• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.43-48
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• 2009

Generally, underwater vehicle type of propeller shows low efficiency about 50%-55%. However, the efficiency of swimming mechanism of a fish is 60%-70%, more efficient about 20% than screw propellers. Recently, research of underwater vehicle type of fish increase due to its good efficiency and is regarded as a typical bio-mimical robot. In this research, a new algorithm and mechanism that show low energy consumption imitating swimming mechanism of fish proposed increasing speed and running time in field trial.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.91-95
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• 2002

This paper describes the design of planar circulators with propellers resonator including a plurality of symmetric magnetic walls. One purpose of the paper is to present insertion loss on this resonator for magnetic loss, dielectric loss, magnetic field and saturation magnetization. Another is to study the effect of propeller resonator on response characteristics. The paper includes the description of one commercial circulator that is compatible with the data obtained

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.1-8
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• 1993

The cases and the treatments of the rotational speed losses of marine propellers are examined and practical modification methods are discussed. The cutting of the propeller diameter, the modification of propeller pitch and the propeller blade edge modification are briefly reviewed. An example for the propeller blade edge modification, which is regarded to have advantages in cost and workmanship, is presented for a propeller of a large ship.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.90-94
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• 2001

A Waterjet has been widely used for the propulsion of various speed range of marine vehicles due to its many advantages compared with the conventional screw propellers. In this paper, a power prediction based on momentum flux method is presented for the preliminary estimation of required power and selection of propulsion system for the waterjet driven craft. A theoretical basis of the mechanism of the waterjet is given and some of the empirical formulas are given as well. Finally the influence of intake type and nozzle exit velocity on the efficiency will be discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.245-246
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• 2009

The large and high-speed vessels have been greatly advanced, but ship materials have been caused the problem such as corrosion, cavitation and erosion. Cavitation can produce material damage such as pumps, turbines, valves and ship propellers etc. To solve these problems, the cavitation and electrochemical characteristics for thermal spray coating and the sealing are executed to obtain the excellent corrosion protection characteristics in sea water environment.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.57-68
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• 2000

The Power Augmented Ram(PAR) effect, which blows the down stream of the propellers into the underside of the wings and hence increases the pressure between the lower surface of the wings and the sea surface, is known significantly to enhance the performance of the WIG concept by reducing the take-off and landing speeds. The aerodynamic characteristics of a 20 passenger PARWIG are investigated by wind tunnel tests with the 1/20 scale model. The efflux of the forward mounted propellers are simulated by jet flows with a blower and duct system. The lift, drag, and pitch moment of the model with various ground clearances, angles of attack and flap angles are measured for the various jet velocities, jet nozzle angles, horizontal and vertical positions of the nozzle, and the nozzle diameters. The aerodynamic characteristics of the PARWIG due to these parametric changes are compared and pertinent discussions are included. It is shown that the proper use of the PAR can increase the lift coefficient of as much as up to 4.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.222-231
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• 2007

This paper represents a basic statistical examination on the navigability of ocean-going ship from the point of estimating the time lasting period when propeller racing occurred by using the basic probability theory and the statistics. The propeller racing is one of the most important seakeeping qualities in relation to the safety of the main engine and shafting system. The trend of the racing has been mainly investigated in order to estimate allowable maximum propeller diameter, operation of ocean-going ships, etc.. In those studies, the propeller racing generally and mainly means the situation (propeller exposed) in which the relative motion amplitude between ship hull and wave surface would exceed a depth of point in rotary disk propeller. Therefore, it seems that the magnitude of the amplitude and its exceeding frequency of propeller racing have been examined as a principal subject of study as usual. However, the time during which the amplitude exceeds the depth of point, that is, the propeller exposes in the air, must be also one of most important factor affecting the trend of propeller racing. Then, this paper proposes a new practical method for estimating the time lasting of exposed propeller related to propeller racing in rough-confused seas on the basis of the linear strip theory and the statistics. And, numerical examples of estimating the propeller racing probability are given for four wide ship forms. Finally the usefulness of the proposed method for predicting propeller racing based on the time lasting period is discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.248-254
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• 2013

Recently, contra-rotating propellers (CRP) having higher efficiency draw much attention since the EEDI regulation of IMO has been enforced. In this paper a numerical method based on the vortex lattice potential theory with a wake model and an experimental procedure with a newly built measuring device, specifically focusing on CRPs, are introduced. And they are applied to a series of CRP known to be designed for the purpose of improving EEDI. The numerical and experimental results showed good agreement explaining the characteristics of the CRP properly. The proposed method is believed to be effectively used for various CRP related studies.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.30-36
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• 1999

A surface panel method for the analysis of ducted propellers in both uniform and non-uniform onset inflow is developed. A low order, perturbation potential based panel method with an efficient numerical Kutta condition is used. The boundary surface is discretized with hyperboloidal panels and the boundary condition is applied at the panel centroids. The unsteady analysis is based on a time-step algorithm in time domain. Numerical implementation is employed into both steady and unsteady problems. The results with the resent method are shown to have good convergence on the circumferential distribution of circulation on the duct. The effect of the propeller tip clearance on the circumferential circulation on the duct is also presented Numerical results on forces and moments of the propeller and the duct are compared with other numerical results and experimental data.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.85-92
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• 2017

Recently, electric propulsion systems are used for unmanned surface vehicle, fish finder boat, etc. Some of these propulsion systems can be constructed of two electric motors and propellers for advanced impellent force. In this case, the speed difference generated between two propellers, namely, the synchronous error has a bad influence on the energy efficiency and course error. In this study, a synchronous control system is designed to restrain synchronous error caused by disturbance and mismatched dynamic characteristics. The control system is composed of the reference model, pre-filters, speed controllers, and synchronous controllers. The reference model is used for calculating the decoupled synchronous error and control input for each propulsion system. The pre-filters and speed controllers are designed in order that the propulsion system may follow the reference signal without overshoot and input saturation. And the synchronous controllers are designed from the viewpoint of stable and quick synchronization through root locus mothed approach. Finally, the simulation results show that the designed control system is effective for the disturbance.