• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 충남대학교에서 설계하고 있는 인력비행기인 Volante의 주익 에어포일을 선정하기 위하여 교육 및 연구를 위한 CFD 해석 프로그램인 EDISON_CFD를 이용하여 후보군으로 있는 에어포일들의 경향성을 확인하고 성능이 좋은 에어포일을 선정하였다. 또한 CFD 프로그램으로 상용화된 Fluent와 비교하여 EDISON_CFD의 신뢰성을 확인하였다.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.193-201
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• 2013

Propeller is an important component of Human Powered Aircraft (HPA) propulsion system. HPA uses large diameter low rotational speed propeller to get high propeller efficiency. The propeller was designed by HPA propeller designing program. The propeller pitch is adjustable by rotating the blade axis angle at ground. Performance of the propeller for various parameters are analysed by the same program used for design. Off-design condition performance was also checked including pilot power change and flight speed change. The propeller was manufactured in ultra-light structure using carbon composite material down to 950g. The propeller was ground tested on ironbird and installed on KARI HPA. Finally the HPA flew 291m with this propeller.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.209-220
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• 2013

The process of designing and building a human-powered aircraft (HPA) and its performance analysis are introduced in this paper. Light Bros, the Chungnam National University HPA team, has developed Volante, a HPA, to compete in the 2012 exhibition of human-powered aircraft hosted by Korea Aerospace Research Institute. The power train system is composed of a two-blade propeller and Bevel-type gear and the ground test bed is built to simulate the operation. A study has been made to find a efficient propeller based upon the test result of thrust and power available from a pilot under various propeller conditions and running time. The load and structural analysis is conducted for the glider-shaped wing made of composite material which has very high aspect ratio. The spar is analyzed using finite element modeling followed by the comparison of its displacement and strain on structural test. As a result, the performance and safety is confirmed.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.221-229
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• 2013

To achieve the best performance, the concept of drag reduced and power increased Human Power Aircraft(HPA) was presented by analyzing the HPAs in the world. To participate the '2012 HPA competition' in Korea, the streamlined fuselage and the simultaneous use of hands and feet were introduced. Furthermore the CFD analysis and power unit design were performed to verify the concept. In order to make the best use of streamlined fuselage effect, the fuselage shape design is important and to supply the hand power to the power unit, the control system design is important, also the test flight is required for validation.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2016.03a
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• pp.175-182
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• 2016

Recently, carbon fiber-reinforced composite is widely used in many aerospace applications. Among most of the aerospace vehicles, human-powered aircraft essentially uses it for minimizing the weight of the vehicle and gaining high stiffness to increase its efficiency. In this paper, main wing spar of the human-powered aircraft is investigated. Finite element models were created based on the baseline model built in 2013 to make analysis of cross-section of the spar with varying ply angles of each layer of the spar. Objective function, which is affected from bending rigidity, torsional rigidity, and strength ratio, was evaluated for every cases. The model of 2013 and present cases were put into comparison by values evaluated from objective function. From the comparison, it was concluded that there are more chances to improve the baseline model to make the vehicle better in stiffness and weight than the model of 2013.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2013.04a
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• pp.331-336
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 인간동력 항공기의 주익에 적용할 에어포일 형상에 대한 공력 특성을 파악하였다. 인간동력 항공기 날개에 적용하기에 적절한 에어포일을 조사하였으며, DAE11, DAE21, DAE31, SG6043 익형에 대하여 전산유체해석 프로그램인 EDISON_CFD를 통하여 비교하였다. 인간동력 항공기의 낮은 비행속도를 감안하여 $6{\times}10^5$의 저 레이놀즈수에서 받음각에 따른 양력계수, 항력계수, 양항비 등을 얻어내어 상호 비교 분석하였다. 본 연구를 통해 인간동력 항공기 주익에 적용할 저 레이놀즈 에어포일 형상을 최종적으로 선택할 수 있는 근거 자료를 확보하였다.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.202-208
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• 2013

This paper describes establishment of a pilot training plan, training and an outcome for Human Powered Aircraft which can take off, landing and fly using the energy generated by only human muscle without using mechanical power. To achieve these, a special trainer made a plan by considering physical trait of each pilot and each pilot was performed an indoor training for principle physical improvement, an outdoor training for generating sustainable power, a simulation training to learn maneuver ability. The pilot mastered the basic maneuver ability needed to fly and each pilot was lose their weight and experienced their improved physical strength via the training.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.183-190
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• 2018

This paper presents optimization of the main spar of Human-Powered Aircraft (HPA) wing. Mass minimization was attempted, while considering large torsional deformation of the beam. Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) method was adopted as a relevant tool to conduct structural optimization algorithm. An inner diameter and ply thicknesses of the main spar were selected as the design variables. The objective function includes factors such as mass minimization, constant tip bending displacement, and constant tip twist of the beam. For estimation of bending and torsional deformation, the geometrically exact beam model, which is appropriate for large deflection, was adopted. Properties of the cross sectional area which the geometrically exact beam model requires were obtained by Variational Asymptotic Beam Sectional Analysis (VABS), which is a cross sectional analysis program. As a result, maintaining tip bending displacement and tip twist within 1.45%, optimal design that accomplished 7.88% of the mass reduction was acquired. By the stress and strain recovery, structural integrity of the optimal design and validity of the present optimization procedure were authenticated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.684-688
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• 1997

The human species has been able to fly for about a century - with the help of aircraft of various kinds. Recently. air vehicles which are like an insect or a bird with flapping wings have been appeared, although many of them are experimental flight vehicle. However, the rubber-powered flapping vehicle is put to practical use such as toy, which flies for some seconds. In this paper, we analyze and evaluate above the rubber-powered flight vehicle using axiomatic design and will present new four flapping wing model.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.298-304
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• 2014

The lifting-line method based on Weissinger's method is extended to be able to analyze the ground effect. The method is applied to predict the variation of aerodynamic performance due to ground effect for the elliptic wing with aspect ratio of 10 and the wing of human powered aircraft. While the vortex strength of the wing increases slightly, the downwash decreases significantly as the wing approaches to the ground. For the wing of human powered aircraft, the increment of lift at the height of 2m is 5% than the lift outside the influence of ground effect. The decrease of induced drag at the height of wing span is 10% and at the height of 2m is 55% than that out of ground effect.