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Melting of Ice Inside a Horizontal Cylinder under the Volume Change (수평원관내 체적변화를 고려한 얼음의 용용시 전열특성에 관한 연구)

  • 조남철;김동춘;이채탈;임장순
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.13 no.12
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    • pp.1266-1274
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    • 2001
  • Heat transfer phenomena during melting process of the phase change material (ice) was studied by numerical analysis and experiments. In a horizontal ice storage tube, the natural convection caused an increase in melting rate. However, the reduction of the heating surface area caused a decrease in melting rate. Therefore, during the melting process of ice in a horizontal cylinder, the reduction of the heating surface area should be considered. Under the same heating wall and initial water temperature condition, the melting rate became higher for $V_s/V_tot/=0.545 \;than \;that\; for\; V_s/V_tot$/=1.00 due to the difference in the reduction of heating surface area. A modified melting model considering the equivalent thermal conductivity of liquid phase and volume reduction was proposed. The results of the model were compared with the measured values and found to be in good agreement.

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Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Situational Understanding of Functional Relationship (중등 예비교사의 함수 관계 상황 표현 능력에 대한 조사 연구)

  • 차인숙;한정순
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.199-210
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    • 2004
  • This study investigates 55 preservice secondary mathematics teachers' situational understanding of functional relationship. Functional thinking is fundamental and useful because it develops students' quantitative thinking about the world and analytical thinking about complex situations through examination of the relations between interdependent factors. Functional thinking is indispensable for understanding natural phenomena, for investigation by science, and for the technological inventions in engineering and navigation. Therefore, it goes without saying that teachers should be able to represent and communicate about various functional situations in the course of teaching and learning functional relationships to develop students' functional thinking. The result of this study illustrates that many preservice teachers were not able to appropriately represent and communicate about various functional situations. Additionally, it shows that most preservice teachers have limited understanding of the value of teaching function.

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Alternative PNT Requirements and Technology Analysis (GNSS 대안항법시스템 요구사항 및 기술 분석)

  • Jo, Sanghoon;Kang, Seung-Eun;Kang, Ja-Young;Ko, Sangho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.28-34
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    • 2012
  • The recent transition to Performance Based Navigation in aviation enhances the accuracy of aircraft position, safety and efficiency in air traffic operations by using satellite-based navigation system such as GNSS. However, intentional interferences with GNSS signal as well as ones coming from natural phenomena such as solar storm increase. GNSS have very low power and therefore their signals are more susceptible to interferences than ground-based navigation signals. This paper introduces requirements of alternative positioning, navigation and timing(APNT) system and relevant technologies when the GNSS signals are not valid.

A Fuzzy Spatiotemporal Data Model and Dynamic Query Operations

  • Nhan, Vu Thi Hong;Kim, Sang-Ho;Ryu, Keun-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.564-566
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    • 2003
  • There are no immutable phenomena in reality. A lot of applications are dealing with data characterized by spatial and temporal and/or uncertain features. Currently, there has no any data model accommodating enough those three elements of spatial objects to directly use in application systems. For such reasons, we introduce a fuzzy spatio -temporal data model (FSTDM) and a method of integrating temporal and fuzzy spatial operators in a unified manner to create fuzzy spatio -temporal (FST) operators. With these operators, complex query expression will become concise. Our research is feasible to apply to the management systems and query processor of natural resource data, weather information, graphic information, and so on.

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Analysis on the three-dimensional unstationary heat conduciton on the welding of thick plate by F. E. M. (有限要素法에 依한 厚板熔接時의 3次元 非定常熱傳導解析)

  • 방한서;김유철
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 1991
  • In order to analyze the mechanical phenomena of three dimensional elato-plastic behavior caused by welding of thick plate, it is necessary to solve exactly the three dimensional unstationary heat conduction problem considering the moving effect of heat source and the temperature-dependence of material properties. In this paper, the three-dimensional unstationary heat conduction problem is formulated by using an isoparametric finite element method. Thereafter, the transient temperature distributions, according to time, of thick plate during welding are defined from the results calculated by the developed computer program.

