A robotic fish, BASEMACK1, is designed and fabricated by mimicking the shape of a live mackerel. Three DC servo-motors are serially linked together and actuated to mimic the mackerel＇s Carangiform motion. Hydrodynami...A robotic fish, BASEMACK1, is designed and fabricated by mimicking the shape of a live mackerel. Three DC servo-motors are serially linked together and actuated to mimic the mackerel＇s Carangiform motion. Hydrodynamic characteristics of a fish-mimetic test model are experimentally identified and utilized in order to numerically simulate fish swimming. The discrete set of kinematic and dynamic parameters are obtained by considering required horizontal and lateral forces and minimum energy consumption. Using the optimized parameter set, optimal control of the robot is studied.展开更多
Unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of a seagull wing in level flight are investigated using a boundary element method.A new no-penetration boundary condition is imposed on the surface of the wing by considering its ...Unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of a seagull wing in level flight are investigated using a boundary element method.A new no-penetration boundary condition is imposed on the surface of the wing by considering its deformation.The geometry and kinematics of the seagull wing are reproduced using the functions and data in the previously published literature.The proposed method is validated by comparing the computed results with the published data in the literature.The unsteady aerodynamics characteristics of the seagull wing are investigated by changing flapping frequency and advance ratio.It is found that the peak values of aerodynamic coefficients increase with the flapping frequency.The thrust and drag generations are complicated functions of frequency and wing stroke motions.The lift is inversely proportional to the advance ratio.The effects of several flapping modes on the lift and induced drag(or thrust)generation are also investigated.Among three single modes(flapping, folding and lead & lag),flapping generates the largest lift and can produce thrust alone.For three combined modes,both flapping/folding and flapping/lead & lag can produce lift and thrust larger than the flapping-alone mode can.Folding is shown to increase thrust when combined with flapping,whereas lead & lag has an effect of increasing the lift when also combined with flapping.When three modes are combined together,the bird can obtain the largest lift among the investigated modes.Even though the proposed method is limited to the inviscid flow assumption,it is believed that this method can be used to the design of flapping micro aerial vehicle.展开更多
The unsteady evolution of trailing vortex sheets behind a wing in ground effect is simulated using an unsteady discrete vortex panel method. The ground effect is included by image method. The present method is validat...The unsteady evolution of trailing vortex sheets behind a wing in ground effect is simulated using an unsteady discrete vortex panel method. The ground effect is included by image method. The present method is validated by comparing the simulated wake roll-up shapes to published numerical results. When a wing is flying in a very close proximity to the ground, the optimal wing loading is parabolic rather than elliptic. Thus, a theoretical model of wing load distributions is suggested, and unsteady vortex evolutions behind lifting lines with both elliptic and parabolic load distributions are simulated for several ground heights. For a lifting line with elliptic and parabolic loading, the ground has the effect of moving the wingtip vortices laterally outward and suppressing the development of the vortex. When the wing is in a very close proximity to the ground, the types of wing load distributions does not affect much on the overall wake shapes, but parabolic load distributions make the wingtip vortices move more laterally outward than the elliptic load distributions.展开更多
The development of empirical model for the hydraulic transport of sand-water mixtures is important for the design of economical solid-liquid transportation system in chemical and waste-disposal industries. The hydraul...The development of empirical model for the hydraulic transport of sand-water mixtures is important for the design of economical solid-liquid transportation system in chemical and waste-disposal industries. The hydraulic transport characteristics of sand-water mixtures in circular pipelines are numerically investigated by using the FLUENT commercial software. Eulerian granular multiphase (EGM) model with the k-e turbulent model is used for the computation. Present method is validated by the computed values with the measured data. The effect of the concentration and pipe sizes on the relative solid effect is numerically investigated. It is found that the effect of the volumetric delivered concentration on both hydraulic gradient and solid effect increases as the Reynolds number decreases. When the Reynolds number is small, the increase in the volumetric delivered concentration has an effect of decreasing the hydraulic gradient whereas the solid effect increases with the volumetric delivered concentration stepping up. The effect of the pipe diameter is not the critical parameter for deciding the values of the relative solid effect in the sand-water mixture transportation.展开更多
文摘A robotic fish, BASEMACK1, is designed and fabricated by mimicking the shape of a live mackerel. Three DC servo-motors are serially linked together and actuated to mimic the mackerel＇s Carangiform motion. Hydrodynamic characteristics of a fish-mimetic test model are experimentally identified and utilized in order to numerically simulate fish swimming. The discrete set of kinematic and dynamic parameters are obtained by considering required horizontal and lateral forces and minimum energy consumption. Using the optimized parameter set, optimal control of the robot is studied.
