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Current Issues in Wind Engineering: A Review

  • Yong Chul Kim
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.287-297
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    • 2023
  • This paper briefly discusses current issues in wind engineering, including the enhancement of aerodynamic database and AI-assisted design, aerodynamic characteristics of tall buildings with atypical building shapes, application of computation fluid dynamics to wind engineering, evaluation of aerodynamic force coefficients based on a probabilistic method, estimation of tornadic wind speed (JEF scale) and effect of the Ekman Spiral on tall buildings.

Accuracy Improvement of Low Fidelity Solver by Augmentation of Fin Aerodynamic Database (공력 조종면 데이터베이스 확장을 통한 저 충실도 해석자의 정확도 개선)

  • Kang, Eunji;Kim, Younghwa;Yim, Kyungjin;Lee, Jae Eun;Kang, Kyoung-Tai
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.45-54
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    • 2022
  • There has been necessity to supplement the fin database to improve the accuracy of low-fidelity aerodynamic solver for missile configuration. In this study, fin database is expanded by in-house solver, utilized in the triservice data the previously established into regions beyond means of CFD. Fin alone data of CFD analysis results in the original region is matched well with triservice data originated from the wind tunnel tests. Extensive fin aerodynamic data from CFD analysis is added to the existing database of the low-fidelity solver. For confirmation, aerodynamic characteristics of body-tail and body-canard-tail missile configurations is computed using upgraded low-fidelity solver at transonic region. The result using improved solver shows good agreements with wind tunnel test and CFD analysis results, which implies that it becomes more accurate.

PREDICTION OF SEPARATION TRAJECTORY FOR TSTO LAUNCH VEHICLE USING DATABASE BASED ON STEADY STATE ANALYSIS (정상 해석 기반의 데이터베이스를 이용한 TST 비행체의 분리 궤도 예측)

  • Jo, J.H.;Ahn, S.J.;Kwon, O.J.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.86-92
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, prediction of separation trajectory for Two-stage-To-Orbit space launch vehicle has been numerically simulated by using an aerodynamic database based on steady state analysis. Aerodynamic database were obtained for matrix of longitudinal and vertical positions. The steady flow simulations around the launch vehicle have been made by using a 3-D RANS flow solver based on unstructured meshes. For this purpose, a vertex-centered finite-volume method was adopted to discretize inviscid and viscous fluxes. Roe's finite difference splitting was utilized to discretize the inviscid fluxes, and the viscous fluxes were computed based on central differencing. To validate this flow solver, calculations were made for the wind-tunnel experiment model of the LGBB TSTO vehicle configuration on steady state conditions. Aerodynamic database was constructed by using flow simulations based on test matrix from the wind-tunnel experiment. ANN(Artificial Neural Network) was applied to construct interpolation function among aerodynamic variables. Separation trajectory for TSTO launch vehicle was predicted from 6-DOF equation of motion based on the interpolated function. The result of present separation trajectory calculation was compared with the trajectory using experimental database. The predicted results for the separation trajectory shows fair agreement with reference[4] solution.

Study of an AI Model for Airfoil Parameterization and Aerodynamic Coefficient Prediction from Image Data (이미지 데이터를 이용한 익형 매개변수화 및 공력계수 예측을 위한 인공지능 모델 연구)

  • Seung Hun Lee;Bo Ra Kim;Jeong Hun Lee;Joon Young Kim;Min Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2023
  • The shape of an airfoil is a critical factor in determining aerodynamic characteristics such as lift and drag. Aerodynamic properties of an airfoil have a decisive impact on the performance of various engineering applications, including airplane wings and wind turbine blades. Therefore, it is essential to analyze the aerodynamic characteristics of airfoils. Various analytical tools such as experiments, computational fluid dynamics, and Xfoil are used to perform these analyses, but each tool has its limitation. In this study, airfoil parameterization, image recognition, and artificial intelligence are combined to overcome these limitations. Image and coordinate data are collected from the UIUC airfoil database. Airfoil parameterization is performed by recognizing images from image data to build a database for deep learning. Trained model can predict the aerodynamic characteristics not only of airfoil images but also of sketches. The mean absolute error of untrained data is 0.0091.

Korean Adult Normative Data for the KayPENTAX Phonatory Aerodynamic System Model 6600 (KayPENTAX Phonatory Aerodynamic System Model 6600을 이용한 한국 성인의 공기역학적 변수들의 정상치)

  • Kim, Jaeock
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.105-117
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to (1) establish a Korean adult normative database for phonatory aerodynamic measures obtained with the KayPENTAX Phonatory Aerodynamic System (PAS) Model 6600, (2) investigate the intra-subject reliability of these measures across three testing sessions, and (3) examine the effect of gender on those measures. 170 healthy normal speakers (70 men and 100 women) between the ages 18 and 49 years participated in the study. The PAS protocol of maximum phonation and voicing efficiency were conducted and 25 measures were obtained. All aerodynamic measures taken in this study demonstrated high intra-subject reliability in clinical aspect. There were no significant effect of gender in the measures related to sound pressure and subglottal pressure. However, significant differences for gender were found for phonation time, airflow rate, expiratory volume, aerodynamic power, SPL range, pitch range, mean pitch, aerodynamic resistance, and aerodynamic efficiency. Clinicians should be aware of significant gender effects in some aerodynamic parameters when interpreting the data obtained from PAS.

