• Title/Summary/Keyword: Airfoil Aerodynamic Analysis

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Transonic Aeroelastic Analysis of a Airfoil with Friction Damping (마찰 감쇠를 고려한 에어포일의 천음속 공탄석 해석)

  • Yoo, Jae-Han;Lee, In
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.38 no.11
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    • pp.1075-1080
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    • 2010
  • For the aeroelastic analysis of a wing with friction damping, coupled time integration method was used to obtain time responses in the subsonic and transonic regions. To take into account aerodynamic nonlinearity induced by shock wave on the lifting surface, transonic small disturbance equation with in-phase periodic boundary condition was used for unsteady aerodynamic calculation. For 2-DOF airfoil system with displace-dependent friction dampers, the effects of normal load slope and Mach number on flutter boundary were investigated.

Transonic Aeroelastic Analyses of Wings Considering UViscous and Thickness Effects

  • Kim, Jong-Yun;Kim, Kyung-Seok;Lee, In
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.34-40
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    • 2008
  • The aeroelastic analyses for several wing models were performed using the transonic small-disturbance (TSD) equation, which is very efficient, to consider the aerodynamic nonlinearities in the transonic region. For more accurate aerodynamic analysis of airfoil and wing models with shock waves, the viscous equations based on the Green's lag-entrainment equation of boundary-layer effects were coupled with the TSD equation in the transonic region. Finally the aeroelastic characteristics of wing models were investigated through comparisons of the aeroelastic analysis results for wing models considering the change of a thickness of the airfoil section. Moreover, the results of the aeroelastic analysis using the coupled TSD equation with the viscous equations were compared with those using the TSD equation for several wing models.

THE EFFECTS OF MACH NUMBER AND THICKNESS RATIO OF AIRFOIL ON TRANSONIC FLOW OF MOIST AIR AROUND A THIN AIRFOIL WITH LATENT HEAT TRANSFER (잠열 전달이 일어나는 얇은 익형주위의 천음속 습공기 유동에서의 마하수와 익형 두께비의 영향)

  • Lee, J.C.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.93-102
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    • 2012
  • Once the condensation of water vapor in moist air around a thin airfoil occurs, liquid droplets nucleate. The condensation process releases heat to the surrounding gaseous components of moist air and significantly affects their thermodynamic and flow properties. As a results, variations in the aerodynamic performance of airfoils can be found. In the present work, the effects of upstream Mach number and thickness ratio of airfoil on the transonic flow of moist air around a thin airfoil are investigated by numerical analysis. The results shows that a significant condensation occurs as the upstream Mach number is increased at the fixed thickness ratio of airfoil($\epsilon$=0.12) and as the thickness ratio of airfoil is increased at the fixed upstream Mach number($M_{\infty}$=0.80). The condensate mass fraction is also increased and dispersed widely around an airfoil as the upstream Mach number and thickness ratio of airfoil are increased. The position of shock wave for moist air flow move toward the leading edge of airfoil when it is compared with the position of shock wave for dry air.

Development of an Unsteady Aerodynamic Analysis Module for Rotor Comprehensive Analysis Code

  • Lee, Joon-Bae;Yee, Kwan-Jung;Oh, Se-Jong;Kim, Do-Hyung
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.23-33
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    • 2009
  • The inherent aeromechanical complexity of a rotor system necessitated the comprehensive analysis code for helicopter rotor system. In the present study, an aerodynamic analysis module has been developed as a part of rotorcraft comprehensive program. Aerodynamic analysis module is largely classified into airload calculation routine and inflow analysis routine. For airload calculation, quasi-steady analysis model is employed based on the blade element method with the correction of unsteady aerodynamic effects. In order to take unsteady effects - body motion effects and dynamic stall - into account, aerodynamic coefficients are corrected by considering Leishman-Beddoes's unsteady model. Various inflow models and vortex wake models are implemented in the aerodynamic module to consider wake induced inflow. Specifically, linear inflow, dynamic inflow, prescribed wake and free wake model are integrated into the present module. The aerodynamic characteristics of each method are compared and validated against available experimental data such as Elliot's induced inflow distribution and sectional normal force coefficients of AH-1G. In order to validate unsteady aerodynamic model, 2-D unsteady model for NACA0012 airfoil is validated against aerodynamic coefficients of McAlister's experimental data.

