• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.77-84
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• 2015

최근 친환경적인 항공 추진시스템에 대한 요구가 확대되고 있는 가운데 여러 에너지원을 조합하여 장기 체공하는 무인기용 복합추진시스템을 개발하기 위한 다양한 시도가 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 주어진 임무형상에 따른 비행체의 에너지 균형 매커니즘을 최적화하기 위하여 태양전지로부터 수집 가능한 에너지와 비행체의 요구에너지 그리고 재생연료전지 구동을 통해 순환에 필요한 동력분배 관리시스템을 분석하였다.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2019

Recently, development of long endurance electric powered airplane has been conducted worldwidely. Light structural weight of a main wing with sufficient structural integrity is essential for long endurance flight. Since a main wing with a slender spar can occur catastrophic fracture under the flight, it is important to establish a design and verification method for both the weight reduction and structural integrity. In this paper, structural design and analysis of the main wing of HALE UAV with tubular spar reinforced with a bulkhead were introduced. The static strength test of the main wing was performed to verify structural integrity under the static load. Then, the experimental result was compared with an analytical result from a finite element analysis. It was concluded that the developed light weight main wing would have sufficient structural integrity under the flight operation.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.68-73
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• 2014

Research is being carried out at Korea Aerospace Research Institute with aim of design a HALE UAV(High Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Air Vehicle). HALE UAVs are ideally suited to provide surveillance, remote sensing and communication relay capabilities for both military and civilian applications. HALE UAVs typically cruise at an altitude between 15 km and 20 km, travelling at low speed and circling specific area of interest. Airframe structural point of view, weight reduction of the airframe structure is the most important method to improve the flight efficiency. High modulus CFRP(Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer) has been used in designing the structure in order to minimize the airframe weight. With respect to structural design and analysis, the key question is to decide an adequate airworthiness certification base to define suitable load cases for sizing of various structural components. In this study, FAR(Federal Aviation Regulation) 23 have constituted the guidance and benchmark throughout all structural studies. And the MSC/FlightLoads was introduced to analyze the flight loads for the HALE UAV. The MSC/FlightLoads can compute the flexible air load and analyzed loads are distributed on structural model directly. A preliminary structural concept was defined in accordance with the estimated inertial and aerodynamic loads. A FEM analysis was carried out using the MSC/Nastran code to predict the static and dynamic behaviour of UAV structure.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.65-73
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• 2017

Intercoolers for multi-stage turbocharger of the hydrogen reciprocating engine for HALE UAV are installed for reducing the charged air inlet temperature of the engine. The intercooler is air to air, cross flow, plate-fin type and the fin configuration is offset-strip fin which is referenced from the heat exchanger of the ERAST. Most of HALE UAV's cruising altitude is 60,000 ft and the density of air for this altitude is very low compared to sea level. Therefore the required heat transfer area for the HALE UAV is about three-times bigger than the sea level. Consequently, it is essential to design to meet the required efficiency of intercooler in the range of not excessively growing the weight of the heat exchanger. The quasi-one dimensional heat transfer design/analysis for satisfying the requirement of the engine are written in this paper. The numerical analyses for estimating the coolant flow rate of the engine bay and pressure loss in the header and core are also summarized.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제38권8호
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• pp.758-766
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• 2010

태양에너지 기반 무인기는 공급되는 전력량이 날개 면적에 영향을 받으므로 형상설계와 비행에 필요한 전력량이 동시에 고려되어야 하며 따라서 설계 과정이 복잡해진다. 복잡한 설계과정에 앞서 주어진 임무 요구를 만족시키는 태양에너지 기반의 무인기 제작 가능 여부와 제작 가능하다면 무인기의 대략적인 주요 치수를 구하는 방법론이 있다면 이를 활용함으로서 불필요한 설계 시행 오차 없이 무인기를 설계 할 수 있을 것이다. 본 논문에서는 주요 치수 결정 방법론으로 날개 면적을 가정하고 날개 면적과 임무 요구로부터 에어포일(양력계수, 항력계수), 무게를 결정한 후 필요 전력과 태양 전지 효율로부터 다시 날개 면적을 계산하는 것으로 제시하였는데, 이는 날개에서 생산되는 전력, 양력 및 항력이 날개 면적에 직접적으로 영향 받기 때문이다. 앞서 가정된 날개 면적 값과 계산된 날개 면적 값의 오차가 충분히 작아질 때 까지 반복적으로 가정된 날개 면적 값을 바꾸어가며 계산을 수행한다. 본 방법론을 실제 제작된 태양에너지 기반 무인기의 값을 이용해 검증하고, 태양에너지 기반 고고도 장기체공 무인기의 주요 치수를 결정해보았다.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2015

