• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.182-189
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• 2009

The noise from the sunroof can be divided into the low frequency buffeting noise and the high frequency turbulence noise generated when a car runs at the high driving speed. The wind deflector suppresses the buffeting noise generation by accelerating the vortex shedding from the front edge of sunroof opening, and guides the flow direction so that air can pass smoothly over the sunroof opening. To reduce the buffeting noise and the high frequency noise, it is very important to locate a deflector in a proper position depending on the driving speed and the sunroof opening width. The deflector's sectional shape also plays an important role in efficiently reducing the buffeting and high frequency noise. In this paper, we determined the optimum deflector's sectional shape and examined the flow characteristics behind a sunroof deflector through CFD analysis with changing the deflector height, the driving speed and the sunroof opening width. It is found that the deflector needs to be located in the higher location to control the buffeting noise by shedding the higher frequency vortices to accelerating vortices from the sunroof front edge. The deflector may act as a new noise source at the high driving speed, then it is desirable to put the deflector at the proper height to reduce the flow fluctuations and the noise generation. We also made a road test to verify CFD analysis results in this study.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2006

Sunroof is getting widely used in automobiles since it maintains, compare to window, better air circulation as well as less noise while driving in high speed. In this study, we consider an electronic control type spoiler sunroof which slides backward after tilting a rear part of a glass. Installing a wind deflector on the sunroof reduces noise much more effectively. The height of the wind deflector is designed using a boundary theory related to incompressible air layer. The developed wind deflector is investigated experimentally by measuring a wind noise. When the height of the wind deflector is designed by a fixed type, the sunroof maintains a very quiet interior noise over a certain driving speed, nevertheless it produces relatively loud noise in low driving speed.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2005년도 추계 학술대회논문집(수송기계편)
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• pp.166-169
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• 2005

The best sunroof wind noise quality is mainly related to the sunroof deflector which affects both low-speed buffeting and high-speed aerodynamic noise. An automatic deflector-moving and noise-measuring apparatus is developed to obtain hundreds of measuring data which haven't been available by hand. With an additional program for fast and easy noise analysis, this device leads quickly to the better position and angle of the deflector. Now, the 'better' means the lower noise level and the robuster design solution. From these kinds of better solutions, more meaningful guidelines on the deflector design and sunroof wind noise reduction can be suggested.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.285-291
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 차량에 장착되는 파노라마 썬루프 디플렉터의 각도에 따른 개구부 주변 유동 특성을 분석하고 공력소음에 미치는 영향을 확인하였다. 파노라마 썬루프 개방 후 주행 시 공력소음을 저감하기 위해 메쉬 디플렉터를 장착하는데, 후방향인 기존 메쉬 디플렉터 각도를 전방향으로 변경하였을 때 유동 변화와 공력소음 기여도를 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 CAT(Computer Aided Test)와 실차 풍동 평가를 진행하였으며, 전방경사형 디플렉터에서 기존 디플렉터 대비 원활한 유동의 흐름과 유동 방향의 상향으로 공력소음이 개선되는 것을 확인하였다. 전방경사형 디플렉터 적용 시 동등한 원가에서 공력소음을 개선할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1104-1108
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• 2007

Automobile sunroof buffeting is the tonal noise of low frequency around 20Hz. It occurs due to the acoustic feedback process between the shear layer detached from the leading edge of sunroof opening and the Helmholtz resonator-like property of a car cabin. In this paper, PIV visualization technique is applied to the unsteady flow field around sunroof opening of an SUV in the full-scale automotive wind tunnel in order to find out buffeting mechanism. A phase-marking PIV measurement method, in which image and sound pressure are recorded simultaneously, and a phase-rearrangement post-processing program were developed for capturing noise-related velocity fields without expensive synchronization systems. Through this study, some characteristics of the real-car sunroof shear layers under various deflector conditions were identified and these results can provide insights into the noise reduction mechanism of the tube-type deflector.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 2004년도 추계학술발표대회논문집 제23권 2호
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• pp.219-220
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• 2004

최근 중대형 세단이나 SW 차량의 썬루프 개구량이 증대되고 사양의 고급화가 진행되면서 기존의 판형 디플렉터를 대신하여 새로이 튜브형 디플렉터의 이용이 늘어나고 있다. 본 연구에서는 실차 무향 풍동을 이용한 실차 썬루프 바람소리 실험을 통하여 튜브형 디플렉터의 특성을 확인하였다. 튜브형 디플렉터의 성능에 영향을 줄 수 있는 인자들의 최적화를 통하여 초기 설계 사양 및 경쟁차보다 우수한 썬루프 바람소리 성능을 얻을 수 있었다.