• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.193-203
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• 2014

Temperature-dependent stress analysis and heat transfer analysis of a rotating gas turbine blade made of functionally graded materials (FGMs) are presented considering turbine operating temperature and ceramic particle size. The material properties of functionally graded materials are assumed to vary continuously and smoothly across the thickness of the thin-walled blade. For obtaining system stiffness reflecting these characteristics, the one-dimensional heat transfer equation is applied along the thickness of the thin-walled blade for determining the temperature distribution. Using the results of the temperature analysis, the equations of motion of a rotating blade are derived with hybrid deformation variable modeling method along with the Rayleigh-Ritz assumed mode methods. The validity of the derived rotating blade model is evaluated by comparing its transient responses and temperature distribution with the results obtained using a commercial finite element code. The maximum tensile stress with operating speed and gradient index are obtained. Furthermore, the gradient index that minimizes blade temperature was investigated.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.186-186
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• 2010

개별 블레이드 피치 제어(individual blade pitch control)는 각각의 로터 블레이드의 피치각을 독립적으로 조정함으로써 블레이드에 작용하는 공력을 변화시키는 원리로 풍력 터빈 구조물에 발생하는 동적 피로하중을 저감시키기 위한 제어기법이다. 그러나 개별 피치 제어에 의해 발생하는 각 블레이드의 독립적인 피치 운동은 풍력 터빈 회전자에 비대칭성을 야기하고 구조물의 동적 불안정 현상을 발생시킬 수 있기 때문에 이에 대한 정확한 동적 해석이 선행되어야 한다. 하지만 블레이드의 피치 운동이 반영된 풍력 터빈은 시변계로 간주되어 기존의 시불변계 해석기법을 직접 적용할 수 없기 때문에 동적 해석에 어려움이 있다. 이 논문에서는 각각의 블레이드 피치운동을 주기함수로 근사화 함으로써 풍력 터빈을 주기 시변계로 모형화한다. 그리고 효율적으로 주기 시변계의 근사해를 구하기 위한 변조 좌표 변환(modulated coordinate transformation)기법을 적용하여 블레이드의 피치운동이 반영된 풍력 터빈의 동적 안정성 해석을 수행하였다. 그리고 현재 풍력 터빈의 동적 해석에 활용되는 대표적인 해석 기법인 다중 블레이드 좌표변환(multi-blade coordinate transformation)기법을 이용한 해석보다 정확한 결과를 얻을 수 있음을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.64-67
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 풍력 발전기에 사용되는 블레이드의 동특성을 해석하기 위한 프로그램을 개발하였다. 복잡한 형상의 풍력 발전기 블레이드의 모델을 단순화시키기 위하여 보 이론을 이용하였다. 블레이드의 회전 운동은 Hamilton 원리를 유한요소 보 모델을 이용하여 정식화를 수행하였다. 회전 속도에 따라 블레이드에 적용되는 원심력과 검증된 단면 물성치를 이용하여 복합재료 블레이드의 고유치 해석을 수행하였다. 기존의 상용 소프트웨어의 해석 결과와 비교를 통하여 검증 연구를 수행하였으며, 이를 토대로 본 해석 프로그램의 타당성을 보였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.266-273
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• 2003

A wind turbine simulator is developed for the emulation of variable input torque from the wind energy without actual rotor blades using motor-generator set. The torque command of dc motor is calculated from the characteristic equation of rotor blade during the change of wind speed. Especially the proposed control algorithm takes into account the fact that the moment of inertia of blade is much larger than that of driving motor. If you select the desired value of inertia, the stored/restored energy of the inertia during acceleration/deceleration can be compensated effectively resulting the only net torque is delivered to the generator. The simulator set-up has been designed and implemented using a do motor and drive. Feasibility of the proposed algorithm is verified by computer simulations and experiments.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.442-450
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• 2011

A measurement system using stereo pattern recognition (SPR) method was configured to measure the rotor blade deformations and motions. An SPR-based measurement system was prepared using six stereo cameras. Through a series of experiments to evaluate the system measurement uncertainty, it was verified that the SPR system had less than 0.2mm standard uncertainty. The combined standard uncertainties for the lead-lag, flapping, and pitching motions were estimated as 0.296mm, 0.209mm, and $0.238^{\circ}$, respectively. The SPR system was installed at a general small-scaled rotor test system at Korea Aerospace Research Institute. The blade motions and elastic deformation were successfully measured under the conditions with rotating speeds of 360rpm or 589rpm, and collective pitch angles of $0^{\circ}$, $4^{\circ}$, or $6^{\circ}$. The advantages of the SPR system was analyzed in comparison with the measurement system used in Higher Harmonic Control Aeroacoustic Rotor Test -II.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.121-130
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• 2009

An unsteady numerical simulation method for an autorotating rotor in forward flight was developed. The flapping and rotational equations of motion of autorotation are continuously integrated for given time steps, meanwhile the induced velocity field at disc plane is obtained by the dynamic inflow theory embodying the unteadiness. The transitions from arbitrary initial states to equilibrium states were simulated. Steady autorotations as numerical solutions of equations were predicted by using two sources of blade airfoil data. The simulations using airfoil data which were obtained by a two dimensional Navier-Stokes solver in terms of angles of attack and Reynolds numbers have shown good agreements with wind tunnel experimental results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2004

In this paper, an efficient modeling method of Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbine(HAWT) system is proposed. This method Is based on representing a HAWT system as a multi-body system with several rigid bodies i.e. rotor blade, low/high speed shaft, gear system, md generator. Also, simulation software WINSIM is developed to evaluate performance of wind turbine system. Simulation results show that the proposed modeling method and simulation software are efficient and reliable.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.1052-1057
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• 2010

Dynamic stability of rotating blade considering gravity effect is investigated in this paper. Equations of motion for the beam is derived by employing hybrid deformation variable method and transformed into dimensionless form. The present modeling method is verified by RecurDyn. Stability diagrams are presented to show the influence of the configuration of the beam and angular velocity on the dynamic stability by applying Floquet's theory. Since the natural frequencies are varied when the blade has rotating motion, it is found that relatively large unstable regions exist approximately 1.1 times as high as the first bending natural frequency and half of the sum of first and second bending natural frequency.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.75-82
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• 2011

Marine current energy is one of the most interesting renewable and clean energy resources that have been less exploited. Especially, Korea has worldwide outstanding tidal current energy resources and it is highly required to develop tidal in-stream energy conversion system in coastal area. The objective of study is to investigate harnessing techniques of tidal current energy and to design the a 100 kW horizontal axis tidal turbine using blade element momentum theory with Prandtl's tip loss factor for optimal design procedures. In addition, Influence of Prandtl's tip loss factor at local blade positions as a function of tip speed ratio was studied, and the analysed results showed that power coefficient of designed rotor blade using NACA 63812 was 0.49 at rated tip speed ratio.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.46 no.10
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• pp.833-844
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• 2018

This paper aims to predict the aerodynamic characteristics of individual rotor for the gust and flight conditions. Transformation procedure into the wind frame is conducted to analyze the gust. Hover, forward, and climb flight conditions of an individual rotor are analyzed using the blade element momentum theory (BEMT) considering the rigid blade flapping motion. XFOIL is used to derive aerodynamic results. Validation for hover, forward flight, and climb conditions are conducted using the present BEMT. In addition, a static experimental environment is constructed. The experimental results and the present BEMT are compared and verified.