• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.68-71
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• 2010

극심한 고온 및 고압 환경에 노출되기 쉬운 항공우주 구조물에서 발생하는 기계적 삭마 현상을 해석하기 위하여 영역/경계 분할법을 적용한 삭마 해석 모델을 제안하였다. 영역 및 경계는 상변화 현상에 의한 비선형 거동을 하는 삭마 부영역과 선형 거동을 하는 선형 열탄성 부영역, 공유면, 경계 공유면으로 분할하였다. 삭마 재료 내부의 열분해 반응은 엔탈피 방법을 이용하였으며, 표면 침식 반응은 공기역학적 전단 응력과 삭마 재료의 전단 강도를 기반으로 매칭 기법을 이용하였다. 화학적 및 열적 삭마는 고려하지 않았으며, 간단한 수치 해석을 통해서 기본적인 기계적 삭마 특성을 분석하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

A coupled thermal/structural analysis of mechanical ablation is performed based on domain/boundary decomposition and finite element method. The ablative material non-linearity and boundary non-linearity can be easily localized within a few subdomains and/or on the boundary interfaces. An enthalpy method is applied to simplify the effect of heat of pyrolysis in the ablative subdomains. In addition, maximum in-plane shear stress is considered as a surface recession criterion for the mechanical ablation simulation. The basic characteristics of the proposed method are examined carefully through numerical experiments.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.42-53
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• 2015

In this study, the influence of Al particle size, as an additive for solid propellant, on the mechanical erosion of the carbon-composite nozzle was evaluated. A new model which can predict the size and distribution of the agglomerated reaction product($Al(l)/Al_2O_3(l)$) was established, and the size of agglomerate were calculated according to the various initial size of Al in the solid propellant. With predicted results of the model, subsequently, the characteristics of mechanical erosion on the carbon-composite nozzle was estimated using a commercial CFD software, STAR CCM+. The result shows that the smaller the initial Al particles are, in the solid propellant, the lower is the mechanical erosion rate of the composite nozzle wall, especially for the nano-size Al particle.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.141-143
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• 2006

It is well known that there are three mechanisms in the nozzle surface regression, namely ablation, mechanical erosion and chemical corrosion. There are Analogies among these three mechanisms. In order to compare the order of the magnitude of these mechanism, the analogy was adapted and the Mach number of the gas flow was expressed by the nozzle shape(location).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• v.y2005m4
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• pp.119-122
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• 2005

Ablation phenomena is very complicated because it includes momentum, energy and mass transfer, chemical reactions as well as phase change. In this paper, ablation at the rocket nozzle throat is modeled as unsteady one dimensional axi-symmetric with proper boundary conditions and field equation is solved numerically. Analytical results are compared with measured ablation data from firing experimental liquid rocket engine. Test variables are combustion pressure and mixture ratio. for low combustion pressure and low mixture ratio, the discrepancy between analysis and experiments are large but for the normal rocket operation range, two results show a simliar trend with maximum discrepancy of $100\%$.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.597-604
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• 2013

A coupled thermomechanical analysis of composite structures in pyrolysis and ablation environments is performed. The pyrolysis and ablation models include the effects of mass loss, pore gas diffusion, endothermic reaction energy, surface recession, etc. The thermal and structural analysis interface is based upon a staggered coupling algorithm by using a commercial finite element code. The characteristics of the proposed method are investigated through numerical experiments with carbon/phenolic composites. The numerical studies are carried out to examine the surface recession rate by chemical and mechanical ablation. In addition, the effects of shrinkage or intumescence during the pyrolysis process are shown.

• 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.17 no.2
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• pp.24-30
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• 2013

To guarantee the exact control of missile warhead, it is inevitable to ensure the stabilities in the view points of structural and fluid/thermo dynamics of the rocket motor. Specially, despite of shortness in operating time of the rocket motor which is initial turning type of missile, it occurs frequently some problems of ablation at the neighborhood of the nozzle throat, with the result that the system itself gets to failure. In these connections, in the present study, the effect of the operating time of a rocket motor on the coefficient of convective heat transfer at the nozzle wall is investigated by numerical analysis. As a result, it is turned out that the heat transfer coefficient is largest at the just ahead of nozzle throat and decreases with the increase of operating time of the rocket motor. Furthermore, we found that the radius of curvature of throat becomes smaller, the maximum coefficient of convective heat transfer becomes larger.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.197-204
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• 2012

We explore the evolution of metal plasma generated by high laser irradiances and its effect on the surrounding air by using shadowgraph images after laser pulse termination and X-ray diffraction (XRD) of aluminum plasma ablated by a high-power laser pulse (>1000 mJ/pulse) and oxygen from air. Hence, the formation of laser-supported detonation and combustion processes has been investigated. The essence of this paper is in observing the initiation of chemical reaction between the ablated aluminum plasma and oxygen from air by the high-power laser pulse (>1000 mJ/pulse) and in conducting a quantitative comparison of the chemically reactive laser-initiated waves with the classical detonation of an exploding aluminum (dust) cloud in air. The findings in this work may lead to a new method of initiating detonation from a metal sample in its bulk form without any need to mix nanoparticles with oxygen for initiation.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.23 no.9
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• pp.1201-1212
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• 1999

A numerical analysis is performed to predict the thermal response and ablation rate for charring or non-charring material which is designed to be used as thermal protection system (TPS). The numerical program composed of in-depth energy balance equation and the aerotherm chemical equilibrium (ACE) program. The ACE program calculates various thermochemical state from ablation products. The developed numerical program is verified by comparing the reported results from literature. The sensitivity tests for input parameters are performed. The thermal behavior of ablating material is mainly affected by density of ablating material, convective heat transfer coefficient and recovery enthalpy of flow field.