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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Development of Aerodynamic Analysis Technology for Wind Turbines using a Multibody Dynamic Analysis Software (다물체 동력학 해석 프로그램을 이용한 풍력발전기 공력해석 기술개발)

  • Rim, Chae Whan;Bang, Je Sung;Cho, Huije;Moon, Seok Jun;Chung, Tae Young
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.180.2-180.2
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    • 2010
  • Simulation technology for dynamic analysis of wind turbine is developed. The Aerodyn and the DAFUL are chosen for aerodynamic analysis and multi-body and flexible body dynamics respectively. Subroutines and variables of Aerodyn developed by NREL are analyzed with hub-height wind data, full field turbulent wind data and Airfoil data. The interface to perform coupled analysis between AeroDyn and DAFUL, GUI for modeling several parts of wind turbines are developed. The program will be extended to analyze the coupled analysis of aerodynamic and hydrodynamic behavior for floating offshore wind turbines.

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An analytical approach for aeroelastic analysis of tail flutter

  • Gharaei, Amin;Rabieyan-Najafabadi, Hamid;Nejatbakhsh, Hossein;Ghasemi, Ahmad Reza
    • Advances in Computational Design
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.69-79
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    • 2022
  • In this research, the aeroelastic instability of a tail section manufactured from aluminum isotropic material with different shell thickness investigated. For this purpose, the two degrees of freedom flutter analytical approach are used, which is accompanied with simulation by finite element analysis. Using finite element analysis, the geometry parameters such as the center of mass, the aerodynamic center and the shear center are determined. Also, by simulation of finite element method, the bending and torsional stiffnesses for various thickness of the airfoil section are determined. Furthermore, using Lagrange's methods the equations of motion are derived and modal frequency and critical torsional/bending modes are discussed. The results show that with increasing the thickness of the isotropic airfoil section, the flutter and divergence speeds increased. Compared of the obtained results with other research, indicates a good agreement and reliability of this method.

The Study of Advanced Propeller Blade for Next Generation Turboprop Aircraft -Part I. Aerodynamic Design and Analysis (차세대 터보프롭 항공기용 최신 프로펠러 블레이드 연구 -Part I. 공력 설계 및 해석)

  • Choi, Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.40 no.12
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    • pp.1017-1024
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    • 2012
  • The aerodynamic design and analysis on advanced propeller with blade sweep was performed for recent turboprop aircraft. HS1 airfoil series are selected as a advanced propeller blade airfoil. Adkins method is used for aerodynamic design and performance analysis with respect to the design point. Adkins method is based on the vortex-blade element theory which design the propeller to satisfy the condition for minimum energy loss. Propeller geometry is generated by varying chord length and pitch angle at design point of target aircraft. Advanced propeller is designed by apply the modified chord length, the tip sweep which is based on the geometry of conventional propeller. The aerodynamic characteristics of the designed Advanced propeller were verified by CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamic) and evaluated to be properly designed.

A Numerical Study on the Flowfield around a NACA 0021 Airfoil at Angles of Attack (NACA 0021 익형 유동장의 수치해석적 연구)

  • Kim, Sang-Dug
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.20-25
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    • 2016
  • A primary benefit of flight at high angle-of-attack conditions is to be able to reduce the speed of flight and maneuvers, which can enhance the capability of sensing and obstacle avoidance for a small UAV. The flight at high angle-of-attack conditions, however, is easy to be beyond stall which is characterized by substantial flow separation over an airfoil. Current numerical analysis was conducted on the capabilities of three representative turbulence models to predict the aerodynamic characteristics of a typical airfoil at angle-of-attack conditions. The investigation shows that these turbulence models provide good comparison with experimental data for attached flow at moderate angle-of-attack conditions. Calculation by current turbulence models are, however, not appropriate at high angle-of-attack conditions with flow separation.

Aerodynamic Design of Helicopter Rotor Airfoil in Forward Flight Using Response Surface Method (반응표면법을 이용한 전진비행하는 헬리콥터 로터 에어포일의 공력설계)

  • Sun, Hyo-Sung;Lee, Soo-Gab
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.32 no.7
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    • pp.13-18
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    • 2004
  • This paper describes an efficient and robust optimization method for helicopter rotor airfoil design in forward flight. Navier-Stokes analysis was employed to compute the dynamic response of an airfoil, which simulates the unsteady rotor flow-field in forward flight. The optimization system consists of two categories; Response Surface Method to construct the response surface model based on D-optimal 3-level factorial design, and Genetic Algorithm to obtain the optimum solution of a defined objective function including penalty terms of constraints. The influence of design variables and their interactions on the aerodynamic performance was examined through the optimization process.