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Analysis on Aerodynamic Characteristics of the CRW Air-Vehicle  

Choi Seong Wook (한국항공우주연구원)
Kim Jai Moo (한국항공우주연구원)
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Journal of computational fluids engineering / v.8, no.4, 2003 , pp. 26-33 More about this Journal
Abstract
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 sufaces, 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.
Keywords
Canard Rotor/wing; SUAV; Empirical Method; CFD; Minimum Drag; L/D;
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