• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2011년 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.543-549
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• 2011

In this paper, diagonal implicit harmonic balance method is applied to analyze helicopter rotor blade flow. Periodic boundary condition for Fourier coefficients is also applied in hover and forward flight condition. It is available enough to simulate the forward flight problem with only one rotor blade using the periodic boundary condition in frequency domain. In order to demonstrate present method Carodonna & Tung's rotor blades are used and the results are compared to time-accurate method and experimental data.

• 풍력에너지저널
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2014

Primarily, tower loads of a wind turbine arise from aerodynamic effect and a top head mass. But sometime asymmetric loads of rotor also affect on the tower loads. Especially ice formation on two blades out of three causes the asymmetric loads, because the ice formation on blades lead to large rotating mass imbalance. This rotating mass imbalance of rotor affects tower fatigue loads. So design load cases of ice formation on blade should be considered in the fatigue design loads of the tower according to GL guideline 2010. This paper describes the change of tower fatigue loads following increase of tower height in the condition of ice formation. Finally, the optimal operation strategy is examined in order to reduce tower fatigue design loads.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.39-48
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• 2023

In this study, we investigate the effects of slots installed on the tip of a rotor blade on aerodynamic characteristics. The slots weaken the strength and spatial coherence of the tip vortex at early vortex age and accelerate the dissipation of the generated tip vortex. Accordingly, the turbulence intensity of the rotor wake is reduced at both near and far wake, which leads to a reduction in broadband noise. Tonal noise is also reduced by mitigation of tip vortices, but tonal noise reduction is limited to a narrower range of azimuths than broadband noise due to the extinction of tip vortices. In addition, slots reduce both mean thrust and thrust fluctuations. Reduction in thrust fluctuations leads to a reduction in blade loading noise, resulting in a reduction in tonal noise.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제16권8호
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• pp.1154-1164
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• 2002

Losses on the turbine consist of the mechanical loss, tip clearance loss, secondary flow loss and blade profile loss etc.,. More than 60 % of total losses on the turbine is generated by the two latter loss mechanisms. These losses are directly related with the reduction of turbine efficiency. In order to provide a new design methodology for reducing losses and increasing turbine efficiency, a two-dimensional axial-type turbine blade shape is modified by the optimization process with two-dimensional compressible flow analysis codes, which are validated by the experimental results on the VKI turbine blade. A turbine blade profile is selected at the mean radius of turbine rotor using on a heavy duty gas turbine, and optimized at the operating condition. Shape parameters, which are employed to change the blade shape, are applied as design variables in the optimization process. Aerodynamic, mechanical and geometric constraints are imposed to ensure that the optimized profile meets all engineering restrict conditions. The objective function is the pitchwise area averaged total pressure at the 30% axial chord downstream from the trailing edge. 13 design variables are chosen for blade shape modification. A 10.8 % reduction of total pressure loss on the turbine rotor is achieved by this process, which is same as a more than 1% total-to-total efficiency increase. The computed results are compared with those using 11 design variables, and show that optimized results depend heavily on the accuracy of blade design.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.34-42
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• 2009

의료용 고속 에어터빈 핸드피스는 치아 절삭 도구로써 지난 50년 동안 치의학분야에서 사용되어왔으나, 그것에 대한 성능 연구가 많이 없었다. 그래서 수치해석을 이용하여 핸드피스 터빈 형상의 성능 특성을 본 논문에서 연구하였다. 정상상태 방법 중 하나인 프로즌 로터 방식을 이용하여 터빈 블레이드의 위치에 따라 5가지의 경우에서 계산하였다. 형상과 반사각에 따른 터빈 블레이드의 특성을 분석하였다. 계산 결과에 따르면, 터빈 블레이드의 반사각이 증가할 때 토크가 증가하였다.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.33-44
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• 2003

본 논문은 힌지없는 로터 시스템의 설계 핵심기술인 복합재료 플렉셔 설계 및 패틀형 복합재료 블레이드 설계/해석 기법을 소개하였다. 기존 금속재 혹은 엔지니어링 플라스틱 플렉셔 부품을 복합재료를 사용하여 설계한 후 NASTRAN과 FLIGHTLAB을 이용하여 구조 해석 및 동역학 특성 해석을 수행하였다. 패들형 블레이드를 복합재료 힌지없는 플렉셔 장착 허브에 연결한 힌지없는 로터 시스템에 대한 동적 특성을 살펴보았다. 또한 패들형 블레이드를 기존 실물크기 블레이드 구조 자료를 이용하여 프루드 축소화하였으며 축소값을 이용하여 블레이드를 설계하였다. 이 과정을 통해 형상이 복잡한 패들형 복합재료 블레이드에 대한 형상 설계 및 단면구조 설계 기법을 익혔다. 본 논문은 현재 수행중인 “차세대 헬리콥터 로우터 시스템 개발” 사업 등에 직접 적용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.1172-1178
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• 2006

