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A numerical study on the aerodynamic characteristics of a variable geometry throttle valve(VGTV) system controlling air-flow rate (유량 제어장치인 가변스로틀밸브의 기하학적 형상변화에 따른 공기역학 특성분석 연구)

  • Cho, Hyun-Sung;Kim, Chul-Ho
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.378-383
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    • 2013
  • A butterfly throttle valve has been used to control the brake power of an SI engine by controlling the mass flow-rate of intake air in the induction system. However, the valve has a serious effect on the volumetric efficiency of the engine due to the pressure resistance in the induction system. In this study, a new intake air controlling valve named "Variable Geometry Throttle Valve(VGTV)" is proposed to minimize the pressure resistance in the intake system of an SI engine. The design concept of VGTV is on the application of a venturi nozzle in the air flow path. Instead of change of the butterfly valve angle in the airflow field, the throat width of the VGTV valve is varied with the operating condition of an SI engine. In this numerical study, CFD(computational fluid dynamics) simulation technique was incorporated to have an aerodynamics performance analysis of the two air flow controlling systems; butterfly valve and VGTV and compared the results to know which system has lower pressure resistance in the air intake system. From the result, it was found that VGTV has lower pressure resistance than the butterfly valve. Especially VGTV is effective on the low and medium load operating condition of an SI engine. The averaged pressure resistance of VGTV is about 49.0% lower than the value of the conventional butterfly throttle valve.

Analysis on Ventilation Efficiency of Standard Duck House using Computational Fluid Dynamics (전산유체역학을 이용한 표준 오리사 설계안에 대한 환기효율성 분석)

  • Yeo, Uk-Hyeon;Jo, Ye-Seul;Kwon, Kyeong-Seok;Ha, Tae-Hwan;Park, Se-Jun;Kim, Rack-Woo;Lee, Sang-Yeon;Lee, Seung-No;Lee, In-Bok;Seo, Il-Hwan
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.57 no.5
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    • pp.51-60
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    • 2015
  • In Korea, 69.4 % of duck farms had utilized conventional plastic greenhouses. In this facilities, there are difficulties in controlling indoor environments for raising duck. High rearing density in duct farms also made the environmental control difficult resulting in getting more stressed making their immune system weaker. Therefore, a facility is needed to having structurally enough solidity and high efficiency on the environmental control. So, new design plans of duck house have recently been conducted by National Institute of Animal Science in Korea. As a study in advance to establish standard, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to estimate the aerodynamic problems according to the designs by means of overall and regional ventilation efficiencies quantitatively and qualitatively. Tracer gas decay (TGD) method was used to calculate ventilation rate according to the structural characteristics of duck houses including installation of indoor circulation fan. The results showed that natural ventilation rate was averagely 164 % higher than typically designed ventilation rate, 1 AER ($min^{-1}$). Meanwhile, mechanically ventilated duck houses made 81.2 % of summer ventilation rate requirement. Therefore, it is urgent to develop a new duck house considering more structural safety as well as higher efficiency of environmental control.

Aeroelastic Tailoring of a Forward-Swept Wing Using One-dimensional Beam Analysis (1차원 보 해석을 활용한 전진익 항공기의 복합적층 날개 공력탄성학적 테일러링)

  • Choi, JaeWon;Lim, ByeongUk;Lee, SiHun;Shin, SangJoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.48 no.8
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    • pp.555-563
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    • 2020
  • Foward-swept wings are known to possess superior aerodynamic performance compared to the conventional straight wings. However major concerns regarding forward-swept wings include divergence at lower airspeeds which require careful consideration at the design stage. As an endeavor to overcome such drawbacks, aeroelastic tailoring is attempted. In order to find an optimal ply sequence, recursive aeroelastic analyses is conducted and one-dimensional beam analysis coupled with simple aerodynamics is used for the improved computational efficiency and modelling convenience. The analysis used in this paper, DYMORE and analytic formula, both use one-dimensional beam model for the structure. Cross-sectional analysis for multi-cell NACA0015 airfoil section is conducted using VABS and oblique function is used for the sweep angle. Throughout the present aeroelastic tailoring, the maximum divergence speed of 290.2m/s is achieved which is increased by approximately 43% than that for the conventional ply configuration.

