Aircraft Wing Design to Reduce Air Resistance

Undergraduate students at JBNU attracted attention by presenting research proposing an aircraft wing that experiences reduced air resistance.

Fourth-year Department of Aerospace Engineering students Moon Chan-woong and Kim Hun (supervised by Professor Yu Gi-wan) recently won the Best Award at the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers' 'EDISON Computational Thermofluid Competition' held in Jeju for their paper titled 'A Study on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Busemann-Type Supersonic Biplane.'

The competition drew undergraduate and graduate student participants from leading universities such as Seoul National University, KAIST, and Yonsei University. The result has attracted attention as the JBNU students claimed the Best Award, outperforming teams from these prestigious institutions.

In the competition, the students presented the paper 'A Study on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Busemann-Type Supersonic Biplane' and received the competition's top honor.

In this event, which featured around 30 teams of undergraduates and master's students from leading universities nationwide, the JBNU team analyzed the drag coefficient of biplane-configured wings—a form attracting attention as a candidate for next-generation supersonic cruise passenger aircraft. They compared these values with the wing configurations of existing passenger aircraft and presented a paper proposing a new wing design that exhibits lower drag.

The judging panel evaluated, "The JBNU students' paper presented accurate analytical methods and well-executed comparative analysis, and their creativity in proposing a new wing form and outstanding presentation skills were excellent."

Moon Chan-woong said, "With support from the Wind Turbine and Offshore Structures Project Group and guidance from Professor Yu Gi-wan, we were able to achieve good research results. It is a great honor to be recognized as the best among prominent undergraduates and graduate students nationwide, and I wish to continue research on aircraft that experience reduced air resistance."

Meanwhile, the competition is an event for presenting papers that analyze and study physical phenomena using CFD tools provided by the computational thermofluid sector of the Advanced Science Education Hub Development Project, which involves the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, and eight participating universities including Seoul National University and KAIST.