• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.70-82
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• 1999

During the aircraft conceptual design stage, rapid aerodynamic analyses over various configurations are required. Hence, empirical and analytical methods play important roles in predicting the aero-dynamic characteristics. In this study, total drag estimation method based on empirical and analytical approaches is developed. By comparing with the results of the wind tunnel experiment and existing prediction methods, it is demonstrated that the developed method is accurate and useful in predicting total drag for the whole Mach number range.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.37-40
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• 2012

EDISON CFD 수치 해법 기법을 바탕으로 초음속 유동장 속에서 spike가 부착된 무딘 물체에 대하여, spike 형상 변화에 따른 압축성 효과에 의한 항력 변화 추이를 고찰하였다. Spike의 길이 따른 항력 변화 추이를 살펴보았다. Spike의 길이가 Main body와 특정한 비율을 가질 때 항력이 최소가 된다. 이를 기준으로 spike 길이가 특정 길이만큼 줄어들거나 늘어날 경우에 각각 1.35%, 4.95% 항력이 증가하였다. 이러한 자료들은 초음속 유동장에서 무딘 물체에 가해지는 압축성 효과에 의한 저항을 최소화하기 위한 spike 설계 시 중요한 견해를 제공한다.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2016.03a
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• pp.598-603
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• 2016

현대의 스포츠는 과학기술의 발전과 함께 성장하고 있고 골프종목 역시 재료역학적, 공기역학적 발전에 따라 비거리를 점점 늘려가고 있다. 하지만 현재까지의 비거리에 대한 연구는 골프공과 골프채의 재료의 변화와 딤플이 있는 골프공의 공기역학적 연구에 집중해 있었고 요즘에 들어서야 클럽헤드의 공기역학적 형상에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 골프 경기 중 가장 먼 비거리를 만들어 내는 골프채인 드라이버의 단순화된 2차원 클럽헤드 형상을 설정하고 항력을 줄일 여러 가지 방법을 적용하여 최소의 항력을 갖는 헤드 형상을 찾아보았다. 연구결과 $10.2^{\circ}$의 로프트를 갖는 클럽헤드는 chord 길이가 face 높이의 3.2배이고, trailing edge가 face의 중심보다 전체 face높이의 10% 아래에 있을 때 가장 적은 항력을 얻을 수 있었다. 결과적으로 이 형상과 기존형상의 스윙 속도 차는 약 2mph로 5yard의 비거리 차이를 가져온다.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.24-29
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• 2008

Aircraft fuel efficiency is one of main concerns to aircraft manufacturers and to aviation companies because jet fuel price has tripled in last ten years. One of simple and effective methods to increase fuel efficiency is to reduce aircraft induced drag by using of wingtip devices. Induced drag is closely related to the circulation distribution, which produces strong wingtip vortex behind the tip of a finite wing. Wingtip devices including winglets can be successfully applied to reduce induced drag by wingtip vortex mitigation. Winglet design, however, is very complicated process and has to consider many parameters including installation position, height, taper ratio, sweepback, airfoil, toe-out angle and cant angle of winglets. In current research, different shapes of winglets are compared in the view of vortex mitigation. Appropriately designed winglets are proved to mitigate wingtip vortex and to increase lift to drag ratio. Also, the results show that winglets are more efficient than wingtip extension. That is the reason B-747-400 and B-737-800 chose winglets instead of a span increase to increase payload and range. Drag polar comparison chart is presented to show that minimum drag is increased by viscous drag of winglet, but at high lift, total drag is reduced by induced drag decrease. So, winglets are more efficient for aircraft that cruises at a high lift condition, which generates very strong wingtip vortex.

• 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.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.154-159
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• 1995

Numerical optimization technique with Navier-Stokes code has been used to reduce the drag of conventional ogival nose. Forebody optimizations are performed for supersonic laminar and turbulent flow conditions. To alleviate the computing time of aerodynamic drag calculation, axisymmetric boundary condition is implemented in the 3-dimensional Navier-Stokes code. The automated optimization procedure with gradient based method results in a drag reduction of $4\;\%$.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.175-182
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• 2011

Optimized design was performed for a subsonic aircraft wing. The subsonic aircraft is dual turbo-prop and carrying less than 100 passengers. The cruise speed is Mach 0.6. The design was performed by two stages. The first stage is to decide the height of horizontal tail by analyzing the directional stability with Vorstab and then, the optimized wing configuration was selected with Piano, a optimizer commercially available. Fluent, a commercial CFD software was utilized to predict the aerodynamic performance of the aircraft. Drag of the aircraft was minimized with maintaining constant lift for cruise. The optimization reduced 10 counts from the initial wing configuration.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.26-33
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• 2003

Smart UAV Development Program, one of the 21c Frontier R&D Program sponsored by MOST(Ministry of Science and Technology), was launched in 2002 As an air vehicle for the Smart UAV, CRW(Canard Rotor/wing) concept was one of the candidates compared in trade-off study. The CRW concept has not only been proven completely but its aerodynamic characteristics not known in detail yet. Two calculation methods were adopted in this study to obtain aerodynamic data for the CRW First method was the superpose DATCOM method which is capable of three lifting sufaces, and second one is the full Navier-Stokes computation around CRW configuration using overset grid method. Basic aerodynamic characteristics of the CRW configuration was analyzed and the minimum drag level with lift to drag ratio is presented. The peculiar flow characteristics around rotor/wing and hub were also examined and considered in the configuration design.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.24-31
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• 2009

The Airship which uses light gases(Helium) can afford to be managed safely, and economically. In this paper, it executed Airship aerodynamic design using Theory of the Airship shape. With the change of main design factor, aerodynamic coefficients were investigated by FLUENT and the shape of the Airship which has low drag was chosen. For low drag coefficient of the Airship, the theory of traditional Airship shape was used. The structural analysis of the Airship is executed by ANSYS.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.237-243
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• 2010

In this study, the effect of the shape of a pintle(obstacle) on thrust-modulation performance and drag in a pintle rocket was investigated by a cold flow test and by computational fluid dynamics. Pintle movement caused a monotonic increase in the chamber pressure. Thrust generated by the pressure distribution on the pintle body was linearly changed to the chamber pressure, and this thrust was greater than that generated by the nozzle-wall pressure distribution. Because the shock pattern in the nozzle changes with the shape of the pintle body and pressure ratio, the thrust generated by the nozzle-wall pressure is not directly affected by chamber pressure. The drag due to the pintle(obstacle) can be minimized for a fully linear pintle shape, regardless of chamber pressure.