• 신재생에너지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.54-63
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• 2005

A critical issue in the field of the rotor aerodynamics is the treatment of the wake. The wake is of primary importance in determining overall aerodynamic behavior, especially, a wind turbine blade includes the unsteady airloads problem. In this study, the wake generated by blades are depicted by a free wake model to analyse unsteady loading on blade and a new free wake model named Finite Vortex Element(FVE hereafter) is devised in order to include a wake-tower interaction. In this new free wake model, blade-wake-tower interaction is described by cutting a vortex filament when the filament collides with a tower. This FVE model is compared with a conventional free wake model and verified by a comparison with NRELand SNU wind tunnel model. A comparison with NREL and SNU data shows validity and effectiveness of devised FVE free wake model and an efficient.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.33-36
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• 2005

A critical issue in the field of the rotor aerodynamics is the treatment of the wake. The wake is of primary importance in determining overall aerodynamic behavior, especially, a wind turbine blade includes the unsteady air loads problem. In this study, the wake generated by blades are depicted by a free wake model to analyse unsteady loading on blade and a new free wake model named Finite Vortex Element(FVE hereafter) is devised in order to include a wake-tower interact ion. In this new free wake model, blade-wake-tower interaction is described by cutting a vortex filament when the filament collides with a tower. This FVE model is compared with a conventional free wake model and verified by a comparison with NREL and SNU wind tunnel model. A comparison with NREL and SNU data shows validity and effectiveness of devised FVE free wake model and an efficient.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2017

The treatment of rotor wake has been a critical issue in the field of the rotor aerodynamics. This paper presents a new free wake model for the unsteady analysis for a wind turbine. A blade-wake-tower interaction is major source of unsteady aerodynamic loading and noise on the wind turbine. However, this interaction can not be considered in conventional free wake model. Thus, the free wake model named Finite Vortex Element (FVE hereafter) was devised in order to consider the interaction effects. In this new free wake model, the wake-tower interaction was described by dividing one vortex filament into two vortex filaments, when the vortex filament collided with a tower. Each divided vortex filaments were remodeled to make vortex ring and horseshoe vortex to satisfy Kelvin's circulation theorem and Helmholtz's vortex theorem. This model was then used to predict aerodynamic load and wake geometry for the horizontal axis wind turbine. The results of the FVE model were compared with those of the conventional free wake model and the experimental results of SNU wind tunnel test and NREL wind tunnel test under various inflow velocity and yaw condition. The result of the FVE model showed better correlation with experimental data. It was certain that the tower interaction has a strong effect on the unsteady aerodynamic load of blades. Thus, the tower interaction needs to be taken into account for the unsteady load prediction. As a result, this research shows a potential of the FVE for an efficient and versatile numerical tool for unsteady loading analysis of a wind turbine.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2000

The wake geometries of a two-bladed rotor in axial flights using a time-marching free-wake method without a non-physical model of the far wake are calculated. The computed free-wake geometries of AH-1G model rotor in climb flight are compared with the experimental visualization results. The time-marching free-wake method can predict the behavior of the tip vortex and the wake roil-up phenomena with remarkable agreements. Tip vortices shed from the two-bladed rotor can interact with each other significantly. The interaction consists of a turn of the tip vortex from one blade rolling around the tip vortex from the other. Wake expansion of wake geometries in radial direction after the contraction is a result of adjacent tip vortices begging to pair together and spiral about each other. Detailed numerical results show regular pairing phenomenon in the climb flights, the hover at high angle of attack and slow descent flight too. On the contrary, unstable motions of wake are observed numerically in the hover at low angle of attack and fast descent flight. It is because of the inherent wake instability and blade-vortex-interaction rather then the effect of recirculation due to the experimental equipment.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제35권11호
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• pp.957-963
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 CFD/FreeWake 연계해석방법을 이용하여 헬리콥터 로터의 공력을 해석하였다. 연계해석방법은 CFD를 이용하여 로터주변의 공력을 얻고, 후류의 거동은 FreeWake를 이용하여 모사한다. FreeWake 모델은 CFD의 경계조건을 제공하고, CFD는 후류형성을 위한 로터블레이드 양력변화율을 제공하는 방법으로 연계된다. CFD/FreeWake 연계해석방법은 다른 로터공력해석 방법에 비하여 높은 정확도와 계산 시간 절감으로 효율적인 계산을 가능하도록 한다.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2007년도 춘계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.116-119
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• 2007

