• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.35-38
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• 2003

The purpose of this work is to introduce the 1-N grade thruster development program for attitude control of satellites and lunch vehicle systems. Characteristics of the thruster and its performance have been evaluated through hot-firing test of small liquid engine inside a vacuum test cell. Performance evaluation of thruster were made with a variation of propellant injection pressure at steady state and pulse firing mode, respectively. Also hot-fire test system and test procedure are briefly described, too.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.128-132
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• 2009

Digital control system for active combustion control of lab-scale combustor equipped with secondary fuel injection is designed. Controllability with adaptive law is revealed with the Cambridge Combustor model and the requirement for control system is derived. The input and output requirements of frequency estimator and fuel supply actuator for the adaptive control law is verified with cold tests. The system can be used as digital based active combustion controller having 150Hz combustion instability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.553-556
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• 2009

In this study, ignition tests of a gas turbine combustor were performed to evaluate an ignition loop at low temperature condition. An experimental setup was constructed to simulate low temperature condition with a heat exchanger using dry ice as a coolant. Various low temperature conditions could be created by controlling the amount of air though the heat exchanger. The results showed that ignition limit decreased with air temperature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.321-324
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• 2011

A computational analysis of nozzle flow characteristics and plume structure using Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations with $k-{\omega}$ SST turbulence model was conducted to examine performance of the supersonic nozzle employed in a small liquid-rocket engine for ground firing test. Computed results and experimental outcome of 2-D converging-diverging nozzle flow were compared for verifying the computational capability as well as the turbulence model validity. Numerical computations of 2-D axisymmetric nozzle flow was carried out with the selected model. As a result, flow separation with backflow appeared around the nozzle exit. This investigation was reported as a background data for the optimal nozzle design of small liquid-propellant rocket engine for ground test.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.56-64
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• 2010

A system design has been conducted of the liquid rocket engine for Korean launch vehicle (KSLV-II, Korea Space Launch Vehicle II). The present turbopump-fed liquid rocket engine of vacuum thrust 76 ton and vacuum specific impulse 297 sec adopts gas generator cycle. The combustion pressure of the regeneratively cooled combustor is 60 bar. The propellant is LOx/kerosene. The engine is started by pyrostarter and the combustor is ignited by TEA (TriEthylAluminium). The engine system performance and the subsystems performance requirements are given through energy balance analysis. The combustion pressure, specific impulse and the engine mass are analyzed to be reasonable comparing with the published data. The startup analysis method which will be used in the future has been validated against the turbopump-gas generator coupled test. The tuning method for performance variation of the engine which is not actively controled has been prepared by mode analysis and performance deviation analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.12
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• pp.109-116
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• 2005

Elastic-plastic structural analysis for regenerative cooling chamber of liquid rocket thrust chamber is performed. Uniaxial tension test is also conducted for the copper alloy in order to get material data necessary for the structure analysis. The results of uniaxial tension test reveal that copper alloy become ductile after brazing process and flow stress becomes lower as temperature becomes higher. As a result of structural analysis using the material data, the deformation of cooling channel is more increased by thermal load than by internal pressure of cooling fluid. Therefore, the results of analysis show that structural stability and cooling performance of combustion thrust chamber which is designed to endure mechanical load and minimized a channel thickness are improved by decreased thermal load as possible.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.104-111
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• 2019

Staged combustion cycle engines exhibit higher combustion performance compared with open cycle engines with a gas generator. An advanced research of the staged combustion cycle engine is going on for the next program following the KSLV-II program. Various experiments have been carried out for the technology demonstration model, TDM0A and TDM0B. The experiments on the combustion performance are aimed to understand the engine start condition and combustion characteristics. They also aim to develop the oxidizer-rich pre-burner and the combustor of the staged combustion cycle engine. The engine-shaped model, TDM1A is fabricated based on the experimental data. The combustion experiment of the TDM1A shows that the combustion pressure of the combustor is approximately 91 bar and the turbine rotation is approximately 28,00 rpm. The result is stable and satisfies the development requirements. The present paper reports on the development process and characteristics of engine models from TDM0A to TDM1A.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.50-57
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• 2014

A ground hot-firing test (HFT) was conducted to take out the optimal design configurations for the thrust chamber of 70 N-class liquid rocket engine under development. Monopropellant grade (purity: ${\geq}98.5%$) hydrazine was adopted as a propellant for the HFT, and three kinds of thrust chambers having characteristic lengths ($L^*$) of 2.79, 2.95, and 3.13 m were selected for their performance evaluation. It is revealed through the test and evaluation that the increase of the $L^*$ leads to a performance degradation in the test condition specified, and pulse response performance of the development model shows superior characteristics to commercialized hydrazine thrusters.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.47 no.8
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• pp.599-606
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• 2019

The pulse gun device is designed to identify the transverse pressure wave propagation/damping mechanism into the combustion flow field and in the combustion chamber according to the arrangement of multiple injectors. The manufactured pulse gun was tested to verify operability at the target combustion pressure and control of the pressure wave intensity. Gas nitrogen was used to pressurize the high-pressure tube and an OHP film of $100{\mu}m$ thickness was used for the diaphragm. To check the speed and intensity of the pressure waves, the dynamic and static pressure were measured using the pressure transducer. The performance test confirmed that the manufactured pulse gun can generate pressure waves with transverse characteristics that can be controled for strength depending on the supply pressure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.16-16
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• 1997

다련장로켓은 기습적 대량화력의 집중, 기동성, 사거리의 손쉬운 증대가능성의 장점을 가지고 있어 제2차 세계대전에서 처음 등장한 이후 대부분의 국가에서 야전 포병의 기본 무기체계로서 발전되어 왔다. 전세계 40개국 이상에서 사용하고 있는 다련장로켓은 유도방법, 탑재차량, 전자자동제어 분야의 발달로 점차 대구경화하여 사거리가 증대되고 있으며 탄두의 위력도 증대 다양화되고 있다. 현재까지 개발된 다련장로켓 중에서 가장 우수한 무기체계중의 하나로 알려진 MLRS는 미국을 비롯한 세계 13개국에서 채택하고 있으며 우리나라에서도 장비도입을 진행 중에 있다.현재 구룡을 생산하고있는 (주)한화에서는 이 MLRS가 차기 주력제품이 될것으로 판단하여 미제 사거리연장형(ER-MLRS)와 유사한 한국형 대구경 다련장로켓을 거룡이라고 명명하고 '93년부터 기초연구를 진행해 왓다. '94년 7월 첫 지상연소시험을 수행한 이후 현재까지 8기의 지상연소시험을 마쳤고, 지난 9월에는 비행용로켓 2발을 제작 비행 시험을 실시한 바 있다.본 논문에서는 미제 MLRS의 구성,제원,특성을 추진기관 중심으로 알아보고,자체 연구개발중에 있는 거룡 로켓의 추진기관 개발 현황을 지상연소시험을 중심으로 간단히 요약하고 미제와 성능을 비교해 보았다.향후 지속적으로 추진기관의 성능 개량을 추진할 계획으로 있으나 현재까지의 진행결과로 볼 때 추진기관의 개발은 문제가 없고, 대구경 다련장로켓탄 전체도 국내기술로 충분히 개발이 가능한것으로 판단된다.