• Wind and Structures
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.389-404
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• 2019

In coastal regions, it is common to witness significant damages on low-rise buildings caused by hurricanes and other extreme wind events. These damages start at high pressure zones or weak building components, and then cascade to other building parts. The state-of-the-art in experimental and numerical aerodynamic load evaluation is to assume buildings with intact envelopes where wind acts only on the external walls and correct for internal pressure through separate aerodynamic studies. This approach fails to explain the effect of openings on (i) the external pressure, (ii) internal partition walls; and (iii) the load sharing between internal and external walls. During extreme events, non-structural components (e.g., windows, doors or rooftiles) could fail allowing the wind flow to enter the building, which can subject the internal walls to lateral loads that potentially can exceed their load capacities. Internal walls are typically designed for lower capacities compared to external walls. In the present work, an anticipated damage development scenario is modelled for a four-story building with a stepped gable roof. LES is used to examine the change in the internal and external wind flows for different level of assumed damages (starting from an intact building up to a case with failure in most windows and doors are observed). This study demonstrates that damages in non-structural components can increase the wind risk on the structural elements due to changes in the loading patterns. It also highlights the load sharing mechanisms in low rise buildings.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.35-54
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• 2019

A successful blade design must satisfy some criterions which might be in conflict with maximizing annual energy yield for a specified wind speed distribution. These criterions include maximizing power output, more resistance to fatigue loads, reduction of tip deflection, avoid resonance and minimize weight and cost. These criterions can be satisfied by modifying the geometrical parameters of the blade. This study is dedicated to the aerodynamic assessment of a 20 kW horizontal axis wind turbine operating with two possible airfoils; that is $G{\ddot{o}}ttingen$ 413 and NACA 2415 airfoils (the Gottingen airfoil never been used in wind turbines). For this study parameters such as chord (constant, tapered and elliptic), twist angle (constant and linear) are varied and applied to the two airfoils independently in order to determine the most adequate blade configuration that produce the highest annual energy output. A home built numerical code based on the Blade Element Momentum (BEM) method with both Prandtl tip loss correction and Glauert correction, X-Foil and Weibull distribution is developed in Matlab and validated against available numerical and experimental data. The results of the assessment showed that the NACA 2415 airfoil section with elliptic chord and constant twist angle distributions produced the highest annual energy production.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.64-73
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• 2022

페어링은 상용차가 주행 시 전면부에서 발생하는 유동박리의 저항을 제어하여 상용차 공기 저항력을 감소시키는 장치이다. 본 연구에서는 랭킨 반체 이론을 적용하여 3D페어링 형상을 설계하고 공력 해석을 통해 설계 결과를 검증하였다. 그리고 페어링의 구조적 안전성을 위해 상용차 과속조건과 돌풍 조건을 함께 고려하여 공력하중을 도출하였다. 이러한 공력 해석 결과를 기반으로 유리섬유/에폭시 복합재료를 적용하여 안전계수 3을 만족하는 페어링 구조 설계를 수행하였다. 최종 본 연구에서 가장 경량화된 페어링의 구조 해석을 수행하여 구조 안전성이 확인되었다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2023

To evaluate the wind shielding effect of bridge towers with multiple limbs on high-speed trains, a wind tunnel test was conducted to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of vehicles traversing multi-limb towers, which represented a combination of the steady aerodynamic coefficient of the vehicle-bridge system and wind environment around the tower. Subsequently, the analysis model of wind-vehicle-bridge (WVB) system considering the additional moments caused by lift and drag forces under nonuniform wind was proposed, and the reliability and accuracy of the proposed model of WVB system were verified using another model. Finally, the factors influencing the wind shielding effect of multi-limb towers were analyzed. The results indicate that the wind speed distributions along the span exhibit two sudden changes, and the wind speed generally decreases with increasing wind direction angle. The pitching and yawing accelerations of vehicles under nonuniform wind loads significantly increase due to the additional pitching and yawing moments. The sudden change values of the lateral and yawing accelerations caused by the wind shielding effect of multi-limb tower are 0.43 m/s² and 0.11 rad/s² within 0.4 s, respectively. The results indicate that the wind shielding effect of a multi-limb tower is the controlling factor in WVB systems.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.419-437
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• 2023

This paper presents the study of the effects of rigid-body motion simultaneously with the presence of the effects of temporal variation due to the existence of morphing speed on the aeroelastic stability of the two-stage telescopic wings, and hence this is the main novelty of this study. To this aim, Euler-Bernoulli beam theory is used to model the bending-torsional dynamics of the wing. The aerodynamic loads on the wing in an incompressible flow regime are determined by using Peters' unsteady aerodynamic model. The governing aeroelastic equations are discretized employing a finite element method based on the beam-rod model. The effects of rigid-body motion on the length-based stability of the wing are determined by checking the eigenvalues of system. The obtained results are compared with those available in the literature, and a good agreement is observed. Furthermore, the effects of different parameters of rigid-body such as the mass, radius of gyration, fuselage center of gravity distance from wing elastic axis on the aeroelastic stability are discussed. It is found that some parameters can cause unpredictable changes in the critical length and frequency. Also, paying attention to the fuselage parameters and how they affect stability is very important and will play a significant role in the design.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.93-107
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• 2024

