• Journal of the KSME
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• v.56 no.9
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• pp.38-43
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• 2016

초임계 난류유동이 활용되고 있는 가장 대표적인 시스템은 액체로켓연소기이다. 액체로켓엔진은 목적하는 임무에 따라 추력이 결정되고 엔진의 추력이 결정된다. 이러한 추력을 결정하는 핵심부품이 분사기(injector)이다. 실용 인공위성을 발사하기 위한 액체로켓엔진의 연소기는 수백 개의 분사기를 통해 연료와 산화제가 혼합되는 구조를 가지고 있다. 따라서 로켓연소기의 연소특성 및 성능은 분사기의 혼합특성에 좌우된다. 그러므로 단일 분사기의 연료/산화제 혼합특성에 대한 많은 실험과 해석연구가 진행되고 있다. 그런데 초임계압력에서는 액체의 표면장력이 사라지게 되어 독특한 혼합특성을 가지고 있기 때문에 성능을 높여주기 위하여 초임계 압력을 선택할 경우 분사기에 대한 연구가 선행되어야 한다. 이 글에서는 이러한 초임계 작동압력에서 분사기에 대한 연구들을 소개하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.150-155
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• 2010

Liquid rocket injectors play crucial roles on propulsive performance, combustion stability, and heat transfer characteristics. Nevertheless, their developments have mainly relied on empirical methods and expensive hot-firing tests due to lack of fundamental understanding of high pressure combustion phenomena in the near-injector regions. The present study was motivated by recent efforts to develop reliable modeling of liquid rocket combustion. The turbulent combustion model based on the flamelet concept has been extended to take into account real-fluid behaviors occurred at supercritical pressures, and validated against measurements for a cryogenic nitrogen injection, a non-premixed turbulent jet flame at atmospheric pressure, and a LOx/$GH_2$ coaxial shear injector at a supercritical pressure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.49-53
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• 2009

The paper presents the results of the experimental study about flow discharge characteristics of double swirl coaxial injectors for a liquid rocket engine. Flow discharge characteristics of injectors become one of critical design issues for LRE combustion devices. Tap water and liquid oxygen/kerosene were used for ambient and hot firing tests, respectively. A combustion discharge coefficient varies depending on a mixture ratio and a recess ratio, and magnitudes of the variations are different with respect to injector shapes and operating conditions. The variation of a combustion discharge coefficient with a LOx injector is considered to result from flame structure changes due to physical property changes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.2-2
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 액체 로켓용 추진제 분사기로 많이 활용되는 충돌형 분사기중에서 2중 충돌(F-O-O-F)형 분사기에 대한 미립화 특성을 파악하였다. 액적의 크기를 측정하기 위하여 위상/도플러 입자분석기를 사용하였으며, 모의 추진제로 물을 사용하였다. 모의 추진제의 운동량비와 압력 강하량 변화에 따른 2중 충돌(F-O-O-F)형 분사기의 미립화 특성과 크기분포에 대하여 고찰하였다. 분사기 면으로부터 100mm 떨어진 단면에서 산화제/연료의 운동량비가 MR=1.19에서 MR=6.48까지 증가함에 따라 액적크기(SMD)는 감소하였으며, 액적크기(SMD)가 운동량비(MR)에 대하여 SMD= 193.480+15.687MR-5.036M$R^2$+0.415MR$^3$와 같은 관계식에 근사되었다 또한, 연료와 산화제의 압력강하량이 증가할수록 액적크기(SMD)가 감소하였다. 충돌 분무유동장의 액적크기 분포는 Rosin-Rammler 분포함수와 Upper-limit분포함수 모두에 대하여 잘 일치하고 있다. 본 연구의 결과는 액체 로켓용 충돌형 분사기의 초기 설계단계에서 유용하게 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.288-293
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• 2006

The combustion performances and characteristics of the subscale liquid rocket combustion chamber are discussed in this paper. Subscale combustion chamber is composed of mixing head, ablative cooling cylinder, and water cooling nozzle. The mixing head has eighteen coaxial swirl injectors and one center coaxial swirl injector for ignition. The mixing heads employing the injectors of low different recess length are considered in this paper. The results of the firing test, comparison of performance, and characteristics of static and dynamic pressures of the four different mixing heads are described. The characteristics of combustion at design and of design points are also discussed.

• 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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• 2005.11a
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• pp.407-410
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• 2005

Acoustic coupling between combustion chamber and gas-liquid scheme injectors are studied numerically in liquid rocket engine adopting linear acoustic analysis. The injectors can play a role as half-wave resonators. The combustion chamber with numerous injectors shows peculiar acoustic coupling with the injectors. As the injector length approaches a half wavelength or the original tuning length, new injector-coupled acoustic modes show up in the chamber and thereby, the acoustic-damping effect of the tuned injectors is appreciably degraded.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.156-160
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• 2006

This study investigated the characteristics of spray generated by a liquid-liquid co-axial swirl injector used in a combustor of the liquid rocket engine. The linear stability analysis[1] was introduced In liquid sheet breakup and Post[2]'s collision model which considers shattering was adopted on the collision model after breakup. Every model was implemented to KIVA[3], which was adopted as solve. To validate the implemented models the cases of high and low injection velocity were calculated respectively and each result agreed well with test results.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.2-2
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• 1999

액체추진제 로켓엔진에서 분사기의 미립화 및 혼합 특성과 그에 따른 연소 특성은 성능과 안정성을 결정하는 중요한 파라미터이며 분사기는 제한된 설계 조건하에서 최대의 열방출율을 발휘하도록 설계되어야 한다. 여기서 연소효율은 연료와 산화제의 혼합특성과 충돌 분무의 미립화의 정도에 의해 결정되므로 충돌 분무 유동성의 혼합, 미립화 특성과 이에 따른 인조성능 특성을 명확하게 밝힘으로써 최대 엔진성능을 위한 설계가 가능하게 된다. 분사기의 설계에는 분사요소형태, 분사공의 형상 및 유동시스템 등이 포함되며 특히 분사요소 형태의 선택에는 추진제, 연소실냉각방법, 연소실 형상, 자동조건 및 엔진의 수명 등이 중요한 제한조건으로 고려된다. 이런 형태의 분사 요소들 중, 충돌형 분사기는 저장성 추진제를 사용하는 중, 저추력의 액체추진제 로켓엔진에 주로 사용된다. 이 분사형태는 미립화 성능이 높지 않고, 분사공 직경 및 운동량비에 따른 혼합성능이 만감하며 blow apart 등에 의한 열부하 혹은 안정성에 대한 문제가 있으나 양호한 혼합효율, 신뢰성과 제작의 용이함으로 인하여 광범위하게 사용된다.