A multi-stage turbocharger system has been constructed for HALE UAV internal combustion engine. To boost rarefied intake air up to sea level condition, the turbocharger system should consist of 3 stages including heat exchanger located after compressor outlet to drop compressed air temperature. One dimensional system analysis has been conducted by matching required power between compressor and turbine and adequate turbochargers have been searched for from commercially available models targeting for automobiles. By applying commercial automobile turbochargers to the multi-stage turbocharger system, it is expected that considerable amount of research resources will be saved.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.51-56
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• 2019

To reduce the structural weight, thin-walled circular composite tube has been used as a main spar of high altitude-long endurance unmanned air vehicle(HALE UAV). Predicting the torsional response of stiffened circular spar is complex due to the inhomogeneous nature of section properties, which are dependent on fiber architecture and constituent material properties. The stiffener were placed in the top and bottom sectors of a tube to increase the torsional capabilities such as the rigidity and buckling strength. Numerical simulations were performed to estimate the effect of the stiffener on the torsional capacities. A static experimental test was performed on a stiffened tube, and the test results were compared with a numerical model. The numerical models showed good correlation and demonstrated the ability to predict the torsional capacity. Results presented herein will exhibit the effectiveness of stiffener on torsional strength and stiffness.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.393-404
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• 2014

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been applied to not only military missions like surveillance and reconnaissance but also commercial missions like meteorological observation, aerial photograph, communication relay, internet network build and disaster observation. Fuel cells make UAVs eco-friendly by using hydrogen. Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) show low operation temperature, high efficiency, low noise and high energy density and those characterisitcs are well fitted with UAVs. Thus Fuel cell based UAVs have been actively developed in the world. Recently, fuel cell UAVs have started to develope for high altitude UAVs because target altitude of UAVs is expanded upto stratosphere altitude. Long endurance of UAVs is essential to improve effects of the missions. Improvement of UAV endurance time could be fulfilled by developing a hydrogen fuel storage system with high energy density and reducing the weight of UAVs. In this paper, research trend and analysis of fuel cell UAVs are introduced in terms of their altitude and endurance time and then the prospect of fuel cell UAVs are shown.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.22-27
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• 2015

최근 고고도 장기체공 무인기의 개발이 활발하게 진행되고 있는 가운데, 중량당 에너지 밀도가 높아서 왕복동 엔진의 연료로서 적합한 수소 연료를 적용하는 것이 경제성과 기술성 측면에서 유리한 것으로 검토되었다. 본 연구에서는 2.4리터급 왕복동 가솔린엔진을 수소엔진으로 개조하기 위하여 수소연료를 공급하기 위한 실험장치를 구축하고 수소연료 공급이 가능한 인젝터를 장착하였으며 범용 엔진제어기를 이용하여 엔진을 구동시킴으로써 시동 및 공회전 시의 연소 특성을 파악하였다. 안전하게 엔진 시동성을 확보하였고 공회전 상태를 유지할 수 있는 조건을 탐색하였다. 또한 공회전 상태에서 공연비와 점화 타이밍을 변경해보면서 연소 안정성을 비롯한 기본적인 연소 특성을 살펴봄으로써 향후 수소엔진을 활용한 무인기의 동력원을 개발하기 위한 기초를 마련하였다.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.24-29
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• 2015

In order to increase endurance flight efficiency of long endurance electric powered UAV, main wing of UAV should have high aspect ratio and low structural weight. Since a spar which consists of thin and slender structure for weight reduction can cause catastrophic failure during the flight, it is important to develop verification method of structural integrity of the spar with the light weight design. In this paper, process of structural analysis using non-linear finite element method was introduced for the verification of structural integrity of the spar. The static strength test of the spar was conducted to identify structural characteristic under the static load. Then, the experimental result of the spar was compared to the analytical result from the non-linear finite element analysis. It was found that the developed process of structural analysis could predict well the non-linear structural behavior of the spar under ultimate load.