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Effect of Internal Flow Guide in Pintle Tip on Pintle Injector Thruster Combustion

핀틀 인젝터의 팁 내부 유동 가이드가 연소 성능에 미치는 영향

  • Received : 2020.03.02
  • Accepted : 2020.08.18
  • Published : 2020.09.01
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Abstract

Pintle injector is known to have been adopted as injector of Lunar Module Descent Engine (LMDE) and contributed to success of the Apollo program and recently used in merlin engine. In this study, 500N Lab-Scale pintle injector thruster was manufactured and the combustion experiment with LOx/GCH4 was conducted. However, the proto-type thruster was showed some problems, such as low combustion efficiency and melting of pintle tip. To solve these problems, the flow guide in pintle tip was suggested through the CFD simulation. After addition of flow guide module, the combustion efficiency increased and pintle tip did not melt until the end of combustion.

핀틀 인젝터는 LMDE의 인젝터로 채용되어 아폴로 계획의 성공적인 수행에 일조하였으며, 최근 SpaceX 사의 Merlin 엔진으로 다시 조명받고 있는 인젝터의 형태이다. 본 연구에서는 액체산소/기체메탄을 이용하는 500N 급 Lab-Scale 핀틀 인젝터 추력기를 제작하여 연소실험을 수행하였다. 그러나 초기 연소실험은 핀틀 팁의 용융과 낮은 연소효율이라는 문제를 노출하였다. 따라서 이를 해결하기 위하여 전산수치해석을 통한 시뮬레이션을 통해 유동 가이드가 추가된 핀틀 팁의 냉각 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 설계를 채택하였으며, 연소실험을 통해 유동 가이드의 효용성을 확인하였다.

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