• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.1-5
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• 2006

Birds and insect in nature morph their mean camberline shapes to obtain both lift and thrust simultaneously. Previous unsteady thin airfoil theories were derived mainly for a rigid flapping airfoil. An extended unsteady thin airfoil theory for a deformable airfoil is required to analyze the unsteady two-dimensional aerodynamic characteristics of a biomorphing wing. Theodorsen's approach is extended to calculate the unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of a biomorphing airfoil. The mean camberline of the airfoil is represented as a polynomial. The unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of the morphing airfoil are represented as noncirculatory and circulatory terms. Present theory can be applied to the unsteady aerodynamic analysis of a flapping biomorphing airfoil and the aeroelastic analysis of a morphing wing.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.273-284
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• 2012

In this paper, a study on the design of high speed airfoil is described. Various airfoils are investigated and existing airfoils are geometrically interpolated to generate new airfoils. An optimization method is applied to theses new airfoils and their aerodynamic performances are optimized. Through this study, it is demonstrated that the airfoil can be designed using the geometrical interpolation and the optimization method to exhibit good aerodynamic performances.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.321-327
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• 2016

This paper presents the application of airfoil impeller for enhancement of aerodynamic performance of a high speed centrifugal fan. Three airfoil impellers are proposed, considering the maximum thickness and the location of maximum thickness of the airfoil. C4 airfoil thickness distribution is applied to the three airfoil impellers. The impellers are evaluated using CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and suction power test. From the results, it is confirmed that flow separations on the pressure side of the impeller blades and the pressure side of diffuser blades are reduced when airfoil blade is applied to the impellers. It is also confirmed that with the centrifugal fan having airfoil impellers, there is an increase in fan efficiency by approximately 3% and reduction in specific sound level by approximately 1.3 dB(A).

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.248-255
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• 2004

In this study, aerodynamic shape design of airfoils was performed by using RSM(response surface method) and two-dimensional Navier-Stokes solver. Numerical experiment points were determined by D-optimal method and quadratic response surfaces were constructed by using JMP. For the validations of design method, NACA 64621 airfoil was inversely designed to have aerodynamic characteristics of Bell airfoil. The design method was applied to the aerodynamic design of both smart UAV wing airfoil and low Reynolds rotor-blade airfoil for unmanned helicopter. The optimized airfoils showed improved performance with various constraint conditions.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 충남대학교에서 설계하고 있는 인력비행기인 Volante의 주익 에어포일을 선정하기 위하여 교육 및 연구를 위한 CFD 해석 프로그램인 EDISON_CFD를 이용하여 후보군으로 있는 에어포일들의 경향성을 확인하고 성능이 좋은 에어포일을 선정하였다. 또한 CFD 프로그램으로 상용화된 Fluent와 비교하여 EDISON_CFD의 신뢰성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.389-395
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• 2016

In this paper, vibration characteristics in terms of the airfoil cross-sectional shape was examined by using the EDISON co-rotational plane beam-transient analysis. Co-Rotational plane beam analysis is appropriate for large rotation and small strain. Assuming aircraft wing as a cantilevered beam, natural frequencies of each airfoil cross-sectional shape were estimated using VABS program and fast Fourier transformation(FFT). VABS conducts finite element analysis on the cross-section including the detailed geometry and material distribution to estimate the beam sectional properties. Under the same airfoil geometric configuration and material selection, variation of material induced difference in the deflection and natural frequencies. It was observed that variation of the natural frequency was dependent on variation of the airfoil shape and material.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2013.04a
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• pp.415-420
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• 2013

천음속 영역에서 비행하는 에어포일 주위의 유동은 아음속 영역과는 달리 충격파(Shockwave)를 동반하고 이에 따라 복잡한 유동 현상이 발생한다. 본 연구는 천음속 영역에서 설계된 에어포일 주위의 유동에서 충격파 발생에 따른 유동변화의 특징들을 관찰하였다. 특히, 충격파에 의해서 발생하는 진동(Buffeting)과 경계층 유동 박리(Shock-induced boundary layer separation)현상에 대한 관찰과 일반적인 에어포일과 초임계 에어포일(Supercritical airfoil)간의 유동 특성의 차이점을 분석하였다. 본 연구를 위해서 EDISON CFD코드가 사용되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2013.04a
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• pp.353-358
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• 2013

Present paper deals with turbulence-airfoil interaction noise and mainly investigates the effects of airfoil thickness on the broadband noise spectrum. The acoustic power radiation from an airfoil is predicted using high-order time-domain method, which is based on the computational aeroacoustic technique solving the linear Euler equations. The homogeneous and isotropic turbulence is generated by utilizing the synthetic turbulence modeling based on random particle method. The airfoils taken into consideration are a flat-plate and a NACA0012 airfoil aligned with uniform mean flow. The effects of airfoil thickness on the radiated inflow turbulence noise are investigated by comparing acoustic power spectrum predicted for each airfoil. The comparison of acoustic power spectrum reveals that the airfoil thickness significantly contributes the high frequency noise reduction.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.449-452
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 소형 플랩을 채용하여 능동하중제어를 이루고자하는 풍력 블레이드의 적용을 염두해 둔 에어포일 설계를 수행하였다. 블레이드 팁 부분에 플랩을 적용하고자 하는 경우 플랩의 구동장치, 연결 부위 등의 장치 설치를 위한 공간이 블레이드 내부에 필요하다. 이를 위하여 기존의 에어포일의 성능을 유지하면서 뒷전의 두께비가 증가된 에어포일 형상의 설계가 필요하다. 최적설계를 위하여는 MIGA(Multi- Island Genetic Algorithm)을 채용하였으며 에어포일의 성능 계산을 위하여는 Xfoil을 결합하였다. 또한 형상 생성을 위하여 Hick-Henne 형상 함수를 이용하였다. 위와 같은 방법으로 설계된 에어포일은 코드길이 85% 위치에서 두께비 6.3%,양항비 133을 가지게 되어 기본으로 설정한 DU180 에어포일에 비해 성능과 필요 두께비를 모두 능가하는 에어포일이 되었다.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.29-32
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 소형 플랩을 채용하여 능동하중제어를 이루고자하는 풍력블레이드의 적용을 염두해 둔 에어포일 설계를 수행하였다. 블레이드 팁 부분에 플랩을 적용하고자 하는 경우 플랩의 구동 장치, 연결 부위 등의 장치 설치를 위한 공간이 블레이드 내부에 필요하다. 이를 위하여 기존의 에어포일의 성능을 유지하면서 뒷전의 두께비가 증가된 에어포일 형상의 설계가 필요하다. 최적설계를 위하여는 MIGA(Multi-Island Genetic Algorithm)을 채용하였으며 에어포일의 성능 계산을 위하여는 Xfoil을 결합하였다. 또한 형상 생성을 위하여 Hick-Henne 형상 함수를 이용하였다. 위와 같은 방법으로 설계된 에어포일은 코드길이 85% 위치에서 두께비 6.3%,양항비 133을 가지게 되어 기본으로 설정한 DU180에어포일에 비해 성능과 필요 두께비를 모두 능가하는 에어포일이 되었다.