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Technology Development of Smart UAV and Application of CFD (스마트무인기 기술개발동향 및 전산유체공학의 적용)

  • Lim Cheol-Ho;Hwang Soo-Jung;Choi Seong-Wook
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.8-16
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    • 2002
  • Now, the era of information, the rapid acquisition of vast and various information acts as a key role. for the national competitiveness. The smart UAV is brought to the fore as a new future technology which will be able to satisfy the information needs in broad and stereoscopic manner. The smart UAV, with VTOL capability, higher performance, and reliability over the existing technology thresholds, will lead the aerospace technology in the future. In this paper, the technology concept of smart UAV, the necessity of development, and the trend of worldwide R&D are introduced and analyzed. In addition, for the Smart UAV Development Program which is launched by the 21c Frontier R&D program this year, the role and application area of the CFD will be discussed.

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Mechanical Properties for Methyl Cellulose(MC) Ingredient ER Fluids According to the Numbers of the Electrical Field Cycles (전기장 싸이클 수에 따른 MC성분 ER유체의 기계적성질)

  • 김옥삼;박우철
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.296-301
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    • 2001
  • Electro-Rheological (ER) fluids belong to a class of colloidal suspensions whose global characteristics can be controlled by the imposition of an appropriate external electrical field upon the fluid domain. The ER fluids for smart hydraulic system are a class of colloidal dispersion which exhibit large reversible changes in their rheological behavior when subjected to external electrical fields. This paper presents experimental results on mechanical properties of an ER fluids subjected to electrical fatigues. As a first step, ER fluid is made of methyl cellulose(MC) ingredient choosing 25% of particle weight-concentration. Following the construction of test for mechanical properties of ER fluid, the shear stress, dynamic yield stress and current density of the ER fluids are experimentally distilled as a function of electric field cycles. The mechanical properties test of operated ER fluids are distilled and compared with those of unused ER fluids.

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Magnetorheological fluids subjected to tension, compression, and oscillatory squeeze input

  • El Wahed, Ali K.;Balkhoyor, Loaie B.
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.961-980
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    • 2015
  • Magnetorheological (MR) fluids are capable of changing their rheological properties under the application of external fields. When MR fluids operate in the so-called squeeze mode, in which displacement levels are limited to a few millimetres but there are large forces, they have many potential applications in vibration isolation. This paper presents an experimental and a numerical investigation of the performance of an MR fluid under tensile and compressive loads and oscillatory squeeze-flow. The performance of the fluid was found to depend dramatically on the strain direction. The shape of the stress-strain hysteresis loops was affected by the strength of the applied field, particularly when the fluid was under tensile loading. In addition, the yield force of the fluid under the oscillatory squeeze-flow mode changed almost linearly with the applied electric or magnetic field. Finally, in order to shed further light on the mechanism of the MR fluid under squeeze operation, computational fluid dynamics analyses of non-Newtonian fluid behaviour using the Bingham-plastic model were carried out. The results confirmed superior fluid performance under compressive inputs.

CFD ANALYSIS FOR THERMAL MIXING CHARACTERISTICS OF A FLOW MIXING HEADER ASSEMBLY OF SMART (SMART 유동혼합헤더집합체 열혼합 특성 해석)

  • Kim, Y.I.;Bae, Y.M.;Chung, Y.J.;Kim, K.K.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.84-91
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    • 2015
  • SMART adopts, very unique facility, an FMHA to enhance the thermal and flow mixing capability in abnormal conditions of some steam generators or reactor coolant pumps. The FMHA is important for enhancing thermal mixing of the core inlet flow during a transient and even during accidents, and thus it is essential that the thermal mixing characteristics of flow of the FMHA be understood. Investigations for the mixing characteristics of the FMHA had been performed by using experimental and CFD methods in KAERI. In this study, the temperature distribution at the core inlet region is investigated for several abnormal conditions of steam generators using the commercial code, FLUENT 12. Simulations are carried out with two kinds of FMHA shapes, different mesh resolutions, turbulence models, and steam generator conditions. The CFD results show that the temperature deviation at the core inlet reduces greatly for all turbulence models and steam generator conditions tested here, and the effect of mesh refinement on the temperature distribution at the core inlet is negligible. Even though the uniformity of FMHA outlet hole flow increases the thermal mixing, the temperature deviation at the core inlet is within an acceptable range. We numerically confirmed that the FMHA applied in SMART has an excellent mixing capability and all simulation cases tested here satisfies the design requirement for FMHA thermal mixing capability.

Compressibility of fine-grained sediments based on pore water salinity changes

  • Junbong Jang;Handikajati Kusuma Marjadi
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.113-120
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    • 2023
  • Coastal and offshore structures such as ports and offshore wind farms will often need to be built on fine-grained sediments. Geotechnical properties associated with sediment compressibility are key parameters for marine construction designs especially on soft grounds, which involve clay-mineral dominated fines that can consolidate and settle significantly in response to engineered and environmental loads. We conduct liquid limit tests and 1D consolidation tests with fine-grained soils (silica silt, mica, kaolin and bentonite) and biogenic soils (diatom). The pore fluids for the liquid limit tests include deionized water and a series of brines with NaCl salt concentrations of 0.001 m, 0.01 m, 0.1 m, 0.6 m and 2.0 m, and the pore fluids for the consolidation tests deionized water, 0.01 m, 0.6 m, 2 m. The salt concentrations help the liquid limits of kaolin and bentonite decrease, but those of diatom slightly increase. The silica silt and mica show minimal changes in liquid limit due to salt concentrations. Accordingly, compression indices of soils follow the trend of the liquid limit as the liquid limit determined the initial void ratio of the consolidation test. Diatoms are more likely to be broken than clastic sediments during to loading, and diatom-rich sediment is therefore generally more compressible than clastic-rich sediment.