A π-shaped composite deck in the form of an open section is a type of blunt body that is highly susceptible to wind loads. To investigate its vortex-induced vibration (VIV) performance, a large-scale (1/20) section model of a cable-stayed bridge with a main span of 650 m was tested in a wind tunnel. The vibration suppression mechanism of the countermeasures was analyzed using computational fluid dynamic. Experimental results demonstrate that the vertical and torsional VIVs of the original section can be suppressed by combining guide plates with a tilt angle of 35° and bottom central stabilizing plates as aerodynamic countermeasures. Numerical results indicate that the large-scale vortex under the deck separates into smaller vortices, resulting in the disappearance of the von Kármán vortex street in the wake zone because the countermeasures effectively suppress the VIVs. Furthermore, a full-bridge aeroelastic model with a scale of 1/100 was constructed and tested to evaluate the wind resistance performance and validate the effectiveness of the proposed countermeasures.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제32권8호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2004

타원형 날개꼴의 공력 특성에 브로잉 제트 방식과 제트 방향의 영향에 대하여 실험을 통하여 연구를 수행하였다. 본 연구는 타원형 날개꼴의 박리제어에 있어서 브로잉 제트적용에 관한 기본 데이터를 축적하는데 목적을 두었다. 본 연구에서는 날개면에서의 압력 분포, 브로잉 제트 출구에서의 유속 분포 및 공력 자료를 제공하였다. 타원형 날개꼴에 대한 실험은 레이놀즈수 $8.22{\times}10^5$에서 수행하였다. 펄스제트는 후실속각 이후에 공력 특성을 향상시키는 효과를 보여 주었다. 즉, 펄스제트는 감소된 질량유동율로 상당히 높은 양력을 발생하였다. 제트 방향도 박리제어의 주요 파라미터임을 보였다. 양의 제트각은 박리를 지연시키거나 억제하였고, 음의 제트각은 박리를 오히려 촉진시켰다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.519-529
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 주로터, 동체, 그리고 꼬리로터를 포함한 UH-60A 전기체 형상에 대한 비정상 유동 해석을 수행하였다. 개발된 로터해석용 유동 해석코드를 이용하여 고속 전진 비행 및 저속 전진비행 조건에 대한 해석을 수행하였으며, 해석코드의 검증을 위해 주로터에서의 비정상 공력 하중을 비행시험 및 타 연구자들의 해석 결과와 비교하였다. 주로터만 존재하는 형상, 주로터와 동체만 존재하는 형상, 그리고 꼬리로터만 존재하는 형상에 대한 해석 결과를 전기체 형상에 대한 해석 결과와 비교함으로써 헬리콥터 각 컴포넌트 간의 공기력 간섭현상을 분석하였다. 동체는 주로터에서 발생하는 내리흐름 분포를 변화시킴으로써 주로터의 수직력 분포를 변화시키는 요인이 됨을 확인하였으며, 주로터 끝단으로부터 발생한 와류와 꼬리로터 블레이드가 충돌함에 따라 강한 간섭현상이 발생함을 확인하였다

• 항공우주기술
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.32-41
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 한국형기동헬기(KUH) 주로터 블레이드의 축소 설계를 수행하였다. 축소 모델은 공력하중, 익단 와류 및 소음원 측정 시험을 위해 설계되었다. 실제 로터와 동일한 공력 하중을 모사하기 위하여 마하스케일링 기법이 적용되었다. 마하스케일 모델은 블레이드의 익단 마하수가 동일하며, 정규화된 진동수 또한 동일하다. 즉, 마하스케일된 모델은 공력하중 및 구조동역학적 과점에서 상사된 모델이다. 공기역학적 축소과정은 외형 치수의 축소와 회전수의 증가를 통해 완료된다. 구조동역학적 측면에서는 블레이드 단면 설계를 통해 생성된 강성 및 관성 분포가 실제 로터의 회전고유진동수 분포를 나타내는지 확인하는 과정을 통해 완료된다. 본 연구에서는 국내에서 수급 가능한 복합재 프리프레그를 이용한 블레이드 단면 설계를 수행하고, 설계된 모델의 동역학적 특성을 고찰하였다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.247-270
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• 2019

Wind-resistant design of existing cooling tower structures overlooks the impacts of rainfall. However, rainstorm will influence aerodynamic force on the tower surface directly. Under this circumstance, the structural response of the super-large cooling tower (SLCT) will become more complicated, and then the stability and safety of SLCT will receive significant impact. In this paper, surrounding wind fields of the world highest (210 m) cooling tower in Northwest China underthree typical wind velocities were simulated based on the wind-rain two-way coupling algorithm. Next, wind-rain coupling synchronous iteration calculations were conducted under 9 different wind speed-rainfall intensity combinations by adding the discrete phase model (DPM). On this basis, the influencing laws of different wind speed-rainfall intensity combinations on wind-driving rain, adhesive force of rain drops and rain pressure coefficients were discussed. The acting mechanisms of speed line, turbulence energy strength as well as running speed and trajectory of rain drops on structural surface in the wind-rain coupling field were disclosed. Moreover, the fitting formula of wind-rain coupling equivalent pressure coefficient of the cooling tower was proposed. A systematic contrast analysis on its 3D distribution pattern was carried out. Finally, coupling model of SLCT under different working conditions was constructed by combining the finite element method. Structural response, buckling stability and local stability of SLCT under different wind velocities and wind speed-rainfall intensity combinations were compared and analyzed. Major research conclusions can provide references to determine loads of similar SLCT accurately under extremely complicated working conditions.