• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.329-335
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• 2009

The unsteady panel and time-marching free wake are applied to the rotor aerodynamics and wake behaviour. Numerical results of panel and free wake are compared and validated with experimental data. Using these methods, unsteady rotor aerodynamics in BVI condition is analyzed and discussed in detail.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.36 no.11
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• pp.1039-1048
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• 2008

new computational procedure for the Non-Linear Vortex Lattice Method (NLVLM) is suggested in this work. Conventional procedures suggested so far usually involves inner iteration loop to update free vortex shape and an under-relaxation based iteration loop to determine the free vortex shape. In this present work, we suggest a new formula based on quasi-steady concept to fix free vortex shape which eliminates the need for inner iteration loop. Further, the ensemble averaging of the induced velocities for a given free vortex segment evaluated at each iteration significantly improves the convergence property of the algorithm without resorting to the under-relaxation technique. Numerical experiments over several low aspect ratio wings are carried out to obtain optimal empirical parameters such as the length of the free vortex segment, the vortex core radius, and the rolled-up wake length.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.118-131
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• 1991

The effects of free surface on vortex shedding phenomena around a bluff body were studied by both numerical simulation and flow visualization experiments. A vortex method, which approximates the vorticity field as the sum of discrete vortices; was used for the numerical simulation. Flow visualization experiments were performed in the KRISO cavitation tunnel. Hydrogen bubble was used as illumination material. Free surface elevation was also measured during experiments. The hydrodynamic drag and lift were predicted by numerical simulation. The predicted period of vortex shedding was compared with the results of experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.27-27
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• 1998

제트에 있어서 유동특성은 제트초기의 생성되는 불안정성이 하류에서의 와류성장에 영향을 끼치게 되기 때문에 중요하게 되며, 와류의 조절을 통해 충돌면에의 열전달 효과의 변화를 가져올 수 있게 된다 따라서 본 연구에서는 FFT를 이용하여 제트의 와류생성과 병합의 주파수 특성을 연구하고, 이에 적절한 주파수로 와류를 여기 하여 자유제트의 유동특성 변화와 이에 따른 충돌 면에서의 충돌제트의 유동 및 열전달 특성을 고찰하였다. 제트의 음향을 통한 여기를 함으로써 생성되는 와류형성 및 병합 특성 변화는 연기열선법(smoke-wire method)과 속도 및 난류강도 특성 결과를 통해 확인 할 수 있었는데, 이는 자연적으로 생성되는 와류의 주파수(고유 주파수)와 관련하여 고유주파수의 조화성분 또는 부조화성분의 주파수를 가함으로써 와류의 병합을 촉진시키거나 억제하는 효과를 나타내기 때문이다.

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.2 no.3 s.4
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• pp.7-16
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• 1999

The flow angle at the inlet and exit of a rotor or stator is an important design parameter involved in the design a fan blade. Flow angles along the radial direction for 3-D stacking are calculated using two kinds of vortex methods, i.e. free vortex method and forced vortex method. The performance test shows that a fan designed by the free vortex method is more efficient than a fan designed by the forced vortex method. As a reference, an imported fan is tested. Even though the straightner of the imported fan is used for the comparison test, the difference of efficiency between the imported fan and the fan designed by the free vortex method is negligible. The noise of the fan designed by the free vortex method is less than that of the imported fan. A bellmouth installed at the fan inlet improved the fan efficiency more than $10\%$.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.228-232
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• 2010

