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Effects of Gas-surface Interaction Models on Spacecraft Aerodynamics

  • Khlopkov, Yuri Ivanovich;Chernyshev, Sergey Leonidovich;Myint, Zay Yar Myo;Khlopkov, Anton Yurievich
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2016
  • The influence of boundary condition of the bodies with gas flows is one of the most important problems in high-altitude aerodynamics. In this paper presents the results of the calculation of aerodynamic characteristics of aerospace vehicle using Monte-Carlo method based on three different gas-surface interaction models - Maxwell model, Cercignani-Lampis-Lord (CLL) model and Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential. These models are very sensitive for force and moment coefficients of aerospace vehicle in the hypersonic free molecular flow. The models, method and results can be used for new generation aerospace vehicle design.

A STUDY ON THE PREDICTION OF THE BASE FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OF A LAUNCH VEHICLE USING CFD

  • Kim Younghoon;Ok Honam;Kim Insun
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2004.10b
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    • pp.258-261
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    • 2004
  • Numerical simulations are made to predict the axial force coefficients of a two-stage launch vehicle, and the results are compared with those by wind tunnel tests. It is found that the forebody axial force is not affected by whether the base of the body is modeled or not. Modeling the sting support used in wind tunnel tests reduced the base axial force compared to the results without it. The present calculation shows that the forebody axial forces are underestimated while the base axial forces are overestimated. The total axial force, therefore, compares with the experimental data with better accuracy by cancelling out the errors of opposite signs. Modeling of the sting support in numerical simulations is found to be necessary to get a better agreement with the experiments for both base and overall axial force coefficients.

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Flutter characteristics of a Composite Wing with Various Ply Angles (복합재료날개의 적층각에 대한 플러터 특성 연구)

  • Yoo, Jae-Han;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Lee, In
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.126-130
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    • 2000
  • In this study, flutter characteristics of a composite wing have been studied for the variation of laminate angles in the subsonic, transonic and supersonic flow regime. The laminate angles are selected by the aspect of engineering practice such as 0, $\pm$45 and 90 degrees. To calculate the unsteady aerodynamics for flutter analysis, the Doublet Lattice Method(DLM) in subsonic flow and the Doublet Point Method(DPM) in supersonic flow are applied in the frequency domain. In transonic flow, transonic small disturbance(TSD) code is used to calculate the nonlinear unsteady aerodynamics in the time domain. Aeroelastic governing equation has been solved by v-g method in the frequency domain and also by Coupled Time-Integration Method(CTIM) in the time domain. from the results of present study, characteristics of free vibration responses and aeroelastic instabilities of a composite wing are presented for the set of various lamination angles in the all flow range.

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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.

A Study on Flow Analysis of Exterior Rear View Mirror of Passenger Car (승용차 후향거울 주위의 3차원 유동특성 해석)

  • 정수진;김우승
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.35-46
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    • 1997
  • In order to satisfy customer's requirements of ride comfort and high performance, it is necessary for designers to fully understand vehicle aerodynamics and wind noise of newly produced cars because characteristics of flow and wind noise are heavily dependent on each other. In this study numerical and experimental study have been carried out to analyse the effect of flow characteristics at around of rear view mirror on wind noise and soiling on the front S/W. As a result, it's found that the spiral flow mear the front pillar is weakened and spreaded because rear view mirror obstructs the flow. It is also shown that there is abrupt change of gradient of separa- tion line, separation area, intensity of spiral flow and turbulent kinetic energy with varying shape of neck and housing of rear view mirror.

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Aerodynamics Characteristics of Circular Cylinders with Riffled Surfac (파형 표면을 갖는 원형실린더의 공력특성)

  • Kim, Yong-Ju;Won, Chang-Hui;Lee, Seung-Su
    • Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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    • 2014.03a
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    • pp.539-543
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    • 2014
  • 임의의 물체가 유체 내에서 운동하거나 정지해 있을 때 유체에 의해서 운동에 방해가 되는 힘을 형상저항이라고 한다. 형상저항은 레이놀즈수에 의한 경계층의 흐름형태에 따라 변화하며, 경계층의 흐름형태는 레이놀즈수가 $10^5$보다 작은 경우 층류로, 그 이상의 경우 난류로 나타난다. 본 연구에서는 유체 내에 물체가 정지해 있을 경우 조도에 따른 형상저항의 변화를 알아보기 위해 각기 다른 조도를 가진 실린더를 모델링해 EDISON_CFD을 이용하여 전산 해석을 하였다. 실린더의 표면에 파장의 주기와 진폭, 층류와 난류 영역에서의 항력계수의 변화에 대해 검토하였다.

