• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.7
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• pp.731-738
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• 2012

In this study, the evaluation of the aerodynamic characteristics of the NREL Phase VI Rotor System has been performed, for the 7 m/s upwind case using commercial FEA and CFD tools which are ANSYS Mechanical 12.1 and CFX 12.1. The initial operating conditions of the rotor blade include a $3^{\circ}$ tip pitch angle. A numerical simulation was carried out on only the rotor parts, excluding the tower structure based on the equivalent stiffness model, to consider the aeroelastic effect for the numerical simulation using the loosely coupled 2-way fluid-structure interaction method. The blade root bending moment was monitored in real time to obtain reasonable results. To verify the analysis results, the numerical simulation results were compared with the measurements in the form of the root bending moment and the pressure distributions of the NREL/NASA Ames wind tunnel test.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.43 no.7
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• pp.601-608
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• 2015

The static aeroelastic analysis and optimization of flexible wings are conducted for steady state conditions while both aerodynamic and structural parameters can be used as optimization variables. The system of multidisciplinary design optimization as a robust methodology to couple commercial codes for a static aeroelastic optimization purpose to yield a convenient adaptation to engineering applications is developed. Aspect ratio, taper ratio, sweepback angle are chosen as optimization variables and the skin thickness of the wing. The real-coded adaptive range multi-objective genetic algorithm code, which represents the global multi-objective optimization algorithm, was used to control the optimization process. The support vector regression(SVR) is applied for optimization, in order to reduce the time of computation. For this multi-objective design optimization problem, numerical results show that several useful Pareto optimal designs exist for the flexible wing.

• Composites Research
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.29-37
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• 2004

The aeroelastic stability analysis of composite bearingless rotors is investigated using a large deflection beam theory in hover. The bearingless rotor configuration consists of a single flexbeam with a wrap-around type torque tube and the pitch links located at the leading edge and trailing edge of the torque tube. The outboard main blade, flexbeam and torque tube are all assumed to be an elastic beam undergoing flap bending, lead-lag bending, elastic twist and axial deflections, which are discretized into beam finite elements. For the analysis of composite bearingless rotors, flexbeam is assumed to be a rectangular section made of laminate. Two-dimensional quasi-steady strip theory is used for aerodynamic computation. The finite element equations of motion for beams are obtained from Hamilton's principle. The p-k method is used to determine aeroelastic stability boundary. Numerical results are presented for selected bearingless rotor configurations based on the lay-up of laminae in the flexbeam and pitch links location. A systematic study is made to identify the importance of the stiffness coupling terms on aeroelastic stability for various fiber orientation and for different configuration.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.452-456
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• 2004

A study on gust loads alleviation using aircraft control surface was performed. Aeroservoelastic model including control surface controller was formulated and validated by comparing the results of continuous turbulence response analysis with those of MSC/NASTRAN. Optimal control with output feedback was adopted for designing the control surface controller, and the effects of gust loads alleviation was validated by performing the numerical simulation for the controller designed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.271-278
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• 1999

An alternative panel flutter approach utilizing minimum angle is presented. The minimum angle is the lowest value among the angles between modes i and j at a certain pressure condition. This method utilizes eigenvectors rather than eigenvalues. Cross-ply composite plates are considered in this study. A remarkable result of this investigation is that the angle always dropped gradually to zero for all presented examples

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.488-491
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 돌풍응답경감제어 효과 검증을 위한 풍동시험에 사용될 유연날개에 대해 공탄성 모델, 조종면 작동기 모델, 돌풍 모델 등으로 구성되는 서보공탄성 모델링을 수행하였으며, 이에 대한 연속돌풍 응답해석을 수행하여 상용 Solver를 이용한 해석결과와 비교하여 구성된 서보공탄성 모델을 검증하였다. 또한, 유연날개의 돌풍응답을 경감하는 조종면 제어기를 설계하고, 이에 대한 수치 시뮬레이션을 수행하여 돌풍응답 경감효과를 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.29 no.11
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• pp.1236-1244
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• 2012

A equivalent stiffness modeling has been performed for extracting the equivalent stiffness properties which are orthotropic elastic model from a large scale wind turbine rotor blade so that structure model can be constructed more simply for the three dimensional static aeroelastic analysis. In order to present the procedure of equivalent stiffness modeling, NREL 5MW class wind turbine rotor having the three stiffness information which are flapewise, edgewise and torsional stiffness was chosen. This method is based on applying unit moment at the tip of the blade as well as fixing all degree of freedom at the blade root and calculating the displacement from the load analysis to obtain the elastic modulus corresponding to equivalent stiffness referred to the NREL reports on blade divided into 5 sections respectively. In addition, one section was divided into 3 parts and the trend functions were used to make the equivalent stiffness model more correctly and quickly. Through the comparison of stiffness between the reference values and calculated values from equivalent stiffness model, the investigation of the accuracy on the stiffness values and the efficiency for constructing the model was conducted.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06e
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• pp.588-594
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• 2001

본 연구를 통해 초음속 전투기 날개의 공력-구조를 동시에 고려한 다학제간 설계를 수행하였다. 공력해석을 위해 사용된 3 차원 Euler Code는 수렴 속도를 개선하기 위해 Multigrid를 적용하였으며, 3차의 transfinite interpolation을 사용하여 O-H type의 공력해석 격자계를 생성하였다. 구조 분야는 절점당 54개의 자유도를 가지는 9 절점 쉘 혼합 유한요소(9-node shell mixed finite element)를 사용하여 해석을 수행하였다. 설계변수는 공력쪽으로 날개의 평면형상에 관련된 변수 3개, 구조쪽은 날개 윗면과 아래면의 표피두께에 관련된 4개의 설계변수 사용하였으며, D-optimality 조건을 만족시키는 실험점들에 대해 공력해석과 구조해석이 연동된 정적 공탄성 해석을 수행한 후, 반응면 기법을 이용하여 목적함수와 제약조건에 대한 반응면을 구성하였다. 단일점 설계를 수행한 후 이를 바탕으로 3개의 설계점을 동시에 고려한 다점 설계를 수행하였으며, 공력만을 고려한 설계 결과와 공력-구조를 동시에 고려한 다학제간 설계결과의 비교를 통해 다학제간 설계의 타당성과 우수성을 입증하였다.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.41-48
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• 2008

The fluid-structure interaction analysis such as a static aeroelastic analysis requires the result of each analysis as an input to the other analysis. Usually the grids for the fluid analysis and the structural analysis are different, so the results should be transformed properly for each other. The Infinite Plate Spline(IPS) and the Thin Plate Spline(TPS) are used in interpolating the displacement and the pressure. In this study, such interpolation methods are compared with kriging which provides a precise response surface. The static aeroelastic analysis is performed for the supersonic flow field with shock waves and the pressure field is interpolated by the TPS and kriging. The TPS shows tendency to weaken the shock strength, whereas kriging preserves the shock strength.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.657-662
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• 2011

In this study, aeroelastic performance analyses have been conducted for a 10MW class wind turbine blade model Advanced computational analysis system based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational structural dynamics (CSD) has been developed in order to investigate detailed dynamic responsed of wind turbine blade Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations with k-${\omega}$ SST turbulence model are solved for unsteady flow problems of the rotating turbine blade model. A fully implicit time marching scheme based on the Newmark direct integration method is used for computing the coupled aeroelastic governing equations of the 3D turbine blade for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems.