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The Effect of Aspect Ratio on Aerodynamic Characteristics of Flapping Motion (날개의 종횡비가 날개 짓 운동의 공기역학적 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Oh, Hyun-Taek;Choi, Hang-Cheol;Kim, Kwang-Ho;Chung, Jin-Taek
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.217-220
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    • 2006
  • The lift and drag forces produced by a wing of a given cross-sectional profile are dependent on the wing planform and the angle of attack. Aspect ratio is the ratio of the wing span to the average chord. For conventional fixed wing aircrafts, high aspect ratio wings produce a higher lift to drag ratio than low ones for flight at subsonic speeds. Therefore, high aspect ratio wings are used on aircraft intended for long endurance. However, birds and insects flap their wings to fly in the air and they can change their wing motions. Their wing motions are made up of translation and rotation. Therefore, we tested flapping motions with parameters which affect rotational motion such as the angle of attack and the wing beat frequency. The half elliptic shaped wings were designed with the variation of aspect ratio from 4 to 11. The flapping device was operated in the water to reduce the wing beat frequency according to Reynolds similarity. In this study, the aerodynamic forces, the time-averaged force coefficients and the lift to drag ratio were measured at Reynolds number 15,000 to explore the aerodynamic characteristics with the variation of aspect ratio. The maximum lift coefficient was turned up at AR=8. The mean drag coefficients were almost same values at angle of attack from $10^{\circ}$ to $40^{\circ}$ regardless of aspect ratio, and the mean drag coefficients above angle of attack $50^{\circ}$ were decreased according to the increase of aspect ratio. For flapping motion the maximum mean lift to drag ratio appeared at AR=8.

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A Study on Drag Reduction of Cylindrical Underwater Body Using Sintered Mesh (소결 메쉬를 이용한 원통형 수중운동체 항력 감소 연구)

  • Jung, Chulmin;Paik, Bugeun;Kim, Kyungyoul;Jung, Youngrae
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.195-203
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    • 2018
  • Among the techniques of reducing the drag to increase the speed of underwater moving bodies, we studied on the drag reduction method by gas injection. Researches on gas injection method have been paid much attention to reduce the drag of vessels or pipe inner walls. In this study, we used a sintered metal mesh that can uniformly distribute fine bubbles by gas injection method, and applied it to a cylindrical underwater moving body. Using the KRISO medium-sized cavitation tunnel, we measured both the bubble size on the surface of the sintered mesh and the bubble distribution in the boundary layer. Then, drag reduction tests were performed on the cylinder type underwater moving models with cylindrical or round type tail shape. Experiments were carried out based on the presence or absence of tail jet injection. In the experiments, we changed the gas injection amount using the sintered mesh gas injector, and changed flow rate accordingly. As a result of the test, we observed increased bubbles around the body and confirmed the drag reduction as air injection flow rate increased.

Effect of a Silicone Defoamant on the Motion of Single Air Bubbles Rising in Lubricant

  • Shim, Joosup;Cho, Wonoh;Chung, Keunwoo;Kim, Woung Woon
    • KSTLE International Journal
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.52-58
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    • 2000
  • The velocity and motion of single air bubbles rising through lubricant have been experimentally investigated to test the effect of silicon defoamant The investigation reveals that the velocity is markedly retarded by the addition of small amount of silicone defoamant. This retardation of rising velocity of air bubbles is proposed by increasing of Drag force or reducing of Buoyancy force around the surfaces of the bubbles.

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A Numerical Study on Air-Assisted Breakup of Fuel Droplets (연료액적의 Air-Assisted Breakup에 대한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Hwang, S.S.
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.57-65
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    • 1996
  • Breakup models are evaluated using the experimental drop trajectory ill this study. The experimental conditions corespond to Weber # 56, 260, 463. Computations are carried out using a modified KIVA-II program with 2 different breakup submodel(TAB and Wave breakup model) and dynamic drag model which the drag coefficient changes dynamically with distortion parameter. Results show that computation with wave breakup model represents the experimental drop trajectory better than that with TAB submodel. And result with wave breakup model shows similar breakup pattern to experimental breakup process. It is thought that in wave breakup model the small drops are shed from the parent drop throughout parcel lifetime such thai this modelling represents the real breakup process well.

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Numerical Analysis on Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics in Louver Fin Heat Exchanger (루버휜형 열교환기내 유동 및 열전달 특성에 관한 해석적 연구)

  • 한진호;박상록;김일겸;임장순
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.398-403
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    • 2000
  • Numerical analysis was conducted to investigate flow and heat transfer characteristics in louver fin exchanger, which were influenced by louver pitch, fin pitch, louver angle and inlet velocity. Standard $k-\varepsilon$ turbulent modelling was used in this study, and compared with laminar modelling. As a result of this study, Nusselt number became smaller as louver pitch or fin pitch was greater. Drag coefficient became smaller as louver pitch or fin pitch was greater, but it was little affected by inlet velocity.

