• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.13-26
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• 2023

This study examined the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC), considering the volume change, using wetting curves on the field monitoring data of a wireless sensor network. Special attention was given to evaluating the landslide vulnerability by deriving a matric suction suitable for the actual site during the wetting process. Laboratory drying SWCC and shrinkage laboratory tests were used to perform the combined analysis of landslide and debris flow. The results showed that the safety factor of the wetting curve, considering the volume change of soil, was lower than that of the drying curve. As a result of numerical analyses of the debris flow simulation, more debris flow occurred in the wetting curve than in the drying curve. It was also found that the landslide analysis with the drying curve tends to overestimate the actual safety factor with the in situ wetting curve. Finally, it is confirmed that calculating the matric suction through SWCC considering the volume change is more appropriate and reasonable for the field landslide analysis.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.635-656
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• 2014

A rational estimation of moisture distribution in structural concrete is vital for predicting the possible extent and rate of progression of impending degradation processes. The paper proposes a numerical scheme for analysing the evolution of moisture distribution in concrete subjected to wetting-drying exposure caused by intermittent periods of rainfall. The proposed paradigm is based on the stage wise implementation of non-linear finite element (FE) analysis, with each stage representing a distinct phase of a typical wet-dry cycle. The associated boundary conditions have been constituted to realize the influence of various meteorological elements such as rain, wind, relative humidity and temperature on the exposed concrete surface. The reliability of the developed scheme has been demonstrated through its application for the simulation of experimentally recorded moisture profiles reported in published literature. A sensitivity analysis has also been carried out to study the influence of critical material properties on simulated results. The proposed scheme is vital to the service life modelling of concrete structures in tropical climates which largely remain exposed to the action of alternating rains.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.42 no.11
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• pp.989-1004
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• 2009

The objective of this study is to examine validation of Grid Reconstruction Method, which is developed to simulate drying/wetting in complex natural rivers with wetting and drying domain areas. To verify application of the developed model, the model was applied to natural rivers with wetting and drying domain areas such as Han river and Nakdong river. The simulation results have shown good agreements with observed data and the results for the developed model were more accurate and improved stability of numerical computation than those of RMA-2 model. If the analysis of contaminant advection-diffusion and sediment transport are performed with the study results, the results can be effectively applied to river flow analysis and ecological hydraulics.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.54 no.5
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• pp.129-139
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• 2012

Accurate modeling rainfall induced landslide and slope stability requires a detailed knowledge of the distribution of material strength characteristics and suction distribution. However, material properties obtained from the drying cycle are still used for infiltration analysis in many cases, even though material properties of wetting cycle are quite different from those of drying cycle due to hydraulic hysteresis and air occlusion. Therefore, the selection of proper material properties such as soil-water retention curve (SWRC) and the hydraulic conductivity function (HCF) reflecting characteristics of wetting cycle and air occlusion is an essential prerequisite in order to simulate the infiltration phenomena and to predict the suction and water content distribution in unsaturated soils. It is concluded that the simulation of infiltration with material properties from the drying cycle did not reasonably match with experimental outputs. Further discussion is made on how to describe the material properties considering air occlusion during wetting cycle over the entire suction range in order to simulate infiltration phenomena.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.448-457
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• 2011

A wetting and drying(WAD) scheme was introduced in KU-RLMS which is a two-dimensional depth-averaged unsteady model, and applicability tests for wetting and drying were performed in this study. WAD scheme in the model uses a mathematically less elegant but numerically easier method to test for dry or wet cells at each time step, then to apply blocking conditions for fluxes at cells' interfaces. WAD scheme introduced in the model was verified against an analytical solution in a frictionless parabolic basin. It was found that there occurs a little phase difference between analytical and numerical solution and little decrease of amplitude of numerical result. I used three test channels having a linear sloping bottom topography, a stepwise bottom topography, and a stepwise, a bumpy and bowl-shaped bottom topography. It could be found that numerical simulation results in test channels have similar shapes of Balzano[4] and Oey[15].

