• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
• /
• 2003.05a
• /
• pp.610-615
• /
• 2003

Electric rolling stock is one of major public transportation because of an increase in population and heavy traffic problems. The passengers under the influenced of indoor air quality such as air temperature, relative humidity and air velocity. Ventilation system on passenger cars should be designed for the health and comfort of the passengers. One of the main aim is to create an acceptable thermal environment without draught problems. The draught sensation increases when the air temperature decreases and the air velocity increases. Airflow in passenger cars is turbulent. Lateral temperature and humidity gradients in the electric rolling stock have been studied. And, the difference in the mean temperature and relative humidity measured at 0.7, 0.9, 1.2, 1.7 m above from the floor.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
• /
• 2005.11a
• /
• pp.872-877
• /
• 2005

The train entry into a tunnel generates a strong compression wave in the tunnel. The high amplitude of compression wave causes high pressure gradients that are responsible for both the aural discomfort of passengers and the impulsive acoustical wave called the miro-pressure wave. This paper provides a numerical study on effects of hood for micro'-'pressure wave reduction. An axisymmetric numerical solver, considering the cross sectional area of Korean Tilting Train eXpress, is used for a transient flow field in the tunnel. Results show that the micro-pressure wave is able to be reduced by a hood. In this results, the maximum reduction of micro--pressure wave is shown at 2L(length), 1.35D(diameter) hood around $56\%$ against the non-hood case.

• International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
• /
• v.2 no.2
• /
• pp.40-43
• /
• 2015

A hybrid mesh based finite volume compressible flow code (PolySim) has been developed recently. Instead of the simple average method for the gradients of variables at each face, the volume average is applied for the calculation of the viscous flux. What is more, an improved Green Gauss method for the calculation of the gradient is also presented. These two techniques will improve both the accuracy and robustness of the code. The aerodynamic performance of this in-house cell centered code is examined by several widely-used bench-mark test cases. These cases include flows over flat plate and RAE 2822 etc. The comparisons on results between calculation and experiment are conducted. They show that the code can produce good numerical results which agree well with the corresponding experiment data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Biophysical Society Conference
• /
• 2001.06a
• /
• pp.45-45
• /
• 2001

The Na$^{＋}$-K$^{＋}$ pump, a plasma membrane Na$^{＋}$-K$^{＋}$ ATPase is plays a key role in the regulation and maintenance of Na$^{＋}$ and $K^{＋}$ ion concentration gradients across cell membranes. This enzyme pumps three Na$^{＋}$ out of and two $K^{＋}$ into the cell against their electrochemical gradient by utilizing the energy derived from ATP. Therefore, the Na$^{+}$-K$^{+}$ pump generates a net outward electrical current.(omitted)ted)

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
• /
• v.12 no.11
• /
• pp.1065-1073
• /
• 2006

In this paper we confirm the relation between the phases and phase errors of the beat signal at the lock-in region of the amplitude modulation type ring laser gyroscope by numerical calculation. Based on this facts, we, numerically, study the envelopes and magnitudes of the dither noise for statistically summing out the beat signal phase error, and we, experimently, confirm these numerical results. As a result, we find that the dither noise requires the increase gradient and the decrease gradient of the dither amplitudes, and those gradients should be combined with white noise. The magnitude of the dither noise which is satisfied with these requirements should be more than 5 percents of the average dither amplitude.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
• /
• v.32B no.11
• /
• pp.1424-1433
• /
• 1995

The edge detection process serves to simplify the analysis of images by drastically reducing the amount of data to be processed, while preserving useful structural informations about object boundaries. At first, this paper proposes an edge detection algorithm to reduce the amount of computation. The gradients of pixels are calculated by using first order differential equations on the pixels with even rows and even columns or odd rows and odd columns, and they are compared with a threshold to decide edges. As a result, the computational complexity is reduced to one third or one forth compared with the provious ones. To enhance the accuracy of edge detection, a method with the adaptive threshold for each pixel window which is calculated by using characteristic values is proposed. In this case, the performance can be improved since the threshold is calculated properly for each window according to the local characteristics of corresponding window.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
• /
• v.13 no.2
• /
• pp.61-66
• /
• 2011

Fire disasters have frequently happened in concrete structures, which resulted in severe structural damages and unsafety. In this case, the method which had evaluated the safety of damaged structures was often unaccepted from most of stakeholders and engineers. The objective of this study is to develope the procedure and method to be able to determine the safety. Numerical simulation was applied to produce the maximum temperature and temperature distribution. Nextly, temperature propagation analysis was performed to plot temperature gradients at each depth and location. The material strength curve versus temperature was applied to determine the safety of concrete structures damaged by fire. The maximum temperature should be calibrated considering real fire records ; magnitude, intensity, situation etc. The results shows that the selected procedure and method was applicable and practical.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
• /
• v.33 no.2
• /
• pp.97-110
• /
• 2000

Planetary nebulae provide a direct way to probe elemental abundances, their distributions and their gradients in populations in nearby galaxies. We investigate bulge planetary nebulae in M 31 and M 32 using the strong emission lines, H$\alpha$, He I, [O III], [N II], [S II] and [Ne III]. From the [O III] 4363/5007 line ratio and the [O II] 3727/3729, we determine the electron temperatures and number densities. With a standard modeling procedure (Hyung, 1994), we fit the line intensities and diagnostic temperatures, and as a result, we derive the chemical abundances of individual planetary nebulae in M 31 and M 32. The derived chemical abundances are compared with those of the well-known Galactic planetary nebulae or the Sun. The chemical abundances of M 32 appear to be less enhanced compared to the Galaxy or M 31.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
• /
• v.3 no.2
• /
• pp.185-192
• /
• 1995

A numerical algorithm for plane stress and shell elasto-plasticity is presented in this paper. The proposed strain decomposition (SD) algorithm is an elastic predictor/plastic corrector algorithm, and in the context of operator splitting, is a return mapping algorithm. However, it differs significantly from other return mapping algorithms in that only the necessary response functions are used without invoking their gradients, and the stress increment is updated only at the end of the time step. This makes the proposed SD algorithm more suitable for materials with complex yield surfaces and will guard against error accumulation during the time step. Comparative analyses of structural systems using the proposed strain decomposition (SD) algorithm and the iterative radial return (IRR) algorithm are presented. The results demonstrate the accuracy and usefulness of the proposed algorithm.

• Animal cells and systems
• /
• v.2 no.2
• /
• pp.209-216
• /
• 1998

The invasion of Ambrosia artemisiifolia in the Ukrainian Carpathians Mts. and the Transcarpathian Plain in Central Europe was reconstructed on the basis of floristic records. The first spontaneous occurrence was dated from the beginning of the 1940s. Within the next 55 year period, the distributional spread speed of the species was of 67.6 $km^2/y$ (by the average data). The occupied area by A. artemisiifolia in the range of the studied areas is about $3716.5km^2$ now. The features of behavior of the invader and the habitat preference were determined. The frequency of occurrence by sociologic-ecological classification was carried out. The generalized model of correlations among the gravitation, the active temperature sum and the disturbance gradients and the frequency of occurrence of the species was presented. The scheme of the invasion stages of A. artemisiifolia is reflected in the population status changes of the species during the areal dynamics.