• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.83-90
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• 2023

The shape of an airfoil is a critical factor in determining aerodynamic characteristics such as lift and drag. Aerodynamic properties of an airfoil have a decisive impact on the performance of various engineering applications, including airplane wings and wind turbine blades. Therefore, it is essential to analyze the aerodynamic characteristics of airfoils. Various analytical tools such as experiments, computational fluid dynamics, and Xfoil are used to perform these analyses, but each tool has its limitation. In this study, airfoil parameterization, image recognition, and artificial intelligence are combined to overcome these limitations. Image and coordinate data are collected from the UIUC airfoil database. Airfoil parameterization is performed by recognizing images from image data to build a database for deep learning. Trained model can predict the aerodynamic characteristics not only of airfoil images but also of sketches. The mean absolute error of untrained data is 0.0091.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2006

자연에 존재하는 새나 곤충들은 양력 및 추력을 발생하기 위하여 평균캠버선의 형상을 변화시킨다. 기존의 비정상 박익 이론들은 주로 강체 플랩핑 에어포일에 관하여 유도되어 왔다. 생체형상가변익의 비정상 공력특성을 파악하기 위하여 변형 가능한 에어포일에 대한 확장된 비정상 박익이론이 필요하다. 생체형상가변익의 비정상 공력특성을 계산하기 위해 Theodorsen의 접근방법을 확장하였다. 에어포일의 평균 캠버선은 다항식으로 나타내었다. 형상 가변익에 작용하는 비정상 공력특성을 순환항 및 비순환항으로 나누어 나타내었다. 본 이론은 플래핑운동을 하는 생체형상가변 에어포일의 비정상 공력해석 및 모핑날개의 공탄성 해석에 적용가능하다.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 1999년도 추계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.174-180
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• 1999

Aerodynamic characteristics of tandem airfoil under ground effect is investigated numerically. Some numerical results for NACA 6409 tandem airfoil are presented. The numerical results show that as being decreased distance between airfoils, the lift coefficient of leading airfoil is increased and that of trailing airfoil is decreased. Drag coefficient shows opposite property, At the same distance between leading airfoil and trailing airfoil, lower position of trailing airfoil give better tandem airfoil effect.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.6-13
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 저 레이놀즈수 유동에서 flapping운동을 하는 익형이 가질 수 있는 2차원 평면상의 운동궤적에 따른 공력특성을 연구하였다. 익형이 유동흐름방향으로 왕복 운동하는 lead-lag운동과 plunging운동의 조합으로 2차원 평면상에 나타날 수 있는 여러 운동궤적을 합성하여 flapping 주파수 변화에 따른 공력계수들의 변화를 살펴보았다. 상하방향의 순수 plunging운동에 lead-lag운동을 추가함으로써, 평균추력계수와 평균양력계수를 증가시킬 수 있는 운동궤적이 존재함을 확인하였다. 아울러 운동주기 동안 나타나는 추력계수와 양력계수의 변화를 비교하여 upstroke와 downstroke시 나타나는 공력특성을 파악하였다.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.24-32
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• 2003

In this work, we propose a new idea of flapping airfoil design for optimal aerodynamic performance from detailed computational investigations of flow physics. Generally, flapping motion which is combined with pitching and plunging motion of airfoil, leads to complex flow features such as leading edge separation and vortex street. As it is well known, the mechanism of thrust generation of flapping airfoil is based on inverse Karman-vortex street. This vortex street induces jet-like flow field at the rear region of trailing edge and then generates thrust. The leading edge separation vortex can also play an important role with its aerodynamic performances. The flapping airfoil introduces an alternative propulsive way instead of the current inefficient propulsive system such as a propeller in the low Reynolds number flow. Thrust coefficient and propulsive efficiency are the two major parameters in the design of flapping airfoil as propulsive system. Through numerous computations, we found the specific physical flow phenomenon which governed the aerodynamic characteristics in flapping airfoil. Based on this physical insight, we could come up with a new kind of airfoil of tadpole-shaped and more enhanced aerodynamic performance.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2009년 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.90-96
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• 2009

