• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.47 no.12
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• pp.848-855
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• 2019

Eco-friendly gas turbine combustors are getting attention due to emission regulations. Swirler is important design factor for flame stability and flashback inside the combustor. Design methods of the axial swirler and the radial swirler were discussed and the suitability of the swirl number calculation considering the geometric design variables and the flow loss was examined in the radial swirl for gas turbine combustor. The swirl number of flow was calculated by computational fluid dynamics and compared with swirl number according to each design method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.70-76
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• 2002

Characteristics of kerosine spray combustion were investigated at various swirl condition. PDPA(Phase Doppler Particle Analysis) was used to measure the droplet sizes and velocities. R-type(Platinum vs. Platinum-13%rhodium) thermocouple was used to measure the temperature of combustion flow field inside model combustor. A visualization of spray and flame was performed with still camera. As swirl number increases due to increase of swirl vane angle, the spray and the flame were developed to radial direction rapidly. When swirl number is small, the configuration of flame is cone type, but swirl number is large, the configuration of flame is cylindrical type due to enhanced mixing by the transport of swirl momentum.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.7
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• pp.70-75
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• 2005

In this study, experimental investigations were conducted on NOx emission characteristics with fuel swirl flow in swirl combustor. Many types of vanes, which altered air and fuel swirl angles, were employed to verify the mixing processes. For strong air swirl, fuel counter-swirl resulted in relatively large turbulent intensity, high energy to the high frequency region and narrow width of high temperature region compared with co-swirl condition. These effects of fuel counter-swirl resulted in low NOx emission characteristics at strong air swirl condition. And NOx reduction mechanism was also discussed.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.437-442
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• 2015

The swirl ratio in a SI engine is investigated in a steady flow bench according to the measurement methods: an impulse swirl meter and particle image velocimetry (PIV). When measuring the swirl ratio using the PIV, the torque is evaluated based on the cylinder center and swirl center, respectively. The position of the measurement plane is considered. As a result, in the upstream, the swirl ratio measured by the impulse swirl meter is estimated to be larger than that from the PIV measurements due to the unstable vortex motions. Regarding the PIV measurements, the swirl ratio based on the cylinder center has been found to be lower than that based on the swirl center. On the other hand, the difference in swirl ratio has decreased smaller as the measurement plane moved downstream due to the stabilization of the vortex motion.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.14-17
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• 2010

To identify the turbulent flow characteristics resulted from the swirl direction of a combustor with seven swirl injectors, a 3D Large Eddy Simulation(LES) was implemented. The combustor of concern is the LRE combustor, designed by Aerospace Combustion Laboratory of Georgia Institute of Technology. The seven-clockwise-swirl-injectors combustor produces stronger flow interference among injectors, specially obvious tangential velocity near the wall, than the combustor with four-clockwise and three-counterclockwise swirl injectors. In addition, pressure fluctuations in the combustor with seven-clockwise-swirl-injectors was more amplified.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.445-450
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• 2011

Swirling flows inside a swirl mixing chamber are investigated for simple configuration where swirl is produced by a tangential entry type swirl generator. The flow downstream of the swirl generator has been quantified by measurements two velocity components and their corresponding mean values along axial and radial direction using Particle Image Velocimetry(PIV). The mass flow rate of the tangential entry is increased in order to study their effect on the flow field. From the measurement profile of velocity and vorticity, flow mixing characteristics in a swirl mixing chamber are evaluated.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.8-14
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• 2015

This study has been done as a preliminary work in the process of confirming the modeling and calculation results on the dynamic characteristics of closed-type swirl injector which were performed by Ismailov et al. in Purdue university. Closed-type swirl injectors with replaceable swirl chamber parts were designed and manufactured. The steady state spray characteristics of closed-type swirl injector with varying swirl chamber length and diameter were verified. Mass flow rate was measured with a mass flow meter installed in front of the injector, and liquid film thickness was measured by Lefebvre's method with electrodes installed at the orifice of the injector. Variation of spray cone angle and break-up length were investigated from the spray images captured under different manifold pressure conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.232-236
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• 2006

하이브리드 로켓에서 그레인 전체 부분에서 고른 연소율 향상을 이룰 수 있는 방법으로 스월 유동과 나사산 그레인을 동시에 적용하여 실험을 실시하였다. 그 결과 입구부분과 연료 후반부에 집중된 연소현상을 확인하였다. 스월 유동은 스월 유동의 종류에 상관없이 일정한 감소율을 나타낸다. 그리고 연소율 향상은 연료 벽면에서의 회전 유동 강도에 비례한다고 가정 할 수 있다. 따라서 입구부분의 집중된 연소현상을 해소하고 일정한 연소율 향상을 이룰 수 있는 스월 유동 조건에 대해 연구하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.70-75
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• 2016

A swirler is a flame holding device generating recirculation regions in a gas turbine combustor, and the flow pattern due to a swirler has major effects on the flame distributions, combustion efficiency, and characteristics of exhaust gas. An experimental study for a counter-rotating swirler has been conducted to find out effects of the mass flow rate ratio of the inner/outer swirler flow area, the pressure difference between the swirler inlet and outlet, and the flare exit length ratio on the flow patterns in a model combustion chamber by using PIV(Particle Image Velocimetry) technique.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.23-35
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• 2003

"Backhole" is a new geometric parameter and is defined as an extra empty volume which is located behind the tangential entries at the rear part of the vortex chamber in the swirl injector. Backhole makes a difference to the spray characteristics of swirl injectors such as the spray angle, SMD, the mixing characteristics and so on. To find its characteristics, experiments are conducted by using a stroboscopic photography, a PDPA apparatus and a mechanical patternator. With the backhole, the mass flow rate of the swirl injector is increased and the center region of the injected flow has more large volume than that of without the backhole. Also the cone angle can be controlled by the backhole, so that the mixing efficiencies of swirl injectors are changed. Based on cold-flow tests, the swirl injector with the backhole may improve its performance.rformance.