An Experimental Study for Construction of Static Aerodynamics Database of KF-16 based on Design of Experiments (KF-16의 DOE기반 정적 공력 데이터베이스 구축을 위한 실험적 연구)

  • Jin, Hyeon;Shim, Ho-Joon;Lee, Don-Goo;Ahn, Jae-Myung;Choi, Han-Lim;Oh, Se-Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.43 no.5
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    • pp.422-431
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    • 2015
  • Wind tunnel testing to construct static aerodynamic database of KF-16 was conducted for preceding research of design of experiments in wind tunnel testing. The test model is KF-16 scaled 1/33 and it has horizontal tail, flaperon, and rudder. The experiments consist of one experiment for analyzing aerodynamic coefficients under whether or not horizontal tail is present and four experiments for analyzing aerodynamic coefficients of changes of deflection angle in control surface which are flap, flaperon, rudder, and horizontal tail. After conducting wind tunnel testing, the experimental results show that the control surface changes have a great effect on Aerodynamic characteristics.

PREDICTION OF AIRCRAFT FLOW FIELD EFFECT BY DIRECT CALCULATION OF INCREMENTAL COEFFICIENTS (증가 계수의 직접 계산법을 이용한 항공기 유동장 효과의 예측)

  • Kim, Eu-Gene;Kwon, Jang-Hyuk
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 2006
  • When new weapons are introduced, the target points estimation is one of the important objectives in the flight test as well as the safe separation. The prediction methods help to design the flight test schedule. However, the incremental aerodynamic coefficients in the aircraft flow field so-called BSE are difficult to predict. Generally, the semiempirical methods such as the grid methods, IFM and Flow TGP using database are used for estimation of BSE. However, these methods are quasi-steady methods using static aerodynamic loads. Nowadays the time-accurate CFD method is often used to predict the store separation event. In the current process, the incremental aerodynamic coefficients in BSE regime are calculated directly, and the elimination of delta coefficients is checked simultaneously. This stage can be used for the initial condition of Flow TGP with freestream database. Two dimensional supersonic and subsonic store separation problems have been simulated and incremental coefficients are calculated. The results show the time when the store gets out of BSE region.

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Predicting the 2-dimensional airfoil by using machine learning methods

  • Thinakaran, K.;Rajasekar, R.;Santhi, K.;Nalini, M.
    • Advances in Computational Design
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.291-304
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, we develop models to design the airfoil using Multilayer Feed-forward Artificial Neural Network (MFANN) and Support Vector Regression model (SVR). The aerodynamic coefficients corresponding to series of airfoil are stored in a database along with the airfoil coordinates. A neural network is created with aerodynamic coefficient as input to produce the airfoil coordinates as output. The performance of the models have been evaluated. The results show that the SVR model yields the lowest prediction error.

An Experimental Study on Wind Aerodynamic Improvement of Steel Composite Cable Stayed Bridge having π-shaped Girder (π형 주형을 가진 강합성 사장교의 공기역학적 제진방법에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Chang, Dong Il;Min, In Ki
    • Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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    • v.10 no.4 s.37
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    • pp.801-811
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    • 1998
  • In this paper, aerodynamic properties and improvements of the ${\pi}-shaped$ stiffening girder is studied by wind tunnel tests in steel composite cable stayed bridge. As an improvement device, fairing, extension, post and flap is tested. and the best improved section is selected and estimated on angles of attack, damping ratios and turbulent flows. It is shown that the selected fairing is effective to improve the aerodynamic stability. And this study can be utilized as a database of wind-resistant methodology of steel composite cable stayed bridge.

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Aerodynamics Characteristics of Hypersonic Vehicle in Near Space

  • Wu, Dingyi;Liu, Zhenxia;Xiao, Hong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.503-505
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of the current study is to examine the aerodynamic characteristics of two hypersonic vehicles in near space. One is derived from waverider shape, and the other from liftbody. The objective of this study are threefold. The first is to creat an computational database for hypersonic vehicle configurations. The second is to examine the effects of individual vehicle components on hypersonic configurations and to determine the differences in aerodynamic characteristics that result from integrating all vehicle components. The third objective is to evaluate the controllability of each of the fully integrated vehicles and the effectiveness of the control surface design. These objectives were accomplished using DSMC solutions and aerodynamic code developed in Northwestern Polytechnical University. The results are analyzed also in three sections. First, the results of the waverider shape and liftbody shape without integrated vehicle components are presented. Second, the results of adding aircraft components to the waverider shape and liftbody shape are presented. Finally, the aerodynamic characteristics of the fully integrated waverider-derived configuration and liftbody-derived configuration are examined and compared with those of the pure waverider shape and liftbody shape. Comparation between fully integrated waverider-derived configuration and liftbody-derived configuration are also presented in this paper.

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