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SHAPE OPTIMIZATION OF COMPRESSOR BLADES USING 3D NAVIER-STOKES FLOW PHYSICS

  • Lee K. D.;Chung J.;Shim J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2001
  • A CFD-based design method for transonic axial compressor blades was developed based on three-dimensional Navier-Stokes flow physics. The method employs a sectional three-dimensional (S3D) analysis concept where the three-dimensional flow analysis is performed on the grid plane of a span station with spanwise flux components held fixed. The S3D analysis produced flow solutions nearly identical to those of three-dimensional analysis, regardless of the initialization of the flow field. The sectional design based on the S3D analysis can include three-dimensional effects of compressor flows and thus overcome the deficiencies associated with the use of quasi-three-dimensional flow physics in conventional sectional design. The S3D design was first used in the inverse triode to find the geometry that produces a specified target pressure distribution. The method was also applied to optimize the adiabatic efficiency of the blade sections of Rotor 37. A new blade was constructed with the optimized sectional geometries at several span stations and its aerodynamic performance was evaluated with three-dimensional analyses.

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Subsonic/Transonic Airfoil Design Using an Inverse Method (Inverse 기법을 이용한 아음속/천음속 익형 설계)

  • Lee Young-Ki;Lee Jae-Woo;Byun Yung-Hwan
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.46-53
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    • 1998
  • An inverse method for the subsonic and transonic airfoil design was developed using the Euler equations. Two testcases were performed. One was a verification of the method using the supercritical airfoil of the Korean mid-sized (100 passengers class) transport aircraft. The other was the design of an airfoil showing a good cruising performance (L/D ratio) in the high subsonic flow regime. These testcases demonstrated the efficiency and the robustness of the design method in the present study.

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A Study on the Development of a 10KW Class Dual Rotor Counter-Rotating Wind Turbine Generator System with Low Wind Speed/High Efficiency and Its Field Test (저풍속/고효율 10KW급 상호역회전 풍력발전시스템 개발 및 실증실험에 관한 연구)

  • Heo, Hyun-Kang;Jange, Tae-Jong;Kim, Sang-Uk
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.495-499
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    • 2009
  • 본 논문에서는 상호역회전 풍력발전기와 New Yaw System 실증시험에 대하여 제시한다. 상호역회전 풍력발전기는 공기의 유동을 가진 운동에너지의 공기역학적(aerodynamic) 특성을 이용하여 동일한 바람방향에 대해 상호 반대방향으로 회전하는 Front Blade와 Rear Blade를, Generator의 Rotor와 Stator에 각각 결합 형성한 것으로, Generator와 Dual Blade의 회전력이 원심력이 아닌 구심력으로 변환되어 무게중심이 균형을 이루게 한다. 이렇게 변환된 구심력은 회전구동부분의 편마모 현상, 소음발생 현상 및 불균형 톨크 발생 현상 감소효과가 공히 구현되도록 하여 풍력발전기의 구조적 안정성 및 발전효율 증대효과를 얻을 수 있도록 한 기술이다.

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Aerodynamic Design Optimization of An Axial Flow Compressor Rotor (반응면 기법을 이용한 천음속 축류압축기의 3차원 형상 최적설계)

  • Ahn, Chan-Sol;Kim, Kwang-Yong
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.11a
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    • pp.135-142
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    • 2001
  • Design optimization of a transonic compressor rotor (NASA rotor 37) using response surface method and three-dimensional Navier-Stokes analysis has been carried out in this work. Baldwin-Lomax turbulence model was used in the flow analysis. Three design variables were selected to optimize the stacking line of the blade. Data points for response evaluations were selected by D-optimal design, and linear programming method was used for the optimization on the response surface. As a main result of the optimization, adiabatic efficiency was successfully improved. Ana, it is found that the design process provides reliable design of a turbomachinery blade with reasonable computing time.

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A THREE-DIMENSIONAL UNSTRUCTURED FINITE VOLUME METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF DROPLET IMPINGEMENT IN ICING (비정렬 격자 기반의 결빙 액적 해석을 위한 유한체적 기법)

  • Jung, K.Y.;Jung, S.K.;Myong, R.S.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2013
  • Ice accretion on the solid surface is an importance factor in assessing the performance of aircraft and wind turbine blade. Changes in the external shape due to ice accretion can greatly deteriorate the aerodynamic performance. In this study, a three-dimensional upwind-type second-order positivity-preserving finite volume CFD scheme based on the unstructured mesh topology is developed to simulate two-phase flow in atmospheric icing condition. The code is then validated by comparing with NASA IRT experimental data on the sphere. The present results of the collection efficiency are found to be in close agreement with experimental data and show improvement near the stagnation region.

