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Active Control of Flow Noise Sources in Turbulent Boundary Layer on a Flat-Plate Using Piezoelectric Bimorph Film

  • Song, Woo-Seog;Lee, Seung-Bae;Shin, Dong-Shin;Na, Yang
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.1993-2001
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    • 2006
  • The piezoelectric bimorph film, which, as an actuator, can generate more effective displacement than the usual PVDF film, is used to control the turbulent boundary-layer flow. The change of wall pressures inside the turbulent boundary layer is observed by using the multi-channel microphone array flush-mounted on the surface when actuation at the non-dimensional frequency $f_b^+$:=0.008 and 0.028 is applied to the turbulent boundary layer. The wall pressure characteristics by the actuation to produce local displacement are more dominantly influenced by the size of the actuator module than the actuation frequency. The movement of large-scale turbulent structures to the upper layer is found to be the main mechanism of the reduction in the wall- pressure energy spectrum when the 700$700{\nu}/u_{\tau}$-long bimorph film is periodically actuated at the non- dimensional frequency $f_b^+$:=0.008 and 0.028. The biomorph actuator is triggered with the time delay for the active forcing at a single frequency when a 1/8' pressure-type, pin-holed microphone sensor detects the large-amplitude pressure event by the turbulent spot. The wall-pressure energy in the late-transitional boundary layer is partially reduced near the convection wavenumber by the open-loop control based on the large amplitude event.

Contactless Power Charger for Light Electric Vehicles Featuring Active Load Matching

  • Jiang, Wei;Xu, Song;Li, Nailu
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.102-110
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    • 2016
  • Contactless power transfer technology is gaining increasing attention in city transportation applications because of its high mobility and flexibility in charging and its commensurate power level with conductive power transfer method. In this study, an inductively coupled contactless charging system for a 48 V light electric vehicle is proposed. Although this study does not focus on system efficiency, the generic problems in an inductively coupled contactless power transfer system without ferromagnetic structure are discussed. An active load matching method is also proposed to control the power transfer on the receiving side through a load matching converter. Small signal modeling and linear control technology are applied to the load matching converter for port voltage regulation, which effectively controls the power flow into the load. A prototype is built, and experiments are conducted to reveal the intrinsic characteristics of a series-series resonant inductive power charger in terms of frequency, air gap length, power flow control, coil misalignment, and efficiency issues.

The Study Active-based for Improvement of Reliablity In Mobile Ad-hoc Network (이동 애드혹 네트워크에서 신뢰성 향상을 위한 액티브 기반연구)

  • 박경배;강경인;유재휘;김진용
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.188-198
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, we propose an active network to support reliable data transmission in the mobile ad-hoc network. The active network uses DSR(Dynamic Source Routing) protocol as its basic routing protocol, and uses source and destination nodes as key active nodes. For reliable improvement the source node is changed to source active node to add function that its buffer to store the last data with the flow control for data transmission per destination node. The destination node is changed to destination active node to add function that it requests the re-transmission for data that was not previously received by the destination active node with the flow control for data reception per source active node As the result of evaluation. we found the proposed active network guaranteed reliable data transmission with almost 100% data reception rate for slowly moving mobile ad-hoc network and with more 95% data reception rate, which is improvement of 3.5737% reception rate compared with none active network, for continuously fast moving mobile ad-hoc network.

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TWO TYPES OF ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEM USING MFB LOUDSPEAKER

  • Nishimura, Yoshitaka;Shimada, Yasuyuki;Usagawa, Tsuyoshi;Ebata, Masanao
    • Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1994.06a
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    • pp.764-769
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    • 1994
  • The impedance of an electro-acoustic transducer can be controlled by motional feedback, and the noise in a duct can be reduced actively by adjusting the impedance using an additional sound. In this paper, two approaches for active noise control using motional feedback (MFB) loudspeaker are described. First configuration uses an external sensor to pickup of source directly. In this configuration, the adaptation of controller is necessary to compensate the change of transfer function from noise source to control poing. The second configuration uses a new adaptive algorithm specialized for peridic noise. Because this configuration does not require any reference input and the error sensor couples very tightly with control loudspeaker, this MFB system itself is independent of the duct condition. No microphone are required in both configurations, so that a more reliable and stable active control system can be realized under severe conditions such as high pressure, high temperature, dust, flow and so on.

