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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2017.45.11.914

High-Altitude Environment Simulation of Space Launch Vehicle in a Ground-Test Facility  

Lee, Sungmin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Oh, Bum-Seok (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Kim, YoungJun (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Park, Gisu (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.45, no.11, 2017 , pp. 914-921 More about this Journal
Abstract
The experimental research on a high-altitude environment simulation of space launch vehicle is important for securing independent technologies with launching space vehicles and completing missions. This study selected an altitude of 65 km for the experiment environment where it exceeded Mach number of 6 after the launch of Korean Space Launch Vehicle(KSLV-II). Shock tunnel was used to replicate the flight condition. After flow establishment, in order to confirm aerodynamic characteristics and normal and oblique shockwaves, the flow verification was carried out by measuring stagnation pressure and heat flux of a forebody model, and shockwave stand-off distance of a hemispherical model. In addition, a shock-free technique to recover free-stream condition has been developed and verified. From the results of the three verification tests, it was confirmed that the flow was replicated with the error of about ${\pm}3%$. The error between the slope angle of inclined shockwave of the scaled down transition section model using the shock-free shape and the slope angle of the horizontal plate model, and between the theoretical and the experimental value of the static pressure of the model were confirmed to be 2% and 1%, respectively. As a result, the efficiency of the shockwave cancellation technique has been verified.
Keywords
High-Altitude Environment Simulation; Space Launch-Vehicle; Shock-Free Technique;
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