Study of the Incremental Dynamic Inversion Control to Prevent the Over-G in the Transonic Flight Region (천음속 비행영역에서 하중제한 초과 방지를 위한 증분형 동적 모델역변환 제어 연구)

  • Jin, Tae-beom;Kim, Chong-sup;Koh, Gi-Oak;Kim, Byoung-Soo
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.33-42
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    • 2021
  • Modern aircraft fighters improve the maneuverability and performance with the RSS (Relaxed Static Stability) concept and therefore these aircrafts are susceptible to abrupt pitch-up in the transonic and moderate Angle-of-Attack (AoA) flight region where the shock wave is formed and the mean aerodynamic center is moved forward during deceleration. Also, the modeling of the aircraft flying in this flight region is very difficult due to complex flow filed and unpredictable dynamic characteristics and the model-based control design technique does not fully cover this problem. In this paper, we analyzed the performance of the TPMC (Transonic Pitching Moment Compensation) control based on the model-based IDI (Incremental Dynamic Inversion) and the Hybrid IDI based on the model and sensor based IDI during the SDT (Slow Down Turn) in transonic region. As the result, the Hybrid IDI had quicker response and the same maximum g suppression performance and provided the predictable flying qualities compared to the TPMC control. The Hybrid IDI improved the performance of the Over-G protection controller in the transonic and moderate AoA region

Development of Modeling and Simulation Tool for the Performance Analysis of Pods Mounted on Highly Maneuverable Aircraft (고기동 항공기 탑재 파드 성능 분석을 위한 모델링 및 시뮬레이션 도구 개발)

  • Lee, Sanghyun;Shin, Jinyoung;Lee, Jaein;Kim, Jongbum;Kim, Songhyon;Kim, Sitae;Cho, Donghyurn
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.50 no.7
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    • pp.507-514
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    • 2022
  • The EO/IR targeting pod mounted on a fighter to acquire information about tactical targets is typically mounted and operated at the bottom of the aircraft fuselage. Since the aircraft equipped with such an external attachment has complexed aerodynamic and inertial characteristics compared to the aircraft flying without an external attachment, a method of system performance analyses is required to identify development risk factors in the early stages of development and reflect them in the design. In this study, a development plan was presented to provide the necessary modeling and simulation tools to develop a pod that can acquire measurement data stably in a highly maneuverable environment. The limiting operating conditions of the pods mounted on the highly maneuverable aircraft were derived, the aerodynamics and inertial loads of the mounted pods were analyzed according to the limiting operating conditions, and a flight data generation and transmission system were developed by simulating the mission of the aircraft equipped with the mounted pods.

A Study on the Shapes of Twin Curvy Sail for Unmanned Sail Drone (무인세일드론의 트윈커브세일 형상에 관한 연구)

  • Ryu, In-Ho;Kim, Bu-Gi;Yang, Changjo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.27 no.7
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    • pp.1059-1066
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    • 2021
  • In Korea, the importance of marine activities is great, and automatic weather observation facilities are operating on land to investigate abnormal weather phenomena caused by industrialization; however, the number of facilities at sea is insufficient. Marine survey ships are operated to establish marine safety information, but there are many places where marine survey ships are difficult to access and operating costs are high. Therefore, a small, unmanned vessel capable of marine surveys must be developed. The sail has a significant impact on the sailing performance, so much research has been conducted. In this study, the camber effect, which is a design variable of the twin curvy sail known to have higher aerodynamic performance than existing airfoil shapes, was investigated. Flow analysis results for five cases with different camber sizes show that the lift coefficient is highest when the camber size is 9%. Curvy twin sails had the highest lift coefficient at an angle of attack of 23° because of the interaction of the port and starboard sails. The port sail had the highest lift coef icient at an angle of attack of 20°, and the starboard sail had the lowest lift coef icient at an angle of attack of 15°. In addition, the curvy twin sail had a higher lift coefficient than NACA 0018 at all angles of attack.