Recent Advancements in Smart Bandages for Wound Healing

  • Ventaka Ramesh Ragnaboina;Tae-Min Jang;Sungkeun Han;Suk-Won Hwang
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.357-369
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    • 2023
  • Wound healing is a complex and dynamic process, making the accurate and timely assessment of skin wounds a crucial aspect of effective wound care management, especially for chronic wounds. Unlike conventional wound dressings that simply cover the wound area once some form of medicine is administered onto the wound, recent studies have introduced versatile approaches to smart wound dressings capable of interacting with wound fluids to monitor physicochemical and pathological parameters to determine the wound healing status. Such electrochemical wound dressings can be integrated with on-demand, closed-loop drug delivery or stimulation systems and ultimately expanded into an ideal technological platform for the prevention, treatment, and management of skin wounds or illnesses. This article briefly reviews the wound healing mechanism and recent strategies for effective wound care management. Specifically, this review discusses the following aspects of smart wound dressings: sensor-integrated smart bandages to detect wound biomarkers, smart bandages developed to accelerate wound healing, and wireless, closed-loop automatic (on-demand) wound healing systems. This review concludes by providing future perspectives on effective wound care management.

Vibration Control of Beam Containing ER Fluid Using PPF Control Scheme (PPF 제어기법을 적용한 전기점성유체가 함유된 보의 진동제어)

  • Yun Shin-Il;Chin Do-Hun;Yoon Moon-Chul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.32-37
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    • 2005
  • Several types of smart materials and control scheme are available to adjust the structure actively in various external disturbances. A control scheme was introduced for a specific material. But the effectiveness of the control scheme has some limitation according to the choice of the smart materials and the response of the structure. The ER(Electrorheological) fluid is adequate for a large control force, and the PZT(lead zirconate titanate) patches are suitable for small but arbitrary control force at any point of the structure. It can be used for active control of structure by changing the dynamic characteristics of the structure. But it has some difficulty in suppressing the excited vibration in broad band. To compensate this resonance of the controlled structure, a hybrid controller was constructed using PPF(Positive position feedback) control with PZT and ER fluid control.

Aerodynamic Design Optimization of Smart UAV Wing Airfoil (스마트 무인기 날개용 에어포일의 공력최적설계)

  • Park Y M.;Chung J D.;Kim Y. S.;Choi S. W.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.193-196
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    • 2004
  • Numerical optimization method of long endurance airfoil has been performed with a RSM(Response Surface Method) for smart UAV wing design. For the base line airfoil, NACA 64621 airfoil was selected and optimized to satisfy long endurance condition for smart UAV Aerodynamic coefficients required for RSM are obtained by using 2-D Navier-Stokes solver with Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model. The optimized airfoil showed increased maximum lift and endurance factors together with reasonable thickness ratio.

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Evaluation of Convection Schemes for Thermal Hydraulic Analysis in a Liquid Metal Reactor (액체금속로 내부 열유동해석을 위한 대류항처리법 평가)

  • Choi Seok-Ki;Kim Seong-O;Kim Eui-Kwang;Eoh Jae-Hyuk;Choi Hoon-Ki
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.64-69
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    • 2002
  • A numerical study has been peformed for evaluation of convection schemes for thermal hydraulic analysis in a liquid metal reactor Four convection schemes, HYBRID, QUICK, SMART and HLPA included in the CFX-4 code are considered. The performances of convection schemes are evaluated by applying them to the five test problems. The accuracy, stability and convergence are tested. It is shown that the HYBRID scheme is too diffusive, and the QUICK scheme exhibits overshoots and undershoots, and the SMART scheme shows convergence oscillations, and the HLPA scheme preserves the boundedness without causing convergence oscillations. The accuracies of SMART, QUICK and HLPA schemes are comparable. Thus, the use of HLPA scheme is highly recommended for thermal hydraulic analysis in a liquid metal reactor.

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Deceleration Method of Munition to used Soft Recovery System for Smart Munition (지능형 포탄의 저 감속 회수장치를 이용한 포탄의 감속방법)

  • Kim, Myoung-Gu;Cho, Chong-Du;Lee, Seung-Su;Yu, Il-Young;Chang, Kwe-Hyun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.777-784
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    • 2007
  • With the development of micro electronic circuits and optical equipment, the demand for developing smart munitions with the ability to autonomously search for and attack targets has increased. Since the electronic components within smart munitions are affected by high temperatures, pressure, and impulsive forces upon the combustion of gunpowder, stability and reliability need to be secured for them. Securing those stability and reliability requires soft recovery system which can decelerate smart munitions. A theoretical analysis of flow is performed for the secure recovery of bullets on the basis of Euler equation for compressible fluids. The inner pressure on a pressure tube, the speeds of bullets, and the deceleration of munitions are calculated theoretically. Theoretical results are compared with the data from the experiment with soft recovery system set up at the laboratory.