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Hydro-hypsographic Analysis for Understanding of Flushing Characteristics in Garolim Bay (가로림만 해수 교환 특성 파악을 위한 Hydro-hypsographic 분석)

  • Woo, Han-Jun;Ryu, Joo-Hyung;Cho, Jin-Hyung
    • Journal of Wetlands Research
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 2009
  • Garolim Bay is typically a semi-enclosed bay without a significant supply of freshwater and sediments from surrounding drainage area. The bay have a variety of subenvironments including deep tidal channels, tidal flats, sand dunes, islands, and inlet. Because environmental quality of bay strongly depends on the exchange of water over benthic subenvironments, it is necessary to analyze quantitatively exchange of water between sea and bay. Hydro-hypsography is the relative distribution of water-surface areas at different depths. The hydro-hypsographic curve in Garolim bay shows that the tidal flats occupy about 77 % of the bay surface. Hydraulic turn-over time (HTT) is 1.32 tidal cycles which indicate well-flushed bay. Hydro-hypsometric techniques will be useful for assessments of health of bays.

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The Hydro-Environmental Characteristics of Port Facilities around the Sea of Cheju Island (제주해역 항만시설물의 수리환경적 특성에 관한 연구)

  • 정태욱;김종인;류청로
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2000
  • In order to effective manage the construction, disaster prevention plan and the harbor tranquility control, meteorological and sea-state characteristics around Cheju Island have been analyzed. Using results and damage examples of the port facilities under severe sea conditions, a reasonable construction control plan considering the regional characteristics of the sea-state and winds was proposed. That is, in northern part of Cheju Island, the construction work is affected mainly by the winter storms, while the typhoon mainly affects the southern part port facilities during summer to Autumn. Considering their typical characteristics, it is strongly suggested that the main construction work should be carried out during April to July in the northern part, and it should be made during October to next July in the southern part of the island. A permeable TTP mounded breakwater was constructed to protect severe waves as a temporal structure under the long-term development plan in Sogipo port. The transmission characteristics of the structure was discussed using the experimental results. The results show that the transmission coefficient $K_{t}$ is over 20% of incident waves, which cause many problems in the cargo handling in relation to harbor tranquility. In conclusion, this kind of permeable structure can be used only as a temporal structure for the disaster prevention under the construction process. It causes many problems in harbor tranquility if it is used as a permanent harbor structures.s.

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Estimating Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Climate Factors in Andong Dam Basin (안동댐 유역 기상인자의 시공간분포 추정)

  • Lim, Chul Hee;Moon, Joo Yeon;Lim, Yoon Jin;Kim, Sea Jin;Lee, Woo Kyun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.57-65
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    • 2015
  • This study investigates characteristics of time series spatial distribution on climate factors in Andong Dam basin by estimating precise spatio-temporal distribution of hydro-meteorological information. A spatio-temporal distribution by estimating Semi-Variogram based on spatial autocorrelation was examined using the data from ASOS and 7 hydro-meteorological observatories in Andong Dam basin of upper Nakdonggang River, which were installed and observed by NIMR(National Institute of Meterological Research). Also, temperature and humidity as climate variables were analyzed and it was recognized that there is a variability in watershed area by time and months. Regardless of season, an equal spatial distribution of temperature at 14 o'clock and humidity at 10 o'clock was identified, and nonequal distribution was noticed for both variables at 18 o'clock. From monthly spatial analysis, the most unequal distribution of temperature was seen in January, and the most equal distribution was detected in September. The most unequal distribution of humidity was identified in May, and the most equal distribution was seen in January. Unlike in forest, seasonal spatial distribution characteristics were less apparent;but temperature and humidity had respective characteristics in hydro-meteorology.

An Integrated Water Budget Analysis of Oedocheon Watershed in Jeju Island (제주 외도천 유역의 통합 물수지 분석)

  • Kim, Nam Won;Chung, Il-Moon;Na, Hanna
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.471-480
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    • 2015
  • Hydrologic component analysis was conducted to investigate water budget characteristics the Oedocheon watershed, Jeju Island. For this purpose, integrated SWAT-MODFLOW model was applied to this watershed for continuous surface water-groundwater modeling. Pasture and forest-deciduous are the major land use types and these affect general hydrologic component ratio. The spatio-temporal groundwater recharge can be obtained from SWAT and then distributed groundwater recharge can be reproduced by MODFLOW. The groundwater level variation was simulated with distributed groundwater pumping data. The water budget in this watershed was compared with the previous estimated result by Jeju-Do(2013). As this result considered discharge to the coastal side, the discrepancy was found. However, it was found that the overall tendency of both analyses were similar.

A study on internal flow characteristics and performance analysis of a micro hydro tubular turbine (소수력발전용 튜블러 수차의 내부유동특성 및 성능해석)

  • Lee, Seung-Yeob;Choi, Young-Do;Hwang, Young-Chul;Lee, Young-Ho
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.606-609
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    • 2009
  • Development of renewable energy is very important because of environmental problems caused by greenhouse effect. This is due to the use of fossil fuels which has serious consequences. Therefore, development of small hydropower can be a good countermeasure for the problems. The small hydropower is clean energy because the small hydropower generates few $CO_2$. Moreover, as the energy density by the small hydropower is high, it is economical for a society which wants to introduce the system. The purpose of this study is to improve the turbine performance. This study is about tubular-type hydro turbine among renewable energy that is based using the different water pressure level in pipe lines. The analysis was performed using the commercial CFD code ANSYS-CFX.

