• Title/Summary/Keyword: Aerodynamic Databases

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Separation Analysis of a Store with Deployable Wings (날개 전개가 가능한 무장의 분리 특성해석)

  • Kim, Byeong-Kyoo;Kim, Sang-Jin;Kang, In-Mo;Kim, Myung-Seong;Lee, Seung-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.381-389
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    • 2007
  • 6-DOF simulation program is developed in order to increase the efficiency of the store separation analysis. This S/W is much faster than a method based on CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) technology, and allows the simulation of stores with fixed shape as well as with extensible wings, because it uses aerodynamic databases which are prepared beforehand. In this paper, aerodynamic databases of stores are obtained with MSAP(Multi-body Separation Analysis Program), and unsteady damping coefficients are modeled with Missile Datcom. These databases and the 6-DOF simulation program are used to predict the trajectory of an external store, while its wings are being deployed. The analysis results indicate that the safe separations of the store can be achieved not only with the wing fixed but with the wings being deployed.

AERODYNAMIC DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF UAV ROTOR BLADES USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (유전 알고리즘과 인공 신경망 기법을 이용한 무인항공기 로터 블레이드 공력 최적설계)

  • Lee, H.M.;Ryu, J.K.;Ahn, S.J.;Kwon, O.J.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2014
  • In the present study, an aerodynamic design optimization of UAV rotor blades was conducted using a genetic algorithm(GA) coupled with computational fluid dynamics(CFD). To reduce computational cost in making databases, a function approximation was applied using artificial neural networks(ANN) based on a radial basis function network. Three dimensional Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) solver was used to solve the flow around UAV rotor blades. Design directions were specified to maximize thrust coefficient maintaining torque coefficient and minimize torque coefficient maintaining thrust coefficient. Design variables such as twist angle, thickness and chord length were adopted to perform a planform optimization. As a result of an optimization regarding to maximizing thrust coefficient, thrust coefficient was increased about 4.5% than base configuration. In case of an optimization minimizing torque coefficient, torque coefficient was decreased about 7.4% comparing with base configuration.

Simulation Analysis of the Neural Network Based Missile Adaptive Control with Respect to the Model Uncertainty (신경회로망 기반 미사일 적응제어기의 모델 불확실 상황에 대한 시뮬레이션 연구)

  • Sung, Jae-Min;Kim, Byoung-Soo
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.329-334
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents the design of a neural network based adaptive control for missile. Acceleration of missile by tail fin control cannot be controllable by DMI (Dynamic Model Inversion) directly because it is non-minimum phase system. To avoid the non-minimum phase system, dynamic model inversion is applied with output-redefinition method. In order to evaluate performance of the suggested controllers we selected the three cases such as control surface fail, control surface loss and wing loss for model uncertainty. The corresponding aerodynamic databases to the failure cases were calculated by using the Missile DATACOM. Using a high fidelity 6DOF simulation program of the missile the performance was evaluates.

Transonic buffet alleviation on 3D wings: wind tunnel tests and closed-loop control investigations

  • Lepage, Arnaud;Dandois, Julien;Geeraert, Arnaud;Molton, Pascal;Ternoy, Frederic;Dor, Jean Bernard;Coustols, Eric
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.145-167
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    • 2017
  • The presented paper gives an overview of several projects addressing the experimental characterization and control of the buffet phenomenon on 3D turbulent wings in transonic flow conditions. This aerodynamic instability induces strong wall pressure fluctuations and therefore limits flight domain. Consequently, to enlarge the latter but also to provide more flexibility during the design phase, it is interesting to try to delay the buffet onset. This paper summarizes the main investigations leading to the achievement of open and closed-loop buffet control and its experimental demonstration. Several wind tunnel tests campaigns, performed on a 3D half wing/fuselage body, enabled to characterize the buffet aerodynamic instability and to study the efficiency of innovative fluidic control devices designed and manufactured by ONERA. The analysis of the open-loop databases demonstrated the effects on the usual buffet characteristics, especially on the shock location and the separation areas on the wing suction side. Using these results, a closed-loop control methodology based on a quasi-steady approach was defined and several architectures were tested for various parameters such as the input signal, the objective function, the tuning of the feedback gain. All closed-loop methods were implemented on a dSPACE device able to estimate in real time the fluidic actuators command calculated mainly from the unsteady pressure sensors data. The efficiency of delaying the buffet onset or limiting its effects was demonstrated using the quasi-steady closed-loop approach and tested in both research and industrial wind tunnel environments.