• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.891-898
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• 2007

Optimal aerodynamic design for the pitch-controlled horizontal axis wind turbine and its aerodynamic performance for various pitch angles are performed numerically by using the blade element momentum theory. The numerical calculation includes effects such as Prandtl‘s tip loss, airfoil distribution, and wake rotation. Six different airfoils are distributed along the blade span, and the special airfoil i.e. airfoil of 40% thickness ratio is adopted at the hub side to have structural integrity. The nonlinear chord obtained from the optimal design procedure is linearized to decrease the weight and to increase the productivity with very little change of the aerodynamic performance. From the comparisons of the power, thrust, and torque coefficients with corresponding values of different pitch angles, the aerodynamic performance shows delicate changes for just $3^{\circ}$ increase or decrease of the pitch angle. For precisive pitch control, it requires the pitch control algorithm and its drive mechanism below $3^{\circ}$ increment of pitch angle. The maximum torque is generated when the speed ratio is smaller than the designed one.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2003

In the present study, a 3-D Parallel DSMC method in developed on unstructured meshes for the efficient simulation of rarefied gas flows. Particle tracing between cells in achieved based on a linear shape function extended to three dimensions. For high parallel efficiency, successive domain decomposition is applied to achieve load balancing between processors by accounting for the number of particles. A particle weighting technique is also adopted to handle flows containing gases of significantly dirrerent number densities in the same flow domain. Application is made for flow past a 3-D delta wing and the result is compared with that from experiment and other calculation. Flow around a rocket payload at 100km altitude is also solved and the effect of plume back flow from the nozzle in studied.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.12-18
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• 2006

A new steady approach has been developed to predict the transonic buffet onset of a high speed aircraft. In this paper, the flow is assumed to be steady for the buffet onset. The present study involves the analysis of a distinct change in the variation of various static aerodynamic parameters. These distinct changes indicates the onset of transonic buffet. Among the various aerodynamic parameters considered in this study, the variation in the center of pressure has shown to provide a clearest indicator of transonic buffet onset. This new steady approach can be applied to predict the transonic buffet onset for airfoils with shock induced separation bubble and for large swept wings with small aspect ratios. Good agreements have been obtained compared with unsteady wind tunnel buffet test data. Based on the results obtained the new steady approach, it can be newly suggested that the distinct slope changes of the center of pressure curve can be used as an indicator of buffet onset for the steady experimental method on a full aircraft configuration.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.8-15
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• 2002

A two-dimensional higher order panel method using B-splines has been developed to overcome the disadvantages of the low order panel method and to obtain more accurate solution. The sources and the normal dipoles are distributed on both the body and the free surface. Instead of applying the upwind finite difference schemes to satisfy the linearized free surface and the radiation condition, the derivatives of the basis functions of the B-splines are directly applied to the linearized free surface condition. Numerical damping in the Dawson's method are avoided in the Present computations. In order to validate the present method, numerical computations are carried out for a submerged cylinder and a two-dimensional hydrofoil steadily moving beneath a free surface. The numerical results show that fast convergence and better accuracies have been achieved by the present method.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.41-49
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• 1999

A feasibility study is performed for practical application of a Ventilating Water-Jet(VWJ) propulsor which attracts new attention as a candidate propulsor for super-high speed vessels. Super-cavitating foil sections are adopted for the rotor blades since the rotor is operating at ventilating condition. Wedge type and cavitator type foil sections are used for the design of rotor blades. Other geometric characteristics of rotors are selected from the Kaplan type ducted propeller rotors. The test section of KRISO cavitation tunnel is modified to perform open-water tests of the VWJ propulsors. The tests are performed both at fully-submerged and free-jet conditions. Ventilation occurred at the free-jet condition by sucking the air in the downstream side of the rotor, which easily develops as super-cavitation when the rotor operates at lower advance coefficients. Spoilers are attached at the trailing end of the pressure side of the blade section, in order to increase the lift force.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.44-51
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• 2012

Due to a high tidal range of up to 10 m on the west coast of Korea, numerous tidal current projects are being planned and constructed. The turbine, which initially converts the tidal energy, is an important component because it affects the efficiency of the entire system. Its performance is determined by design variables such as the number of blades, the shape of foils, and the size of a hub. To design a turbine that can extract the maximum power on the site, the depth and duration of current velocity with respect to direction should be considered. Verifying the performance of a designed turbine is important, and requires a circulating water channel (CWC) facility. A physical model for the performance test of the turbine should be carefully designed and compared to results from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. In this study, a horizontal axis tidal current turbine is designed based on the blade element theory. The proposed turbine's performance is evaluated using both CFD and a CWC experiment. The sealing system, power train, measuring devices, and generator are arranged in a nacelle, and the complete TCP system is demonstrated in a laboratory scale.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.480-488
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• 2012