基金supported by a grant from the Academic Research Program of Chungju National University,2006supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the korean Govemment through the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development,Basic Research Promotion Fund(KRF-2007-331-D00081)
文摘Unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of a seagull wing in level flight are investigated using a boundary element method.A new no-penetration boundary condition is imposed on the surface of the wing by considering its deformation.The geometry and kinematics of the seagull wing are reproduced using the functions and data in the previously published literature.The proposed method is validated by comparing the computed results with the published data in the literature.The unsteady aerodynamics characteristics of the seagull wing are investigated by changing flapping frequency and advance ratio.It is found that the peak values of aerodynamic coefficients increase with the flapping frequency.The thrust and drag generations are complicated functions of frequency and wing stroke motions.The lift is inversely proportional to the advance ratio.The effects of several flapping modes on the lift and induced drag(or thrust)generation are also investigated.Among three single modes(flapping, folding and lead & lag),flapping generates the largest lift and can produce thrust alone.For three combined modes,both flapping/folding and flapping/lead & lag can produce lift and thrust larger than the flapping-alone mode can.Folding is shown to increase thrust when combined with flapping,whereas lead & lag has an effect of increasing the lift when also combined with flapping.When three modes are combined together,the bird can obtain the largest lift among the investigated modes.Even though the proposed method is limited to the inviscid flow assumption,it is believed that this method can be used to the design of flapping micro aerial vehicle.
文摘The unsteady evolution of trailing vortex sheets behind a wing in ground effect is simulated using an unsteady discrete vortex panel method. The ground effect is included by image method. The present method is validated by comparing the simulated wake roll-up shapes to published numerical results. When a wing is flying in a very close proximity to the ground, the optimal wing loading is parabolic rather than elliptic. Thus, a theoretical model of wing load distributions is suggested, and unsteady vortex evolutions behind lifting lines with both elliptic and parabolic load distributions are simulated for several ground heights. For a lifting line with elliptic and parabolic loading, the ground has the effect of moving the wingtip vortices laterally outward and suppressing the development of the vortex. When the wing is in a very close proximity to the ground, the types of wing load distributions does not affect much on the overall wake shapes, but parabolic load distributions make the wingtip vortices move more laterally outward than the elliptic load distributions.
文摘The development of empirical model for the hydraulic transport of sand-water mixtures is important for the design of economical solid-liquid transportation system in chemical and waste-disposal industries. The hydraulic transport characteristics of sand-water mixtures in circular pipelines are numerically investigated by using the FLUENT commercial software. Eulerian granular multiphase (EGM) model with the k-e turbulent model is used for the computation. Present method is validated by the computed values with the measured data. The effect of the concentration and pipe sizes on the relative solid effect is numerically investigated. It is found that the effect of the volumetric delivered concentration on both hydraulic gradient and solid effect increases as the Reynolds number decreases. When the Reynolds number is small, the increase in the volumetric delivered concentration has an effect of decreasing the hydraulic gradient whereas the solid effect increases with the volumetric delivered concentration stepping up. The effect of the pipe diameter is not the critical parameter for deciding the values of the relative solid effect in the sand-water mixture transportation.
