• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.73-78
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• 2009

The fire whirl occurring in the urban and/or wildland fire is generated by the instabilities of atmosphere. The fire whirl is a rare phenomenon, but highly destructive because it has high inhalation and lift force. In this study, experimental and numerical studies are performed with oriental oak leaves, for investigating of the fire whirl characteristics occurred in wildland fire. As a result of experiment, the circulation intensity increases as the induced air speed increases, then the heat release rate and flame height increase 22.8%, 18.4% compared with open fire in highest circulation. Furthermore the numerical results shows same trend with the experiment.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.531-540
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• 2020

The whirl and generated forces of rotating cylinders with different diameters placed in still water and in flow are studied experimentally. For the rotating cylinders in still water, the Same Frequency Whirl (SFW) and Different Frequency Whirl (DFW) have been identified and illustrated. The corresponding SFW and DFW areas are divided. The Root Mean Square (RMS) values of the generated force coefficient dramatically increase in the defined ranges of Resonance I and Resonance II. For the rotating cylinders in flow, the hydrodynamics, SFW and DFW are illustrated. The hydrodynamic, SFW and DFW areas are divided. The RMS values of the generated forces in the range of Resonance II are much smaller than those in still water due to the generated lift forces. The discussion suggests that the frequency of the DFW may equal multiple times or one-multiple times that of the rotating frequency: the whirl direction of the DFW with multiple times the frequency of the rotating frequency is the same as the rotating direction. The whirl direction of the DFW with one-multiple times frequency of the rotating frequency is opposite to the rotating direction.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.17-21
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• 2009

The fire whirl occurring in the urban and/or wildland fire is generated by the instabilities of atmosphere. The fire whirl is a rare phenomenon, but highly destructive because it has high inhalation and lift force. In this study, experimental study is performed with oriental oak leaves, for investigating of the fire whirl characteristics occurred in wildland fire. As a result of experiment, the circulation intensity increases as increasing of the induced air velocity, and then the fire whirl occurs. Also, the heat release rate and flame height increase 22% and 18% in highest circulation.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.235-244
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• 2010

Recent studies on the moment whirl due to leakage flow in the back shroud clearance of hydro-turbine runners or centrifugal pump impellers are summarized. First, destabilizing effect of leakage flow is discussed for lateral vibrations using simplified models. Then it is extended to the case of whirling motion of an overhung rotor and the criterion for the instability is obtained. The fluid moment caused by a leakage clearance flow between a rotating disk and a stationary casing was obtained by model tests under whirling and precession motion of the disk. It is shown that the whirl moment always destabilizes the whirl motion of the overhung rotor while the precession moment destabilizes the precession only when the precession speed is less than half the rotor speed. Then vibration analyses considering both whirl and precession are made by using the hydrodynamic moments determined by the model tests. For larger overhung rotors, the whirl moment is more important and cause whirl instability at all rotor speed. On the other hand, for smaller overhung rotors, the precession moment is more important and cancels the destabilizing effect of the whirl moment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1991.04a
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• pp.105-110
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• 1991

Oil whirl effects on system identification during modal testings are discussed. When the forward rotating excitations act, the oil whirl effects seriously appear. But when the backward rotating and uni-directional excitations act, and the magnitude of forward excitation is small, oil whirl effect do not appear in forced response function. The results of simulation of oil whirl effects during modal testing are well coincident with those of experiments. With the uni-directional excitation technique the linearized dynamic coefficients of fluid film bearings and seals can be estimated more accurately than with the circular rotating excitation technique. But with the circular excitation technique oil whirl effects can be well investigated.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.819-825
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• 1996

Nonlinear dynamic characteristics of rubbing phenomenon in rotor dynamics are investigated experimentally and numerically. Rubbing phenomenon occurs when rotor contacts with stator during whirling and causes the large amplitude of vibration, high whirl frequencies, and possibly catastrophic failure. Rubbing has various types of forward whirl, backward rolling, backward slipping, and partial rub depending on the system parameters of rotating machinery and running speed. Experiments are performed for forward whirl and backward whirl. And numerical analysis are conducted to explain the changes between backward rolling and backward slipping. Experimental and numerical results show that the types of whirling motion depends on the friction coefficient between rotor and stator and the eccentricity of rotor.

• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.23-32
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• 2007

헬리콥터 주 로터 시스템은 헬리콥터 전체 성능을 좌우하고, 비행특성을 결정하는 핵심 구성품이다. 주 로터 시스템은 회전하면서 추력 및 조종력을 발생시키기 때문에 동적 밸런싱을 맞추는 것도 중요한 개발단계업무 중에 하나이다. 주 로터 시스템의 개발 과정에서 헬리콥터 비행시제 장착 전에 동적 밸런스 시험, 성능시험, 안정성 시험 등을 포함하는 훨시험(whirl test)을 수행하게 된다. 이 시험 수행을 위해 제작되는 시험장치가 훨타워(whirl tower)이다. 세계 유수 헬리콥터 회사들은 주 로터 훨시험을 위한 설비인 훨타워를 보유하고 있으며, 지속적으로 성능 개량 등을 통해 최신의 기술 및 장비를 적용하여 운영하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 대표적으로 사용되고 있는 해외 헬리콥터 회사들의 훨타워의 사례를 설명하고 설비의 기능을 기술함으로써 기술적 동향에 대하여 살펴보았다. 현재 한국형헬기개발사업(KHP)에서 구축중인 다목적 의 WTTF(whirl tower test facility) 요구조건 및 설계 현황에 대해서도 기술하였다. 당 연구원의 WTTF는 한국형기동헬기(KUH)의 주 로터 훨시험 및 내구성 시험을 위해 구축되고 있다. 본 시험설비는 연구개발용 시험과 양산용 시험을 모두 수행할 수 있도록 다목적으로 개발될 예정이다. 본 설비는 기존 해외 설비와는 차별화되어 다목적 시험을 할 수 있도록 설계가 진행중이며, 2008년12월에 구축 완료 예정이다.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06c
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• pp.311-315
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• 2001

In this paper synchronous whirl of bearing is employed as control algorithm of actively controlled hydrodynamic journal bearing to suppress the whirl instability and unbalance response of a rotor-bearing system. Also, the cavitation algorithm implementing the Jakobsson-Floberg-Olsson boundary condition is adopted to predict cavitation regions in the fluid film more accurately than conventional analysis which uses the Reynolds condition. The stability and unbalance responses of a rotor-bearing system are investigated for various control gain and phase difference between the bearing and journal motion. It is shown that the unbalance response of a rotor-bearing system can be greatly improved by synchronous whirl of the bearing, and there is an optimum phase difference, which gives the minimum unbalance response of the system, at given operating condition. It is also found that the speed at onset of instability can be greatly increased by synchronous whirl of the bearing.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.91-98
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• 2000

A slot restrictor air journal bearing has high load capacity and high stiffness. The stability characteristics of the slot restrictor air journal bearing are studied theoretically and experimentally to forecast and to prevent the whirl instability. As for the high speed rotating machinery, the instability called'whirl'occurs when the rotor rotates at a speed more than twice the resonant speed. Once the whirl occurs, rubbing contact between the journal and the bearing occurs mostly and the bearing-rotor system is destroyed ultimately. Therefore, the forecasting and prevention of the occurrence of whirl instability is a very important subject especially to develop highly efficient high speed rotating machinery. The bearing with the slot restrictor that varies about circumferential direction is used for the purpose of the prevention of whirl instability.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2012

During helicopter rotor system development process, whirl tower test is conducted basically. For conducting whirl tower test during bearingless hub development process, design new blade or using existing blade with repair or remodeling. Because simple shape and efficient aerodynamic characteristic, BO-105 blade is used for hub system development widely. Originally BO-105 Blade is used for hingeless hub, so flap stiffness and lag stiffness on blade root area is relatively low. So appling BO-105 blade to bearingless hub whirl tower test, root area have to be reinforce. In this paper, suggest reinforcement method of BO-105 blade root area.