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CFD SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS OF AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SMALL DUCTED FAN AIRCRAFT (소형 덕트 팬 항공기의 전산해석 및 공력특성 분석)

  • Kim, C.W.;Choi, S.W.;Ahn, S.M.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.14-16
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    • 2010
  • A Duct surrounding a fan is known to reduce the tip loss and increase the fan performance efficiency. It also reduces the fan noise drastically. Ducted fan, therefore, has been focused to be a promising candidate for high efficient propulsion system. In this study, a small plane having ducted fan which can be tilted for vertical take-off and landing, is analyzed by CFD and its aerodynamic characteristics are compared. Ductef fan aircraft has small range of angle of attack for mininum drag and duct design should be focused for efficient ducted fan aircraft.

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Aerodynamic Analysis on Wing-Nacelle of Tiltrotor UAV (틸트로터 무인기의 날개-나셀 공력해석)

  • Choi Seong Wook;Kim Cheol Wan;Kim Jai Moo
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.03a
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 2004
  • In the Smart UAV Development Program, one of the 21c Frontier R&D Program, the tiltrotor has been studied as the concept of vehicle. The tiltrortor aircraft take-off and land in rotary wing mode like conventional helicopter, and cruise in fixed wing mode like conventional propeller airplane. For the conversion of the flight mode from helicopter to airplane, the nacelle located at wing tip has to be tilted from about 90 degrees of helicopter mode to about 0 degree of airplane mode. In this study, the aerodynamic characteristics of the wing with tilted nacelle is investigated using computation fluid dynamics technique. In order to feature out aerodynamic interferences between wing and nacelle, the flow calculations are conducted for the wing and the nacelle separately and for the combined geometry of wing and nacelle, respectively. Through this computations, not only the aerodynamic data-base for the wing-nacelle is constructed but also its contribution to the configuration design of the wing-nacelle is anticipated.

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Vibration Control of Composite Wing-Rotor System of Tiltrotor Aircraft (틸트로터 항공기 복합재료 날개의 진동 제어)

  • Song, Oh-Seop
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.509-516
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    • 2007
  • Mathematical modeling and vibration control of a tiltrotor aircraft composite wing-rotor system are investigated in this study. A wing-mounted rotor can be tilted from the vertical position to a horizontal one, and vice versa. Effect of vibration control of the wing-rotor system via piezoelectricity is studied as a function of tilt angle, ply angle of composite wing and rotor's spin speed. Composite wing is modeled as a thin-walled box beam having a circumferentially uniform stiffness configuration that produces elastic coupling between flap-lag and between extension-twist behavior. Numerical simulations are provided and pertinent conclusions are outlined.

Development of an Airborne Telemetry Relay System Using Aircraft (항공기를 이용한 텔레메트리 신호의 공중 중계시스템 개발)

  • Yeom, Hyeong-Seop;Oh, Jong-Hoon;Sung, Duck-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.40 no.1
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2012
  • A telemetry signal occurs the line-of-sight problem by the effect of geography in flight test. A fixed relay system or a mobile relay system is used to solve that problem in general but we propose an airborne telemetry relay system using aircraft in this paper. An airborne telemetry relay system receives the telemetry signal of the test vehicle and then retransmits it to the ground system. The receiving antenna which is a phased array antenna can be tilted to ${\pm}30^{\circ}$ beam direction by beam-forming and track the rapidly moving test vehicle in effect. The relay pod which is mounted to an aircraft consists of the front antenna and the side antenna. It receives S-band signal and then down-converts the frequency to L-band signal. As a result, that can remove the frequency interference on an aircraft while retransmitting.

