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A Study for Aerodynamic Drag Reduction on Variable Message Sign using Flow Analysis  

Lim, Se-Mi (국민대학교 전자공학과)
Song, Dae-Young ((주)에스티씨)
Park, Kyeung-U ((주)에스티씨)
Park, Jun-Seok (국민대학교 전자공학과)
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The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems / v.10, no.6, 2011 , pp. 140-146 More about this Journal
Abstract
As the demand of Variable Message Sign(VMS) has become pervasive in fulfilling the ITS policy, the costs of maintaining the Variable Message Sign operation have also increased. This paper proposes the U-curved figure, the C-curved figure and the ventilated figure type for aerodynamic drag reduction on Variable Message Sign and shows the analysis of aerodynamic drag effects using Flow Analysis. As a results of the flow analysis for right-angled, 45 degrees from side to side and 45 degrees from up or down, the C-curved figure and the ventilated figure type show about 30% aerodynamic drag reduction in all direction. And the U-curved figure type shows vivid aerodynamic drag reduction for right-angled and 45 degree from side to side, but trivial aerodynamic drag reduction for 45 degree from up or down. It is possible to reduce not only the damage on Variable Message Sign due to typhoon because of the aerodynamic drag reduction, but also installation constraints because of lighter Variable Message Sign support structure by appling the proposed structure and analysis in this paper.
Keywords
Variable Message Sign; VMS; Aerodynamic Drag; Flow Analysis;
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