• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.419-422
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• 2006

Improvement of performance of sorbitol model rocket was studied. The rocket designed in this work was compared with the rocket manufactured previously with respect to the shape of body, grain of rocket motor, motor case and recovery system. From this comparative work, it is found that mass ratio is required to be increased and the rocket was designed under safety regulation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.97-107
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• 2012

In general, solid propulsion offers cost effective, large thrust capabilities comparing to the liquid propulsion which offers high specific impulse and restart capabilities. Therefore, solid propulsion is well fitted for the first stage and boosters. Building Block Launcher(BBL) approach has been studied for the launch vehicle because of cost effectiveness, limited development time and low risk. Using of the carbon fiber epoxy resin in the solid rocket motor case is expanded, and specially high strength fibers are more attracted since its inert mass reduction.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.21-29
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• 2002

Hybrid propulsion systems provide many advantages in terms of stable operation and safety. However, classical hybrid rocket motors have lower fuel regression rate and combustion efficiency compared to solid propellant rocket motor. The recent research efforts are focused on the improvement of volume limitation and regression rate in the hybrid rocket engine. The present study has numerically investigated the combustion processes in the hybrid rocket engine. The turbulent combustion is represented by the eddy breakup model and Hiroyasu and Nagle and Strickland-Constable model are used for soot formation and soot oxidation. Radiative heat transfer is modeled by finite volume method. To reduce the uncertainties for convective heat transfer near solid fuel surface having strong blowing effect, the Low Reynolds number $\kappa-\varepsilon$ turbulent model is employed. Based on numerical results, the detailed discussion has been made for the turbulent combustion processes in the vortex hybrid rocket engine.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.101-106
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• 2006

This paper describes performance design of a solid rocket motor on which thrust cut-off system is installed, and evaluates performance of a rocket motor according to a size of TCO ports. TCO system installed on motors was made to carry out firing tests, and the trend of thrust due to various sizes of TCO port was analyzed to find the existence of the port size for maximum reversal thrust. Conservation equations were used to design performance of motors and to analyze test results. This technique for performance design will be usefully applied to the design of similar TCO systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.53-56
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• 2006

This paper describes performance design of a solid rocket motor on which thrust cut-off system is installed, and evaluates performance of a rocket motor according to a size of TCO ports. TCO system installed on motors was made to carry out firing tests, and the trend of thrust due to various sizes of TCO port was analyzed to find the existence of the port size for maximum reversal thrust. Conservation equations were used to design performance of motors and to analyze test results. This technique for performance design will be usefully applied to the design of similar TCO systems.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.40-47
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• 2010

In this study, basic research on the thrust control by controling oxidizer mass flow rate of a $GO_2$/PE hybrid rocket is presented. For this purpose, hybrid rocket system including oxidizer flow control system and data acquisition system was developed. To control oxidizer mass flow rate, we used needle valve with stepping motor which was controled by LabVIEW program. During the fundamental experiments, this system managed to follow the pre-programmed (20 N - 10 N - 20 N - 0 N) thrust level.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.774-779
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• 2009

A numerical modelling was performed to predict unsteady combustion processes for the AP/HTPB/Al propellant in a solid rocket motor. Its results were compared with the experimental data. Temporal pressure development was found to match quite well with measured data. A change in propellant surface was traced using the moving grid. The propellant thickness change was also observed to confirm the erosive burning effect.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.62-69
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• 2014

Infrared signature of rocket plume plays an important role for detection, recognition, tracking and minimzing for low observability. Infrared signatures of rocket plume with reduced smoke propellant and smokeless propellant are measured. In order to estimate the infrared signature of rocket plume, CFD analysis for flow structure of plume is performed, and layered integration method for estimating of infrared signature is used. Numerical and experimental results were in good agreement. Both propellants had similar infrared signature. Strong peak at $4.3{\mu}m$ region in the experimental results is appeared due to experimental error arising from the calibration procedure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.30-30
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• 2000

일반적인 소형 고체로켓의 모터 내에는 연료 첨가제로써 알루미늄이 함유되는데, 연소 시 산화된 이 성분은 액적 상태로 이동하여 노즐부내에 이상유동장을 형성시킨다. 이러한 산화알루미늄입자는 노즐벽면에 충돌, 점착하여 기계적, 열적 에너지전달을 일으키며 노즐벽면의 삭마를 유발시키는 한편, 가스유동과의 속도 차, 온도차로 인해 저항요소로 작용하면서 노즐의 추력 성능 손실에 간접, 직접적인 원인이 된다.(중략)

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.37-45
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• 2015

Prediction of combustion instability within a solid-propellant rocket motor has been conducted with the classical acoustic analysis. The effect of particle size distribution on the instability has been analyzed by comparing the log-normal distribution to the fixed mono-sized particle followed by a survey of motor length scale effect between the baseline model and small scale model. Particle damping effect was more efficient for the small scale motor which has a relatively high unstable mode frequencies. It was also revealed that the prediction results by considering the particle size distribution show an overall attenuation of fluctuating pressure amplitude with respect to the mono-sized case.