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Subsonic Flutter Characteristics of a Sandwich Structure Wing with Honeycomb core (하니콤 코어 샌드위치 구조 날개의 아음속 플러터 특성)

  • Kim, Yu-Sung;Kim, Dong-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.17-26
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    • 2006
  • The flutter characteristics of all movable tail wing with honeycomb sandwich structure have been studied in this study. The present wing model has a airfoil cross section and the linear variation of spanwise thickness. Structural vibration analysis is performed based on the finite element method using sandwich and beam elements. Unsteady aerodynamic technique used on the doublet lattice method has been effectively used to conduct the frequency-domain flutter analyses. The parametric flutter studies have been performed for various structural design parameters. Computational results on flutter stability due to the variation of structural parameters are presented and its related characteristics are investigated through the comparison of results.

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Wind Tunnel Test of Smart Un-manned Aerial Vehicle(SUAV) for TR-E2S1 Configuration (스마트 무인기 TR-E2S1 형상 풍동시험 결과)

  • Yoon SunEiun;Cho Tahwan;Chung Jindeog
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.29 no.3 s.234
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    • pp.295-305
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    • 2005
  • To improve the aerodynamic effciency of TR-E2, a new configuration so called TR-E2Sl was introduced. TR-2251 is composed of different wing airfoil section and T-tail shape compared with TR-E2. Wind tunnel test for TR-EBS1 had been performed by changing the incidence angles of wing and deflection angles of control surfaces such as elevator and rudder. Also the on/off effect of ventral fin attached underneath of AFT fuselage was tested. Test result showed that variations of wing incidence angle did not cause any severe differences in aerodynamic characteristics. Longitudinal and directional characteristics of TR-E2S1 show stable for the pitch and yaw motions. However, the lateral stability of TR-E2S1 is not stable for a certain control surface deflection.

A Dynamic Structural Analysis System for Propeller Blades (프로펠러 날개의 동적 구조해석 시스템 개발)

  • 노인식;이정렬;이현엽;이창섭
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.114-120
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    • 2004
  • Propeller blades have complex airfoil section type geometry and the thickness is continuously varied to both its length and cord-wise direction. in the present research, the finite element analysis program PROSTEC (Propeller Stress Evaluation Code) is developed to calculate the structural responses of propeller blades in irregular ship wake field. To represent the curved and skewed geometry of propeller blades accurately, 20-node curved solid element using the quadratic shape function is adopted. Input data for the analysis including the geometry and pressure distribution of propeller blades can be generated automatically from the propeller design program. And to visualize the results of analysis on windows system conveniently, the post processor PROSTEC-POST is developed.

Numerical Analysis and Experimental Study for Low Reynolds number region around Micro Air Vehicle (초소형 비행체 주위의 저 레이놀즈수 영역에 대한 수치 해석 및 실험적 연구)

  • Kim Y. H.;Kim W. R.;Kim C.;Rho O. H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.53-58
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    • 2002
  • A three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes solver is developed for the flow analysis around Micro Air Vehicle(MAV) designed by MACDL(Micro Aerodynamic Control and Design Lab), Seoul National Univ., Validations of this solver are presented for two cases, first flow over the circular cylinder with infinite length, second flow over infinite wing with wing section, E387 airfoil. Simultaneously, Wind Tunnel test is performed with Flatform Wire type sir-component balance and model designed by MACDL. The numerical results are also examined through comparison with experimental data.

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Development of the Rotary Electrostatic Painting Equipment Using Air Turbine (공기 터빈을 이용한 회전형 정전 도장기기의 개발)

  • Lee, Chan;Cha, Sang-Won
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.12a
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    • pp.684-690
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    • 2003
  • A new electrostatic rotary atomizing painting equipment using air turbine was developed. Based on the overall design requirements of painting equipment basic design specifications of the equipment parts such as air turbine and atomizing disk are defined from the present conceptual design model. Air turbine is designed with the section profile of NACA airfoil, and its internal flow field is analyzed by commercial CFD code. Atomizing disk is designed to achieve the ligament type spray of paint with the use of visualization technique. Various experiments and tests are conducted to investigate the spray and the transfer characteristics of newly-designed painting equipment, and the measurement results are compared with the those of conventional painting equipments.

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Structural Dynamic Analysis of Low Vibrating Composite Helicopter Rotor Blades (복합재료 헬리콥터 로터 블레이드의 저진동 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Kee, Young-Jung;Shim, Jeong-Wook;Lee, Myeong-Kyu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.902-905
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    • 2004
  • Recently, the composite materials are widely used for manufacturing the helicopter rotor blades. furthermore, composites show great potential on the design of rotor blades due to the advantages of strength, durability and weight of the materials. To keep with this advantages, it is necessary to calculate natural frequencies of a rotating blades for avoiding resonance. In this paper, the structural design process of airfoil cross section is introduced, and natural frequencies of composite rotor blades with variable rpm we investigated.

