• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.24-31
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• 2010

Combustion-stability rating of impinging-jet injector is conducted numerically using hot-fire simulation in a subscale chamber with the five-element injector head. A sample F(fuel)-O(dxidizer)-O-F impinging-jet injector is adopted. In this work, instantaneous chemical reaction is adopted for hot-fire simulation based on the assumption that mixing process of fuel and oxidizer streams is controlling. The model chamber was designed based on the methodologies proposed in the previous work regarding geometrical dimensions and operating conditions. The present stability boundaries are in a good agreement with air-injection and hot-fire experimental data. The proposed numerical method can be applied cost-effectively to stability rating of jet injectors when mixing of fuel and oxidizer jets is the dominant process in instability triggering.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.9-15
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• 2005

A linear acoustic analysis is performed to explore the characteristics of acoustic damping by a gas-liquid scheme coaxial injector in a liquid rocket engine. The injector can play a role of acoustic resonator. Acoustic-damping characteristics of half-wave resonator are compared with those of quarter-wave resonator. Various effects of the boundary absorption coefficient, injector length and sound speed in combustion chamber and resonator are investigated. As a result, short tuning length of resonator and low sound speed of the medium have a favorable effect on acoustic damping. As the boundary absorption coefficient decreases, the tuning range of the resonator length becomes narrower.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.10-18
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• 2011

A new film cooling method to protect the pylon injector from aerodynamic heating for a scramjet combustor is proposed and verified with numerical methods. The conditions for the Mach 8 flight at an altitude of 35km are considered. Air is considered as a coolant. Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with $k-{\omega}$ SST turbulence model are used. A downward injection of coolant from the top of the pylon gives higher cooling effects with less mass flow rate of coolant than the upward coolant injection from bottom of the pylon. Also, the downward injection shows little flow separation due to the favorable pressure gradient and does not disturb the flowfields near pylon injector, which results in reduction of pressure losses.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.61-68
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• 2002

Combustion characteristics of dual transverse injection of hydrogen in supersonic air flows were studied using computational methods. Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes with a non-equilibrium chemical reaction model and the k-$\omega$ SST turbulence model were used. A parametric study was conducted with the variation of the distance between two injectors. Combustion characteristics of dual injection are very different from those of single injection. The combustion characteristics of two injection flows are very different from each other, and the ignition and combustion characteristics of the rear injection flow are strongly influenced by those of the front injection flow. The increase of the distance between two injectors up to a specific distance results in the increase of burning rate. However, the increase of the distance over the specific distance gives no increase of burning rate but makes more losses of stagnation pressure. From the results it can be stated that there exists a distance between two injectors for optimum combustion characteristics.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.17-25
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• 2022

The pintle injector has many advantages in the key characteristics of a liquid rocket engine, such as combustion stability, combustion efficiency, and wide range of comprehensive thrust control, design and manufacture, and test fired under supercritical conditions. The pintle injector is manufactured with a rectangular, single-row orifice for thrust control and production considerations. In order to verify the combustion performance of the pintle injector and its potential as a commercial injector, the combustion characteristics were analyzed by varying the TMR (Total Momentum Ratio) and BF (Blockage Factor). The result of the hot firing test showed that the heat flux increased as TMR increased, and it confirmed that the characteristic velocity efficiency was more affected by BF than TMR. Suppose a single-row pintle injector with efficiency characteristics insensitive to changes in TMR can achieve high efficiency at low fuel differential pressure conditions. In that case, the variable pintle injector's design flexibility can be increase.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.159-162
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• 2011

The hot-firing tests of a subscale gas generator were successfully performed to investigate the effect of injector shape variation on its discharge coefficient. The test results showed that discharge coefficients of fuel and liquid oxygen injectors remained nearly constant irrespective of the mixture ratio or the chamber pressure. In all experimental conditions, the combustion instability was not observed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.73-76
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• 2011

The hot-firing tests of a subscale gas generator were successfully performed to investigate the effect of injector shape variation on discharge coefficients. The test results showed that discharge coefficients of fuel and liquid oxygen injectors remained nearly constant irrespective of variations of a mixture ratio and a chamber pressure. Especially, the discharge coefficient of the liquid oxygen injector was largely increased compared to the previous works.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.472-474
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• 2012

The hot-firing tests of a subscale gas generator were successfully performed to investigate the effect of injector shape variation on its discharge coefficient. The test results showed that discharge coefficient of liquid oxygen injectors was enhanced significantly. However, the combustion instability of low-frequency fluctuation occurred at low and design pressure conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.28-38
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• 2019

To investigate the relation between flame structure and combustion dynamic characteristics in bi-swirl coaxial injectors for a liquid rocket engine, combustion experiments were performed using gaseous methane and gaseous oxygen. CH* radicals and pressure fluctuations were simultaneously measured by changing the injector geometries such as recess length/orifice diameter and the flow conditions such as equivalence ratio/oxidizer mass flow rate. As the injector geometries affected the velocities and mixing of the propellants, the change in flame structures was observed. From a result of the frequency analysis, it was confirmed that combustion dynamic characteristics varied according to the injector geometry/flow condition and combustion instabilities could occur under specific recess length/flow conditions.