• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.513-520
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• 2014

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) should be designed to be as small and lightweight as possible to optimize the efficiency of changing the blade shape to enhance the aerodynamic performance, such as the thrust and power. In this study, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of an unmanned multi-rotor aerial vehicle in hover mode was performed to explore the thrust performance in terms of the blade rotational speed and blade shape parameters (i.e., taper ratio and twist angle). The commercial ADINA-CFD program was used to generate the CFD data, and the results were compared with those obtained from blade element theory (BET). The results showed that changes in the blade shape clearly affect the aerodynamic thrust of a UAV rotor blade.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.53-60
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• 2022

In this study, the conceptual design and performance evaluation of a personal air vehicle (PAV) is presented, which is a potential futuristic individual transportation. The blade element theory (BET) is employed to compute a rotational velocity. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is performed to investigate the difference in the thrust performance in the rotor axis distance of a quad-copter PAV in hovering. Modal analysis is performed to create a Campbell diagram to investigate critical speed. Consequently, a quad-copter PAV changes the aerodynamics thrust and critical velocity according to the rotor axis distance.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.120-124
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• 2007

Helicopters and rotary-wing vehicles encounter a wide variety of complex aerodynamic phenomena and these phenomena present substantial challenges for computational fluid dynamics(CFD) models. This investigation presents the rotor aerodynamic analysis items for the helicopter development and variety aerodynamic analysis methods to provide the better solution to researchers and helicopter developers between aerodynamic problems and numerical aerodynamic analysis methods. The numerical methods to make an analysis of helicopter rotor are as below - CFD Modelling : actuator disk model, BET model, fully rotor model,... - Grid : sliding mesh, chimera mesh / structure mesh, unstructure mesh,... - etc. : panel method periodic boundary, quasi-steady simulation, incompressible,... The choice of CFD methodology and the numerical resolution for the overall problem have been driven mostly by available computer speed and memory at any point in time. The combination of the knowledge of aerodynamic analysis items, available computing power and choice of CFD methods now allows the solution of a number of important rotorcraft aerodynamics design problems.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.45-48
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• 2012

본 연구는 인력기를 개발함에 있어서 이에 적합한 프로펠러의 형상을 설계하기 위하여 진행되었다. 인력기는 인간을 유일한 동력원으로 사용하기 때문에 적은 동력, 낮은 RPM을 가지고 비행을 하게 된다. 이에 따라 기존의 항공기와는 다른 특성 및 형상을 가지는 프로펠러 개발의 필요성이 인지되었다. 본 연구에서는 설계하고자 하는 인력기의 제원에 맞는 프로펠러의 특성을 설정한 뒤, 프로펠러의 블레이드를 수 개의 airfoil section으로 나누고, 각 섹션에 대한 공력 특성을 프로펠러 이론 및 Edison CFD를 통하여 계산 및 유추하였다. 이 계산 결과를 토대로 구한 각 airfoil section의 정보를 통하여 프로펠러의 형상을 얻어 낼 수 있었으며, 최종적으로 이를 ANSYS Fluent, CFX와 같은 상용 프로그램을 이용하여 분석함으로써 설계 전에 목표로 하였던 프로펠러의 성능에 도달하였는가를 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.23-31
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• 2018

In the present work, the thrust and torque of multicopter propellers in hovering are predicted based on BET method. The geometry information of the propellers is obtained using a three dimensional scanner and the airfoil section is extracted using CATIA. EDISON CFD is adopted to calculate the drag and lift of airfoil at a given geometry and flow conditions and then thrust is calculated with respect to a given RPMs based on BET. Two simulations with laminar and turbulent flows are considered. The predicted value is compared with the performance data from the Product Company and results from JavaProp software, which is used in the design and prediction of propellers. In the case of a 9-inch propeller, the thrust from the product company is corresponding to the results between the laminar and turbulent flow conditions. In the 16-inch case, the predicted thrust at turbulent flow conditions conformed well with reference one. The predicted torque shows a big difference with the reference data.