• Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.13-19
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• 2004

Jet flows applied tangential to a foil surface near the leading and/or trailing edges increase the lift of the foil by delaying the separation also known as the Coanda effects. Many experimental and numerical studies have proven the effectiveness of Coanda effects on circulation control and the effects have been found to be useful in practical application in many aerodynamics fields. Most of the previous works have studied the effects of the jet blowing near the trailing edges and investigated the influence of jet momentum on lift. A few experimental studies, however, focused on the separation bubble that develops near the leading edge and applied jet flow the edge to remove the bubble but only to find decrease in lift. In the present paper, a Coanda foil of 20% thickness ellipse with modified rounded leading and trailing edges was investigated, and the flow around the foil was numerically studied. The blowing around the leading edge only decreased the lift, as the experiments showed, but the suction considerably increased the lift.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.35-54
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• 2019

A successful blade design must satisfy some criterions which might be in conflict with maximizing annual energy yield for a specified wind speed distribution. These criterions include maximizing power output, more resistance to fatigue loads, reduction of tip deflection, avoid resonance and minimize weight and cost. These criterions can be satisfied by modifying the geometrical parameters of the blade. This study is dedicated to the aerodynamic assessment of a 20 kW horizontal axis wind turbine operating with two possible airfoils; that is $G{\ddot{o}}ttingen$ 413 and NACA 2415 airfoils (the Gottingen airfoil never been used in wind turbines). For this study parameters such as chord (constant, tapered and elliptic), twist angle (constant and linear) are varied and applied to the two airfoils independently in order to determine the most adequate blade configuration that produce the highest annual energy output. A home built numerical code based on the Blade Element Momentum (BEM) method with both Prandtl tip loss correction and Glauert correction, X-Foil and Weibull distribution is developed in Matlab and validated against available numerical and experimental data. The results of the assessment showed that the NACA 2415 airfoil section with elliptic chord and constant twist angle distributions produced the highest annual energy production.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.94-103
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• 1993

NACA0020 단면을 갖는 타원형 날개끝에서 발생되어 전개되는 Tip Vortex를 연구하기 위하여 날개표면과 후류에서의 유동특성을 조사하였다. 날개표면 유동은 Tufts법과 캐비테이션 관찰로 분석되었으며 날개표면 압력계측으로 유동가시화 결과를 보완하였다. 연구결과 강력한 스팬방향 압력구배가 Tip Vortex 생성에 결정적 영향을 줌과 아울러 날개 양쪽면에서의 유동이 공히 보오텍스의 생성에 기여함을 알 수 있었다. 한편, 자세한 Tip Vortex의 구조를 보기위하여 캐비테이션 관찰, Laser Sheet 기법에 의한 보오텍스 단면가시화 및 유속계측이 실시되었는데 보오텍스의 형상과 강도는 날개의 받음각에 지배되어 나타났다. 날개끝 유동의 전반적인 특성은 비점성유동 가정하에서 사용되는 보오텍스 모델링을 보완할 목적으로 분석되었다.