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A Study on Railway Transportation Business Cost Estimation & Decision Supporting Methods using Simulation Data (시뮬레이션을 활용한 철도교통사업 비용 추산 및 의사결정 지원 방법 연구)

  • Chang, Suk;Nam, Do Woo;Sim, Jeong Hwan;Kim, Dong Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.85-94
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    • 2020
  • In determining the feasibility of planning and launching railway transportation projects, various decision-making processes are essentially required. LCC(Life Cycle Cost) value including total construction cost and operation cost is estimated in approximation Model with rough guideline. In this study, modeling and simulation-based analysis method is proposed to support the decision making process of railroad transportation and derivation of LCC. Firstly, cost analysis model was constructed by collecting various existing rail transportation business data to enable analyze based on numerical data, and the result were analyzed by DOE(Design Of Experiments) and RSM (Response Surface Method) simulation. Professional commercial software tools were used for effective model construction and simulation. In order to verify the research results, the actual railroad transportation projects were selected, and the results of the analysis were compared.

Control of Distributed Micro Air Vehicles for Varying Topologies and Teams Sizes

  • Collins, Daniel-James;Arvin Agah
    • Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.176-187
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    • 2002
  • This paper focuses on the study of simulation and evolution of Micro Air Vehicles. Micro Air Vehicles or MAVs are small flying robots that are used for surveillance, search and rescue, and other missions. The simulated robots are designed based on realistic characteristics and the brains (controllers) of the robots are generated using genetic algorithms, i .e., simulated evolution. The objective for the experiments is to investigate the effects of robot team size and topology (simulation environment) on the evolution of simulated robots. The testing of team sizes deals with finding an ideal number of robots to be deployed for a given mission. The goal of the topology experiments is to see if there is an ideal topology (environment) to evolve the robots in order to increase their utility in most environments. We compare the results of the various experiments by evaluating the fitness values of the robots i .e., performance measure. In addition, evolved robot teams are tested in different situation in order to determine if the results can be generalized, and statistical analysis is performed to evaluate the evolved results.

In situ analysis of capturing dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles in a microfluidic system

  • Munir, Ahsan;Zhu, Zanzan;Wang, Jianlong;Zhou, H. Susan
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.1-22
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    • 2013
  • Magnetic nanoparticle based bioseparation in microfluidics is a multiphysics phenomenon that involves interplay of various parameters. The ability to understand the dynamics of these parameters is a prerequisite for designing and developing more efficient magnetic cell/bio-particle separation systems. Therefore, in this work proof-of-concept experiments are combined with advanced numerical simulation to design and optimize the capturing process of magnetic nanoparticles responsible for efficient microfluidic bioseparation. A low cost generic microfluidic platform was developed using a novel micromolding method that can be done without a clean room techniques and at much lower cost and time. Parametric analysis using both experiments and theoretical predictions were performed. It was found that flow rate and magnetic field strength greatly influence the transport of magnetic nanoparticles in the microchannel and control the capturing efficiency. The results from mathematical model agree very well with experiments. The model further demonstrated that a 12% increase in capturing efficiency can be achieved by introducing of iron-grooved bar in the microfluidic setup that resulted in increase in magnetic field gradient. The numerical simulations were helpful in testing and optimizing key design parameters. Overall, this work demonstrated that a simple low cost experimental proof-of-concept setup can be synchronized with advanced numerical simulation not only to enhance the functional performance of magneto-fluidic capturing systems but also to efficiently design and develop microfluidic bioseparation systems for biomedical applications.

A Case Study on the Evacuation Times on a Training ship

  • Hwang, Kwang-Il
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.293-298
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    • 2010
  • The residential comfort and safety on ship are more focused than ever, in accordance with the increase of the crews' onboard time and interest in cruiser sailing. To grasp the safety characteristics on ships against various scenarios of evacuations, this study performed experiments and simulations for the evacuation times on a training ship. Through the experiments, the average walking speed is 3.0m/s on 100% visibility, and 1.2m/s on 8% visibility, but the speeds go down 1.3m/s and 0.7m/s, respectively, when obstacles are happened without any previous notification. From the simulation, it is clearly reconfirmed that the worse visibility and many people make evacuation time comparatively longer. And unlike the common expectation of the effect of emergency announcement, the difference of evacuation times between cases of announcement and non-announcement is negligible on this study. From the survey after experiments, it is known that experiment participants feel unsafe and fear when the evacuation routes are longer in bad visible condition, even if they know the perfect evacuation route. And the survey results also show that the evacuees give more careful consideration to make a evacuation route decision under bad visibility.

The comparison of the output characteristics of 2-DOF PID controller in the multivariable flow control system with delayed time (지연시간을 갖는 다변수 유량제어 시스템의 2-자유도 PID 제어기 특성 비교)

  • Kim, Dong-Hwa
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.5 no.6
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    • pp.744-752
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, we studied the response characteristics of $\alpha$, $\beta$ separated type, combined type, PI typed, and feedforward type in 2DOF-PID controller through the simulation and the experiments designed with the multivariable flow control system. The parameters $\alpha$ and $\beta$ give an affect to characteristics of controller in separated type but $\gamma$ does not give an affect to the characteristics of 2-DOF PID. The more $\beta$ increases, the more overshoot decreases and especially, in case of PI type represent clearly. The $\alpha$, $\beta$ separated type has a very small overshoot and its magnitudes in 2-DOF PID onctroller increases in order of $\alpha$, $\beta$ combined type, PI type, feedforward type, conventional type. The response characteristics of simulation are similar to that of experiments but the experimental characteristics in the multivariable flow control system has the delayed response. The time delay of response in experiments depends on 2-DOF parameter $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ and the overshoot increase as the $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ increase. So, we can have a satisfactory response by tuning D gain.

