• Wind and Structures
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2020

The aircraft industry supports aviation by building aircraft and manufacturing aircraft parts for their maintenance. Fuel economization is one of the biggest concerns in the aircraft industry. The reduction in specific fuel consumption of aircraft can be achieved by a variety of means, simplest and more effective is the one to impose minor modifications in the aircraft main wing or the parts which are exposed to the air flow. This method can lead to a reduction in aerodynamic resistance offered by the air and have a smoother flight. The main objective of this study is to propose geometric design modifications on an existing aircraft wing which acts as a vortex generator and it can reduce the drag and increase lift to drag ratio, leading to lower fuel consumption. The NACA 2412 aircraft wing is modified and designed. Rigorous flow analysis is carried out using computational fluid dynamics based software Ansys Fluent. Results show that saw tooth modification to the main wing shows the best aerodynamic efficiency as compared to other modifications.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권8호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 단일층 압전 작동기로 구동되는 곤충 모방 날갯짓 기구의 실험적 평가의 결과를 제시하였다. 변위 증폭기구의 연결막대 길이와 힌지 위치를 조절하여, 말벌류 곤충의 상향 날갯짓 끝에 발생하는 날개 겹침 (clap)을 모방할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한, 실제 곤충 날개의 단면이 지그-재그형인 것을 모방한 날개를 제작하여 부착하였다. 이 두 가지 추가적인 고안으로 인하여 본 날갯짓 기구는 이전 날개에 비하여 면적이 절반 밖에 되지 않음에도 불구하고 더 큰 양력을 발생할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서는 날개의 겹침, 지그-재그형 단면, 인가전압 파형이 양력 발생에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 최종적으로는 디지털 고속카메라를 이용하여, 개선된 날갯짓 기구가 상향 날갯짓과 하향 날갯짓에서 와류를 발생함을 확인하였다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.94-101
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 날개의 가로세로비 변화가 날개 하부 유동장에 미치는 공기역학적 영향을 압력분포 측정과 입자영상속도계(PIV)를 이용하여 조사하였다. PIV 측정결과를 이용하여 파일런 주변 유동장의 속도변화를 레이놀즈수 $1.384{\times}10^5$ 와 $2.306{\times}10^5$의 조건에서 속도 성분별로 각각 분석하였다. 파일런으로부터 날개의 끝단이 시위 길이의 80% 만큼 떨어진 가로세로비 4.8의 경우, 날개 끝단으로부터의 끝단 와류의 영향이 날개 아랫면의 표면압력을 낮아지게 하고, 날개 끝단 주변의 흐름을 가속시킴으로써 날개 하부의 파일런 주변 유동장에 영향을 미쳤다. 시험결과에서는 가로세로비가 증가함에 따라 날개 하부 유동장에 대한 날개 끝단으로부터의 공기역학적 효과는 작아지는 경향을 보였다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.1257-1266
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• 2000

The flow field if a ship's propulsion mechanism of Weis-Fogh type is studied by the discrete vertex method. The wing in a channel is approximated by a finite number of bound vortices, and free vortices representing the separated flow are introduced from the trailing edge if the wing. The time histories of the thrust, the drag, and the moment acting on the wing are calculated, including the unsteady force due to the change of strength of the bound vortices. These calculated values agree well with the experimental values. The flow field of this propulsion mechanism is numerically clarified.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.63-68
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• 2011

Aerodynamic characteristics of a wing during fold motion were investigated in order to understand how variations or changes in such characteristics increase aircraft performance. Numerical simulations were conducted, and the results were obtained using the unsteady vortex lattice method to estimate the lift, drag and the moment coefficient in subsonic flow during fold motion. Parameters such as the fold angle and the fold angular velocity were summarized in detail. Generally, the lift and pitching moment coefficients decreased as the angle increased. In contrast, the coefficients increased as the angular velocity increased.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2005년도 춘계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.57-64
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• 2005

Aerodynamic characteristics of three-dimensional wings in ground effect for Aero-levitation Electric Vehicle(AEV) are numerically investigated for various fairing shapes at the junctions of 3D Wings. Numerical results show that a sizeable three-dimensional comer flow separation occurs with formation of an arch vortex at the junction of main and vertical wings, and also that this is predicted the main cause of the high lift-to-drag(L/D) reduction rate of the main wing. To avoid the comer flow separation, the main idea of this study is to reduce the cross section gradient of the comer flow tube near the trailing edge for various fairing shapes. Improvements on L/D ratios of the wings are pursued by breaking the coherence of superimposed adverse pressure gradients at the wing junction when the cross section gradient is changed slowly at the trailing edge.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.20-25
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• 2007

The geometry of a commercial passenger airplane is realized based on a Boeing 747-400 model through the photographic scanning and reverse engineering. The each element consisting of the plane such as fuselage, wing, vertical fin, stabilizer and engines, is individually generated and then the whole body is assembled by the photomodeler. The maximum error in the realized airplane is about 1.4% comparing with the real one. The three-dimensional inviscid steady compressible governing equations are solved in the unstructured tetrahedron grid system, and in a finite volume method using STAR-CD when the airplane flies at the cruise condition. The pressure distribution on the surface and the wing-tip vortices are visualized, and in addition to the aerodynamics coefficients, lift and drag are estimated.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2003년도 The Fifth Asian Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference
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• pp.2-2
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• 2003

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.82-93
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• 2002

The effects of the interaction between the flow and temperature field and a boundary layer due to a variety of the height of a vortex generator are experimentally investigated. The test facility consists of a boundary-layer wind tunnel with the vortex generator protruding from the bottom surface. In order to control the strength of the longitudinal vortices, the angle of attack and the spacing distance of the vortex generator are 20 degree and 40 mm, respectively. The height of the vortex generator (H) is 15 mm, 20 mm and 30 mm and the cord length of it is 50 mm. Three-component mean velocity measurements are made using a 5-hole probe system and the surface temperature distribution is measured by the hue capturing method using thermochromatic liquid crystals. By using the method mentioned above, the following conclusions are obtained from the present experiment. The boundary layer is thinned in the downwash region where the strong downflow and the lateral outflow of the boundary layer fluid occur and thickened in the upwash re,3ion where the longitudinal vortex sweeps low momentum fluid away from the bottom surface. In case that the height of the vortex generator increases, the averaged circulation and the maximum vorticity of the vortex pair decrease. The contours of the non-dimensional temperature show the similar trends fur all the cases (H=15 mm, 20 mm and 30 mm). The peak augmentation of the distribution of the local non-dimensional temperature occurs in the downwash region near the point of minimum boundary-layer thickness.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2006년도 추계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.126-129
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• 2006

Many researchers have made an effort to explain flight mechanism of flapping insects. As a result, several unsteady mechanisms about lift generation in insect flight have been proposed. But it has a limits to elucidate insect's forward flight and abrupt thrust, because most of these are about insect's hovering flight. For this reason, the objective of this paper is to simulate "Figure-of-eight motion" of insect's wing during tethered flight for comprehending aerodynamic property in insect's forward flight.