• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.128-132
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• 2009

Digital control system for active combustion control of lab-scale combustor equipped with secondary fuel injection is designed. Controllability with adaptive law is revealed with the Cambridge Combustor model and the requirement for control system is derived. The input and output requirements of frequency estimator and fuel supply actuator for the adaptive control law is verified with cold tests. The system can be used as digital based active combustion controller having 150Hz combustion instability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.445-449
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• 2005

The mixed acoustic-convective mode combustion instability and the possibility of combustion control using a loudspeaker to these instabilities were studied. By changing inlet velocity, combustor length and equivalence ratio, the dynamic pressure signals and the flame structures were simultaneously taken. The results showed that as the combustor length increased and the inlet velocity decreased, the instability frequency decreased and the maximum power spectral densities of the dynamic pressures generally decreased. The instability frequency could be affected by an equivalence ratio over the operating conditions. From the data of close-loop control, as the loudspeaker may work out-of-phase with the natural instability, the optimum time-delay controller was confirmed to be able to reduce the vortex shedding from the mixed acoustic-convective mode combustion instability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.111-115
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• 2009

The method of test for observing the combustion instability and controling the instability actively by using secondary injection of fuel through flame stabilizer was studied by constructing model combustor of supersonic engine. The frequency of combustion instability was detected by measuring the pressure of combustor using pressure sensor and by optical sensing of flame intensity. Electro-magnetic valve was adopted as actuator for active control and the characteristics of modulated fuel was studied by measured pressure of valve outlet and scattering signal of spray at secondary fuel injection.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.12
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• pp.35-40
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• 2006

The combustion instability in a model dump combustor with an exhaust nozzle and the possibility of combustion control using a loudspeaker to these instabilities were studied. By changing inlet velocity, combustor length and equivalence ratio, dynamic pressure signals and flame structures were simultaneously taken. Because inlet velocity and combustor length affect the life time of vortex in the dump combustor, the results showed that as the combustor length increased and the inlet velocity decreased, the instability frequency decreased and the maximum power spectral density of the dynamic pressure generally decreased. Also, instability frequency and maximum power spectral density of the dynamic pressure increased with the increment of equivalence ratio. From the data of close-loop control, the optimum time-delay control using a loudspeaker was confirmed to be able to reduce the vortex shedding induced from the mixed acoustic-convective mode combustion instability.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.914-921
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• 1998

Combusion instability due to thermoacoustic feedback in a ducted combustor usually excites severe noise and vibration, which could lead to result in the failure of the system or environmental dispute. In the present study, an active noise control(ANC) method with an adaptive algotithm is hired to suppress instability which has very discrete behavior in the frequency domain. Especially a feedback system is composed to evade hot environment of the combustor, and as a preliminary, the performance and stability of the controller is chekced by simulating the real situation with harmonic waves. Application to the real combustor showed serious reductions in sound pressure level by 20∼30 dB. It was also shown that the selected control system was very stable and effective.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.1815-1816
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• 2006

소음은 환경 오염원의 하나로서 사람에게 육체적, 정신적 피해를 발생시킨다. 이에 소음 제어 기술의 필요성이 증대하였고, 그 중에서 제어가 까다롭고 고비용을 요구하는 저주파 소음 제어 기술의 개발이 확대되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 저주파의 주기적인 특성을 가지는 1차원 평면파 소음에 대한 능동 제어를 위해 기존의 적응 피드포워드 방법의 단점을 보완하는 적응 피드백 방법을 이용한 능동 소음 제어 시스템을 구성하고 능동 소음 제어 실험을 수행하였다. 이를 위해 소음원과 제어 음원을 가지는 덕트 형상의 실험 장치를 구성하였다. 제어기 설계를 위해 전파 소음을 예측하는 선형 예측법을 적용한 적응 디지털 필터를 구성하였으며 적응 알고리즘으로 Filtered-X LMS 알고리즘을 이용하였다. 제어기는 제어 알고리즘을 프로그램화하여 DSP에 입력함으로써 구성하였다. 실험에 사용된 소음은 500[Hz] 이하의 단일 주파수의 정현파 소음을 사용하였으며, 실험결과 음압 감소의 효과를 볼 수 있었다. 능동 소음 제어의 기술을 개발하여 하드웨어(덕트)의 모양 및 구조, 제어기의 종류 및 처리 속도, 주파수나 크기와 같은 특성이 급격히 변하는 소음의 경우에 능동적으로 소음을 제어할 수 있으며, 저주파 소음을 발생시키는 관형 연소기와 같은 장치 및 여러 분야에 응용이 가능하도록 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.107-110
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• 2009

Combustion oscillations are caused by a coupling between acoustic waves and unsteady heat release. They can be eliminated using passive controller such as a helmholtz resonator. But, helmholtz resonator is normally only effective over a narrow frequency range. In this work, helmholtz resonator is applied for reducing the combustion oscillations and we vary the helmholtz resonator volume using piston in oder to tune in the wide range of operating conditions. As the result, it is found that the dominant combustion oscillations can be reduced by optimizing the size of resonator volume. Also, from these results, we investigate feasibility of actively tuned passive control

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.137-140
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• 2004

Oscillating heat release associated with periodic vortex-flame interaction was investigated experimentally. Turbulent jet flames were stabilized with recirculating hot products in a dump combustor, and large-scale periodic vortices were imposed into the jet flame by acoustic forcing. Forcing frequencies and operating parameters were adjusted to simulate unstable combustor operation in practical combustors. The objectives were to characterize vortex-heat release interaction that leads to unwanted heat release fluctuations and to identify the proper fuel injection pattern that could be used for actively suppressing such fluctuations. Phase-resolved CH* chemiluminescence and schlieren images were used as diagnostic tools. The results were compared at corresponding phases of vortex shedding cycle.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.11
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• pp.1131-1139
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• 2009

Combustion Instabilities are caused by a coupling between acoustic waves and unsteady heat release. They can be eliminated using passive controller such as a Helmholtz resonator. But, Helmholtz resonator is normally only effective over a narrow frequency range. In this work, Helmholtz resonator is applied for reducing the combustion oscillations and we vary the Helmholtz resonator volume using piston in oder to tune in the wide range of operating conditions. As the result, it is found that the dominant combustion oscillations can be largely reduced by optimizing the size of resonator volume. And, interesting relation for phase difference of dynamic pressure both combustor and the helmholtz resonator are presented in this paper. Also, we investigate semi-active control using Helmholtz equation and phase difference.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.83-87
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• 2009

Ramjet engine is weak for low frequency combustion instability because of their long air flow passage. A model combustor which has fuel injector and V-gutter shaped flame holder was designed and fabricated in order to simulate a combustion mechanism of ramjet engine, and it could demonstrate combustion instability which might occur in ramjet combustor. The frequency of the instability was very similar to that of acoustic resonance frequency of combustor, and it proved that a typical combustion instability by thermo-acoustic coupling occurred.