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http://dx.doi.org/10.20910/JASE.2018.12.2.23

A Trend for the Contrail Reduction Technology  

Choi, Jaewon (Department of Aeronautical Mechanical Design Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
Ock, Gwonwoo (Department of Aeronautical Mechanical Design Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
Son, Myeongjin (Department of Aeronautical Mechanical Design Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
Kim, Hyemin (Department of Aeronautical Mechanical Design Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
Yang, Gyebyeong (7th R&D Institute, Agency for Defense Development)
Kim, Jihyun (7th R&D Institute, Agency for Defense Development)
Cho, Hana (7th R&D Institute, Agency for Defense Development)
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Journal of Aerospace System Engineering / v.12, no.2, 2018 , pp. 23-29 More about this Journal
Abstract
Contrail is type of clouds which are formed by a condensation of water vapour from the aircraft exhaust when the aircraft is flying the cold atmosphere. Since contrails have considerable effect on greenhouse-effect and military stealth efficiency, researches about contrail avoidance technology has been conducted for decades. However, none of the previous researches concerning contrail avoidance was carried out in Korea. Thus, review of the previous study regarding contrail reduction is absolutely needed. In this paper, researches conducted by several countries are categorically introduced, and practicabilities of their methods are analyzed. This paper also suggests some practical and systematized way to conduct future researches about contrail avoidance.
Keywords
Contrail; Water Vapour; Condensation; Cloud; Crystallization; Nuclei;
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