• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.30-35
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• 2015

In this paper, a theoretical study of low frequency non acoustic instability, the $L^*$ instability, of a solid rocket motor is investigated. The $L^*$ stability criterion is determined by analysing the $L^*$ stability curves of two very distinct propellants for five different geometrical combustors. The $L^*$ instability of two extreme fuels showed totally different behavior in terms of operating pressure of the combustor. A parametric study on the stability for different chamber volume and different throat area keeping constant $L^*$ is conducted and analyzed. It was found that one of the main parameters, the non-dimensional critical characteristic time, requires an enough margin from the critical $L^*$ stability curve.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.55-65
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• 2021

In this study, the design criteria is presented for Finocyl grain, which is easy to generate neutral thrust when designing solid rocket motors. For this purpose, an automated program using drafting method was developed for burn-back analysis and its accuracy was validated. Using this developed program, burn-back analysis was performed with various configuration parameters of Finocyl grain, and the tendency and sensitivity analysis on burning characteristics were performed. Based on this analysis, the design criteria were presented to generate the neutral burning surface area trace for a Finocyl grain.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.18-25
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• 2014

In this paper, the mechanism of the combustion instability which may occur in a hybrid rocket motor with a diaphragm was studied. And the new design for a hybrid motor grain was suggested. It could increase a regression rate of solid fuel, and reduce a large pressure oscillation in a hybrid rocket motor with a diaphragm. It was confirmed that the main mechanism of a large pressure oscillation was hole-tone, and it was caused by a collision between a diaphragm and a vortex which was generated in a pre-chamber. And 'Stepped Grain' design which had the mechanism for high regression rate in a motor with a diaphragm and could reduce a combustion instability was suggested.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.57-60
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• 2008

There exist a lot of factors and restrictions for the design of solid rocket motors like burning rate, of solid propellant, demanded thrust, chamber pressure, diameter, length, weight and acceleration. For the optimization of these factors and restrictions, integrated design software for internal/external ballistic analysis was developed and verified by the performance test of solid rocket motors.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.27-36
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• 2013

Linear stability analysis for combustion instability within a cylindrical port of solid rocket motor has been conducted. The analysis of acoustic energy has been performed by a commercial COMSOL code to obtain the mode function associated to each acoustic mode prior to the calculation of stability alpha. An instability diagnosis based on the linear stability analysis of Culick is performed where special interests have been focused on 5 stability factors(alpha) such as pressure coupling, nozzle damping, particle damping and additionally, flow turning effect and viscous damping to take into account the flow and viscosity effect near the fuel surface. The instability decay characteristics depending on the particle size is also analyzed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.816-821
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• 2015

In this paper, an in-flight prediction method of thrust profiles for solid rocket motors is proposed. Actually, it is very difficult to have detailed information about the performance of the rocket motors beforehand because it is quite sensitive to combustion environments. To overcome this problem, we have developed an algorithm for generating in-flight prediction of rocket motor performance in realistic environments via a reference burnback profile and accelerations measured at a short time-interval just after launch. The performance is evaluated through a lot of flight test results.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.34-40
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• 2013

A flow visualization near submerged nozzle of solid rocket motor was conducted by experiments. A numerical simulation was also performed to reveal detailed phenomena. Radial cold flow simulating hot gas was introduced by a porous grain model which was manufactured by perforated steel plates. The grain model was mounted in high-pressure chamber which has quartz glass at the top of the grain model. From the high-speed images, a rotating vortex was observed and the two type of counter-rotating momentums were generated in numerical results. The rotating momentum was generated at the fin-slot grain because of unbalance between high-velocity flow from slots and low-velocity flow from fin-bases. As a result, roll torques can be produced by the rotating vortex tube.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.221-226
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• 2008

A typical unsteady internal ballistic analysis model was proposed to take account the erosive burning with the variance of local velocity and pressure along grain surface to the axis of a solid rocket combustor. The model introduced in this study showed good agreements with the results of previous research. It was investigated that the combustion pressure, grain length, initial temperature, and vaporization temperature of propellant affect on the erosive burning.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.17-25
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• 2009

A typical unsteady internal ballistic analysis model was proposed to take account of the erosive burning with the variance of local velocity and pressure along the grain surface of a solid rocket combustor. To validate the model of concern in the study, both cases of non-erosive and erosive burning were compared with the previous researches with marginal accuracy. It was quantitatively investigated that the combustion pressure, grain length, initial temperature, and vaporization temperature of propellant affect the erosive burning characteristics.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.79-87
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• 2021

In this study, we developed a method to predict/analyze the performance of a dual thrust rocket motor that has 2 kinds propellant charged in axial direction. When transitioning from the booster to the suspender stage, a transient phenomenon related to performance occurred at the interface. The causes and characteristics of the transient phenomenon were investigated by comparing them with the results of the combustion test. It was confirmed that the performance transient phenomenon is sensitively generated not only by the shape design between the propellants with different properties of the propellant, but also by errors in manufacturing due to the propellant curing shrinkage.