• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2005년도 제25회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.285-288
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• 2005

성층권 비행선은 주어진 임무를 수행하기 위하여 성층권에서 장기 체공을 해야 한다. 이 때, 태양의 복사 열전달 현상이 비행선 성능에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위하여 열해석을 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 성층권의 열환경을 조사하고, 수치해석을 위해 비행선 모델을 Gridgen을 이용하여 격자를 형성하였다. 그리고, STAR-CD를 사용하여 해석 모델에 대한 열 특성 연구를 수행하였다. 특히, 태양의 위치를 변화시키면서 각각에 대한 비행선 선체의 온도 변화에 중점을 두었다. 이를 바탕으로 태양의 복사에너지가 성층권 비행선에 미치는 영향에 대해 시뮬레이션을 구현하였다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2005

성층권 비행선이 고도 20 km에서 정점 체공 시, 비행선 내외부의 수치 모델을 만들어 성층권 열환경 및 열전달을 해석하였다. 비행선의 해석 격자를 형성하였으며, 열해석 모델의 격자수와 격자형상이 해석 결과에 미치는 영향을 비교하였다. 성층권 환경에서 전도/대류/복사를 동시에 고려한 비행선 계산 결과로써 태양복사에너지로 인한 선체표면과 내부의 온도분포를 가시화 하였으며, 온도분포가 헬륨 기낭 및 탑재물에 주는 영향을 예측하였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.252-255
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• 2005

The effort to realize the concept of stratospheric airship, which can fly at about 20km altitude, has been persevered since late 1980's. Referring to the feasibility study of ensuring the flight duration of the airship over 1year, total weight is about 30 tons, the length is about 200m. There are lots of key technologies to be solved to develop the system, and one of the essential prerequisite technologies is regenerative fuel cell system. In this paper, design requirement of regenerative fuel cell system is introduced with the feasibility study results of the challenging stratospheric airship.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.432-441
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• 2016

Solar energy is the ideal power choice for long-endurance stratospheric airships. The output performance of solar array on stratospheric airship is affected by several major factors: flying latitude, flight date, airship's attitude and the temperature of solar cell, but the research on the effect of these factors on output performance is rare. This paper establishes a new simplified analytical model with thermal effects to analyze the output performance of the solar array. This model consisting of the geometric model of stratospheric airship, solar radiation model and incident solar radiation model is developed using MATLAB computer program. Based on this model, the effects of the major factors on the output performance of the solar array are investigated expediently and easily. In the course of the research, the output power of solar array is calculated for five airship's latitudes of $0^{\circ}$, $15^{\circ}$, $30^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$ and $60^{\circ}$, four special dates and different attitudes of five pitch angles and four yaw angles. The effect of these factors on output performance is discussed in detail. The results are helpful for solving the energy problem of the long endurance airship and planning the airline.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2006

성층권 비행선이 성층권의 열 환경에서 비행성능을 확보할 수 있는지 여부를 확인하기 위해 비행선의 모델을 구축하여 태양복사 에너지를 고려한 열전달 해석을 수행하였다. 태양의 위치 변화에 따른 외피의 온도분포와 자연대류 현상에 의한 내부유동을 해석하였으며, 이를 바탕으로, 성층권 내의 열 환경에서 비행선은 안전한 비행성능을 확보할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.485-492
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• 2015

Small advance ratio and low Reynolds number of stratospheric propulsion system bring lots of challenges to the design of propellers. Contra-rotating propeller configuration is proposed to improve the propulsion efficiency. In this paper, the feasibility of contra-rotating propeller for stratospheric airship has been assessed and its performance has been investigated by wind tunnel tests. The experimental results indicate, at relatively low Reynolds number, although the advance ratio is fixed, the performance of propellers is different with variation of Reynolds number. Moreover, at the same Reynolds number, the efficiency of contra-rotating propeller achieved appears to be a few percent greater than that for a standard conventional propulsion system. It can be concluded that contra-rotating propellers would be an efficient means to improve the performance of stratospheric airship propulsion system.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.12-19
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• 2000

Wireless communication systems using airship have been proposed in worldwide. The airship will be located at the stratosphere about $20{\sim}23\;km$ above the sea level. The position of airship will vary within the station keeping range with time due to the drag of the wind in the stratosphere. When the earth station antenna has a high gain without the tracking function, the antenna performance may be degraded by a small variation of the airship. This means that variation of airship location could result in serious degradation of the system performance. In this paper, degradation in earth station's Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) and Gain to noise Temperature ratio (G/T) due to the stratospheric platform movements has been derived by calculating the deviation angle of the main beam directions between the earth station and the platform antenna. In this case, the antenna of the earth station has been assumed circular and/or patch array antennas.

• Advanced Composite Materials
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.319-332
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• 2008

The thermoelastic behaviors of an inflatable fabric membrane structure for use in a stratospheric airship envelope are experimentally and numerically investigated. Mechanical tensile properties of the membrane material at room, high, and low temperatures are measured using an $Instron^{(R)}$ universal testing machine and an $Instron^{(R)}$ thermal chamber. To characterize the nonlinear behavior of the inflated membrane structure due to wrinkling, the bending behavior of an inflated cylindrical boom made of a fabric membrane is observed at various pressure levels. Moreover, the envelope of a stratospheric airship is numerically modeled based on the thermoelastic properties of the fabric membrane obtained from experimental data, and the wrinkled deformed shape induced by a thermal load is analyzed.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.805-808
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• 1999

The researches about the stratospheric communication system are on process in USA, Japan, Europe and etc. The Airship is expected to be fixed at its position in stratosphere but perhaps its position is changed slightly because of wind in stratosphere. If earth station antenna has high gain without tracking function, even though the airship location has a little variation, degradation of antenna gain is occurred because of narrow beamwidth. In this paper, EIRP and G/T variation of the ground system due to the position variation of airship are examined.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.82-94
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• 2001

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the static and dynamic stability-of the unmanned airship under development ; the target airship's over-all length of hull is 50m and the maximum diameter is 12.5m. For the analysis, the dynamic model of an airship was defined and both the nonlinear and linear dynamic equations of motion were derived. Two different configuration models (KA002Y and KA003Y) of the airship were used for the target model of the static stability analysis and the dynamic stability analysis. From the result of analyses, though the airship is unstable in static stability, dynamic characteristics of the airship can provide the stable dynamic stability. All of the results, airship models and dynamic flight equations will be an important basement and basic information for the next step of developing the automatic flight control system(AFCS) and the stability augmentation system(SAS) for the unmanned airship as well as for the stratospheric airship in the future.