• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.35 no.9
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• pp.805-815
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• 2007

In order to build a conceptual design program for a liquid rocket engine system, performance based sub-programs for each core component of the engine system were made. Parts included were the combustion chamber, supersonic nozzle, centrifugal pump, and impulsive turbine. Simple mathematical models based on classical thermodynamic and inviscid theories were adopted with proper tuning by empirical data. In Part I, aiming to validate each sub-program, we examined the results of each program qualitatively, and parametrically investigated the sensitivity due to the change in design parameters.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.93-99
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• 2003

The determination of thrust is essential in design and evaluation of a hypersonic airbreathing propulsion device. Conventional methods to determine the thrust is using thrust stand or force measurement system. However, these conventional methos are not applicable to the case where thrusts stands are impractical, such as free jet testing of engines, and model combustor. For this reason, the thrust determination method from measured pitot pressure is considered and validated. Validation of thrust determination from pitot pressures can be achieved by comparing the actual thrust from thrust stand. For validation purpose, a small-scale supersonic wind tunnel is installed on the thrust stand. Thrusts are measured while pressures are measured simulaneously. Then, the thrust from pitot pressure measurements are compared with the measured thrust and theoretical thrusts.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.67-75
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• 2004

It is essential to develop a transient analysis model for the turbopump-fed type liquid rocket engine development, especially for deriving the number of test and its parameters. In this study we proposed a mathematical model of turbopump-fed type liquid rocket engine, and inspected transient mode changes of a rocket engine according to variations of thrust control valve opening ratio. To verify the results, we solved the same problem with AnaSyn software from Russia, and concluded that the results of transient code we developed deviated within 2% from AnaSyn results. Also, using the transient engine analysis code we showed the possibility to find out the system level design Parameters of the components. For example, we modeled a pressure stabilizer which is used to control the consistency of mixture ratio in the gas generator as forced damping system, and found the stability range of the natural frequency and the damping ratio with the transient engine system analysis code.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.349-352
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• 2008

This work is to observe combustion characteristics depending on variation of the solid propellent grain configuration. The LRE (Liquid Rocket Engine) enables adjusting the thrust by controling the required fuel mass glow, but the SRM(Solid Rocket Motor)is not easy to adjust th thrust due to the difficulty of th fuel flow control by its combustion behavior even its configuration is simple. This difficulty can be partly solved by changing th size or the configuration of the propellant grain. In this study a proper grain configuration of a small solid rocket is selected through both the theoretical design and the experimental tests.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.310-319
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• 2017

This paper introduces the method how to measure the thrust in impulse facility. In a Facility having such a short duration time of steady flow, there's no time to reach a steady state of the forces acting on model so that the test model vibrates until the end of the flow. The forces exerted on an engine exist with vibration so that the usual force balance can not be used. SWFB(Stress Wave Force Balance) technique is utilized in a shock tunnel to get the thrust. As an example, a model force balance has been calculated its strain against impulse force by using FEM(Finite Element Method). A transfer function between the impulse force and strain has been obtained by the way of de-convolution.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 1997

인류가 지구상에 존재하기 이전에도 바다 속에는 오징어와 같이 자신의 힘만으로 분사 추진을 하여 움직이는 생물이 존재하였음에도 불구하고 인류는 이러한 반작용 원리를 이용한 항공용 가스터빈 엔진을 고안하는데 1900년 이상의 세월을 보내야 하였으며, 이 긴 세월 동안 많은 장치들이 고안되었다. 그러나, 실제로 이러한 원리를 사용한 현재와 같은 가스터빈 엔진의 개발은 1940년대 중반에야 가능하게 되었다. 이후 소형이면서 높은 추력을 발생시키기 위하여 많은 노력이 이루어져 왔으며, 이를 위하여 가스터빈 엔진의 주축 베어링, gearbox, seal 및 윤활 시스템 등은 더욱 큰 부담을 가질 수 밖에 없었다. 따라서, 이러한 어려움을 해결하고 보다 높은 추력을 발생시키는 가스터빈을 개발하는데 트라이볼로지의 역할이 중요하다고 할 수 있다. 가스터빈에서의 트라이볼로지의 적용 분야는 main-shift bearing, lubrication system, gearbox 및 seal등을 들 수 있으나, bearing과 lubrication을 중심으로 기술하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.47 no.7
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• pp.517-524
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• 2019

