• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.17-26
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• 2023

The star-shaped propellant grain can be used for designing burning surface areas with various profiles and are easy to manufacture, so it can be usefully applied to actual solid rocket motors. However, since there are many design-related configuration variables and slivers at the end of combustion, it is difficult to achieve an optimal design using a general optimization technique. In this study, the new method for designing star grains using a database was proposed to increase usability and success rate of optimization design. In the proposed method, a solution that satisfies the requirements is obtained after defining the performance variables, constructing the database. By applying the proposed method, the design of star grains with various profiles of the burning surface area was performed, and the validity of the design method was confirmed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.22-31
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• 2022

Existing Finocyl grain designs assume configurations and repeat the process of configuration modification and confirmation of the requirements through burn-back analysis. Such a design increases the design fatigue of workers and has a problem of different design completeness depending on capabilities. Therefore, this study devised an optimal design method that applied genetic algorithms to the Burn-back automation analysis program to solve the problem of existing design. For stable search, variable-offset and non-drawable configuration control techniques were developed. The program performance was verified through the searching neutral and double thrust grains.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.349-352
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• 2008

This work is to observe combustion characteristics depending on variation of the solid propellent grain configuration. The LRE (Liquid Rocket Engine) enables adjusting the thrust by controling the required fuel mass glow, but the SRM(Solid Rocket Motor)is not easy to adjust th thrust due to the difficulty of th fuel flow control by its combustion behavior even its configuration is simple. This difficulty can be partly solved by changing th size or the configuration of the propellant grain. In this study a proper grain configuration of a small solid rocket is selected through both the theoretical design and the experimental tests.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.207-210
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• 2007

This paper describes the development of the grain design automation program using commercial CAD(computer-aided-design) software. This program allows to readily obtain output of burning area, volume, moments of inertial, motion of the center of gravity, and other geometric data as a function of regressed distance. These are utilized in performance analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.40-47
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• 2014

The grain burn-back analysis has been performed for the internal ballistics analysis code to be used for the optimal design of the space launch vehicles. The grain burn-back has been used to calculate the burning surface that is essential to the internal ballistics. The calculation of internal ballistics code used in the optimal design is repeated until satisfying the required performance through the change of the design parameter. Therefore, the burn-back method applied to the internal ballistics analysis should be easy to change the design parameter and calculation time should be short. In this study, a burn-back analysis code has been developed using the analysis method. Also, geometric parameters of the grain have been selected and organized. The developed code has been verified by comparison of results of a numerical method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.318-322
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• 2005

In this study the regression rate of hybrid rocket fuel has been investigated by swirl injectors and helical grains. Tests have been done with two kinds of injector and helical grain. In this paper the swirl injector and helical grain were varied to find the optimal condition to obtain the max regression rate for a given operational condition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1996.05a
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• pp.59-73
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• 1996

체계적 관점에서 추진기관에 요구되는 설계 제한조건의 합리적 조정에 의한 최적화 달성을 위하여 주 체계(Main System)와의 신속한 자료을 제시/교환가 요구된다. 이를 위하여 비록 많은 가정사항들이 내재해 있더라도 성능과 형상, 그리고 무게에 대한 자료을 제시할 수 있는 추진기관 설계 자동화 도구를 개발한다. 본 연구에서는 일차적으로 추진제 조성과 특성의 상관관계를 추진기관 체계와 그레인 내탄도/구조성능의 설계 관점에서 관계식화하여 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.358-363
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• 2017

The high intercept probability depends on optimization of the system, which consists of target detection, tracking system, missile system and so on. To reduce the complexity of global optimization of the system performance, simplification of the relative dependances of each sub-system is done and design parameters for DACS configuration are identified. The conceptual design process is addressed based on the requirement of the design parameters and new methodology is suggested for higher performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.374-377
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• 2007

본 보고서는 소형 로켓 제작에 앞서 행해지는 설계 단계를 기술하였다. 각 요구 조건에 맞춰 사용되어질 추력, 추진제 특성, mass distribution, 동체 형상 설계, Motor 설계에 대해 다뤘다. 로켓 설계에 있어서 가장 중요한 추진제 선정과 노즐형상 설계를 중점적으로 다루었으며, 차후 본 과정에 의하여 소형로켓을 제작하겠다.