• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.47-52
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• 2006

The external balance of KARl LSWT is installed by Aerotech at 1998. It has been used for more than 70 tests until 2004. The upgrade and re-calibration program are planed to solve the problem that revealed in 7-years operation and to increase the accuracy of the system. In this paper, 3 calibration results are presented. The first one is the results done by Aerotech at 1998, the second one is the results by using quick-loading system at 2004, and the last one is the results done at 2005.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.385-394
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• 2012

A computer program that can estimate static, dynamic stability and control derivatives using a subsonic-supersonic panel method is developed. The panel method uses subsonic-supersonic source and elementary horse shoe vortex distributions, and their strengths are determined by solving the boundary condition approximated with a thin body assumption. In addition, quasi-steady analysis on the body fixed coordinate system allows the estimation of damping coefficients of aircraft 3 axes. The code is validated by comparing the neutral point, roll and pitch damping of delta wings with published analysis results. Finally, the static, dynamic stability and control derivatives of F-18 are compared with experimental data as well as other numerical results to show the accuracy and the usefulness of the code.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.732-737
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• 2009

Wind tunnel testing on the real-scale pantograph for high-speed train has been conducted to investigate the aerodynamic characteristic of the pantograph at high-speed. The mid-scale subsonic wind tunnel of Korea Airforce Acamedy with 3.5m width, 2.45m height, and 8.8m length test section has been employed. The test model has been supported above 50cm height from the bottom of test section using vertical strut to eliminate the boundary layer generated from the bottom of the test section. The height of the pantograph has been varied in three cases, in both of the normal running and reverse running modes. The resultant lift forces of the pantograph to catenary system in all the cases have been measured and the relation between the test conditions and the lift forces have been extensively analyzed.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.57-63
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• 2018

IR thermography is a non-invasive method and used for the visualization of the surface temperature of the model. However, this technique only derives 2D results and not quantitative data. The goal of this study is to apply the 3D mapping technique for IR thermography. The wind tunnel model is an ogive-cylinder with a wind speed of 20 m/s ~ 80 m/s and the angle of attack ranging from $0^{\circ}$ to $90^{\circ}$. The real location of the model was made to correspond with the position of the IR image using the makers. Based on this result, quantitative results were obtained. The 3D mapping method was verified by comparing the separation point and the theoretical value.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.10
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• pp.888-893
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• 2012

This paper described the wind tunnel testing apparatus and technique to acquire the dynamic stability derivatives of large slenderness ratio air vehicle such as the guided missiles or rockets. There have been few difficulties in conducting wind tunnel testing for slender long rocket due to the size limitation of the test section size and the installation of oscillation equipments. In this study, the dynamic stability balance was used as the wind tunnel technique for obtaining the dynamic stability derivatives. Through the wind tunnel testing, the experimental apparatus for slender air vehicle's oscillation is established. The measured data showed that it is possible to acquire the dynamic stability derivatives of large slenderness ratio rocket, properly.

• 한국항공운항학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.35-38
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 스포츠급 경항공기 모형의 공력 특성을 공군사관학교 아음속 풍동에서 측정하였다. 풍동시험은 유속 40m/s에서 이전 모델과 최근 공력성능 향상을 위해 보완된 모델에 대해 비교 실험 수행하였으며, 정확한 데이터를 얻기 위하여 흐름각 효과, 벽면효과, 지지대 간섭효과를 보정하여 공력계수를 산출하였다. 실험 결과, 두 모델의 항력계수와 양력계수가 전체적으로 유사한 경향성을 보이나 고받음각에서의 양력특성의 차이가 발생하였다. 또한 실제 비행 시의 레이놀즈 수 유동을 모사하기 위하여 Trip strip의 영향에 대하여 실험하였다. 그 결과 Trip strip을 부착하였을 경우 항력계수가 증가하고 최소항력받음각이 낮아지는 결과를 획득하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.38-43
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• 2002

A study on the test, design and fabrication of wind tunnel model for measurement of air load distribution on wing surfaces is presented. 447 pressure taps are installed normal to the wing surfaces, and measured by PSI-8400 system using total 8 ESPs modules installed in the model. The test was performed at 50 m/sec constant speed in the low speed wind tunnel of Agency for Defense Development. Tests were carried out to determine effects of angle of attack, angle of sideslip and flap and stores for the load distribution of wing. The test results in this paper can be applied to the design optimization of structure and validation of computational fluid dynamics.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.9
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• pp.27-33
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• 2005

This research presents the influence of the base region modeling on the aerodynamic characteristics of a launch vehicle using CFD. The vicinity of a launch vehicle is divided into four zones, and four computational cases are made using these four zones. The aerodynamic coefficients are predicted for the angle-of-attack of 6 degrees and Mach numbers ranging from 0.4 to 2.86. It was found that modeling of the base region should not be neglected for the prediction of the aerodynamic characteristics of a launch vehicle in subsonic and transonic regions. It was also found that the modeling of the sting support used in the wind tunnel test is necessary to get a better agreement with the experiments.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.24-29
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• 2004

In this paper, we summarize the results of free drop wind tunnel test, separation analysis and flight test in order to verify the safety during the separations of an external fuel tank and the LAU-131 rocket launcher from XKO-l. The wind tunnel test was conducted to show the safety in free drop of the stores and to gather the trajectory data for fine tune of MSAP(Multi-body Separation Analysis Program). The enhanced MSAP was then used to predict the trajectories of the stores with and without the ejector forces. A correlation of MSAP results for free drop case was also made to show the safety of jettison with the free drop type bomb rack. Moreover, the flight test was conducted. and its results were compared to analysis results. Finally, the safe jettison boundary was determined from the flight test.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.92-99
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• 2005

A closed-circuit type wind tunnel is designed, which has a test section with the dimensions $1.2(W){\times}1.2(H){\times}3.4(L)$. A subsonic wind tunnel is designed to improves educational circumstances and promote ground tests. It is constituted of an exchangeable test section, first and second diffusers, a fan, a settling chamber, a contraction, and 4 corners. The maximum velocity in the test section is 70m/s and the contraction ratio is 6.25:1. Input power in the wind tunnel is about 96.1 kw (128.8 hp) and its energy ratio is 3.89. It has the dimension of about $7.4(W){\times}3.6(H){\times}21.7m(L)$. The wind tunnel designed in this investigation will be an effective educational and investigational equipment.