In this study, a generic airfoil designed by the inverse method was evaluated with several candidate airfoils as a first step. Each airfoil was compared with respect to aerodynamic performance to meet the requirement of HALE(high altitude long endurance) aircraft. The second step was to optimize the candidate airfoil using the couple of optimization formulations to down select an optimum airfoil. For the analysis of low Reynolds number 2D flow, Drela's MSES was used. After comparing the aerodynamic results, the best airfoil was chosen to construct the baseline 3D wing. The Navier-Stokes code was used to evaluate the overall aerodynamic performance of designed wing with other wings. The results show that the designed wing has the best performance compared with other wings.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2013

In this study, lumped-vortex element method and thin airfoil theory were used to analyze aerodynamic characteristics of airfoils with relative motion that had camber lines of NACA $44{\times}{\times}$ airfoil in 2-dimensional unsteady incompressible potential flow. Velocity disturbance due to airfoil was calculated by lumped-vortex element model and force distribution on airfoil by unsteady Bernoulli's equation. Variables in relative motion were considered the period p, the amplitude of flapping $A_f$ and pitching $A_p$, and the phase difference between flapping and pitching ${\phi}_p$ and the angle of attack ${\alpha}$. Due to movement of an airfoil, dag was induced in 2-dimensional unsteady incompressible potential flow. The numerical results show that the aerodynamic characteristics of the airfoil with flapping and pitching at the same time are illustrated. Especially the mean lift coefficient became smaller, but drag coefficient became larger.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 수치적 방법을 이용하여 타원형 익형의 공력특성에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 타원형 익형의 경우 현재까지 널리 사용되어진 NACA 계열 익형들에 비하여 작은 앞전 곡률반경을 가진다. 또한 NACA 계열 익형들과는 달리 앞전과 같은 곡률반경을 가지는 뒷전 형상을 가지며, 익형의 최대 두께가 시위의 1/2지점에 존재한다. 타원형 익형의 경우 이러한 형상적인 특징들에 의하여 NACA 계열 익형들과는 다른 공력특성을 나타내는데, 본 연구에서는 같은 최대 두께를 가지는 NACA 계열 익형과 타원형 익형의 다양한 유동조건에서의 공력특성에 대한 수치해석 결과의 비교를 통하여 타원형 익형의 공력특성에 대하여 살펴보았다. 또한 타원형 익형의 두께변화에 따른 공력특성의 변화 역시 함께 고려하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.575-581
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• 2013

In this paper, we experimentally investigated the effects of attached cylindrical tripwires on the aerodynamic performance. The research was carried out with a simple two-dimensional (2-D) rectangular airfoil fabricated from thin flat-plate aluminium, with elliptical leading and trailing edges. Tripwires of varying widths and thicknesses, and attack angles of $-5^{\circ}{\sim}20^{\circ}$ were used to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics (e.g. lift and drag forces) of the airfoil. We found that attaching the tripwires to the lower surface of the airfoil enhanced the lift force and increased the lift-to-drag ratio for low attack angles. However, attaching the tripwires to the upper surface tended to have the opposite effects. Moreover, we found that attaching the tripwires to the trailing edge had similar effects as a Gurney flap. The aerodynamic characteristics of the flat-plate airfoil with tripwires can be used to develop passive control devices for aircraft wings in order to increase their aerodynamic performance when gliding at low attack angles.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2010년 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.55-59
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• 2010

Aerodynamic design optimization of rotor airfoil has been performed with advanced design method for improved aerodynamic characteristics of ONERA airfoils as a baseline. A multiple response surface method is used to consider various consider various constraints in rotor airfoil design. Airfoil surface and mean camber line are modified using various shape functions. Numerical simulations are performed using KFLOW, a Navier-Stokes solver with shear stress transport turbulence model. The present design method provides favorable configurations for the high performance rotor airfoil. Resulting optimized air foils give better aerodynamic performance than the baseline airfoils.