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Stochastic Responses of a Spring-Pendulum System under Narrow Band Random Excitation (협대역 불규칙가진력을 받는 탄성진자계의 확률적 응답특성)

  • Cho, Duk-Sang
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.133-139
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    • 2001
  • The nonlinear response statistics of an spring-pendulum system with internal resonance under narrow band random excitation is investigated analytically- The center frequency of the filtered excitation is selected to be close to natural frequency of directly excited spring mode. The Fokker-Planck equations is used to generate a general first-order differential equation in the dynamic moment of response coordinates. By means of the Gaussian closure method the dynamic moment equations for the random responses of the system are reduced to a system of autonomous ordinary differential equations. The nonlinear phenomena, such as jump and multiple solutions, under narrow band random excitation were found by Gaussian closure method.

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Prediction and assessment of nonlocal natural frequencies of DWCNTs: Vibration analysis

  • Asghar, Sehar;Naeem, Muhammad N.;Hussain, Muzamal;Taj, Muhammad;Tounsi, Abdelouahed
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.133-144
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    • 2020
  • This paper aims to study vibration characteristics of chiral and zigzag double-walled carbon nanotubes entrenched on Donnell shell model. The Eringen's nonlocal elastic equations are being combined with Donnell shell theory to observe small scale response. Wave propagation is proposed technique to establish field equations of model subjected to four distinct end supports. A nonlocal model has been formulated to explore the frequency spectrum of both chiral and zigzag double-walled CNTs along with diversity of indices and nonlocal parameter. The significance of scale effect in relevance of length-to-diameter and thickness- to- radius ratios are discussed and displayed in detail. The numerical solution based on this nonlocal Donnell shell model can be further used to predict other frequency phenomena of double-walled and multi-walled CNTs.

Integrating Spatial Proximity with Manifold Learning for Hyperspectral Data

  • Kim, Won-Kook;Crawford, Melba M.;Lee, Sang-Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.693-703
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    • 2010
  • High spectral resolution of hyperspectral data enables analysis of complex natural phenomena that is reflected on the data nonlinearly. Although many manifold learning methods have been developed for such problems, most methods do not consider the spatial correlation between samples that is inherent and useful in remote sensing data. We propose a manifold learning method which directly combines the spatial proximity and the spectral similarity through kernel PCA framework. A gain factor caused by spatial proximity is first modelled with a heat kernel, and is added to the original similarity computed from the spectral values of a pair of samples. Parameters are tuned with intelligent grid search (IGS) method for the derived manifold coordinates to achieve optimal classification accuracies. Of particular interest is its performance with small training size, because labelled samples are usually scarce due to its high acquisition cost. The proposed spatial kernel PCA (KPCA) is compared with PCA in terms of classification accuracy with the nearest-neighbourhood classification method.

Comparative Analysis of Geomorphological and Folklore Approaches to Weathered Landforms - Focusing on Tafoni, Gnamma, Gamsil and Alter - (풍화지형에 대한 지형학적 분석과 고고민속학적 접근에 관한 비교 연구 - 타포니와 나마, 감실과 알터를 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Kyeong
    • Journal of The Geomorphological Association of Korea
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.119-131
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    • 2017
  • Typical weathering landforms and phenomena including tafoni and gnamma are usually interpreted as man-made alteo (praying water bowl) or dragon-alteo by folklore researchers. Despite some terminological ambiguity, they are certainly natural weathering pits and are introduced in our discipline for fifty years, however, unfortunately most of them are interpreted as petroglyphs used and prepared for ritual ceremony. Several seemingly artificially-made rock holes are also found in many places, but most of them are weathered landforms by salt weathering. Author believes that communication effort to use common language and publish more researches in interdisciplinary journals are very essential to propagate scientific achievements made by geomorphologists to other discipline. Also geomorphologists specialized in weathering processes are encouraged to participate in preservation of stone artifacts and archaeological remains.

Strong earthquakes and measurement performance of masonry and adobe structures

  • Liu, Yanling;Han, Qinkia
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.99-118
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    • 2013
  • Earthquakes, which are unavoidable natural phenomena in Turkey, have often produced economic and social disaster. The latest destructive earthquakes happened in Van city. Van, Turkey, earthquakes with M = 7.2 occurred on 23 October 2011 at 13:41 (local time), whose epicenter was about 16 km north of Van (Tabanlivillage) and M = 5.6 on 9 November 2011 epicentered near the town of Edremit south of Van in eastern Turkey and caused the loss of life and heavy damages. Both earthquakes killed 644 people and 2608 people were injured. Approximately 4000 buildings collapsed or were seriously damaged. The majority of the damaged structures were seismically insufficient, unreinforced masonry and adobe buildings in rural areas. In this paper, site surveys of the damaged masonry and adobe buildings are presented and the reasons for the caused damages are discussed in detail.