• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.711-717
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• 2017

Startability and harmful emissions are the main issues in diesel engine development under cold conditions. The characteristics of combustion with multiple injection were investigated under cold start conditions. For quantitative analysis, the in-chamber pressure profile was measured and combustion visualization using direct imaging was accomplished. With multiple injection, the peak in-chamber pressure and heat release rate were increased compared to single injection. In addition, the period of flame luminosity detection was shortened using multiple injection. Combustion by main injection was improved with an increase in heat released by pilot combustion when the pilot injection quantity was increased. Finally, an increase in injection pressure also showed the possibility of combustion improvement. On the other hand, an increase of in the pilot injection quantity and injection pressure can cause an increase in harmful emissions, such as HC and CO due to wall wetting. Therefore, more sensitive calibration will be needed when applying a multiple injection strategy under cold start conditions.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.345-350
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• 2017

Downsizing is widely applied to diesel engines in order to improve fuel efficiency and reduce exhaust emissions. Engine sizes are becoming smaller but pressure and temperature inside combustion chambers are increasing. Therefore, research for fuel spray under high pressure and temperature conditions is important. A constant volume chamber which simulates high temperature and pressure likely to be found in diesel engines was developed in this study. Pressure and temperature were increased abruptly because of ignition of the pre-mixture in the constant volume chamber. Then pressure and temperature were gradually decreased due to the heat loss through the chamber wall. Fuel spray occurred when temperature and pressure were reached at the target condition. In this experiment, the temperature condition should be exactly defined to understand the relation between fuel evaporation and ambient temperature. A fast response thermocouple was developed and used to measure the temporal and spatial temperature distribution during the combustion process inside the combustion chamber. In the results, the core temperature was slightly higher than the bulk temperature calculated by the gas equation. Ed-note: do you want to say 'ideal gas equation'? This was attributed to the heat transfer loss through the chamber wall. The vertical temperature deviation was higher than the horizontal temperature deviation by 5% which resulted from the buoyancy effect.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.37-45
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• 2017

Extinguishment of a burning solid propellant is difficult, however, dynamic extinction can be induced by fast depressurization in combustion chamber. This paper describes experimental results for the characteristics of extinguishment for composite solid propellants by rapid depressurization. For various composition of solid propellants, depressurization ratio which can induce extinguishment of combustion was obtained using experimental apparatus with rupture disk. Experimental results showed that particle size of oxidizer, mixing ratio of oxidizers with different particle size and contents of metal fuel can affect on the characteristics extinguishement for solid propellant.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2007

Effects of combustion chamber design on combustion stability characteristics of a full-scale gas generator were studied experimentally. Thirty seven double-swirl injectors with recess number of 1.5 were distributed in the injector head, which significantly influences combustion performance. The characteristics of combustion stability were inspected by the parametric variations such as changing length and diameter of the combustion chamber and installing a turbulence ring. The experimental result shows that as the effective length of the combustion chamber decreased, an instability frequency took place in a high-frequency region, and the amplitude of the dynamic pressure generally diminished and could be reduced to the unharmful level. However, the dynamic pressure fluctuation in the region of longitudinal resonant frequency could not be suppressed perfectly.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.5-13
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• 2005

새로운 엔진을 개발하기 위한 중요한 과정 중에 하나로서 엔진 연소실 가시화를 들 수 있다. 그러나 실제 운전상태에 있는 엔진 연소실을 가시화하기 위해서는 극복해야 할 여러 가지 어려운 점들이 있기 때문에, 지금까지는 간단한 실험적 접근방법 혹은 소수의 이론적 해석 방법만이 보고 된 상태이다. 본 연구에서는 가시화용 수정엔진을 개발하기 위해 필요한 몇 가지 중요한 사항들을 다루었다. 즉, 가시화용 수정엔진의 안전한 운전을 위하여 엔진 실린더 외부에 강제대류 효과를 주었고, 또한 실린더 두께 변화에 따른 온도 및 응력장의 분포를 정량적.정성적으로 고찰하였으며 다음과 같은 결론을 얻을 수 있었다. 첫째, 실린더 라이너 외벽을 강제대류로 냉각했을 경우, 열응력 감소에 매우 큰 효과를 보았다. 둘째, 가시화용 수정엔진 라이너의 최적 두께를 도출하였다. 셋째, 전통적인 주철 소재의 실린더 라이너와 비교 시, 주철 라이너는 연소에 의한 폭발 압력이 실린더 안전성에 큰 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 보고 되었으나, 수정 라이너의 경우 연소압력 및 연소에 의한 연소열 모두 중요한 설계 인자임을 입증하였다.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.56 no.9
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• pp.54-57
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• 2016

로켓연소기는 수백 개의 분사기로 구성된 연소실에서 연소반응이 발생하게 된다. 이때 구조적인 특성으로 난류유동, 밀도, 온도 등의 변화가 매우 불균일한 3차원적인 분포를 가지게 된다. 이러한 불균일한 분포에 의해 발생되는 압력의 시간변화가 연소기의 고유진동수와 일치될 경우 공진이 발생하게 되어 폭발이 발생하게 된다. 이러한 현상을 연소불안정이라 하고 이글에서는 관련된 연구의 동향을 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.94-99
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• 2003

For the assessment of combustion stability of a liquid rocket engine, a device called "Pulse Gun" should be developed first, which can induce artificial perturbations that may lead to excitations of pressure oscillations in a combustion chamber. A model chamber has been used for identifying design parameters of a pulse gun that defines its characteristics. Dynamic pressure measurements showed that shock waves generated from pulse guns are axisymmetric around the axis of a pulse gun barrel. Pressure waves perturbed by a pulse gun induce resonant acoustic frequencies of a model chamber. This fact indicates that successful pressure field perturbations of the KSR-III combustion chamber can be performed by a newly developed pulse gun device. A maximum value of dynamic pressure peaks measured at the opposite point against a pulse gun outlet becomes stronger as charge mass of pulse gun powder increases.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.197-204
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• 2011

RCM is used to clarify the complex phenomena of engine combustion. In order to describe engine combustion, several significant experimental studies are considered. Prediction of the peak pressure is very important since it has a significant influence on engine combustion. In addition, peak-temperature variation can be calculated from the measured peak pressure by using the fundamental thermodynamic relation. When the RCM is in operation, heat transfer occurs through the cylinder wall. Because of this phenomenon, it is difficult to determine the peak pressure without employing the case by case experimental method. The goal of this study is to evaluate the peak pressure analytically. We conduct an experiment to confirm the relationship between the peak pressure and some parameters. Using the results of the peak pressure variation experiment, we develop a general equation that be used to calculate the peak pressure as a function of operation time and compression ratio.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.91-97
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• 2002

Dynamic extinction of solid propellants subjected to rapid pressure drop was studied with the aid of energy equation of condensed phase and flame model in gas phase. It is found that the total residence time($\tau_\gamma$) which measures the residing time of fuel in the reaction zone may play a crucial role in determining the dynamic response of the combustuion to extinction. Residence time was modeled by various combinations of diffusion and chemocal kinetic time scale. Effect of pressure history coupled with chamber volume on the extinction response was also performed and was found that dynamic extinction is more susceptible in a confined chamber than in open geometry. And, dynamic extinction was revealed to be affected profoundly by diffysion time scale rather than chemical kinetic time scale.