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Rodent Experiments for Pedestrian Flow Simulation at Exit with Various Angles (다양한 각도의 출구에서의 보행자 유동 시뮬레이션을 위한 설치류 실험)

  • Oh, Hyejin;Lyu, Jaehee;Park, Junyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.30-39
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    • 2016
  • There have been many cases of deaths from crushing caused by dense crowds. Numerous studies about pedestrian flow have performed various simulations, but the experimental data to prove the simulations are still not enough. In this paper, the evacuation of pedestrians for proving pedestrian flow simulation is observed. Due to the possibility of real casualties, it is difficult to experiment with humans directly. Therefore, ten C57BL/6NCrSIc mice have been used. It is assumed that C57BL/6NCrSIc mice act like humans in panic situations. Electrical Stimulus Experiments on mice are conducted for exits with various angles. ICY software is applied in this paper. As a result, the mice escape fast at a proper angle of 45 to 60 degrees.

A Study of Concentration Profiles in Amorphous Silicon by Phosphorus Doping and Ion Implantation (비정질 실리콘에서 인의 도핑과 이온주입에 따른 농도분포에 대한 연구)

  • 정원채
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.18-26
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    • 1999
  • In this study, the undoped amorphous layers and phosphorus doped amorphous layers are fabricated using LPCVD at 531$^{\circ}C$ with SiH$_4$ gas or at same temperature with PH$_3$ gas during deposition, respectively. The thickness of deposited amorphous layer from this experiments was 5000 ${\AA}$. In this experiments, undoped amorphous layers are deposited with SiH$_4$and Si$_2$H$\_$6/ gas in a low pressure reactor using LPCVD. These amorphous layers can be doped for poly-silicon by phosphorus ion implantation. The experiments of this study are carried out by phosphorus ion implantation with energy 40 keV into P doped and undoped amorphous silicon layers. The distribution of phosphorus profiles are measured by SIMS(Cameca 6f). Recoiling effects and two dimensional profiles are also explained by comparisions of experimental and simulated data. Finally range moments of SIMS profiles are calculated and compared with simulation results.

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Application of Variance Reduction Techniques in Designed Simulation Experiments (시뮬레이션 실험설계에서 분산감소기법의 응용)

  • 권치명
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.25-36
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    • 1995
  • We develop a variance reduction technique in one simulation experiment whose purpose is to estimate the parameters of a first-order linear model. This method utilizes the control variates obtained during the course of simulation run under Schruben and Margolin's method (S-M method). The performance of this method is shown to be similar in estimating the main effects, and to be superior to S-M method in estimating the overall mean response in the hospital simulation experiment. For the general case, we consider that a proposed method may yield a better result than S-M method if selected control variates are highly correlated with the response at each design point.

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불평등 전계에서 $SF_6/N_2$의 초고압 AC전압 절연내력 시뮬레이션

  • Heo, Chang-Su;Lee, Byeong-Taek;Choe, Sun-Ho;Sim, Myeong-Seop;An, Jeong-Sik;Hwang, Cheong-Ho;Jang, Yong-Mu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2010.03b
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    • pp.37-37
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    • 2010
  • In these days $SF_6$ mixtures and alternative gas has been studied because of global warming. so although many studies have been carried out about binary gas mixtures with $SF_6$, few studies were presented about breakdown characteristics of $SF_6/N_2$ mixtures. In this paper, breakdown experiment values and breakdown simulation value are compared. Streamer theory was used for predicting breakdown voltage. For accurate simulation, this simulation apply utilization factor using CST program. AC breakdown experiments in non-uniform field was performed to compare with the breakdown simulation values. But with gap lengths increasing, the breakdown voltage is saturated. So simulation need surface roughness factor.

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Simulation of flow-induced cavity resonance with turbulence models

  • Jang K S.;Park S. O.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.110-112
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    • 2003
  • A numerical simulation of an incompressible cavity flow is conducted using turbulence models. Cavity geometry and flow conditions are based on Cattafesta's experiment. Baldwin-Lomax model and ${\kappa}-{\varpi}$ model are employed. While simulation with Baldwin-Lomax model predicts the oscillatory features of the flow, the use of ${\kappa}-{\varpi}$ model in its original form makes the simulation converge to steady flow. To acquire oscillatory flow solution, Kato-Launder form and Time scale bound are adopted in production term of ${\kappa}-{\varpi}$ model. The strouhal number of the flow oscillations from the simulation results corresponds to 1 st mode in simulation but 2 nd mode in experiments. However mean velocity profile is in good agreement with the experimental data and the fluctuation profile follows the tendency of Cattafesta's results.

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