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A Study on the Measurement of Aerodynamic Load of Aircraft Wing (항공기 날개의 공력하중 측정 기법 연구)

  • Kang, Seung-Hee;Lee, Jong-Geon;Lee, Seung-Soo;Ahn, Seung-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.38-43
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    • 2002
  • A study on the test, design and fabrication of wind tunnel model for measurement of air load distribution on wing surfaces is presented. 447 pressure taps are installed normal to the wing surfaces, and measured by PSI-8400 system using total 8 ESPs modules installed in the model. The test was performed at 50 m/sec constant speed in the low speed wind tunnel of Agency for Defense Development. Tests were carried out to determine effects of angle of attack, angle of sideslip and flap and stores for the load distribution of wing. The test results in this paper can be applied to the design optimization of structure and validation of computational fluid dynamics.

Developing the flow quality in an wing-body junction flow by the optimizing method (최적화 기법을 이용한 일반적인 날개 형상에서의 유동특성 향상)

  • Cho, Jong-Jae;Kim, Kui-Soon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.303-307
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    • 2009
  • Secondary flow losses can be as high as $30{\sim}50%$ of the total aerodynamic losses generated in the cascade of a turbine. Therefore, these are important part for improving a turbine efficiency. As well, many studies have been performed to decrease the secondary flow losses. The present study deals with the leading edge fences on a wing-body to decrease a horseshoe vortex, one of the factors to generate the secondary flow losses, and optimizes the shape of leading-edge fence with the shape factors, such as the installed height, length, width, and thickness of the fence as the design variables. The study was investigated using $FLUENT^{TM}$ and $iSIGHT^{TM}$. Total pressure loss coefficient was improved about 7.5 % than the baseline case.

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Hinge rotation of a morphing rib using FBG strain sensors

  • Ciminello, Monica;Ameduri, Salvatore;Concilio, Antonio;Flauto, Domenico;Mennella, Fabio
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.1393-1410
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    • 2015
  • An original sensor system based on Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG) for the strain monitoring of an adaptive wing element is presented in this paper. One of the main aims of the SARISTU project is in fact to measure the shape of a deformable wing for performance optimization. In detail, an Adaptive Trailing Edge (ATE) is monitored chord- and span-wise in order to estimate the deviation between the actual and the desired shape and, then, to allow attaining a prediction of the real aerodynamic behavior with respect to the expected one. The integration of a sensor system is not trivial: it has to fit inside the available room and to comply with the primary issue of the FBG protection. Moreover, dealing with morphing structures, large deformations are expected and a certain modulation is necessary to keep the measured strain inside the permissible measure range. In what follows, the mathematical model of an original FBG-based structural sensor system is presented, designed to evaluate the chord-wise strain of an Adaptive Trailing Edge device. Numerical and experimental results are compared, using a proof-of-concept setup. Further investigations aimed at improving the sensor capabilities, were finally addressed. The elasticity of the sensor structure was exploited to enlarge both the measurement and the linearity range. An optimisation process was then implemented to find out an optimal thickness distribution of the sensor system in order to alleviate the strain level within the referred component.

Performance Analysis by CFD and Aerodynamic Design of 100kW Class Radial Turbine Using Waste Heat from Ship (선박 폐열을 이용한 100kW급 구심터빈 공력설계 및 CFD에 의한 성능해석)

  • Mo, Jang-Oh;Kim, You-Taek;Kim, Mann-Eung;Oh, Cheol;Kim, Jeong-Hwan;Lee, Young-Ho
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.175-181
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study is to secure the design data for the optimization of the radial turbine and heat cycle system, by using the CFD analysis technique and the design of 100kW class radial turbine applicable to waste heat recovery generation system for ship. Radial turbine was comprised of scroll casing, vane nozzle with 18 blades and rotor with 13 blades, and analysis grid was used to about 2.3 million. Mass flow rate and rotational speed was 0.5kg/s, 75,0000rpm, respectively. Eight kinds of inlet pressure was set between 195 and 620kPa. As the flow accelerated through the nozzle passage to the throat, the pressure level at the pressure and suction sides becomed similar to about Mach number of 0.35. When the inlet temperature and pressure was $250^{\circ}C$, 352kPa respectively, the isentropic efficiency and mechanical power showed the analysis results of 74% and 108kW.

500 lbs-class Air-to-Surface Missile Design by Integration of Aerodynamics and RCS (공력해석과 RCS해석 통합 500 lbs급 공대지 미사일 최적설계)

  • Bae, Hyo-Gil;Lee, Kwang-Ki;Jeong, Jun-O;Sang, Dae-Kyu;Kwon, Jang-Hyuk
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.184-191
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    • 2012
  • Aerodynamic analysis(DATCOM) and radar cross section(RCS) analysis(POFACETS) were integrated for the air-to-surface missile concept design using a design framework. The missile geometry was defined based on the CAD(CATIA) for synchronizing the manufacturing with design processes. Aero/RCS analyses were linked with the CAD process under the ModelCenter framework in order to receive the geometry data automatically. The missile design baseline configuration was selected from ROC(requirement of capability). Then the RCS minimization was performed subject to thelargerthebetter constraint of the missile lift-to-drag ratio. This study demonstrated that various design strategies can be performed efficiently about many missile configurations using this design framework in the missile conceptual design phase.

Prediction of skewness and kurtosis of pressure coefficients on a low-rise building by deep learning

  • Youqin Huang;Guanheng Ou;Jiyang Fu;Huifan Wu
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.36 no.6
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    • pp.393-404
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    • 2023
  • Skewness and kurtosis are important higher-order statistics for simulating non-Gaussian wind pressure series on low-rise buildings, but their predictions are less studied in comparison with those of the low order statistics as mean and rms. The distribution gradients of skewness and kurtosis on roofs are evidently higher than those of mean and rms, which increases their prediction difficulty. The conventional artificial neural networks (ANNs) used for predicting mean and rms show unsatisfactory accuracy in predicting skewness and kurtosis owing to the limited capacity of shallow learning of ANNs. In this work, the deep neural networks (DNNs) model with the ability of deep learning is introduced to predict the skewness and kurtosis on a low-rise building. For obtaining the optimal generalization of the DNNs model, the hyper parameters are automatically determined by Bayesian Optimization (BO). Moreover, for providing a benchmark for future studies on predicting higher order statistics, the data sets for training and testing the DNNs model are extracted from the internationally open NIST-UWO database, and the prediction errors of all taps are comprehensively quantified by various error metrices. The results show that the prediction accuracy in this study is apparently better than that in the literature, since the correlation coefficient between the predicted and experimental results is 0.99 and 0.75 in this paper and the literature respectively. In the untrained cornering wind direction, the distributions of skewness and kurtosis are well captured by DNNs on the whole building including the roof corner with strong non-normality, and the correlation coefficients between the predicted and experimental results are 0.99 and 0.95 for skewness and kurtosis respectively.