조성과 연신비에 따른 고차구조 변화를 알아보았다. H$_{v}$ 산란패턴으로부터 결정들이 스택을 이루며, 스택은 연신 방향에 대하여 특정한 각도로 배향됨을 알 수 있었다. 분산상과 연속상 내의 결정은 연신비 증가에 따라서 점진적으로 배향되어, 연신비가 6.0인 경우에는 매우 높은 배향 수준을 보여주었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제41권8호
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• pp.1025-1044
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• 2009

Systematic research has been conducted by KAERI to develop a supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle energy conversion system coupled with a sodium cooled fast reactor. For the development of the supercritical $CO_2$ Brayton cycle ECS, KAERI researched four major fields, separately. For the system development, computer codes were developed to design and analyze the supercritical $CO_2$ Brayton cycle ECS coupled with the KALIMER-600. Computer codes were developed to design and analyze the performance of the major components such as the turbomachinery and the high compactness PCHE heat exchanger. Three dimensional flow analysis was conducted to evaluate their performance. A new configuration for a PCHE heat exchanger was developed by using flow analysis, which showed a very small pressure loss compared with a previous PCHE while maintaining its heat transfer rate. Transient characteristics for the supercritical $CO_2$ Brayton cycle coupled with KALIMER-600 were also analyzed using the developed computer codes. A Na-$CO_2$ pressure boundary failure accident was analyzed with a computer code that included a developed model for the Na-$CO_2$ chemical reaction phenomena. The MMS-LMR code was developed to analyze the system transient and control logic. On the basis of the code, the system behavior was analyzed when a turbine load was changed. This paper contains the current research overview of the supercritical $CO_2$ Brayton cycle coupled to the KALIMER-600 as an alternative energy conversion system.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권8호
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• pp.3059-3072
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• 2022

A Jacobian-Free Newton Krylov Two-Nodal Coarse Mesh Finite Difference algorithm based on Nodal Expansion Method (NEM_TNCMFD_JFNK) is successfully developed and proposed to solve the three-dimensional (3D) and multi-group reactor physics models. In the NEM_TNCMFD_JFNK method, the efficient JFNK method with the Modified Incomplete LU (MILU) preconditioner is integrated and applied into the discrete systems of the NEM-based two-node CMFD method by constructing the residual functions of only the nodal average fluxes and the eigenvalue. All the nonlinear corrective nodal coupling coefficients are updated on the basis of two-nodal NEM formulation including the discontinuity factor in every few newton steps. All the expansion coefficients and interface currents of the two-node NEM need not be chosen as the solution variables to evaluate the residual functions of the NEM_TNCMFD_JFNK method, therefore, the NEM_TNCMFD_JFNK method can greatly reduce the number of solution variables and the computational cost compared with the JFNK based on the conventional NEM. Finally the NEM_TNCMFD_JFNK code is developed and then analyzed by simulating the representative PWR MOX/UO₂ core benchmark, the popular NEACRP 3D core benchmark and the complicated full-core pin-by-pin homogenous core model. Numerical solutions show that the proposed NEM_TNCMFD_JFNK method with the MILU preconditioner has the good numerical accuracy and can obtain higher computational efficiency than the NEM-based two-node CMFD algorithm with the power method in the outer iteration and the Krylov method using the MILU preconditioner in the inner iteration, which indicates the NEM_TNCMFD_JFNK method can serve as a potential and efficient numerical tool for reactor neutron diffusion analysis module in the JFNK-based multiphysics coupling application.

• 공업화학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.560-567
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• 1997

안정한 $W_1/O/W_2$ 다중에멀젼을 얻기 위한 새로운 시도가 연구 되었다; 오일상에 분산된 친유성 유화제와 PCL-PEO-PCL triblock copolymer 사이의 계면상호 작용이 연구되었다. $W_1/O/W_2$ 다중에멀젼은 2단계 방법으로 제조하였다. 친유성 유화제로서 Arlacel P-135와 친수성 유화제로서 Synperonic PE/F 127을 사용하였으며, Eutanol-G를 오일상으로 사용하였다. 다중에멀젼의 내부수상에 시약 방출물질로서 NaCl을 첨가하였으며, 이의 방출속도가 연구되었다. 다중에멀젼의 안정성은 분리도 측정과 광학현미경을 이용하여 평가하였다. 오일상에 PCL-PEO-PCL triblock copolymer를 용해하여 실험한 결과 2k-4k-2k와 6k-4k-6k의 조성 갖는 copolymer로 제조한 다중에멀젼에서 NaCl의 방출이 크게 감소하였다. 이것은 copolymer와 유화제가 안정성 증대와 방출 속도를 조절하는 효과적인 계면 복합체를 형성하기 때문이라고 사료된다. 2k-4k-2k의 조성 갖는 PCL-PEO-PCL triblock copolymer 1.2wt%의 함량으로 제조한 다중에멀젼에서 NaCl의 확산계수는 $2.64{\times}10^{-15}gcm^2/s$이고, 6k-4k-6k에서는 $3.23{\times}10^{-16}gcm^2/s$값을 얻었다. NaCl의 초기 농도의 증가에 따라 NaCl 방출이 감소하였고, Higuchi의 방출 모델식을 개정하여 적용한 결과, 고분자 matrix에 분산된 시약의 방출모델과 유사한 kinetic모델이 다중에멀젼에서 NaCl의 방출에 적당함이 발견되었다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2014

