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Analysis of aerodynamic characteristics for the selection of cross-section to the TBM railway tunnels (TBM 철도터널 단면선정을 위한 공기역학적 특성 분석)

  • Lee, Ho-Keun;Kang, Hyun-Wook;Kim, Hyun-Soo;Kim, Hong-Moon
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.625-635
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    • 2013
  • Although the TBM method is mainly adopted in overseas market including the Europe, etc, the method scarcely adopted in domestic market. For highly enhancing applications of the TBM method for railway, It is needed to select the optimal cross-section considering design elements of civil engineering and aerodynamic effects. Also, it is needed to establish plan of proper section as well as reviewing aerodynamic effects and consideration about civil engineering elements such as length of tunnel, speed of railway, height of whole lines and size of utility tunnel, etc. Even though it should be recently considered high-speed railway tunnels and required to be standard establishments in aerodynamic reviews, it is being applied to be criteria of inconsistent pneumatic analysis owing to be not related with domestic standards. In this study, therefore, we are willing to establishment of domestic and foreign aerodynamic standards and investigate correlation between optimal cross-section and aerodynamic effects of TBM railway tunnels.

Aerodynamic Model Development for Three-dimensional Scramjet Model Based on Two-dimensional CFD Analysis (스크램제트 2차원 모델의 전산해석을 이용한 3차원 비행체의 공력 모델 개발)

  • Han, Song Ee;Shin, Ho Cheol;Park, Soo Hyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.65-76
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    • 2020
  • On the initial design process of a scramjet vehicle such as the trajectory prediction, it is inevitable to estimate the aerodynamic performance of a three-dimensional effect. Despite the necessity of intensive computing for the three-dimensional model, it is inefficient in predicting a wide range of aerodynamic performance. In this study, an engineering model for aerodynamic performance was developed based on two-dimensional computational fluid analysis and linearized supersonic inviscid flow theory. Correspondingly, the three-dimension aerodynamic performance relations are presented based on the two-dimensional results. And the additional three-dimensional computation was performed to evaluate the adequacy for the extended relations.

Development of Slender Aerodynamic Girder for Suspension Bridges (현수교 세장 내풍 단면의 개발)

  • Kwon, Soon-Duck;Lee, Myeong-Jae;Cho, Eukyung;Lee, Seung-Ho
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.30 no.3A
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    • pp.241-256
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    • 2010
  • This study intends to develop an aerodynamic girder for suspension bridge with width corresponding to 1/70 of the main span length. In the first step of present study, parametric study for the effects of major structural properties on aerodynamic stability of bridges was performed. The span length and natural frequency of bridges were found to be free from girder width, girder height, and aspect ratio of width to height. The empirical equation according to confidence interval was proposed to estimate the natural frequencies of bridges from span length. From the sensitivity analysis, it was revealed that the torsional frequency was dominant parameter among various structural properties that affected flutter velocity mostly. The final aerodynamic bridge section which satisfied the flutter criteria was found from section wind tunnel tests for 30 cross sectional models. The aerodynamic stability of the developed cross section was verified by multimode flutter analysis. The present economical cross section can be used for long span suspension bridge.

Validation of a Robust Flutter Prediction by Optimization

  • Chung, Chan-Hoon;Shin, Sang-Joon
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.43-57
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    • 2012
  • In a modern aircraft, there are many variations in its mass, stiffness, and aerodynamic characteristics. Recently, an analytical approach was proposed, and this approach uses the idea of uncertainty to find out the most critical flight flutter boundary due to the variations in such aerodynamic characteristics. An analytical method that has been suggested to predict robust stability is the mu method. We previously analyzed the robust flutter boundary by using the mu method, and in that study, aerodynamic variations in the Mach number, atmospheric density, and flight speed were taken into consideration. The authors' previous attempt and the results are currently quoted as varying Mach number mu analysis. In the author's previous method, when the initial flight conditions were located far from the nominal flutter boundary, conservative predictions were obtained. However, relationships among those aerodynamic parameters were not applied. Thus, the varying Mach number mu analysis results required validation. Using an optimization approach, the varying Mach number mu analysis was found out to be capable of capturing a reasonable robust flutter boundary, i.e., with a low percentage difference from boundaries that were obtained by optimization. Regarding the optimization approach, a discrete nominal flutter boundary is to be obtained in advance, and based on that boundary, an interpolated function was established. Thus, the optimization approach required more computational effort for a larger number of uncertainty variables. And, this produced results similar to those from the mu method which had lower computational complexity. Thus, during the estimation of robust aeroelastic stability, the mu method was regarded as more efficient than the optimization method was. The mu method predicts reasonable results when an initial condition is located near the nominal flutter boundary, but it does not consider the relationships that are among the aerodynamic parameters, and its predictions are not very accurate when the initial condition is located far from the nominal flutter boundary. In order to provide predictions that are more accurate, the relationships among the uncertainties should also be included in the mu method.

