• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.12
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• pp.41-47
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• 2006

A liquid rocket thrust chamber should have a high confidence in its combustion performance and combustion stability. Expecially, the injector of which function is spraying and mixing propellants plays an important role in getting the confidence. This study was carried out to evaluate combustion stability of a double swirl coaxial injector by using the model similarity method. Besides, in case of a baffle which was used to improve combustion stability, the length and gap effects of the baffle were investigated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• v.y2005m4
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• pp.198-202
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• 2005

Gas generator is the equipment to produce high enthalpy gas used to generate sufficient power to operate turbine and pump system for propellant feeding in liquid rocket engine. Since the limit in operating temperature is imposed due to turbine blade, the gas generator has to be operated at the temperature far below stoichiometric maintaining fuel rich combustion. In this research, fundamental study was performed to understand the non-equilibrium combustion process with in-house code and CFD-ACE as well.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.395-402
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• 2010

Baffle injectors are protruded into the combustion chamber and form an anti-pulsating baffle to prevent high-frequency combustion instabilities in transverse modes. Being exposed to a high heat-flux environment, the baffle injector has self-cooling passages through which kerosene is convected and heated. The baffle injector with 20 spiral cooling channels has been developed and successfully applied to 30 $ton_f$-class combustors without any performance loss due to an additional cooling. In this work, numerical analysis of conjugate heat transfer in baffle injectors with various cooling channel designs has been performed in order to reduce the fabrication cost which would be considerably increased for the 75 $ton_f$-class combustor. Prior to the application to a full-scale combustor, the thermal durability of the modified design has been verified through the subscale hot-firing tests.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.43 no.8
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• pp.684-691
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• 2015

A sudden increase in combustion pressure is observed in the ducted rocket combustion test equipped with pipe shaped and converging nozzle exhaust tubes. This study aims to understand the physical mechanism of abrupt change in combustion pressure using thermal choking in the exhaust tube. Results confirmed that the thermal choking of the flow inside the exhaust tube was responsible for the sudden increase in combustion pressure. Also, high pressure exponent of solid propellants is critical sensitive to the occurrence of thermal choking exhaust pipe. Additionally, numerical simulation showed that the sudden increase in combustion pressure was less possible in diverging pipe because thermal choking is more reluctant to occur.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• v.y2005m4
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• pp.265-268
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• 2005

A series of ignition tests had been conducted for a thrust chamber propelled by Jet A-1 and liquid oxygen with a chamber pressure of 52.5 bara and a thrust of 30 tonf. The chamber ignited by a hypergolic fluid, TEAL, keeps its first constant pressure low at $63\%$ of the design value by $61\%$ of a liquid oxygen mass flow rate and $67\%$ of fuel for 0.25 sec. The operating O/F ratio of the chamber was kept at lower values than that of the design operating condition throughout the whole ignition procedure. Surge of the chamber pressure is below $6\%$ of the design value.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.622-627
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• 2017

In this study, the numerical analysis of propellant supply manifold of a sub-scale model combustor with the same combustion and acoustic resonance conditions as the real combustor was carried out. The analysis of the results is based on the shape of the manifold and the number and type of inflow channels. The manifold form of the main propellant was rounded so that the recirculation area was small and easy to manufacture. The liquid oxygen mainfold included a distributor to uniformly supply the flow, and since the kerosene manifold was directly in contact with the flame side, the inflow channel was formed at a radial $360^{\circ}$ so as to minimize the recirculation region. The liquid nitrogen manifold was configured as a radial inflow channel to reduce the velocity difference near the injector.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.1-1
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• 2000

액체로켓엔진에 있어서 연소실로 공급된 추진제의 안정적인 점화를 위해 추진제 공급의 선점 시간을 결정하기 위한 실험이 수행되었다. 사용된 추진제는 Jet A-1과 액체 산소이고 추진제의 공급은 가압 방식이다. 135$^{\circ}$의 각을 갖고 배열된 인젝터는 FOOF 타입의 비동류형 충돌형 인젝터이고 연소실 압력이 200psi가 되도록 설계되었다. 현재의 실험은 점화원으로서 TEAL(triethylaluminum)을 사용하여 쿼드렛 타입의 점화기의 안정적 점화 여부를 검증하는 것도 포함된다. 점화 특성 파악을 위해 인젝터 상류의 매니폴드 압력, 연소실 압력이 측정되었고 점화 과정 및 정상 상태로의 천이 과정에 대한 간접적 증거로서 화염 길이가 측정되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.196-200
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• 2012

To acquire indigenous development abilities of a future space launcher, bi-propellant liquid rocket engines using environmentally clean propellants such as hydrogen peroxide and methane have been developed by Chungnam national university. The necessary development technologies for the future liquid rocket engines were defined and have been acquired step-by-step in advance by sub-scale liquid rocket engines. Core techniques of design/manufacture/experiments to develop a future prototype liquid rocket engine will be obtained by this study.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.141-145
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• 2004

The objective of the present study is to conduct model combustion tests for various injectors to identify their combustion stability characteristics. Three different double swirl coaxial injectors with variation of a recess length have been tested for the comparative study of CH flame structure and dynamic characteristics. Gaseous oxygen and mixture of gaseous methane and propane have been employed for simulating actual propellants used for a full-scale thrust chamber. Upon test results, the direct comparison between various types of injectors can be realized for the selection of the best design among prospective injectors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.8-8
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• 1999

로켓 엔진 설계는 연소 과정 동안에 발생하는 모든 복잡한 현상을 고려하여 이루어져야하지만 이러한 물리적 변수들을 만족시키면서 설계를 하는 것은 불가능하기 때문에 최근 수치 해석의 발달로 내부 연소 과정에 대환 체계적 접근이 활발히 진행되고는 있으나 아직은 경험과 직관에 따라 각 변수의 중요성을 판단하고 있다고 해도 과언은 아니다. 최근 RP-1과 액체 산소를 추진제로 하는 연소실 압력 200psi, 최대 추력 2.8$\times$$10^{5}$lbf의 액체 엔진 개발을 목표로 본 연구팀은 분사기용 소형 엔진(연소실 압력 200psi, 추력 350lbf) 실험을 시점으로 단계적으로 추력을 증가시키면서 단열재의 삭마 실험과 연소 불안정성을 위한 실험을 준비하고 있다. 첫걸음으로서 135$^{\circ}C$로 FOOF형의 비동류형(unlike) 충돌 제트로 구성되는 3개의 인젝터가 배열된 분사기 시험용 엔진에 관한 실험을 수행 중에 있으나 상대적으로 매우 간단한 엔진임에도 불구하고 실험적으로 내부 연소 과정을 정확히 이해하는 것도 현재로서는 여전히 용이하지 않다.다.