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An estimation of static aerodynamic forces of box girders using computational fluid dynamics

  • Watanabe, Shigeru;Inoue, Hiroo;Fumoto, Koichiro
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.29-40
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    • 2004
  • This study has focused on aerodynamics for a wind-resistance design about the single and tandem box girder sections to realize a super-long span bridge in the near future. Three-dimensional static analysis of flows around the fundamental single and tandem box girder sections with fairing is carried out by means of the IBTD/FS finite element technique with LES turbulence model. As the results of the analysis, computations have verified aerodynamic characteristics of both sections by the histories of aerodynamic forces, the separation and reattachment flow patterns and the surface pressure distributions. The relationship between the section shapes and the aerodynamic characteristics is also investigated in both sections. And the mechanism about the generation of fluctuating aerodynamic forces is discussed.

Study of the Accelerating and Decelerating Free Streams over an Aerofoil (익형을 지나는 가속/감속 유동에 대한 연구)

  • 김태호;윤복현;김희동
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.5-8
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    • 2003
  • Many flight bodies are essentially imposed in gradually accelerating and decelerating free streams during taking-off and landing processes. However, the wing aerodynamics occurring in such a stream have not yet been investigated in detail. The objective of the present study is to make clear the aerodynamic characteristics of an aerofoil placed in the accelerating and decelerating free stream conditions. A computational analysis is carried out to solve the unsteady, compressible, Navier-Stokes equations which are discretized using a fully implicit finite volume method. Computational results are employed to reveal the major characteristics of the aerodynamics over the gradually accelerating aerofoil wings.

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Recent topics on bridge aerodynamics

  • Matsumoto, Masaru;Shirato, Hiromichi;Yagi, Tomomi
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.267-277
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    • 2000
  • This paper aims to describe the aerodynamic vibrations of various structural elements of bridges, which are particular issues at present. The aerodynamic countermeasures for those vibrations are also discussed considering the generation mechanisms of the aerodynamic instabilities. In this paper, an example of vortex-induced oscillation of bridge deck and its lesson are discussed. Next, the wind-induced cable vibration and its aerodynamic countermeasures are reviewed. Then, the aerodynamic characteristics on two edge girders and their feasibility for application to long span cable-stayed bridges are considered. Furthermore, the bridge decks for future long span bridges are proposed and their aerodynamic characteristics are also discussed.

An Experimental Study on Frequency Characteristics of the Microphone Array Covered with Kevlar in Closed Test Section Wind Tunnel (폐쇄형 시험부에서 케블라 덮개가 장착된 마이크로폰 어레이의 주파수 특성에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Hwang, Eun-Sue;Choi, Youngmin;Kim, Yangwon;Cho, Taehwan
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.150-159
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    • 2015
  • An experimental study on frequency characteristics of the microphone array covered with Kevlar sheet was conducted in the closed test section. Microphones that were flush-mounted in the wall of wind tunnel were subjected to very high flow noise resulting from the turbulence in the wall boundary layer. This noise interference by the boundary layer was referred as 'a microphone self-noise' and various approaches were studied to reduce this interference. Recessed microphone array with high tensioned cover was one of the good approaches to reduce this self-noise. But, the array cover could cause an unexpected interference to the measuring results. In this paper the frequency characteristics of the microphone array with Kevlar cover was experimentally studied. The white noise was used as a reference noise source. Three kinds of tensions for the Kevlar cover were tested and those results were compared with the test results without the Kevlar cover. The gap effect between the cover and microphone head was also tested to find out the proper position of microphone in the array module. Test results show that the mid-tension and 10mm gap was the best choice in the tested cases.