• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.285-288
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• 2005

A Stratospheric airship should stay long to achieve its original mission. Meanwhile, to obtain what the solar radiation and heat transfer have an effect on Stratospheric condition, heat analysis has been done. For this work, Stratospheric heat condition's been examined and for the numerical analysis, by using Gridgen, grids of airship have been generated. And by using STAR-CD, the study about heat characteristic of airship model was carried out. Especially, with changing the position of the Sun, the temperature change of the airship body was focused on. With this background, the possibility of realizing the simulation of the effects solar radiation have on the Stratospheric airship.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.89-96
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• 2005

This study has been performed on the mechanism of heat transfer between stratospheric airship and its surroundings while the airship is staying in the air at the altitude of 20km. The computational grid of airship has been generated and the results influenced by the number and the shape of grids have been compared. The temperature distributions have been obtained through this thermal analysis considering three modes of heat transfer - conduction, convection and radiation - in stratospheric conditions. Based on the airship's surface and inner temperature variations, the influence of temperature distributions on the helium envelope and the payload has been predicted.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.31-38
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• 2006

A study of thermal characteristics of the airship considering radiation heat transfer has been conducted by building a numerical model for the airship in order to identify the possibility to obtain the reliable flight performance in severe stratospheric heat conditions. The variations of distributed temperature of the skin and the inner flow by free convection have been calculated according to the change of the solar position. As the results of the analyses, the stratospheric heat conditions slightly have an influence on the flight performance of the airship.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.221-225
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• 2005

성층권 비행선 기낭용 막재료를 개발하였다. 성층권 비행선을 구현하기 위한 초경량/고강도의 막재료를 설계 개발하였다. 요구조건을 만족시키기 위하여 벡트란, 테들라 등의 최신 고분자 화합물을 적층한 막재를 개발하였다. 개발된 막재료에 대한 유한요소 미세구조 모델링을 수행하고, 물성치를 예측하였다. 막재료에 대한 물성시험을 수행하였다. 단위 시편에 대한 강도-강성 시험을 수행하였으며, 이를 유한요소 예측치와 비교하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.30 no.8
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• pp.148-155
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• 2002

A study on the installation angle of solar panels is conducted as a conceptual study on solar-RFC(regenerative fuel cell) system for stratospheric airships. The airship heads for the west in winter days and the east in summer days according to wind directions. Considering this, it is found that when the solar panel is installed with the center angle of 30 degree the energy output of solar panels is maximized on winter solstice and satisfies the required energy of summer days as well. Although with the optimized solar panel installation angle, efficiency of the regenerative power system needs be improved to 47% to provide required energy of a 170m-long airship. And the required amount of efficiency improvement decreases as the airship size increases.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.253-256
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• 2000

최근 초고속 멀티 미디어 통신망을 경제적으로 구성할 수 있는 하나의 방안으로서 성층권 통신시스템에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 성층권 통신 시스템이란 대류권(Troposphere, 지상 10-20 Km) 위에 존재하는 성층권(Stratosphere, 지상 20-50 Km)에 통신 탑재체를 싣고 있는 비행선을 체공시켜 각종 무선 통신 서비스를 제공하는 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 실측 데이터를 이용한 채널 모델을 적용하여 성층권 통신 채널을 섀도우잉이 포함된 라이시안 채널로 모델링하였으며, 이러한 채널에서의 BPSK시스템의 성능을 분석하였다.

• Composites Research
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.30-37
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• 2005

In this paper, geometrically non-linear finite element analyses were performed to study the mechanical behavior of the material system of the envelope of stratospheric airships. The microstructure of the load-bearing plain weave layer was identified and modeled. The Updated Lagrangian formulation was employed to consider the geometric non-linearity as well as the induced structural non-linearity for the fiber tows. The stress-strain behavior was predicted and the effective elastic modulus was calculated by numerical experiments. It was found the non-linear stress-strain curves were largely different from those by linear analysis. And non-linear elastic moduli were much higher than linear elastic moduli. The difference was more distinguishable when the tow waviness ratio was smaller.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.67-73
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• 2002

There have been increased concerns on mobile stratospheric communication system(SCS) for the purpose of advanced service of personal and high speed communication systems. In fact, this SCS is considered and studied for IMT-2000 service by ITU. Although, it is important to make accurate channel model for prediction of the SCS performance, there is no measured channel data in this system. Thus, in this paper, we estimate the performance of SCS bye use of channel model provided by Corazza(2) and modified by You(3). And also, the effects of channel codings on system performance are analyzed by deriving bit error performance based on realistic Rician log-normal fading channel models. The performance results are divided into three kinds of areas with three kinds of elevation angles 20$^\cire$, 45$^\cire$, and 80$^\cire$. And also the effects of forward error correction channel codings on system performance with Hamming(7,4), HCH( IS,7) and convolutional code of constraint length 3 and code rate R=1/2.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.87-99
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• 2008

High Altitude Platform network systems utilize Unmanned Aerial Vehicle as routers for ground node communication. For this purpose, geographical clustering of ground nodes must be required. In this paper, we assume mobile ground nodes over wide area and the clusters composed of ground nodes are identified. UAVs can be positioned at the point of centroid of clusters. The number of UAVs are derived from the area size and the number of ground nodes deployed in that area. From the simulation and application of clustering algorithms, we showed visual clustering results with dynamic variance of number of ground nodes.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.15 no.5 s.65
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• pp.49-59
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• 2000

WRC-2000 회의를 계기로 성층권 통신시스템용 주파수가 새롭게 분배됨에 따라 정보통신 인프라가 취약한 후진국 및 개도국뿐만 아니라 여러 선진국들을 중심으로 성층권 비행선을 이용한 통신 및 무선응용 서비스의 활용에 대해서 관심이 점점 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 성층권 통신시스템의 개요를 소개하고 WRC-2000 회의의 HAPS(High Altitude Platform Station) 관련 주요 의제 및 진행 경과와 결과를 중심으로 국제 표준화 동향을 알아보고자 한다. 그리고 현재 미국, 일본 및 유럽 등 몇몇 기술 선진국을 중심으로 진행되고 있는 성층권 통신시스템 개발과 관련하여 기술 개발 동향에 대해서 살펴보고 성층권 통신시스템(HAPS)의 기대효과 및 향후 전망에 대해서 논의하고자 한다.