Measurement of blade strain with sensors directly installed on the blade has one critical issue, how to send the sensor signal to the ground. Strain-gauges have been dominantly used to directly measure stress of a blade and either a slip ring or a telemetry system has to be used to send measured signal to the ground. However, both systems have many inherent problems and sometimes very severe limitations to be practically used. In this paper, new on-line strain monitoring method using. FBG(Fiber Bragg Grating) sensors and a beam coupler is introduced. Measurement of rotor stress using FBG sensors is nothing new, but unlike other system which installs all necessary instruments on the rotor and use telemetry system to send data to the ground, this system makes use of light's unique characteristic - light travels through space. In this new approach, single optical fiber with many FBG sensors is installed on the blade and all other necessary instruments can be installed at ground thereby giving tremendous advantages over slip ring or telemetry system. A reference sensor is also introduced to compensate the beam coupler's transmission loss change due to rotation. The suggested system's good performance is demonstrated with experiments.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.295-307
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• 2013

More FOWTs (floating offshore wind turbines) will be installed as relevant regulations and technological hurdles are removed in the coming years. In the present study, a numerical prediction tool has been developed for the fully coupled dynamic analysis of FOWTs in time domain including aero-loading, tower elasticity, blade-rotor dynamics and control, mooring dynamics, and platform motions so that the influence of rotor-control dynamics on the hull-mooring performance and vice versa can be assessed. The developed coupled analysis program is applied to Hywind spar design with 5 MW turbine. In case of spar-type floaters, the control strategy significantly influences the hull and mooring dynamics. If one of the control systems fails, the entire dynamic responses of FOWT can be significantly different. Therefore, it is important to maintain various control systems in a good operational condition. In this regard, the effects of failed blade pitch control system on FOWT performance including structural and dynamic responses of blades, tower, and floater are systematically investigated. Through this study, it is seen that the failure of one of the blade pitch control system can induce significant dynamic loadings on the other blades and the entire FOWT system. The developed technology and numerical tool are readily applicable to any types of floating wind farms in any combinations of irregular waves, dynamic winds, and steady currents.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.88-98
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• 2003

Compared to the noise limits (CAN7) specified in ICAO Annex 16 for civil helicopters, the Lynx helicopter equipped with BERP blades has only 0.2 EPNdB margin in the approach case although it has more than 4 EPNdB margin in fly-over and take-off conditions. The objectives of the study described in this paper were to devise a low noise main rotor blade for the Lynx using UEAF combined with the high resolution airload model ACROT. A design requirement is that the new blade, KBERP (Korean BERP) blade should achieve a significant reduction in noise during approach(at least 6EPNdB margin) without any noise penalty in fly-over and take-off conditions and minimal performance penalty. It was decided to investigate a tip modification to the BERP blade, employing the twin vortex concept to reduce the BVI noise and to retain the excellent high speed performance characteristics of BERP. Through the parametric study, the KBERP blade with optimized twin vortices has at least a 9 EPNdB noise margin in approach flight condition with only a small penalty in fly-over and take-off conditions. The KBERP tip is thus a very cost effective wav to reduce BVI noise during approach.

• Composites Research
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 복합재료 블레이드의 최적 구조설계 프레임워크를 개발하고 이를 헬리콥터 블레이드에 적용하여 구조설계를 수행하였다. 개발된 최적 설계 프레임워크는 유전자 알고리즘과 입자 군집 최적화 알고리즘을 결합한 PSGA를 활용해 구성하였다. 이는 블레이드 단면에 대한 유한요소 모델 생성, 2차원 단면 유한요소 해석, 그리고 1차원 회전 보 해석의 단계를 거쳐 최적화 결과를 도출해낸다. 설계 과정에서 각 단면들은 B-spline으로 구성되며, 유한요소 생성 프로그램인 Gmsh를 활용해 모델링 된다. 이를 활용하여 최적화 과정에서 각 변수마다 대응되는 2차원 유한요소모델을 생성해 블레이드의 구조해석을 수행했다. 본 연구에서 제안한 프레임워크를 HART II 블레이드에 적용하여 최적 구조 설계를 수행했다. 최적 설계 결과 회전익 로터에서 요구하는 구조적 특징을 유지하면서, 공진회피와 질량 등의 조건이 개선된 블레이드 형상을 도출하였다.