Improvement of self-mixing semiconductor laser range finder and its application to range-image recognition of slowly moving object

  • Suzuki, Takashi;Shinohara, Shigenobu;Yoshida, Hirofumi;Ikeda, Hiroaki;Saitoh, Yasuhiro;Nishide, Ken-Ichi;Sumi, Masao
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1992.10b
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    • pp.388-393
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    • 1992
  • An infrared range finder using a self-mixing laser diode (SM-LD), which has been proposed and developed by the Authors, can measure not only a range of a moving target but its velocity simultaneously. In this paper, described is that the precise mode-hop pulse train can be obtained by employing a new signal processing circuit even when the backscattered light returning into the SM-LD is much more weaker. As a result, the distance to a tilted square sheet made from aluminium or white paper, which is placed 10 cm through 60 cm from the SM-LD, is measured with accuracy of a few percent even when the tilting angle is less than 75 degrees or 85 degrees, respectively. And in this paper, described is the range-image recognition of a plane object under the condition of standstill. The output laser beam is scanned by scanning two plane mirrors-equipped with each stepping motor. And we succeeded in the acquisition of the range-image of a plane object in a few tens of seconds. Furthermore, described is a feasibility study about the range-image recognition of a slowly moving plane object.

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Efficient Path Planning for Long Term Solar UAV Flight (태양광 에너지 무인항공기의 장기체공을 위한 경로 탐색)

  • Ryu, Hanseok;Byun, Heejae;Park, Sanghyuk
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.32-38
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    • 2014
  • Sufficient energy charging during a day is essential for a solar-powered long-endurance aircraft. Variations of flight path that is superior to a basic circle path are sought in this study for more efficient charging. Flight path associated with roll and pitch attitudes are investigated. It seems that the pitch angle can play more important role than the roll angle for the solar charging efficiency. Thus, more energy charging is observed when the entire flight path is tilted toward the direction of the sun.

The study of environmental monitoring by science airship and high accuracy digital multi-spectral camera

  • Choi, Chul-Uong;Kim, Young-Seop;Nam, Kwang-Woo
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.750-750
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    • 2002
  • The Airship PKNU is a roughly 12 m (32 ft) long blimp, filled with helium, whose two-gasoline power(3hp per engine) are independently radio controlled. The motors and propellers can be tilted and are attached to the gondola through an axle and supporting braces. Four stabilizing fins are mounted at the tail of the airship. To fill in the helium, a valve is placed at the bottom of the hull. The inaugural flight was on jul. 31.2002 at the Pusan, S.korea Most environment monitoring system\ problem use satellite image. But, Low resolution satellite image (multi-spectral) : 1km ∼ 250 m ground resolutions is lows. So, detail information acquisition is hard at the complex terrain. High resolution satellite image (black and white) 30m : The ground resolution is high. But it is high price, visit cycle and delivery time is long So. We want make high accuracy airship photogrammetry system. This airship can catch picture Multi. spectral Aerial photographing (visible, Near infrared and thermal infrared), and High resolution (over 6million pixel). It can take atmosphere datum (Temperature (wet bulb, dew point, general), Pressure (static, dynamic), Humidity, wind speed). this airship is very Quickness that aircraft install time is lower than 30 minutes, it is compact and that conveyance is easy. High-capacity save image (628 cut per 1time (over 6million and 4band(R,G,B,NIR)) and this airship can save datum this High accuracy navigatin (position and rotate angle) by DGPS tech. and Gyro system. this airship will do monitor about red-tide, sea surface temperate, and CH-A, SS and etc.

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Preliminary Conceptual Design of a Multicopter Type eVTOL using Reverse Engineering Techniques for Urban Air Mobility (도심항공 모빌리티(UAM)를 위한 역설계 기법을 사용한 멀티콥터형 eVTOL의 기본 개념설계)

  • Choi, Won-Seok;Yi, Dong-Kyu;Hwang, Ho-Yon
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.29-39
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    • 2021
  • As a means of solving traffic congestion in the downtown of large city, the interest in urban air mobility (UAM) using electric vertical take-off landing personal aerial vehicle (eVTOL PAV) is increasing. eVTOL configurations that will be used for UAM are classified by lift-and-cruise, tilt rotors, tilt-wings, tilted-ducted fans, multicopters, depending on propulsion types. This study tries to perform preliminary conceptual design for a given mission profile using reverse engineering techniques by taking the multicopter type Airbus's CityAirbus as a basic model. Wetted area, lift to drag ratio, drag coefficients were calculated using the OpenVSP which is an aerodynamic analysis software. The power required for each mission section of CityAirbus were calculated, and the corresponding battery and motor were selected. Also, total weight was predicted by estimating component weights of eVTOL.