This paper proposes a low-latency Sample Adaptive Offset filter (SAO) architecture and its Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) optimization scheme to achieve fast High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) decoding in a multi-core environment. According to the HEVC standard and its Test Model (HM), SAO operation is performed only at the picture level. Most realtime decoders, however, execute their sub-modules on a Coding Tree Unit (CTU) basis to reduce the latency and memory bandwidth. The proposed low-latency SAO architecture has the following advantages over picture-based SAO: 1) significantly less memory requirements, and 2) low-latency property enabling efficient pipelined multi-core decoding. In addition, SIMD optimization of SAO filtering can reduce the SAO filtering time significantly. The simulation results showed that the proposed low-latency SAO architecture with significantly less memory usage, produces a similar decoding time as a picture-based SAO in single-core decoding. Furthermore, the SIMD optimization scheme reduces the SAO filtering time by approximately 509% and increases the total decoding speed by approximately 7% compared to the existing look-up table approach of HM.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 1998년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.25 No.2 (2)
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• pp.384-386
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• 1998

The use of hand gesture provides an attractive alternative to cumbersome interface devices for human-computer interaction(HCI). Many methods hand gesture recognition using visual analysis have been proposed such as syntactical analysis, neural network(NN), Hidden Markov Model(HMM) and so on. In our research, a HMMs is proposed for alphabetical hand gesture recognition. In the preprocessing stage, the proposed approach consists of three different procedures for hand localization, hand tracking and gesture spotting. The hand location procedure detects the candidated regions on the basis of skin-color and motion in an image by using a color histogram matching and time-varying edge difference techniques. The hand tracking algorithm finds the centroid of a moving hand region, connect those centroids, and thus, produces a trajectory. The spotting a feature database, the proposed approach use the mesh feature code for codebook of HMM. In our experiments, 1300 alphabetical and 1300 untrained gestures are used for training and testing, respectively. Those experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach yields a higher and satisfying recognition rate for the images with different sizes, shapes and skew angles.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.69-78
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• 1993

본 연구의 목적은, 입상토질의 노상토에 대한 회복탄성계수의 계절적 변화를 측정하기 위한 실험적 방법을 제시함에 있다. 노상토의 현지 온도와 함수비를 측정키 위해 현장 두 곳에 노상토 온도, 함수비 측정기기를 매설했다. 이러한 계절적 요인을 고려한 회복탕성계수를 결정하기 위해 다회귀분석에 의한 방정식을 유도했다. 응력해석결과, 평균유효응력 깊이에서의 유효회복탄성계수를 사용하는 것이 전 노상토의 특성을 대표할 수 있음을 아울러 찾아내었다. 또한, 온도와 함수비 등 계절적 변화에 따른 회복탄성계수를 예측키 위한 이론적 모델을 본 연구를 통해 제시했다.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2000

The control of the data retention time is a main issue for realizing future high density dynamic random access memory. The novel junction process scheme in sub-micron DRAM cell with STI(Shallow Trench Isolation) has been investigated to improve the tail component in the retention time distribution which is of great importance in DRAM characteristics. In this' paper, we propose the new implantation scheme by gate-related ion beam shadowing effect and buffer-enhanced ${\Delta}Rp$ (projected standard deviation) increase using buffered N-implantation with tilt and 4X(4 times)-rotation that is designed on the basis of the local-field-enhancement model of the tail component. We report an excellent tail improvement of the retention time distribution attributed to the reduction of electric field across the cell junction due to the redistribution of N-concentration which is Intentionally caused by ion Beam Shadowing and Buffering Effect using tilt implantation with 4X-rotation. And also, we suggest the least requirements for adoption of this new implantation scheme and the method to optimize the key parameters such as tilt angle, rotation number, Rp compensation and Nd/Na ratio. We used MEDICI Simulator to confirm the junction device characteristics. And measured the refresh time using the ADVAN Probe tester.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.91-107
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• 2003

Since DBA(Design Basis Accidents) has been studied rather separately from SA(Severe Accidents) in the conventional nuclear reactor safety analysis, the thermal hydraulics during transition between DBA and SA has not been identified so much as each accident itself. Thus, in this study, the thermal hydraulic behavior from DBA to the commencement of SA has been experimentally and analytically investigated for the long-term cooling phase of LB-LOCA(Large-Break Loss-of-Coolant Accident). Experiments were conducted for both cases of the loop seal open and closed in an integral test loop, named as SNUF (Seoul National University Facility), which was scaled down to l/6.4 in length and 1/178 in area of the APR1400 (Advanced Power Reactor 1400MWe). The core mixture level was a main measured value since it took major role in the fuel heat-up rate, the location of fuel melting initiation and the channel blockage by melting material during SA. Experimental results were compared to MAAP4.03 to assess its model of calculating the core mixture level. MAAP4.03 overestimates the core two- phase mixture level because sweep-out and spill-over and the measures to simulate the status of loop seal are not included, which is against the conservatism. Thus, it is recommended that MAAP4.03 should be improved to simulate the thermal hydraulic phenomena, such as sweep-out, spill-over and the status of loop seal.