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Net Radiation Estimation Using Flux Tower Data and Integrated Hydrological Model: For the Seolmacheon and Chungmichen Watersheds (플럭스 타워 관측 자료 및 통합수문모형을 이용한 순복사량 산정: 설마천, 청미천 유역을 대상으로)

  • Kim, Daeun;Baek, JongJin;Jung, Sung-Won;Choi, Minha
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.301-314
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    • 2013
  • Spatial heterogeneous characteristics of solar radiation energy from Climate Change gives rise to energy imbalance in the general ecological system including water resources. To understand energy flow, flux towers are up and running throughout the world. In step with, in domestic major areas, there have been observed using several flux towers. In this study, downward shortwave radiation, downward long wave radiation, and net radiation that take important part in hydro-meteorology and ecology were calculated by proposed physical equations using flux data of the Seolmacheon and Choengmicheon, then, the calculated net radiation and observed net radiation were individually compared and validated. The results confirmed applicability of physical methods for insufficient hydro-meteorological data and possibility for observed data of hydro-meteorological variables.

CFD Analysis on the Performance and Internal Flow of a Micro Cross-Flow Hydro Turbine in the Range of Very Low Specific Speed (극저비속도 영역 마이크로 횡류수차의 성능 및 내부유동 수치해석적 연구)

  • Choi, Young-Do;Son, Sung-Woo
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.25-30
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    • 2012
  • Renewable energy has been interested because of fluctuation of oil price, depletion of fossil fuel resources and environmental impact. Amongst renewable energy resources, hydropower is most reliable and cost effective way. In this study, to develop a new type of micro hydro turbine which can be operated in the range of very low specific speed, a cross-flow hydro turbine with simple structure is proposed. The turbine is designed to be used at the very low specific speed range of hydropower resources, such as very high-head and considerably small-flow rate water resources. CFD analysis on the performance and internal flow characteristics of the turbine is conducted to obtain a practical data for the new design method of the turbine. Results show that optimized arrangement of guide vane angle and inner guide angle can give contribution to the turbine performance improvement.

Hydrologic Analysis Methods for Performance Characteristics of Small Hydro Power Plant (소수력발전소의 수문학적 성능특성 분석)

  • Park, Wan Soon;Lee, Chul Hyung;Shim, Myung Pil
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.1159-1166
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    • 1994
  • This study presents the methodology for the performance analysis and prediction of small hydro power plants(SHP). Rainfall data are characterized to estimate the flow duration curve of SHP, using the cumulative density function of Weibull distribution. The model for the performance analysis of SHP is developed. Also, the performance characteristics of the existing Anheung Plant located in Han River basin are analyzed by using the developed model. As a result, it was found that the model is suitable to analyze the performance characteristics of existing SHP and to predict the primary design performance such as the design flowrate, capacity, rate of operation and annual electricity production of SHP.

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Characteristics of Zooplankton Community in the Coastal Waters of Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant, East Sea of Korea (월성원자력발전소 주변 해역 동물플랑크톤의 군집 특성)

  • Kim, Mi-Hyang;Moon, Hyung-Tae;Shin, Sang-Hee;Shon, Myung-Baek;Byun, Ju-Young;Choi, Hue-Chang;Son, Min-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.40-48
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    • 2010
  • A total of 63 taxa was identified with a mean abundance of total zooplankton ranging from 85~28,087 indiv.$m^{-3}$. Cluster and nMDS analysis showed that the study sites could be divided into two regions: North and East part of the sampling area (group A) and South part of the sampling area (group B). The number of taxa and species varied significantly among the two regions (ANOVA, p<0.05). The pattern of the spatio-temporal distribution of the zooplankton community in the coastal waters around the Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant is affected by the variations of seasonal water temperature. However, zooplankton community were no significant between the water temperature and heated discharge.

Derivation & Evaluation of Drought Threshold Level Considering Hydro-meteorological Data on South Korea (수문기상 정보에 따른 국내 가뭄판단기준 제시 및 평가)

  • Bae, Deg Hyo;Son, Kyung Hwan;Kim, Heon Ae
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.287-299
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    • 2013
  • The objective of this study is to derive and evaluate the drought threshold level based on hydro-meteorological data using historical drought events. After collecting the drought events during 1991 to 2009 year, the observed meteorological data and estimated hydrological component from LSM are used as input for the percentile analysis that is drought analysis data. The drought threshold level that precipitation and runoff of 3 month duration are less than 35%, soil moisture of 2 month duration is less than 35% and evapotranspiration of 3 month duration is more than 65% is derived using ROC analysis that are objective test method. ROC analysis with SPI (3) is performed to evaluate the applicability of threshold level in the domestic. As a result, it can be concluded that the derived drought threshold level show better performance to reflect the historical drought events than SPI (3) and it reasonably explain the spatial drought situation through the spatial analysis.