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Scaling Methods for Icing Wind Tunnel Test (결빙 풍동시험을 위한 스케일링 기법 연구)

  • An, Young-Gab;Myong, Rho-Shin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.146-156
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    • 2012
  • In-flight icing remains as one of the most persistent hazards for aircraft operations. The effect of icing on aircraft performance and safety has to be evaluated during the development and airworthiness certification process. The scaling method is a procedure to determine the scaled test conditions in icing wind tunnels in order to produce the same result as when the reference model is exposed to the desired cloud conditions. In this study, a scaling program is developed to provide an easy-to-use tool to the aero-icing community. The Olsen and Ruff 4th methods are employed for this purpose and the velocity is calculated by matching the dimensionless Weber number. To validate the program, the results are compared with the NASA scaling results. The scaling examples based on FAR (Federal Aviation Regulation) Part 25 Appendix C are also presented. Finally, a validation study using a state-of-the-art icing simulation code FENSAP-ICE is presented.

Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Low-Speed Icing Condition to the Surface Roughness Formation (저속 결빙조건이 표면 조도 형성에 미치는 영향에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kang, Yu-Eop;Min, Seungin;Kim, Taeseong;Yee, Kwanjung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.99-108
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    • 2020
  • In the field of aircraft icing prediction, surface roughness has been considered as critical factor because it enhances convective heat transfer and changes local collection efficiency. For this significance, experimental studies have been conducted to acquire the quantitative data of the formation process. Meanwhile, these experiments was conducted under low-speed condition due to the measurement difficulties. However, it has not been investigated that how the flow characteristic of low-speed will effects to the surface roughness. Therefore, the present study conducted experiment under low-speed icing condition, and analyzed the relation between surface roughness characteristics and icing condition. As an analysis method, the dominant parameters used in the previous high-speed experiments are employed, and roughness characteristics are compared. The size of roughness element was consistent with the previous known tendency, but not the smooth zone width.

Design and Test of an Assembly of Air Intake and Variable Geometry Inertial Separator for a Turboprop Aircraft (터보프롭 항공기용 흡입구 덕트 및 가변형 관성분리기 조립체 설계 및 시험)

  • Kim, Woncheol;Oh, Seonghwan;Lee, Sanghyo;Park, Jonghwa
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.41 no.9
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    • pp.714-719
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    • 2013
  • A turboprop aircraft for this study is required to operate at icing condition in order that it performs its given mission. So an air intake system of the turboprop aircraft should be designed and verified not only to provide the maximum possible total pressure at engine inlet at normal flight condition, but also to include an inertial separator which protects Foreign Object Debris (FOD) like ice or snow at icing condition from entering into the engine inlet screen which can cause or lead an catastrophic engine failure like engine flame-out or severe damage. So an air intake assembly incorporating a variable geometry inertial separator has been designed and then CFD/structural analysis for the assembly was performed to see its design results. Then 35% scaled model of the air intake assembly was manufactured and wind tunnel test was done. This paper describes the detailed design results for the aerodynamic design, analysis and wind tunnel testing during the development process of the air intake assembly.

Evaluation of Adhesion, Hydrophobicity and Color Gamut of Nanoparticle embedded Polyurethane Topcoat for Aircraft with 3 Different Nanoparticles (항공기용 3종류 나노입자들로 함침된 폴리우레탄 탑코트의 접착성, 소수성 및 색재현성 특성평가)

  • Kim, Jong-Hyun;Kwon, Dong-Jun;Park, Joung-Man
    • Journal of Adhesion and Interface
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.16-21
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    • 2021
  • In the aircraft industry, anti- and de-icing are one of very important techniques for the safety. The anti-icing technique had not been studied while de-icing technique had been not only researched enough but applied to aircraft industry. In this work, surface roughness and energies of polyurethane (PU) topcoat were controlled with 3 different nanoparticles which was coated to PU topcoat. It was evaluated via static contact angle using distilled water. The adhesion property of 3 nanoparticles was evaluated directly using adhesion pull-off test. The color gamut of nanoparticle coated PU topcoat was also evaluated with 3 different nanoparticles. It was determined using RGB color degree variation between neat PU topcoat and coated nanoparticle. Finally, the optimized nanoparticle was determined to manufacture hydrophobic surface and to maintain color of neat PU topcoat for the aircraft.

Recent Development in Ultrasonic Guided Waves for Aircraft and Composite Materials

  • Rose, Joseph L.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.525-533
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    • 2009
  • Emphasis in the paper is placed on describing guided wave successes and challenges for applications in aircraft and composite materials inspection. Guided wave imaging methods discussed includes line of sight, tomography, guided wave C-scan, phased array, and ultrasonic vibration methods. Applications outlined encircles lap splice, bonded repair patch, fuselage corrosion, water loaded structures, delamination, and ice detection and de-icing of various structures.

