• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.47 no.11
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• pp.803-811
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• 2019

Water rocket is a non-chemical rocket mechanically powered by pressurized gas and liquid (water) propellants. Since water rockets share many engineering commonalities with liquid propellant rockets for space launch vehicles, it is as a education tool for rocket engineering. Present paper investigated the availability of water rocket as an engineering education model by surveying the history of water rocket and making examples from K-12 education, commercial products and club activities. Finally, a way of improvement is suggested for water rocket competitions make changes in the perception on water rockets by examining the limitations of present competitions.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.47 no.7
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• pp.525-534
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• 2019

Water rocket is a pressurized liquid propellant rocket that shares the same basic principles of space launch vehicles. Water rockets can be used as an engineering educational material for the liquid rocket principles and the launch vehicle systems, far beyond the scope of K-12 level science education. In this paper, the principles and theories of water rocket propulsion and flight dynamics was investigated at the level of undergraduate rocket engineering classes. Also, the system level design and operation of water rocket is summarized by including the components of launch vehicle, launch pad, payload and recovery as well as altitude measurement methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.487-490
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• 2005

The thrust Control in Solid Propellant Rocket is incomparably limited than that in Liquid Propellant Rocket. Because it is fixed that section to relate a combustion, that is a natural result. The control of a thrust directions in a Solid Propellant Rocket is not efficient for the purpose of a Solid Propellant Rocket. But it is a problem to solve that a weight on board should increase through the maximization of the thrust in a Solid Propellant Rocket.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.117-127
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• 2002

In this paper, structure design of the payload section of the KSR-III was performed. The payload section of the KSR-III, which corresponds to the second stage, consists of the Scientific Payload Section for the mission of the rocket, the Payload Section (Electronics) for the communication between the rocket and the ground station, and the Payload Section (Attitude Control) for the attitude control of the rocket. In order to accomplish the mission, every payload and component should operate successfully during the mission period and the structure must satisfy the requirements of the payloads. In this research, precise composition of the payload section and payloads arrangement of the KSR-III were performed. And the modification of the structure to meet the requirements were described.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.739-740
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• 2010

Numerical studies were performed to investigate an effective water cooling type for reducing the thermal load of deflector in test facility with two cooling types and various mass flow rate conditions. According to analyses a core water injection type was superior to a side water injection fro the viewpoint of reducing the thermal load of deflector.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.32-32
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• 1998

고체 추진제 로켓의 연소시에 발생되는 산화 알루미늄(A1$_2$O$_3$) 입자는 로켓 추진 노즐에서 팽창과정의 효율을 저하시키는 요소가 되며, 이러한 비효율성은 연소 가스와 입자간의 비평형 상태 효과와 기본적인 속도와 열적 차이에 의해서 발생된다고 보고되었다. 또한 연소시 발생된 산화 알루미늄 입자는 높은 열과 큰 운동량을 가지고 로켓 노즐 내부를 유동하게 되며, 매우 많은 량이 짧은 시간에 고온 고속으로 노즐 벽면이나 기타 구조물에 충돌 및 점착하기 때문에 로켓 노즐내의 표면이 손상을 입게 되고, 로켓의 방향 제어 및 조정 안정성이 저하되며, 구조적인 강도가 약화 될 수 있다. 또한 산화 알루미늄 액적들의 경우 노즐 벽면에 고착되게 되면 로켓의 중량 증가로 인해서 추력의 손실을 초래할 수 있다. 따라서 이러한 연소 부산물들의 운동 경로와 충돌 위치 및 표면에서의 충돌량과 그리고 충돌에 따른 마모량 및 점착 그리고 열전달 특성을 예측하는 것이 필수적이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.189-192
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• 2004

Test Facility for hot firing test of small size liquid rocket engine has been developed to research the cooing characteristics of kerosene for cylinder part especially. Propellants for the tests are kerosene and liquid oxygen as fuel and oxidizer respectively and they are fed by gaseous nitrogen. The engine components used hot firing test except for cylinder are cooled by tap-water. Valves for supply of propellants and coolants are controlled by pneumatically. System control and data recording are conducted automatically.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.129-135
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• 2011

A study of efficient plume cooling by core water injection type was performed by computational fluid dynamics. A side injection type is well known, on the contrary, a core injection type is not well known. In order to figure out the characteristics of core injection type, several calculations were performed by computational fluid dynamics along various mass flow rates and locations of water injection. On the basis of analysis it was the adequate cooling condition that water mass flow rate to total mass flow rate was two times at least and location of water injections was L/De=1.2.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.30-30
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• 2000

액체로켓엔진의 단일추진제 가스발생기는 연료공급 시스템의 터보펌프를 구동시키기 위한 작동가스 생성을 목적으로 사용된다. 고체추진제 가스발생기와 비교할 경우 작동시간이 보다 길고 연소생성물에 의한 터빈 블레이드의 삭마가 없으며 제어가 용이하므로 초기 액체로켓엔진 개발시부터 사용되어 왔다. 80년대 이후 개발된 액체로켓엔진은 이원추진제 가스발생기 또는 연소가스 FEEDBACK 시스템을 채용하고 있지만 단일추진제 가스발생기는 과산화수소수 또는 하이드라진과 같은 별도의 추진제 공급 시스템을 필요로 하는 단점에도 불구하고 상대적으로 낮은 온도의 무연 작동 가스를 발생하므로 가스발생기 자체를 위한 냉각시스템을 제거 또는 최소화 시켜 간단한 구조로 전체 시스템 설계를 가능하게 하므로 중소형 액체로켓엔진에 사용되고 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.71-75
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• 2005

An experimental study was carried out to investigate the effect of film cooling in the lab-scale dump-cooled liquid rocket engine using LOX and kerosene as propellants. The nozzle of the rocket engine was film cooled with water as coolant. A special film cooling adapter was fabricated to introduce the film-coolant into the thrust chamber. The flow rates of film coolant was approximately 15~19 percent of the total propellant. The nozzle heat flux was determined from the measured temperature rise and flow rate of the coolant(water). Large reductions in the nozzle heat flux was resulted when film cooling adapter located directly upstream of the nozzle.