• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.58 no.4
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• pp.877-884
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• 2021

We prove that if a compact convex hypersurface of ℝⁿ⁺¹ has almost maximal extinction time when it is evolved by the mean curvature flow, then it must be nearly round in the C⁰-norm.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.2 s.95
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• pp.130-137
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• 1999

In this paper we propose a method of determining the local curvature of a three dimensional convex object using the force and torque information obtained from the active touch of a robot hand. A technique for estimating two dimensional curvature of a convex object are introduced and the way of computing the three dimensional curvature from the two dimensional vurvatures is presented. Also, we develop an experimental system consisting of a finger and verify the effectiveness of the proposed method experimentally.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.601-603
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• 2013

We show that a compact embedded hypersurface with constant ratio of mean curvature functions in a convex cone $C{\subset}\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ is part of a hypersphere if it has a point where all the principal curvatures are positive and if it is perpendicular to ${\partial}C$.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.801-815
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• 2021

Ellipses have a lot of interesting geometric properties. It is quite natural to ask whether such properties of ellipses and some related ones characterize ellipses. In this paper, we study some chord properties and area properties of ellipses. As a result, using the curvature and the support function of a strictly convex curve, we establish four characterization theorems of ellipses and hyperbolas centered at the origin.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.1019-1045
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• 2006

As a natural generalization of a Sasakian space form, we define a contact strongly pseudo-convex CR-space form (of constant pseudo-holomorphic sectional curvature) by using the Tanaka-Webster connection, which is a canonical affine connection on a contact strongly pseudo-convex CR-manifold. In particular, we classify a contact strongly pseudo-convex CR-space form $(M,\;\eta,\;\varphi)$ with the pseudo-parallel structure operator $h(=1/2L\xi\varphi)$, and then we obtain the nice form of their curvature tensors in proving Schurtype theorem, where $L\xi$ denote the Lie derivative in the characteristic direction $\xi$.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.1513-1520
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• 2002

Effect of Convex Surface Curvature on the Onset of Nucleate Boiling of Subcooled Fluid Flow in Vertical Concentric Annuli An experimental study has been carried out to investigate the effect of the transverse convex surface curvature of core tubes on heat transfer in concentric annular tubes. Water is used as the working fluid. Three annuli having a different radius of the inner cores, Ri=3.18mm, 6.35mm, and 12.70mm with a fixed ratio of Ri/Ro=0.5 are used over a range of the Reynolds number between about 40,000 and 80,000. The inner cores are made of smooth stainless steel tubes and heated electrically to provide constant heat fluxes throughout the whole length of each test section. Experimental result shows that heat flux values on the onset of nucleate boiling of the smaller inner diameter model is much higher than that of the larger size test model.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.834-845
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• 1995

An experimental study is made in a nearly two-dimensional 90.deg. curved duct to investigate the effects of interaction between streamline curvature and mean strain on turbulence. The initial shear at the entrance to the curved duct is varied by an upstream shear generator to produce five different shear conditions ; a uniform flow (UF), a positive weak shear (PW), a positive strong shear(PS), a negative weak shear (NW) and a negative strong shear(NS). With the mean field data of the case UF, variations of the momentum thickness, the shape factor and the skin friction over the convex(inner) surface and the concave (outer) surface are scrutinized quantitatively in-depth. It is found that, while the pressure loss due to curvature is insensitive to the inlet shear rates, the distributions of wall static pressure along both convex and concave surfaces are much influenced by the inlet shear rates.

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.13 no.2 s.32
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• pp.151-155
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• 2006

Let $\gamma$ be a $C_2$ curve in the open unit disk $\mathbb{D}. Flinn and Osgood proved that $K_{\mathbb{D}}(z,\gamma){\geq}1$ for all $z{\in}{\gamma}$ if and only if the curve ${\Large f}o{\gamma}$ is convex for every convex conformal mapping $\Large f$ of $\mathbb{D}, where $K_{\mathbb{D}}(z,\;\gamma)$ denotes the hyperbolic curvature of $\gamma$ at the point z. In this paper we establish a generalization of the Flinn-Osgood characterization for a curve with the hyperbolic curvature at least 1.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.2463-2476
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• 1994

Local mean fluctuating velocity components were measured in the separating and reattaching axisymmetrc region of turbulent boundary layer over the wall of convex cylinders placed in a water tunnel by using 2-color 4-beam fiber optics laser Doppler velocimetry. Measurements were made with three different diameters of cylinders with four different diameters of cylinders with four different diameter of the obstructions. The range of Reynolds number based on step height was between 5,000 to 25,200. The study demonstrates that the reattachment length decreases with decreasing cylinder radius and is always shorter than that for the two-dimensional backward-facing step flow at the condition of the same step height. It was also observed that the turbulent kinetic energy in the recirculating region increases with an increases in the radius of convex curvature. The measured velocity field suggests that the transverse curvature can effect definitely the formation of corner eddy.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.1311-1332
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• 2013

This paper concerns the evolution of a closed hypersurface of the hyperbolic space, convex by horospheres, in direction of its inner unit normal vector, where the speed equals a positive power ${\beta}$ of the positive mean curvature. It is shown that the flow exists on a finite maximal interval, convexity by horospheres is preserved and the hypersurfaces shrink down to a single point as the final time is approached.