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Wind-lens turbine design for low wind speed

  • Takeyeldein, Mohamed M.;Ishak, I.S.;Lazim, Tholudin M.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.147-155
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    • 2022
  • This research proposes a wind-lens turbine design that can startup and operate at a low wind speed (< 5m/s). The performance of the wind-lens turbine was investigated using CFD and wind tunnel testing. The wind-lens turbine consists of a 3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine with a diameter of 0.6m and a diffuser-shaped shroud that uses the suction side of the thin airfoil SD2030 as a cross-section profile. The performance of the 3-bladed wind-lens turbine was then compared to the two-bladed rotor configuration while keeping the blade geometry the same. The 3-bladed wind-lens turbine successfully startup at 1m/s and produced a torque of 66% higher than the bare turbine, while the two-bladed wind-lens turbine startup at less than 4m/s and produced a torque of 186 % higher than the two-bladed bare turbine at the design point. Findings testify that adding the wind-lens could improve the bare turbine's performance at low wind speed.

Stability Analysis of Boundary Layers on Airfoils by using PSE (PSE를 이용한 익형 위 경계층 안정성 해석)

  • Park, Dong-Hun;Park, Seung-O
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.37 no.11
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    • pp.1055-1065
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    • 2009
  • In this study, stability analysis of boundary layers on airfoils is performed by using parabolized stability equations(PSE). Boundary layer edge conditions are obtained by compressible inviscid flow calculations. Mean velocity and temperature profiles of the laminar boundary layer are obtained by solving compressible boundary layer equations in generalized curvilinear coordinates with fourth order accuracy in the wall normal direction. Laminar mean flow profiles are used as input data for PSE to investigate growth rates of disturbances and stability characteristics. For the cases of boundary layer on NACA0012 and HSNLF(1)-0213 airfoils at Mach number 0.5, growth rates with respect to disturbance frequencies and profiles of disturbance amplitude are investigated. The effect of angle of attack on stability characteristics are examined at both upper and lower surfaces. The neutral stability curves, effect of Mach number and effect of airfoil section shapes are also analyzed.

Aerodynamic admittances of bridge deck sections: Issues and wind field dependence

  • Zhang, Zhitian;Zhang, Weifeng;Ge, Yaojun
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.283-299
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    • 2017
  • Two types of aerodynamic admittance function (AAF) that have been adopted in bridge aerodynamics are addressed. The first type is based on a group of supposed relations between flutter derivatives and AAFs. In so doing, the aero-elastic properties of a section could be used to determine AAFs. It is found that the supposed relations hold only for cases when the gust frequencies are within a very low range. Predominant frequencies of long-span bridges are, however, far away from this range. In this sense, the AAFs determined this way are of little practical significance. Another type of AAFs is based on the relation between the Theodorsen circulation function and the Sears function, which holds for thin airfoil theories. It is found, however, that an obvious illogicality exists in this methodology either. In this article, a viewpoint is put forward that AAFs of bluff bridge deck sections are inherently dependent on oncoming turbulent properties. This kind of dependence is investigated with a thin plate and a double-girder bluff section via computational fluid dynamics method. Two types of wind fluctuations are used for identification of AAFs. One is turbulent wind flow while the other is harmonic. The numerical results indicate that AAFs of the thin plate agree well with the Sears AAF, and show no obvious dependence on the oncoming wind fields. In contrast, for the case of bluff double-girder section, AAFs identified from the turbulent and harmonic flows of different amplitudes differ among each other, exhibiting obvious dependence on the oncoming wind field properties.

Development of a Computational Electromagnetics Code for Radar Cross Section Calculations of Flying Vehicles (비행체 RCS 예측을 위한 CEM 기법 연구)

  • Myong, Rho-Shin;Cho, Tae-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2005
  • The ability to predict radar return from flying vehicles becomes a critical technology issue in the development of stealth configurations. Toward developing a CEM code based on Maxwell's equations for analysis of RCS reduction schemes, an explicit upwind scheme suitable for multidisciplinary design is presented. The DFFT algorithm is utilized to convert the time-domain field values to the frequency-domain. A Green's function based on near field-to-far field transformation is also employed to calculate the bistatic RCS. To verify the numerical calculation the two-dimensional field around a perfectly conducting cylinder is considered. Finally results are obtained for the scattering electromagnetic field around an airfoil in order to illustrate the feasibility of applying CFD based methods to CEM.