The aircrafts with high aspect ratio wings made by a composite material have been developed, which enable high energy efficiency and long-term flight by reducing air resistance and structural weight. However, they have difficulties in securing the aeroelastic stability such as the flutter because of their long and flexible wings. The flutter is unstable self-excited-vibration caused by interaction between the structural dynamics and the aerodynamics. It should be verified analytically prior to first flight test that the flutter does not happen in the range of flight mission. Normally, the finite element model is used for the flutter analysis. So it is important to construct the finite element model representing dynamic characteristics similar to those of a real aircraft. Accordingly, in this research, to acquire dynamic characteristics experimentally the modal test of the aircraft with high aspect ratio composite wings was conducted. And then the modal parameters from the finite element analysis(FEA) were compared with those from the modal test. To make analysis results closer to test results, the finite element model was updated by means of the sensitivity analysis on variables and the optimization. Finally, it was proved that the updated finite element model is reliable as compared with the results of the modal test.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.294-294
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• 2013

소수성을 띄는 표면은 자연으로부터 시작된 연구이다. 연잎, 소금쟁이 다리, 매미 날개 등 많은 자연의 표면은 150o보다 높은 접촉각을 지니기 때문에 물에 대한 반발이 심해져 약간의 기울임에도 쉽게 물방울이 굴러 떨어지고 이때 먼지를 제거할 수 있다. 자연현상을 이용해 물질 표면의 소수성 제어에 대한 다양한 연구가 진행 중이다. 친수성과 소수성은 일반적으로 표면에서 물방울의 contact angle 측정으로 확인 할 수 있다. Contact angle이 $90^{\circ}$ 작을 경우 친수성, $90^{\circ}$보다 클 경우 소수성이라고 한다. 이러한 기술을 이용해서 solar cell, 자동차 유리, 건물외벽, 등 다양한 분야에서 사용하고 있으며, 소수성 구조를 만드는 방법으로는 laser ablation, wet etching, 리소그라피 공정이 있는데, laser ablation의 경우 가격이 비싸다는 단점을 가지고 있으며, 반면 가격이 저렴한 wet etching의 경우 제어가 힘들다는 단점을 지니고 있다. 리소그라피 공정은 비싼 비용과 시간을 소비해야 하는 단점을 지니고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 단점들을 개선하기 위해 공정 시간의 감소와, 저 비용으로 제작이 가능한 RIE (Recative Ion Etching)로 피라미드 구조를 만들었다. 형성된 구조물에 투명하고 균일하며, 낮은 계면에너지를 갖고 있는 PDMS (polydimethelsiloxine)로 mold을 수행하였다. RIE를 이용한 표면 구조는 Gas, Flow rate, Pressure, Power, Time 등을 조절하여 단결정 실리콘 기판 위에 피라미드의 크기를 조절하였다. 피라미드의 크기가 커짐에 따라 물과 PDMS가 닿는 면적이 줄어들면서 높은 소수성을 가지게 되는데, 높은 소수성 구조를 가지는 피라미드 형상을 찾기 위한 실험을 진행하였다. RIE 조건은 Flow rate: 30 sccm, Temperature: $10^{\circ}C$ Pressure: 100 mTorr, Power: 200 W, Process Time: 5~50 min으로 조절하며 공정을 수행하였고 RIE공정 후 SAMs (Self-Assembly Monolayers)을 진행하였으며, 마지막으로 PDMS를 이용하여 mold공정을 진행하였다. 그리고 SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope)장비를 이용하여 Etching된 단면을 관찰하였으며, 접촉각을 측정하였다. Process Time을 50 min로 공정하였을 때, 측정된 접촉각은 $134^{\circ}$였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.31-37
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• 2017

This paper investigates the effect of the rotational motion of a driving fluid generated by a rotational motion device at the inlet of a driving nozzle for a gas-liquid ejector, which is the main device used for ozonated ship ballast water treatment. An experimental apparatus was constructed to study the pressure and suction flow rate of each port of the ejector according to the back pressure. Experimental data were acquired for the ejector without rotational motion. Based on the data, a finite element model was then developed. The rotational motion of the driving fluid could improve the suction efficiency of the ejector based on the CFD model. Based on the CFD results, structure optimization was performed for the internal shape of the rotation induction device to increase the suction flow rate of the ejector, which was performed using the kriging technique and a metamodel. The optimized rotation induction device improved the ejector efficiency by about 3% compared to an ejector without rotational motion of the driving fluid.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.55-60
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• 2013

Compound bows use levering systems consisting of cables and cam pulleys to bend limbs that are much stiffer than those of recurve bows, thus storing more energy while requiring less force for the archer to hold the bow at a fully drawn position. Many patents have thus far been proposed to improve the efficiency and performance of compound bows through empirical methods, whereas only a few analytical methods have been proposed. In this light, this paper presents a method for the kinematic analysis of levering systems in compound bows so that a designer can easily predict the effects of changes in the cam profiles and limb materials.