• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.135-141
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• 2005

The procedure of conceptual and detailed design of sub-scale combustor using bipropellant swirl or impinging injector with external or internal mixing for a liquid rocket engine are described in this paper. The sub-scale combustor uses liquid oxygen(LOx) and kerosene as propellants and has a injector head, an ablative material combustor wall and a water cooled nozzle. The injector head has LOx manifold, fuel manifold, fire face plate, one center swirl or impinging injector and 18 main swirl or impinging injectors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.454-456
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• 2012

Conceptual design results of a thrust chamber for a 7 tonf-class liquid rocket engine of KSLV-II 3rd stage were described. The engine system for KSLV-II 3rd stage is pump-fed system, the thrust chamber has vacuum thrust of 6.9 tonf, vacuum specific impulse of 336.9 sec, chamber pressure of 70 bar, nozzle expansion ratio of 94.5, total propellant mass flow rate of 20.5 kg/s, mixture ratio(O/F) of 2.45. The thrust chamber consists of mixing head with 90 coaxial swirl injectors and regeneratively combustion chamber cooled by kerosene.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.91-101
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• 2004

With the mathematic linear model of a combustor which consists of a combustion chamber and injectors, the analysis of low frequency dynamic characteristics of a liquld-propellant rocket engine combustor was performed. Propellant mass flowrate was varied by combustion chamber pressure feedback, therefore low frequency oscillation was appeared. Increasing the time constant of a combustion chamber and injector pressure differences and decreasing combustion time delay increased the combustor system stability. The variation of injector time constant little affected stability. The system was always stable, when there was no combustion time delay. Increasing combustion time delay decreased oscillation frequency and damping ratio, and the system eventually became unstable.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.37-50
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• 2007

This study investigated the characteristics of spray generated by a liquid coaxial swirl injector used in a combustor of the liquid rocket engine. The linear stability analysis considered long and short wave was introduced in liquid sheet breakup. Through the hydrodynamic analysis the initial liquid sheet thickness spray angle and injection velocity were predicted. To evaluate the effect of turbulence model standard $k-{\varepsilon}$ and RNC $k-{\varepsilon}$ model were applied to numerical calculation and it was known that RNC $k-{\varepsilon}$ model was more applicable to predict spray characteristics. On the basis of this evaluation validation of the developed model was performed with swirl injector installed in LPRE and the predicted results of breakup length, spray angle, and SMD agreed well with experiments qualitatively and quantitatively.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.52-60
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• 2010

Combustion stability tests of 30 $ton_f$-class LRE thrust chamber with double swirl coaxial injector were carried out in domestic ground combustion test facility by means of artificial perturbation method. In these tests, thrust chambers with varying design factors like recess number of injector, baffle length, types of film cooling and chamber diameter were used and test results showed that these design factors are closely related with high frequency combustion stability. By using the oscillation decrement instead of the decay time in the combustion stability analysis of artificially perturbed LRE thrust chamber, it was confirmed that increment of damping factor results in the improvement of high frequency combustion stability of LRE thrust chamber.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.147-150
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• 2007

In this study, cooling characteristics of combustion gas were investigated by injecting liquid nitrogen into liquid rocket combustion chamber. A injection ring of liquid nitrogen was installed between a combustion chamber and a mixing chamber which was designed for mixing of combustion gas and nitrogen. At first, a ignition test of liquid rocket engine was conducted to verify a stable combustion process and 10 second combustion tests were successfully conducted. The results showed that combustion gas of LRE could be cooled by using liquid nitrogen.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.79-86
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• 2005

The role of the injector as an acoustic resonator is studied for the high performance rocket engine adopting the gas-liquid scheme injector. Acoustic behavior in the combustor with single injector is investigated numerically adopting linear acoustic analysis for cold condition. Acoustic-damping effect of the injector is evaluated by damping factor as a function of the injector length. From the numerical results, it is found that the injector can play a significant role in acoustic damping and the optimum length of the injector corresponds to half of a full wavelength of the longitudinal mode with the acoustic frequency to be damped in the chamber. In baffled chamber, the optimum lengths of the injector are calculated as a function of baffle length for both cold and hot conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.92-100
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• 2005

An optimal fuel manifold is suggested to improve the cooling performance of an injector face plate. The cooling performance at the center area of the injector face plate is to be augmented while the spatial injection uniformity is maintained. The comparison of the cooling performance of f candidates gives the conclusion that the dividing plate from 2-3 injector .ow to 9-10 injector. row is an optimal. The maximum face plate temperature decreases by 27$\%$ while the injection uniformity is close to that of the original design. The pressure drop in the fuel manifold of the optimal design is also same as the original design.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.87-96
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• 1995

인공위성의 궤도진입에 사용되는 액체추진제 로켓엔진의 개발에서 분사기 설계를 적절히 수정, 보완 할 목적으로 수행된 핵심부품별 유동해석의 내용이 기술되었다. 단일 격자계를 구성하기 어려운 복잡한 형상의 분사기 유동장에 대한 격자계 구성을 용이하게 하고, 3차원의 점성 유동해석을 컴퓨터 기억 용량에 제한없이 수행하기 위한 다중블럭 격자기법이 사용되었다. 분사기의 내부유동은 3차원 비압축성 Navier-Stokes 방정식으로 pseudocompressibility 방법을 이용하여 수치모사되었다. 정상상태의 해는 근사 인자분해에 의한 ADI 기법으로 계산되고, 공간미분항에 대해 nonstaggered 격자계에서 2차 중앙차분을 사용하며 수치해의 안정성을 위해 인공점성항을 추가하였다. 난류계산을 위해 Baldwin- Lomax의 대수적 난류모델에 다수의 벽면효과를 고려하였다. 해석결과는 분사기의 성능에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 유동조건에 따라 분석되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• v.y2005m4
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• pp.215-218
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• 2005

An optimal fuel manifold is suggested to improve the cooling performance of injector face plate. The cooling performance at the center area of the injector face plate is to be augmented while the spatial injection uniformity is maintained. The comparison of the cooling performance of 7 candidates gives the conclusion that the dividing plate from 2-3 injector row to 9-10 injector row is an optimal. The maximum face plate temperature decreases by $27\%$ while the injection uniformity is close to that of the original design. The pressure drop in the fuel manifold of the optimal design is also same as the original design.