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.3B
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• pp.335-343
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• 2008

A hydrodynamic numerical model, ESCORT, which enables wetting-and-drying simulation, is developed. The model is verified by applying it at the Mokpo coastal zone together with the MIKE21 model. This paper deals in only 2-dimensional aspects remaining 3-dimensional function for further research. To begin with, MIKE21 model is applied at the whole area where MIKE21 had been applied several times to produce boundary conditions for the main area. Unlike the whole area of uniform grid, main area adopts telescoping grid for ESCORT model and nested grid for MIKE21 model. The results of both model show not only good agreement for the values of water depth and tidal velocity between computed and observed ones, but also plausible wetting-and-drying simulation. However, ESCORT model needs some improvement of efficiency.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.219-227
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• 2021

Numerical simulation with Hwang's scheme, which can analyze shallow-water flow over discontinuous topography, was compared with a laboratory experiment of flooding on a perpendicular floodplain with dam-break flows. The simulation results were in good agreement with the results measured in an experimental flume with a reservoir, channel, and floodplain. The wetting and drying process on a perpendicular floodplain with a dam-break flow was particularly well simulated. The difference in simulation results according to the type of flow resistance was insignificant. The results of this study are expected to improve the accuracy of predicting inundation in urban rivers.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.775-793
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• 2015

Moisture transport in concrete in atmospheric environment was studied in this paper. Based on the simplified formula of the thickness of the adsorbed layer, the pore-size distribution function of cement paste was calculated utilizing the water adsorption isotherms. Taking into consideration of the hysteresis effect in cement paste, the moisture diffusivity of cement paste was obtained by the integration of the pore-size distribution. Concrete is regarded as a two-phase composite with cement paste and aggregate, neglecting the moisture diffusivity of aggregate, then moisture diffusivity of concrete was evaluated using the composite theory. Finally, numerical simulation of humidity response during both wetting and drying process was carried out by the finite difference method of partial differential equation for moisture transport, and the numerical results well capture the trend of the measured data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.277-277
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• 2018

Hwang (2015)은 불연속 지형을 지나는 천수 흐름의 해석에서 흐름률을 정확하게 계산하기 위하여 계단에 의한 흐름 저항이 지배적인 계단 전면과 그 영향이 비교적 덜한 계단의 윗부분을 구분하여 접근하는 새로운 기법을 제안하였으며, 모의 결과를 정확해 및 실험실 실험 결과와 비교하였다. 또한 전면 및 후면 계단을 지나는 댐 붕괴 흐름에 대한 실험(Kim et al., 2014)에 적용하여 기존 모형에 비해 새로운 기법에 의한 결과가 보다 우수함을 확인하였다(Hwang, 2016). Kim et al. (2015)은 좌안에 옹벽이 설치된 직선 수로에서 댐 붕괴 흐름에 대한 실험을 수행한 바 있다. 이 연구에서는 Kim et al. (2015)의 실험에 Hwang (2015)의 새로운 기법을 적용하였다. 댐 붕괴에 의한 주 흐름의 진행과 좌안에 직립인 옹벽에서 비교적 표고가 낮은 곳으로 물이 넘나드는 현상이 잘 재현됨을 확인하였다. 이 연구는 국토교통과학기술진흥원의 일부 지원(과제 번호: 14CCTI-C063749 그리고 18AWMP-C140010-01)에 의한 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.322-322
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• 2017

천수 흐름에 대한 수치해석에서 매우 작은 수심의 발생은 해가 불안정해지는 주요 원인 중 하나이며, 경사면이 잠기고 드러나는 그 전선에서 그 현상은 더욱 두드러질 수 있다. 특히, 지배 방정식이 보존형으로 기술되는 경우, 흐름률이나 생성항의 계산에서 수심에 의한 나눗셈이 불가피하므로 보존변수를 정확하게 계산하는 것이 해의 안정성을 도모하기 위한 관건이 된다. 이러한 기대에 부응할 수 있는 수치해법으로 흐름률을 정확한 계산할 수 있는 Riemann 해법을 들 수 있다. 또한, 생성항을 정확하게 계산할 수 있도록 계산 격자를 적절하게 구성하고 그 격자가 완전히 잠기지 않을 경우에 대해 물리적으로 타당하게 처리할 필요가 있다. 이 연구에서는 흐름률의 계산에 근사 Riemann 해법을 적용하여 포물면 지형을 지나는 천수 흐름에 대해 모의하였다. 1981년에 W. C. Thacker는 회전 포물면 위의 천수 문제에 대해 천수방정식의 정확해를 처음으로 유도하였다. 이 문제는 지형의 잠김과 드러남이 다수의 계산 격자에서 지속적으로 이루어지기 때문에 천수흐름의 수치 모의에서 극도로 혹독한 조건의 시험으로 알려져 있다. 회전 포물면 위의 천수 문제에 대해 근사 Riemann 해법에 따른 자료의 재구축 방법, 잠김과 드러남의 처리 등에 대해 검토하였다.