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Active Control of Injection Mold Temperature using the Peltier Device (펠티어 소자를 이용한 사출 금형의 온도제어)

  • Cho, C.Y.;Shin, H.G.;Park, D.Y.;Hong, N.P.;Kim, B.H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.183-186
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    • 2007
  • The injection molding process has high accuracy and good reproducibility that are essential for mass production at low cost. Conventional molding processes typically use the water-based mold heating and air cooling methods. However, in the nano injection molding processes, this semi-active mold temperature control results in the several defects such as air-flow mark, non-fill, sticking and tearing, etc. Therefore, in order to control temperature of the molds actively and improve the quality of the molded products, the novel nano injection molding system, which uses active heating and cooling method, has been introduced. By using the Peltier devices, the temperature of locally adiabatic molds can be controlled dramatically and the quality of the molded patterns can be improved.

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Damping performance Analysis for an Electronically Contralled Shock Absorber (연속 가변형 충격흡수기의 감쇠성능 해석)

  • 박재우;이동락;백운경
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.192-201
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    • 2001
  • Analyzing internal structure, flow rate and dynamic behavior characteristics of electronically controlled shock absorber, damping performance limit is identified to comprise the two reciprocal characteristics of ride comfort and handling safety. Regardless of its lower performance than the active suspension control system, the semi-active suspension control system has been taking interest because of its absolutely higher performance than passive suspension system. Since the pervious studies have been concentrated mostly on analytic aspect and survey on the internal structure of the shock absorber remain insufficient, the main discourse of this paper is focused on analyzing the nonlinear shock absorber which varies the damping force of semi-active suspension system and the dynamic characteristics of the solenoid valve, a sort of pressure valve, and proposing the design factors of importance.

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Modeling of MR Damper Landing Gear Considering Incompletely Developed Fluid Flow (불완전 발달 유체 유동을 고려한 MR댐퍼 착륙장치 모델링)

  • Lee, Hyo-Sang;Jang, Dae-Sung;Hwang, Jai-Hyuk
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.7-18
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    • 2021
  • A semi-active MR damper landing gear is a damper that generates a fluid damping force and a magnetic field control damping force when the MR fluid passes through annular flow paths. In the case of MR fluid passing through annular flow paths, an incompletely developed flow inevitably occurs, causing an error in calculating damper inner forces including the fluid damping force. This error results in an inaccurate design of damper structural parameters and control gain selection, resulting in deterioration of dynamic characteristics and shock absorption performance of the landing gear. In this paper, we derived a mathematical model of an MR damper landing gear considering additional damping force generated in the entrance region of annular flow paths of the MR damper. If the mathematical modeling derived from this paper is applied to the design and optimization process of an MR damper landing gear, excellent performance of the MR damper landing gear is expected.

Control of Delta-Wing Vortex by Apex Strake

  • Sohn, Myong-Hwan;Chung, Hyoung-Seog
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.98-106
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    • 2007
  • The vortex flow characteristics of a double-delta wing, which can change the incidence angle of its apex strake was investigated through the wing-surface pressure measurement and the particle image velocimetry(PIV) measurement of the wing-leeward flow region. The apex strake has sharp edges and can change its incidence angle with a hinge line at the 23% chord position measured from the apex of the main wing. The present study revealed that the incidence-angle change of the apex strake could greatly alter the vortex flow pattern around the double-delta wing and the wing-surface pressure distribution, which suggested that the apex strake could be used as an effective device for the active control of delta-wing vortex flow.

Energy-efficient flow control around blunt bodies

  • Yurchenko, Nina F.
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.15-25
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    • 2014
  • The developed concept of smart flow control based on turbulence scale modification was applied to control a flow around a circular cylinder. The concept was realized using arrays of vortex-generators regularly spaced along a cylinder generatrix with a given step. Mechanical and thermal vortex-generators were tested, the latter having been based on the localized surface heating or plasma discharges initiated with microwave radiation near the surface. Thus depending on a particular engineering solution, flow transport properties could be modified in passive or active ways. Matched numerical and experimental investigations showed a possibility to delay flow separation and, accordingly, to improve the aerodynamic performance of blunt bodies.