Active load control for wind turbine blades using trailing edge flap

  • Lee, Jong-Won;Kim, Joong-Kwan;Han, Jae-Hung;Shin, Hyung-Kee
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.263-278
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    • 2013
  • The fatigue load of a turbine blade has become more important because the size of commercial wind turbines has increased dramatically in the past 30 years. The reduction of the fatigue load can result in an increase in operational efficiency. This paper numerically investigates the load reduction of large wind turbine blades using active aerodynamic load control devices, namely trailing edge flaps. The PD and LQG controllers are used to determine the trailing edge flap angle; the difference between the root bending moment and its mean value during turbulent wind conditions is used as the error signal of the controllers. By numerically analyzing the effect of the trailing edge flaps on the wind turbines, a reduction of 30-50% in the standard deviation of the root bending moment was achieved. This result implies a reduction in the fatigue damage on the wind turbines, which allows the turbine blade lengths to be increased without exceeding the designed fatigue damage limit.

Investigation of Separated Injection of Air and Argon in Segmented Constrictor Type Arc Heaters (세그먼트 아크히터 내부에서 공기와 아르곤 기체의 혼합 현상에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Jeong-Il;Jeong, Ga-Ram;Kim, Kyu-Hong
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.197-200
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    • 2008
  • The existing computer code to solve the air flow in a segmented constrictor-type arc-heated wind tunnel named ARCFLO4 is improved to accept an air-argon mixture as the working gas and to consider the separated injection of air and argon. The new version of the code is used to calculate the flows in the Aerodynamic Heating Facility of NASA Ames Research Center where argon concentration is relatively high. The calculation shows that argon tends to increase the diameter of the arc-column, increase ionization fraction, decrease thermal efficiency of the arc-heater, and push the ratio of the centerline-to-average enthalpy toward unity. The calculated operating characteristics of the arc-heater agree well with the experimental data.

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A Comparison Study of Real-Time Solution to All- Attitude Angles of an Aircraft

  • Shin Sung-Sik;Lee Jung-Hoon;Yoon Sug-Joon
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.376-381
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, the quaternion, the dual Euler, and the direction cosine methods are numerically compared using a non-aerodynamic 6 degree-of-freedom rigid model at all-attitude angles of an aircraft. The dual Euler method turns out to be superior to the others in the applications because it shows better numerical accuracy, stability, and robustness in integration step sizes. The dual Euler method is affordably less efficient than the quaternion method in terms of computational cost. Numerical accuracy and stability, which allow larger integration step sizes, are more critical in modern real-time applications than computational efficiency because of today's increased computational power. If the quaternion method is required because of constraints in computation time, then a suppression mechanism should be provided for algebraic constraint errors which will eventually add computational burden.

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of 3-Stage Axial Compressorusing Artificial Neural Net (인공신경망 이론을 적용한 3단 축류압축기의 다분야 통합 최적설계)

  • Hong, Sang-Won;Lee, Sae-Il;Kang, Hyung-Min;Lee, Dong-Ho;Kang, Young-Seok;Yang, Soo-Seok
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2010
  • The demands for small, high performance and high loaded aircraft compressor are increased in the world. But the design requirements become increasingly complex to design these high technical engines, the requirement of the design optimization become increased. The optimal design result of several disciplines show different tendencies and nonlinear characteristics of the compressor design, the multidisciplinary design optimization method must be considered in compressor design. Therefore, the artificial Neural Net method is adapted to make the approximation model of 3-stage axial compressor design optimization for considering the nonlinear characteristic. At last, the optimal result of this study is compared to that of previous study.

Development of Wiper Antenna for Automobile using Single Sleeve Monopole (단일 슬리브 모노폴을 이용한 차량용 와이퍼 안테나의 개발)

  • 최광제
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.210-215
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    • 2001
  • The pole antenna of vehicles for AM/FM radio broadcasting receptions has many probems, such as damageable mechanical system and noise etc. It is considered that noise is composed of the structural vibration noise and the air flow induced aerodynamic noise. Also we find out that the setting process of a printed on-glass automobile antenna has many difficulties. Recently, the above mentioned problems can be reduced by employing enhanced wiper antenna which utilizes the windshied wiper arm. The new system is a passive antenna. In this study, experiments for the characteristics of a wiper antenna by measuring the SWR, radiation pattern and received powe have been carried out. The experimental results show that the efficiency of the wiper antenna has better performance than any other antenna.

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