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Characteristics of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in a Fluidized Bed Heat Exchanger (순환유동층 열교환기내 유동과 열전달 특성)

  • 안수환;이병창;김원철;이윤표
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.315-323
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    • 2002
  • The commercial viability of heat exchanger is mainly dependent on their long-term fouling characteristics because the fouling increases the pressure loss and degrades the thermal performance of a heat exchanger. An experimental study was performed to investigate the characteristics of fluid flow and heat transfer in a fluidized bed heat exchanger with circulating various solid particles. The present work showed that the drag force coefficients of particles in the internal flow were higher than those in the external flow, in addition, the solid particle periodically hitting the tube wall broke the thermal boundary layer, and increased the rate of heat transfer. Particularly when the flow velocity was low, the effect was more pronounced.

Analysis on Aerodynamic Characteristics of the CRW(Canard Rotor/wing) Air-Vehicle (CRW 비행체의 공력특성 해석)

  • Choi Seong Wook;Kim Jai Moo
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.08a
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    • pp.106-113
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    • 2003
  • Smart UAV Development Program, one of the 21c Frontier R&D Program sponsored by MOST(Ministry of Science and Technology), was launched in 2002. As an air vehicle for the Smart UAV, CRW(Canard Rotor/Wing) concept was one of the candidates compared in trade-off study. The CRW concept has not only been proven completely but its aerodynamic characteristics not known in detail yet. Two calculation methods were adopted in this study to obtain aerodynamic data for the CRW. First method was the superpose DATCOM method which is capable of three lifting surfaces, and second one is the full Navier-Stokes computation around CRW configuration using overset grid method. Basic aerodynamic characteristics of the CRW configuration was analyzed and the minimum drag level with lift to drag ratio is presented. The peculiar flow characteristics around rotor/wing and hub were also examined and considered in the configuration design.

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Development of Vehicle Tunnel Ventilation System (도로터널 환기시스템 개발연구)

  • Lee, Chang-Woo
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.71-74
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    • 2008
  • This paper aims at studying the key design elements for the optimal ventilation system design, developing the design models and suggesting the design guidelines. The key elements include the basic exhaust emission rate, wall friction coefficient, vehicle drag coefficient and slip streaming effect, jet fan operating efficiency, natural ventilation force and installation scheme for jet fans and ventilation monitors in tunnel. The design models developed in this study are one-dimensional ventilation simulator to analyze the air flow, pressure profile and pollutant dispersion inside and outside tunnel, expert model to choose the optimal ventilation method, and the ventilation characteristic chart to evaluate the preliminary ventilation system. The study results are reflected in the design guideline for road tunnel ventilation system.

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A Study on the Drag and Heat Transfer Reduction Phenomena and Degradation Effects of the Viscoelastic Fluids (점탄성유체의 저항 및 열전달 감소현상과 퇴화의 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Eum, C.S.;Jeon, C.Y.;Yoo, S.S.
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.37-48
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    • 1990
  • The drag and heat transfer reduction phenomena and degradation effects of drag reducing polymer solutions which are known as the viscoelastic fluids are investigated experimentally for the turbulent circular tube flows. Two stainless steel tubes are used for the experimental flow loops. Aqueous solutions of Polyacrylamide Separan AP-273 with concentrations from 300 to 1000 wppm are used as working fluids. Flow loops are set up to measure the friction factors and heat transfer coefficients of test tubes in the once-through system and the recirculating flow system. Test tubes are heated by power supply directly to apply constant heat flux boundary conditions on the wall. Capillary tube viscometer and falling ball viscometer are used to measure the viscous characteristics of fluids and the characteristic relaxation time of a fluid is determined by the Powell-Eyring model. The order of magnidude of the thermal entrance length of a drag reducing polymer solution is close to the order of magnitude of the laminar entrance length of Newtonian fluids. Dimensionless heat transfer coefficients of the viscoelastic non-Newtonian fluids may be represented as a function of flow behavior index n and newly defined viscoelastic Graetz number. As degradation continues viscosity and the characteristic relaxation time of the testing fluids decrease and heat transfer coefficients increase. The characteristic relaxation time is used to define the Weissenberg number and variations of friction factors and heat transfer coefficients due to degradation are presented in terms of the Weissenberg number.

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Dynamic characteristics and control of submerged working robot manipulator (수중작업 로봇의 동특성 및 제어에 관한 연구)

  • 강이석;송정섭;조형석
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.488-496
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    • 1991
  • Dynamic chanracterisitcs and control of a submerged working robot manipulator have been investigated for articulated type robot manipulator with three revoluted joints. A dynamic equation of the manipulator has been derived. The dynamic equation includes not only mass matrix, centrifugal and Coriolis terms and gravity terms but also added mass, buoyant force and drag force terms, which are important terms for underwater motion description. A series of simulations using computed torque method have been performed for the cases of straight and circular trajectory motion controls. The results of this study show that the dynamic characteristics of the submerged working robot manipulator are very different from that of the manipulator which works in air. The influences of added mass, buoyant force and drag force terms to the total required torques have been discussed as distribution ratios to the total required torques.