• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.5-11
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• 2012

This study is to develop a 1kW-class horizontal axis wind turbine(HAWT) rotor blade which will be applicable to relatively low wind speed regions in southwest islands in Korea. Shape design of 1kW-class small wind turbine rotor blade is carried out using a blade profile with relatively high lift to drag ratio by blade element momentum theory(BEMT). Aerodynamic analysis on the newly designed rotor blade is performed with the variation of tip speed ratio. Power coefficient and pressure coefficient of the designed rotor blade are investigated according to tip speed ratio.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.11-16
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• 2006

The wind turbine rotor blade is faced with various aeroelastic problem as rotor blades become bigger and lighter by the use the composite material. The aeroelastic analysis of a wind turbine rotor blade requires its aerodynamic model and structural model. For effective aeroelastic analysis, it is required the simple and effective structural model of the blade. In the present study, we introduce the effective equivalent structural modeling of the blade for aeroelastic analysis. The equivalent beam model of the composite blade based on its 3D finite element model is established. The free vibration analysis shows that the equivalent beam model of the blade is equivalent to its 3D finite element model.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2014

This paper presents the structural model development and verification processes of wind turbine blade. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Phase VI wind turbine which the wind tunnel and structural test data has publicly available is used for the study. The wind turbine assembled by blades, rotor, nacelle and tower. The wind blade connected to rotor. To make the whole turbine structural model, the mass and stiffness properties of all parts should be clear and given. However the wind blade, hub, nacelle, rotor and power generating machinery parts have difficulties to define the material properties because of the composite and assembling nature of that. Nowadays to increase the power generating coefficient and cost efficiency, the highly accurate aerodynamic loading evaluating technique should be developed. The Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) is the emerging new way to evaluate the aerodynamic force on the rotating wind blade. To perform the FSI analysis, the fluid and structural model which are sharing the associated interface topology have to be provided. In this paper, the structural model of blade development and verifying processes have been explained for Part1. In following Part2 paper, the processes of whole turbine system will be discussing.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.1478-1487
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• 2005

A small mixed-type turbine with a diameter of 19.9 mm has been substituted for a rotational part of pencil-type air tool. Usually, a vane-type rotor is applied to the rotational part of the air tool. However, the vane-type rotor has some problems, such as friction, abrasion, and necessity of accurate assembly etc.,. These problems make the life time of the vane-type air tool short, but air tools operated by mixed-type turbines are free of friction and abrasion because the turbine rotor dose not contact with the casing. Moreover, it is assembled easily because of no axis offset. These characteristics are merits for using air tools, but loss of power is inevitable on a non-contacting type rotor due to flow loss, tip clearance loss, and profile loss etc.,. In this study, four different rotors are tested, and their characteristics are investigated by measuring the specific output power. Additionally, optimum nozzle location against the rotor is studied. Output powers are obtained through measured pressure, temperature, torque, rotational speed, and flow rate. The experimental results obtained with four different rotors show that the rotor blade shape greatly influences to the performance, and the optimum nozzle location exists near the mid span of the rotor.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.170-177
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• 2013

본 연구는 200 W급 자이로밀형 소형 수직축 풍력터빈 로터 블레이드의 형상설계 및 유동해석에 의한 성능 검토에 관한 내용을 정리한 것이다. 2차원 형상의 로터 블레이드에 대하여 단일유관이론을 적용하여 설계하였으며, 설계 결과에 대해서 2차원 수치유동해석을 수행하여 해석결과의 검토로부터 3차원 로터 블레이드 기본 형상을 결정하고, 3차원 수치유동해석을 통하여 풍력터빈 로터 블레이드의 형상 결정 및 성능 검토를 하였다. 본 연구의 결과로부터 상대적 저풍속에서 200 W급 자이로밀형 수직축 풍력터빈 로터 블레이드의 형상을 도출하였고, 수치유동해석으로부터 정격출력 200 W를 확보할 수 있음을 확인하여, 본 연구에서 적용한 설계법의 타당성을 확보하였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.516-520
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• 2009

This study describes aerodynamic characteristics for the HAWT (Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine) rotor blade using general CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) code. The boundary conditions for analysis are validated with the experimental result by the NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)/NASA Ames wind tunnel test for S809 airfoil. In the case of wind turbine rotor blade, complex phenomena are appeared such as flow separation and re-attachment. Those are handled by using a commercial flow analysis tool. The 2-equation k-$\omega$ SST turbulence model and transition model appear to be well suited for the prediction. The 3-dimensional phenomena in the HAWT rotor blade is simulated by a commercial 3-D aerodynamic analysis tool. Tip vortex geometry and Radial direction flows along the blade are checked by the analysis.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.54-62
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• 2017

The Savonius wind turbine has a lower performance than other types of wind turbines which may attract more study focus on this turbine. This study aimed to improve wind turbine performance by combining a conventional blade with an elliptical blade into a combined blade rotor. The analysis was performed on three blade models in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) using ANSYS_Fluent Release 14.5. Then the results were verified experimentally using an open wind tunnel system. The results of the numerical simulation were similar to the experimental and showed that the combined blade rotor has better dragging flow and overlap flow than the conventional and elliptical blade. Experimental verification showed that the combined blade was to increase the maximum coefficient of power ($Cp_{max.}$) by 11% of the conventional blade and to 5.5% of the elliptical blade.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2005년도 제17회 워크샵 및 추계학술대회
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• pp.583-583
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• 2005

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.273-276
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• 2006

To generate electricity from wind energy, wind turbine generally has a rotor blade. Since this rotor blade is a kind of the rotating machinery, the wake from the rotor is very Important role in the side of the aerodynamic performances. Thus the study about wake is essential to analyze wind turbine aerodynamics. In this study wake characteristics are analyzed by hot-wire probe in the K.A.F.A(Korea Air Force Academy) wind tunnel. It is possible to analyze the wake characteristics by hot-wire probe from acquiring the velocity fluctuations at given positions in the flow. This velocity data are arranged by trigger signal at same azimuth of the blade in periodic manner of the rotor blade. From this various wake characteristics are found : radial and axial position of the tip vortex, vortex core characteristics in the flow etc.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.24-31
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• 2001

본 연구에서 축류형 터빈의 설계기술이 개발되었다. 설계를 위하여 우선적으로 기본형상에 대한 설계가 이루어졌으며 유선곡률법에 의하여 터빈 내부유로에서의 공기 물성치를 계산하였다. 계산된 여러 유로에서의 유동각들을 고려하여 익형의 형상을 설계하기 위한 설계변수들이 설정되었다. 설정된 형상변수로부터 정익은 C4 형상을 사용하여 설계되었으며 동익은 설계변수에 의하여 설계되었다. 정익은 일체형으로 제작되었으며 동익은 입사각의 변경에 따른 실험을 수행하기 위하여 분리형으로 제작하였다. 터빈입구에서의 공기력과 RPM에 따라서 터빈에서의 출력이 얻어졌으며 실험의 결과는 제작된 터빈이 반동터빈임에도 불구하고 입사각이 줄어드는 것에 비례하여 출력이 감소하는 현상을 보여주었으며 설계값에서 입사각이 7.5도 감소함에 따라 5%의 효율 감소가 발생되었다.