EULERIAN-BASED ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR SIMULATION OF AIRFOIL ICING (Eulerian 기반 에어포일 결빙 해석 시스템 연구)

  • Jung, S.K.;Oh, J.G.;Chun, S.H.;Moon, H.;Myong, R.S.;Cho, T.H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.460-463
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    • 2010
  • Ice accretion on aircraft surface can greatly impair the aerodynamic performance of aircraft. As an alternative to the traditional Lagrangian particle tracking approach, an Eulerian-based droplet impingement and ice accretion code for air flows containing water droplets was developed A CFD solver was also developed to solve the clean airflow. The results of present method were compared with experimental data and previous icing codes such as LEWICE and FENSAP-ICE and were confirmed to show good agreement each other in qualitative and quantitative ways.

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A THREE-DIMENSIONAL UNSTRUCTURED FINITE VOLUME METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF DROPLET IMPINGEMENT IN ICING (비정렬 격자 기반의 결빙 액적 해석을 위한 유한체적 기법)

  • Jung, K.Y.;Jung, S.K.;Myong, R.S.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2013
  • Ice accretion on the solid surface is an importance factor in assessing the performance of aircraft and wind turbine blade. Changes in the external shape due to ice accretion can greatly deteriorate the aerodynamic performance. In this study, a three-dimensional upwind-type second-order positivity-preserving finite volume CFD scheme based on the unstructured mesh topology is developed to simulate two-phase flow in atmospheric icing condition. The code is then validated by comparing with NASA IRT experimental data on the sphere. The present results of the collection efficiency are found to be in close agreement with experimental data and show improvement near the stagnation region.

Prediction of Glaze Ice Accretion on 2D Airfoil (2차원 에어포일의 유리얼음 형상 예측 코드 개발)

  • Son, Chan-Kyu;Oh, Se-Jong;Yee, Kwan-Jung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.38 no.8
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    • pp.747-757
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    • 2010
  • The ice accreted on the airfoil is one of the critical drivers that causes the degradation of aerodynamic performance as well as aircraft accidents. Hence, an efficient numerical code to predict the accreted ice shape is crucial for the successful design of de-icing and anti-icing devices. To this end, a numerical code has been developed for the prediction of glaze ice accretion shape on 2D airfoil. Constant Source-Doublet method is used for the purpose of computational efficiency and heat transfer in the icing process is accounted for by Messinger model. The computational results are thoroughly compared against available experiments and other computation codes such as LEWICE and TRAJICE. The direction and thickness of ice horn are shown to yield similar results compared to the experiments and other codes. In addition, the effects of various parameters - temperature, free-stream velocity, liquid water contents, and droplet diameter - on the ice shape are systematically analyzed through parametric studies.

STUDY OF ICING ACCRETION ON THE 2D AIRFOIL (2차원 에어포일에서의 결빙부착 수치해석)

  • Shin, H.B.;Choi, W.;Seo, S.J.;Ryu, J.B.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.21-26
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    • 2009
  • Ice accretion is one of the potential hazards in airplane flight, adversely affecting aircraft aerodynamic. There are two distinct icing analysis that can be simulated. One is predicting the effect of ice on the aerodynamic performance of airfoils when ice geometry is known. The other is simulating ice accretion. This work presents the method of icing accretion analysis. This work presents an Eulerian approach to calculate the droplet collection efficiency on the 2D airfoil. The initial flow solution are obtained the FLUENT and copled with droplet motion in the ambient condition.

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Temporal Prediction of Ice Accretion Using Reduced-order Modeling (차원축소모델을 활용한 시간에 따른 착빙 형상 예측 연구)

  • Kang, Yu-Eop;Yee, Kwanjung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.147-155
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    • 2022
  • The accumulated ice and snow during the operation of aircraft and railway vehicles can degrade aerodynamic performance or damage the major components of vehicles. Therefore, it is crucial to predict the temporal growth of ice for operational safety. Numerical simulation of ice is widely used owing to the fact that it is economically cheaper and free from similarity problems compared to experimental methods. However, numerical simulation of ice generally divides the analysis into multi-step and assumes the quasi-steady assumption that considers every time step as steady state. Although this method enables efficient analysis, it has a disadvantage in that it cannot track continuous ice evolution. The purpose of this study is to construct a surrogate model that can predict the temporal evolution of ice shape using reduced-order modeling. Reduced-order modeling technique was validated for various ice shape generated under 100 different icing conditions, and the effect of the number of training data and the icing conditions on the prediction error of model was analyzed.