A system design has been performed for a vacuum thrust 88 ton staged combustion cycle rocket engine. Previous research has been used to estimate the performance of the engine components. And the algorithm has been proposed to evaluate the converged engine system performance. The present methodolgy has been verified by comparing the published data for RD-180. The present work adopts the most of the previous KSLV-II engine heritage for both performance improvement and cost competitiveness. The combustion pressure has been decided as 12MPa considering manufacturing difficulty, cost and performance improvement, and as a result the vacuum specific impulse has increased by 23.4s.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.65-71
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• 2003

In this research, we make the thin wall chamber to the measurement of heat flux of using a Kerosene/LOx liquid rocket engine's thrust chamber. The wall thickness is one millimeter. We measured outside wall temperature of thrust chamber by nine thermocouple. We suppose the system to the one-dimension unsteady state, and so the heat flux and heat transfer coefficient of thurst chamber are calculated using one-dimensional the transient energy equation by outside wall temperature. In this case, O/F ratio is 2.0, experimental variation is chamber pressure and we got the heat transfer coefficient of the proportion relation of 0.88 times for the chamber pressure.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.60-71
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• 2022

The reusable, low-cost launch vehicle development trend in the recent launch vehicle market is being subdivided into several ways, and the throttleable engine is one of them. Plus, several nations have selected methane as a next-generation propellant due to its cleanness. In this research, a throttleable pintle injector using gas methane and liquid oxygen as propellants was developed, followed by its spray and combustion characteristics analysis, including high pressure cold and hot tests. The designed throttleable pintle injector has a double sleeve structure, and its tightness and functionality are confirmed through repetitive atmospheric, high-pressure cold tests, and hot tests. Though some design errors were discovered and a low throttling level was unable to be achieved in the combustion test.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.202-202
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• 2016

홀 플라즈마 엔진은 인공위성의 궤도유지 및 자세제어 등의 임무수행이나 우주선의 심우주 활용에 있어 필수적인 핵심 우주 부품이다. 홀추력기 연구개발의 최근 큰 관심사는 추력기의 장시간 운전성 확보 및 방전효율 향상이다. 최근 고리형 홀추력기에서 방전 영역 내 플라즈마와 유전체 벽 간의 충돌을 줄임으로써 전극 손상 및 전자온도 손실을 감소시키기 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 특히 전자석 코일을 활용해 방전 채널 벽면과 평행한 방향의 자기장을 형성하여 플라즈마와 유전체 벽 간의 상호작용을 감소시키는 연구들이 소개되고 있으며, 이러한 방법을 자기차폐(magnetic shielding)라 한다. 본 연구에서는 자기차폐 개념이 적용된 방전 소모전력 500 W급 고리형 홀추력기의 방전 및 추력 발생 특성을 연구하였다. 자기장구조 제어를 통해 유전체 벽과 플라즈마 간 상호작용을 감소시킨 결과, 500 V 수준의 방전 전압에서도 유전체 벽에서의 이차전자 발생에 의한 방전전류의 급격한 증가없이 안정적인 방전이 가능하였으며, 이러한 방전 형태는 기존의 자기차폐 개념이 적용되지 않은 일반 고리형 홀 추력기에서 구현하기 어려운 방전 상태이다. 추력기의 자기장 구조 최적화 조건에서 제논 가스 방전을 통해 얻은 최대 추력은 $22{\pm}1mN$, 비추력 $2200{\pm}70s$, 양극효율 $51{\pm}2%$로 매우 우수한 성능을 보여 주었다