With the increasing use of portable devices, the safety and efficiency of wireless chargers have become significant concerns. Wireless chargers can cause battery damage, deformation, and failure of the charging module due to the high temperatures generated during the charging process. Thus, the importance of thermal management has been increasingly emphasized. In this study, we experimentally confirmed that cooling performance was improved by applying phase change material (PCM) to the heat-generating parts of the wireless charger. The cooling performance of the PCM was analyzed using Ansys Fluent, the component temperature was measured with an infrared camera, and 3D thermal deformation was measured with a DIC measurement device. Electromagnetic field, thermal, fluid, and structural coupled analyses were performed to investigate the impact of thermal deformation caused by wireless charging. The results showed that the temperature and deformation error was within 3% of the coupled analysis results, and the proposed electromagneticthermal-fluid-structural coupled analysis enabled more accurate simulation prediction of the physical coupling process inside the wireless charger.
An elevating drone station is very useful when lifting and lowering the battery charging station for safe installation, maintenance, and energy efficiency of a drone operation. When drone station modules rise above the average roof level of neighboring structures they may receive a strong wind force; thus, understanding the physical phenomena of both the structures and fluid is important to understand the structure"s reaction to the wind force. However, most studies in the field of drone stations did not perform a structural safety evaluation under wind loadings. Therefore, in this paper, we carried out a fluid-structure interaction analysis to verify the design of the lifting-and-lowering-type drone station.
A guided missile is a weapon system used in the interception of a ballistic missile using kinetic energy of a kill vehicle. The DACS (Divert and Attitude Control System) is a quick reaction propulsion system and subsystem of a kill vehicle that provides control over positions of a kill vehicle. The DACS allows for the interception of its target with greater accuracy and reliability. A Kill vehicle needs to move at high speed in a bid to intercept a ballistic missile after detecting a target. Thus, the weight reduction design of DACs system is required. The DACS operates under high temperature and pressure environment. In this study, one-way FSI (Fluid and Structure Interaction) analysis were conducted for various types of weight reduction valve model to validate its robustness. Through this process, we suggest an optimized weight reduction valve model