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A Study on Combustion Characteristics of Hybrid Rocket with the Variation of L/D Ratio  

Kim Soo-Jong (한국항공대학교 항공우주 및 기계공학과)
Kim Jin-Kon (한국항공대학교 항공우주 및 기계공학과)
Lee Seung-Chul (한국항공대학교 항공우주 및 기계공학과)
You Woo-Jun (한국항공대학교 항공우주 및 기계공학과)
Lee Jung-Pyo (한국항공대학교 항공우주 및 기계공학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers / v.9, no.4, 2005 , pp. 31-38 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, the combustion characteristics of a hybrid propulsion system were studied with various L/D(length vs diameter) ratio of the single po.1 type solid fuel. Experiments were performed for 2 cases with the fixed grain port diameter and fuel length respectively. For the first case, results show that there are no large variations for regression rates as the L/D ratio changes. And as the L/D ratio increases, the O/F ratio decreases and thrust, characteristic velocity tends to increase. For the second case, there is no large change for O/F ratio, thrust and characteristic velocity as L/D ratio changes. On the other hand, as the L/D ratio decreases, only the regression rate tends to increase. Experimentally, exponent n in $\dot{r}=a{G_0}^n$ was found about 0.5 and then the O/F ratio was shown nearly constant. In the experiment, PE and gas oxygen were used as a fuel and an oxidizer.
Keywords
Hybrid Rocket; L/D Ratio; O/F Ratio; Regression Rate;
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