In this study the unsteady aerodynamic analysis of a hovering helicopter rotor is performed. For the accurate flow field analysis Euler equations and the free wake method are coupled. The Euler equations are solved to find the pressure distribution around the rotor, and free wake method is used to give the boundary condition for the solution of Euler equations. Also, vortex strength and wake motion after the rotor are simulated by the free wake method. The accuracy of the present method is compared with the source sink model. The present method is applied to the hovering Caradonna-Tung rotor and compared with experimental results.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.23-33
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• 2009

The inherent aeromechanical complexity of a rotor system necessitated the comprehensive analysis code for helicopter rotor system. In the present study, an aerodynamic analysis module has been developed as a part of rotorcraft comprehensive program. Aerodynamic analysis module is largely classified into airload calculation routine and inflow analysis routine. For airload calculation, quasi-steady analysis model is employed based on the blade element method with the correction of unsteady aerodynamic effects. In order to take unsteady effects - body motion effects and dynamic stall - into account, aerodynamic coefficients are corrected by considering Leishman-Beddoes's unsteady model. Various inflow models and vortex wake models are implemented in the aerodynamic module to consider wake induced inflow. Specifically, linear inflow, dynamic inflow, prescribed wake and free wake model are integrated into the present module. The aerodynamic characteristics of each method are compared and validated against available experimental data such as Elliot's induced inflow distribution and sectional normal force coefficients of AH-1G. In order to validate unsteady aerodynamic model, 2-D unsteady model for NACA0012 airfoil is validated against aerodynamic coefficients of McAlister's experimental data.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.134-141
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• 2002

본 연구에서 곡선 와동 요소와 CVC (Constant Vorticity Contour) 후류 모델이 수평축 풍력 터빈의 공력 성능 및 소음을 예측하기 위해 사용되었다. 또한 2차 회귀에 근거하여 회전수의 예측을 하였다. 광대역 소음을 예측은 경험식에 근거한 방법을 사용하였다. 직선 와동요소 대신에 BCVE (Basic Curved Vortex Element)와 SIVE(Self Induction Vortex Element)를 사용하는 곡선 와동 요소를 사용하였으며 CVC 후류 모델에서 와동의 강도는 블레이드의 스팬방향 및 와동을 따라서 일정하다고 가정하였다. 이렇게 만들어진 자유 후류는 와동 격자를 대치한다. 본 방법은 여타의 방법에 비해 휠씬 적은 계산 시간을 요구하며 후류의 정확한 구조를 모사할 수 있었다. 검증을 위해서는 김준모의 실험과 Zond사의 Z-40FS의 모델을 성능 예측 결과와 WTS-4와 USWP를 소음 예측 결과와 비교하였다. 계산 결과는 실제의 실험치와 잘 일치하는 것으로 나타났다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.62-70
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• 2004

CFD method has been coupled with a time-marching free-wake model by usingfield velocity approach suggested by J. D. Baeder (Ref. 1). The coupled method hasbeen applied to rectangular and BERP-like blades and the calculated perfonnance dataare compared with the experimental results.For hovering analysis, the present method could yield sufficiently good resultswith reasonable computation time and is particularly suitable for the flow fieldanalysis with the complex shaped blade.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.224-231
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 회전익기 통합해석프로그램개발의 일환으로 공력해석코드를 개발 및 검증하였다. 기본적인 공력하중은 익형 공력테이블을 이용한 깃요소이론을 기반으로 계산하였고, 로터의 유도 유입류를 계산하기 위해 선형유입류 모델, 동적유입류 모델, 지정후류모델, 자유후류 모델 등 여러 유입류 예측기법을 사용하였다. 각 모델의 특성을 파악하기 위해 Elliott 등의 유도 유입류 실험결과와 AH-1G 실험결과의 국소 수직력계수를 비교 및 검증하였다.