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Design and Evaluation of Vaned Pipe Bends of Liquid Propellant for Satellite Launch Vehicles  

Lee Hee Joon (한국항공우주연구원 추진제어그룹)
Han Sang Yeop (한국항공우주연구원 추진제어그룹)
Ha Sung Up (한국항공우주연구원 추진제어그룹)
Kim Young Mog (한국항공우주연구원 추진제어그룹)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers / v.9, no.1, 2005 , pp. 53-60 More about this Journal
Abstract
The use of pipe-bends brings about non-uniform flows at the exit of them due to the velocity difference between inner and outer flows inside the bend. These phenomena may cause turbopump of satellite launch vehicle to run off-design and reduce its efficiency, and also introduce unstable influx of propellants to engine manifold after passing through a turbopump. In order to improve the uniformity of flow at the bend exit, certain turning vanes are set up in the bend pipe normally. Correspondingly the design is an $90^{\circ}\;and\;45^{\circ}$ bend pipes that incorporate with the maximum three turning vanes. All designs were analyzed with numerical analysis by solving the Navier-Stokes equations in three dimensions in case of each respective fuel and oxidizer. Evaluations of the vaned pipe bends designs were accomplished by the velocity magnitude distributions and the predicted pressure drops. We could find that the more vaned bend pipe and larger angle pipe under consideration effectively, the more uniform velocity magnitude of the bend and pressure losses.
Keywords
Pipe-bends; Vane; Launch Vehicle; CFD;
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