The Study of Advanced Propeller Blade for Next Generation Turboprop Aircraft -Part I. Aerodynamic Design and Analysis (차세대 터보프롭 항공기용 최신 프로펠러 블레이드 연구 -Part I. 공력 설계 및 해석)

  • Choi, Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.40 no.12
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    • pp.1017-1024
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    • 2012
  • The aerodynamic design and analysis on advanced propeller with blade sweep was performed for recent turboprop aircraft. HS1 airfoil series are selected as a advanced propeller blade airfoil. Adkins method is used for aerodynamic design and performance analysis with respect to the design point. Adkins method is based on the vortex-blade element theory which design the propeller to satisfy the condition for minimum energy loss. Propeller geometry is generated by varying chord length and pitch angle at design point of target aircraft. Advanced propeller is designed by apply the modified chord length, the tip sweep which is based on the geometry of conventional propeller. The aerodynamic characteristics of the designed Advanced propeller were verified by CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamic) and evaluated to be properly designed.

Aerodynamic Analysis of Tilt-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • Kim Cheol-Wan;Chung Jin-Deog
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.561-568
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    • 2006
  • CFD simulation for one of tilt-rotor UAV configurations, TR-E2S1, was performed to investigate its aerodynamic characteristics. Control surfaces such as elevator and rudder were deflected and wing incidence angle was changed. Also aerodynamic stabilities were analyzed with the variation of pitch and yaw angles. The comparison of CFD with wind tunnel test results reveals the same trends in the aerodynamic characteristics and stabilities. However 12% scale wind tunnel test model is too small for accurate data collection and should build a high fidelity model for quantitative data comparison.

Design Strategies for Multi-Stage Axial Turbines (다단 축류터빈 공력설계 및 공력성능 향상기법)

  • Kang, Young-Seok;Rhee, DongHo;Cha, BongJun;Yang, SooSeok
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.78-82
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    • 2014
  • This paper describes a brief aerodynamic design procedure of multi-stage axial turbine. The design procedure was established including one dimensional scratch design, through flow analysis with empirical correlations, two dimensional airfoil design and three dimensional airfoil stacking. Detailed aerodynamic performance assessment was done with full three dimensional CFD method at the design and off design conditions to construct turbine performance map. With the present method, aerodynamic design procedure of 1st and 2nd stages of high pressure turbine for 10,000lbf class turbofan engine was introduced.

A STUDY ON THE LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER AIRFOILS FOR THE DESIGN OF THREE DIMENSIONAL WING (3차원 날개 설계를 위한 저레이놀즈수 에어포일에 대한 연구)

  • Jung, K.J.;Lee, J.;Kwon, J.H.;Kang, I.M.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.90-96
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    • 2009
  • In this study, a generic airfoil designed by the inverse method was evaluated with several candidate airfoils as a first step. Each airfoil was compared with respect to aerodynamic performance to meet the requirement of HALE(high altitude long endurance) aircraft. The second step was to optimize the candidate airfoil using the couple of optimization formulations to down select an optimum airfoil. For the analysis of low Reynolds number 2D flow, Drela's MSES was used. After comparing the aerodynamic results, the best airfoil was chosen to construct the baseline 3D wing. The Navier-Stokes code was used to evaluate the overall aerodynamic performance of designed wing with other wings. The results show that the designed wing has the best performance compared with other wings.

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SUPERSONIC/HYPERSONIC UNSTEADY AERODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF A WEDGE-TYPE AIRFOIL USING NONLINEAR PISTON THEORY AND EULER EQUATIONS (비선형 피스톤 이론과 오일러 방정식을 이용한 쐐기형 에어포일의 초음속/극초음속 비정상 공력해석)

  • Kim Dong-Hyun
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.10 no.3 s.30
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2005
  • In this study, unsteady aerodynamic analyses of a wedge-type airfoil based on nonlinear piston theory and Euler equations have been performed in supersonic and hypersonic flows. The third-order nonlinear piston theory (NPT) to calculate unsteady lift and moment coefficients is derived and applied in the time-domain. Also, unsteady flow quantities are obtained from the two-dimensional time-dependent Euler equations. For the CFD based unsteady aerodynamic analyses, an arbitrary Lagrangean-Eulerian (ALE) formulation for the Euler equations is used to calculate flow fluxes in the computational flow field with moving boundaries. Numerical comparisons for unsteady lift and moment coefficients are presented between NPT and Euler approaches. The results show very good agreements in the high supersonic and hypersonic flows. It means that the present NPT can be efficiently used to predict unsteady aerodynamic forces ol wedge type airfoils with dynamic motions in the high supersonic and hypersonic flow regimes.