• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

In this paper, the main cause on excitation of the combustion instability which may occur in the hybrid rocket motor with a diaphragm was studied. Hybrid rocket motor propulsion tests considering various experimental conditions such as with a diaphragm or not, a diameter of diaphragm, oxidizer mass flow rate, fuel length, etc were performed, and the combustion visualization for the inside of a hybrid rocket motor with a diaphragm was performed. With these experimental results, it was confirmed that the main cause of a large excitation was the hole-tone, and it was shown that the hole-tone model can be predicted experimental primary pressure oscillation frequency quite well.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.778-780
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• 2017

In order to calculate the performance of the solid rocket motor, the internal ballistics analysis code using HLLC scheme has been developed. The result of applying the analysis code to the actual motor shape has been compared with the experimental results and it is confirmed that the performance of the solid rocket motor has been well calculated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.370-373
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• 2007

In this study, a hybrid rocket motor with separable and detachable oxidizer tank from combustion chamber is developed. Initially, the measured thrust of the motor showed about 30% of the design thrust since the oxidizer supply was not enough. In order to solve this problem, application is made to expand the orifice diameter of oxidizer injector empirically, so that the mass flow rate of oxidizer was improved. The improved performance was about 60% of design thrust, 18kgf, and thrust-to-weight ratio was reasonable, compared with other sounding rockets.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.29-35
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• 2011

The behaviors of combustion-induced internal flows of SRM equipped with fin-slot grain and submerged nozzle are very complex and diverse. Cold air-flow tests for 2D and 3D scale models of SRM have been done in order to specify the visualization method to analyze particular internal flow patterns such as roll-torque inducing flow. Swirl flow induced by asymmetric vortical tubes also has been visualized through employing various light source and recording directions.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.20-27
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• 2016

The prediction of combustion instability is important to avoid an obvious threat to the structural safety and the motor performance because it affects the apparent response function of the propellant, the burning rate, and a mean flow Mach number at the local surface. The combustion instability occurs in case acoustic waves were coupled with the combustion/flow dynamic frequency. In this paper, an acoustic instability model is derived from the nonlinear wave equation for analysing acoustic dynamics in solid rocket motors. The chamber pressure and burning rate effects on combustion instability have been investigated.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.1055-1064
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• 2017

Since a device such as a rocket motor requires very high reliability, a reasonable reliability design process is essential. However, Korea has implemented a design method for applying a safety factor to each component. In classic reliability analysis, input variables such as mean and standard deviation, used in the limit state function, are treated as deterministic values. Because the mean and standard deviation are determined by a small amount of data, this approach could lead to inaccurate results. In this study, reliability analysis is performed for bolted joints and o-ring seals, and the Bayesian approach is used to statistically estimate the input variables. The estimated variables and failure probability, calculated by the reliability analysis, are derived in the form of probability distributions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.25-25
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• 2000

가스발생기와 같이 로켓모터에서 추력이 아닌 기체압 형태의 에너지를 일정한 시간동안 얻고자 하는 경우, 로켓모터의 크기 및 추진제 충전율을 고려하여 그레인 형태를 단면 연소형으로 선택할 수 있다. 단면 연소형 그레인을 가진 로켓모터는 그레인의 연소시, 일찍 연소된 부분의 라이너가 추진제 연소 화염에 노출되면서 표면부터 서서히 분해가 진행되며, 분해물질의 일부는 추진제에 포함된 산화제 성분에 의해 산화되어 기체화 될 수 있다. 산화제 성분이 충분치 않은 경우에는 고체 입자 형태로 추진제 연소 기체와 함께 배출되며, 이는 일차연기(primary smoke)의 일종으로 볼 수 있다. 가스 발생기에서 얻고자 하는 기체는 고체 입자가 포함되지 않은 깨끗한 기체형태인 경우가 대부분이며, 따라서, 무연 라이너 및 내열재의 연구가 필요하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.523-526
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• 2011

This is concerned with the structural reliability analysis(RA) considering uncertainties in material properties. This method is performed by the stochastic process using Kriging with calculating the distribution of probability and equation of limit state for saving calculated and analyzed time. The proposed methodology is applied to the rocket motor case and compared with monte-calro simulation in efficiency and accuracy of this process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.271-274
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• 2006

In order to predict the performance of the small-scale Polyethylene-GOX hybrid rocket motor, a typical internal ballistic model was proposed. The model adopted for the present study employed the lumped scale of chamber pressure so that the pressure-time history resulted from the present model was comparable to the test results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.225-227
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• 2011

The geometrically sub-scaled wall-injection test model was employed to visualize interactions of internal flow of a solid rocket motor equipped fin/slot grain and submerged nozzle. Symmetric vortex and circumferential flow patterns were visualized.