• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.76-81
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• 2009

A nonlinear pressure controller to actively regulate the thrust of a solid propulsion system is presented. To compensate for the parametric uncertainties with respect to the chamber pressure induced by changing nozzle throat area, Lyapunov-based parameter adaptation method has been applied. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control method, the experiments were carried out using the cold gas test equipment that can simulate the operating environment of variable thrust solid propulsion system. The experiment results show that the nonlinear pressure controller has better performance than conventional P and PI controller.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.616-617
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• 2010

Nemerical analysis was carried out for a patented SNECMA modulatable thrust device. By adopting aerospike-like nozzle and a moving needle, proposed modulatable thrust device are capable of delivering optimal thrust according to the altitude.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.388-391
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• 2017

In this study, heat transfer analysis of variable thrust control system have been conducted by using commercial CFD code and FEM code. We Carried out computational fluid dynamics analysis to obtain the temperature and convective heat transfer coefficient of hot gas of variable thrust control system. Data are used as boundary condition for heat transfer analysis using mapping method. Temperature of O-ring for sealing was predicted

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.392-394
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• 2017

In this study, the surface heat transfer coefficient of the 3D model of a thruster regulator in the high temperature and high pressure environment was estimated using the CFD. The thermal barrier coating (TBC) on the surface of the thruster regulator was modeled and the effect of the thickness of the TBC on the temperature of the thruster regulator was investigated. The thickness of the TBC was varied from $100{\mu}m$ to $500{\mu}m$. Results showed that the temperature of the surface and the inside the thruster regulator was lower for the thicker TBS case.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2001.12a
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• pp.33-36
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• 2001

본 논문은 높은 추력비(전동기 추력/전동기 중량=N/ Kg)를 갖는 영구자석 여자 횡축형 선형 전동기(TFLM)를 가진기 엑츄에이터로 사용하여 부피와 체적을 줄이고 적은 중량이 요구되는 고출력 전동식 가진기 시스템을 유압식을 대체하여 구현하고 가변 변위 및 가변 속도가 가능한 제어 방법을 개발하여 적용하고자 한다.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.159-168
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• 2018

Thrust throttling in a liquid rocket engine can be implemented via several ways such as high pressure drop injector, dual manifold, multiple chamber, pintle injector, and gas injection. Thrust throttling using gas injection controls thrust by usually injecting inert gas into propellant through an aerator to reduce the propellant's bulk density. In this study, the outside-in aerator was used in the propellant line to create two phase flow. Closed-type, open-type, and screw-type bi-swirl coaxial injectors were utilized for investigating throttling characteristics such as pressure drop, mixture density, and discharge coefficient according to gas-liquid mass ratio.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.59-64
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• 2021

In this paper, a mathematical pressure dynamics model for a variable thrust solid propulsion system with an electric actuator was derived from the mass conservation of gas. To solve the problem induced by modeling uncertainties in the propellant model and the dead zone of the actuator, a nonlinear pressure controller combined with a nonlinear disturbance observer was designed using a mathematical model of the system. The simulation results showed that the proposed pressure controller could reduce tracking errors compared to another conventional nonlinear controller even in situations where input disturbances were present.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.43 no.10
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• pp.868-874
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• 2015

Thrust variation is an essential parameter in a space mission such as landing on an atmosphereless planet or docking a spacecraft. In order to achieve the thrust variation control, using throttleable injector is a representative and general method. A dual-manifold injector, one of throttleable injectors, was used to control mass flow rate. Five kinds of injectors were designed and investigated in order to compare the spray characteristics of the dual-manifold injector with various tangential entries. Spray angles and patterns were measured to determine external flow characteristics and film thicknesses were measured in order to investigate the internal flow patterns.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.14-15
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• 2002

기체역학 이론에 의하면, 노즐의 공급압력과 노즐의 상세형상이 주어지는 경우에 추진 노즐로부터 방출되는 제트유동의 추력을 예측할 수 있으며, 최대추력은 노즐 출구에서 유동이 적정팽창 상태로 될 때 얻어진다. 실제의 추진 로켓에서나 다른 비상체에서는 추력의 예측뿐만 아니라, 얻어지는 추력의 방향을 적절하게 조절하여 제어하는 것이 요구된다. 종래 추력벡터 제어를 위해서 많은 연구들이 수행되었다. 일례로 추진노즐 내부에 베인(vane) 등을 삽입하여, 추력벡터를 조절하거나, 추진 노즐을 가변(movable nozzle)으로 하는 방법, 그리고 노즐내부에 2차 유동을 분사(secondary flow injection)하여 평균 추력벡터를 제어하는 방법 등이 제안되어 응용되어 왔다.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.91-98
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• 2008

Since the 1st space race between the United States and Soviet Union during the 1960s, we are competing 2nd space race to occupy the Lunar territory. Since the United States announced to construct the Lunar Base by the end of 2020, ED, Japan, and China launched Lunar explorers successfully. Even India is planning to launch a Lunar explorer in 2008. Korean government also announced that the Korea will launch first Lunar explorer in 2020. In this research Lunar mission trajectory design which will be fundamental data for Lunar mission with variable low thrust and Lunar mission trajectory which has a similar mission specification to SMART-1 are presented.