두 가지 어류 이동용 여수로 설계안에 대하여 유한요소법 기반의 레블�V 기법을 이용하여 흐름을 모의하고 적용성을 검토하였다. 첫 번째 설계안은 저수지에서 여수로로 직각 형태의 유입부를 가지고 있으며, 두 번째 설계안은 부드러운 곡면 형태의 유입부를 가지고 있다. 수치해석 결과를 자유수면의 위치, 압력분포 등의 특성을 중심으로 여수로 수리모형 실험 결과와 비교하였다. 그 결과, 직각 형태의 유입부를 갖는 설계안의 경우, 유입부의 응력분포의 영향으로, 평탄하지 않은 자유수면형과 압력분포를 보이는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다. 반면에 곡선형태의 유입부를 갖는 여수로의 경우에는 수면형과 압력분포에서 완만한 변화를 보이는 것이 관측되었다. 여수로 정상부에서 대기압보다 작은 부압의 분포는 두 가지 설계안 모두 비슷한 분포를 보였다. 여수로의 출구부에서는 측면부에서는 와류의 영향으로 인하여 수면의 상승을 관찰할 수 있었다. 결론으로서 곡면 유입부 형태의 여수로가 완만한 천이역을 갖고 있으며, 어류이동측면에서 유리함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.30 no.8
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• pp.37-45
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• 2002

A two-dimensional unsteady, inviscid flow solver has been developed for the simulation of airfoil-vortex interactions on unstructured dynamically adapted meshes. The Euler solver is based on a second-order accurate implicit time integration using a point Gauss-Seidel relaxation scheme and a dual time-step subiteration. A vertex-centered, finite-volume discretization is used in conjunction with the Roe's flux-difference splitting. An unsteady solution-adaptive dynamic mesh scheme is used by adding and deleting mesh points to take account of both spatial and temporal variations of the flow field. The effect of vortex interaction on the aeroelastic displacement of an airfoil attached to the idealized two degree-of-freedom spring system is investigated.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.761-769
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• 2013

Effects of helicopter wakes on helicopter aerodynamics are serious, but the wake configuration is very complicated and hard to predict. The purpose of this study is the detailed observation of wake using numerical methods. Vortex lattice method and freewake method are used to track the vortices in the wake. In this paper, the wake configuration is observed during hovering flight. In the case of hovering flight at the moderate thrust level, besides tip vortex, counter-rotating vortex can be observed at the inboard part of blade. When the vortices move downward, tip vortex and counter-rotating vortex get close and influence to each other. Therefore, vortices are highly distorted due to their own instability.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.859-867
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• 2007

The objective of this study is to develop and validate a numerical method which can handle the multi-rotor aerodynamic characteristics. For the purpose of power estimation, table look-up method is implemented to the existing unsteady panel code that is coupled with a time-marching free wake model. Also, the Reynolds number scaling is implemented for the application to various regions of Reynolds number. The computed results are validated against the available experimental data for coaxial and tandem rotors. In the validation case for the coaxial rotor, more accurate result is acquired when the thickness effect is considered. The wake instability problem occurs at a particular separation distance between the rotors for tandem rotors. The wake instability is avoided by setting the single-rotor wake geometry as the initial wake geometry for the multi-rotor analysis. The estimated result for rotor separation effect is compared with the result of the momentum theory.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.16 no.3 s.108
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• pp.291-297
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• 2006

The BVI(blade vortex interaction) noise Prediction has been one of the most challenging acoustic analyses in helicopter aeromechanical Phenomenon. It is well known high resolution airloads data with accurate tip vortex positions are necessary for the accurate prediction of this phenomenon. The truly unsteady time-marching free-wake method, which is able to capture the tip vortices instability in hover and axial flights, is expanded with the rotor flapping motion and trim routine to predict unsteady airloads in forward and descent flights. And Farassat formulation 1-A based on the FW-H equation is applied for the noise prediction considering the blade flapping motion. Main objective of this study is to validate the newly developed prediction code. To achieve the objective, the descent flight condition of AH-1 OLS(operational loads survey) configuration is analyzed using present code. The predicted sectional thrust distribution and sectional airloads time histories show the present scheme is able to capture well the unsteady airloads caused by a parallel BVI. Finally, the predicted noise data, observed in two different positions where are 3.44 times of rotor radius far from the hub center, are quite reasonable agreements with the experimental data compared to the other analysis results.