• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.268-271
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• 2006

Combustion response function of a solid propellant is measured and calculated to study and model the feedback process between acoustic waves and combustion field. Standard Pulsed DB/AB method and related one-dimensional approximate analysis of T-burner are used to obtain the response function at a driving natural frequency. The problems related with simultaneous ignition of propellant samples are also mentioned and treated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.267-273
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• 2004

This paper targets to define controlling factors of pressure-coupled combustion response and estimate their effects on droplet evaporation process. Dynamic characteristics of hydrocarbon propellant vaporization perturbed by acoustic pressure are numerically simulated and analyzed. 1-D droplet model including phase equilibrium between two phases is applied and acoustic wave is expressed by harmonic function. Effects of various design factors and acoustic pressure on combustion response are investigated with parametric studies. Results show that driving frequency of acoustic perturbation and ambient pressure have important roles in determining magnitude and phase of combustion response. On the other hand, other parameters such as gas temperature, initial droplet size and temperature, and amplitude of acoustic wave cause only minor changes to magnitude of combustion response. Resultant changes in phase of heat of vaporization and thermal wave in droplet highly influence magnitude and phase of combustion response.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.29-29
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• 1998

고체 추진제 연소불안정에 관한 해석은 준-정상 1차원 해석인 QSHOD(Quasi-Steady Homogcneous One-Dimension)에 의하여 단순화된 지배방정식을 이용하여 응축영역을 해석하는 것이 일반적이다. 이때 외부교란에 대한 기체영역과 표면반응 영역의 응답은 화학반응이 발생하지 않는 고체영역의 응답에 비하여 매우 빠르므로 준-정상적인 거동을 한다. 본 연구에서는 복사열전달에 의한 열속(heat flux)이 고체 추진제의 표면에 존재하며 이 중의 일부가 고체영역에서 흡수될 때 표면에서의 선형교란을 고려한 ZN(Zeldovich-Novozhilov) 방법을 이용하여 연소불안정 현상을 이론적으로 해석하여 연소불안정 현상을 설명할 수 있는 연소 응답함수를 구하였다. 본 연구에서 얻어진 응답함수를 해석함으로써, Zebrowski등$^{(5)}$ 에 의하여 얻어진 복사열 교란에 대한 응답함수가 과소 평가된 응답특성을 나타내고 있음을 알았다. 또한 응답함수의 고유불안정성을 판별하는 민감계수 r과 k의 영역의 해석으로부터 SOn등$^{(6)}$ 에 의하여 밝혀진 안정 경계선의 안정한 영역보다 본 연구에서 구한 안정 경계영역이 줄어드는 경향을 보여주고 있다. 이것은 (6)에서 과소 평가된 복사열전달의 영향을 수정한 결과 때문이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.25-25
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• 1999

응답 함수는 추진제의 연소 불안정성을 예측하는데 사용되는 중요한 측정 방법중 하나이다. 복사 열속과 압력은 연소 불안정을 일으키는 주요인으로 알려져 있다. 최근에는 레이저 기술의 발달로 비접촉 방식으로 외부에서 연소장을 교란하여 불안정성을 판단하는 실험 연구가 많이 이뤄지고 있다. 이러한 실험 연구에 대한 해석 및 예측을 위하여 많은 연구자들이 이론 응답 함수를 구하려는 노력들을 하고 있다. De Luca 등이 복사열에 대한 응답 함수를 제안한데 이어 Brewster 등은 QSHOD 가정과 추진제 내부로의 복사열 흡수비를 고려하여 응답 함수를 구하였다 Lee 등은 ZN 방법을 사용하여 Brewster의 응답 함수를 재계산 하였다. 이와 같은 이론 응답 함수들은 연소 불안정성에 대한 유용한 정보들을 제공하였음에도 불구하고, 현상을 너무 단순화하였다는 한계를 가지고 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.74-83
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• 1997

The definition of burning admittance and conventional n-$\tau$ stability rating technique are combined to investigate the high frequency combustion instabilities inside the cylindrical combustion chamber. Perturbed flow variables are written as the sum of fluctuating and time-averaged mean quantities on the assumption that the terms of the order higher than unity are sufficiently small, hence linearized governing equations could be formulated. Chamber admittances up and downstream of the flame front calculated with appropriate boundary conditions result in the burning admittance and corresponding n-$\tau$ neutral stability curve. Configurational and operational design factors are tested to detect the unstable wave-induced LOX-RP1 combustion instabilities. Operational design factors, e.g. pressure or O/F ratio, appear less influential to drive high frequency instability while the location of the flame front and configurational factors enhance or deteriorate the stabilities strongly. Conclusively, LOX-RP1 combustion inside the cylindrical combustion chamber is apt to be unstable against long residence time and shortened chamber length.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.79-87
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• 2002

Acoustic responses to pressure oscillations in axisymmetric combustion chamber are numerically investigated to examine the qualitative trend of acoustic instability in liquid rocket engine. Chamber operating condition and excitation frequency of oscillating pressure are selected as exciting parameters of acoustic instability. Artificial perturbation is simulated by total-pressure oscillation with sine wave at chamber inlet. Many approximations and simplifications are introduced without losing the essence of acoustic pressure response. First, steady-state solution for each operating condition is obtained and next, transient analysis is conducted. Depending on operating condition and excitation frequency, the distinct response characteristics are brought. Weak-strength flames and high-frequency excitation tend to cause sensitive acoustic pressure response leading to unstable pressure field. These results are analyzed based on the correlation with acoustic pressure responses from the previous works adopting laminar flamelet model.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.16-26
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• 2014

T-Burner tests of an Al/HTPB propellant in conjunction with a Pulsed DB/AB Method were conducted to find an acoustic amplification factor. Aluminum-free and aluminum-heavy propellants were examined. Instant surface ignition was successfully made by the use of a supplementary propellant of fractionally higher reaction rate. With the presence of higher aluminum concentration in the propellants, the pressure perturbations were promptly damped down and the pressure fluctuations were no longer dispersive. Addition of aluminum particles into the propellant was advantageous for stabilizing pressure-coupled unstable waves.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.59-66
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• 1998

The combustion instability analysis of solid propellants is generally done by the simplified governing equations for chemically inert condensed phase region with QSHOD assumption. Since the gas phase and surface reaction layer can be more rapidly relaxed to the external perturbations than the condensed phase, these regions are treated as quasi-steady manner in the analysis. In this paper, the classical ZN(Zeldovic-Novozhilov)approach was re-examined with the presence of radiation augmented burning enhancement in the combustion. Also, the surface reaction was assumed to partially absorb the incident radiant heat fluxes and pass the remaining to the chemically inert condensed phase. As a result of the analysis, the burning rate response function was obtained which consists of a pressure response function and a radiation response function. The response function was shown to be able to predict the results of T-burner tests.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2015

A ground hot-firing test(HFT) was accomplished to draw a correlation between the pressure oscillation intensity of combustion chamber and thrust response characteristics in a 70 N-class hydrazine thruster which has been developed recently. Monopropellant grade hydrazine was adopted as a propellant for the HFT, and combustion-chamber characteristic length, propellant injection pressure were applied as test parameters. It was confirmed that the decrease of thrust-chamber diameter and injection pressure augmented the pressure oscillation of stagnation chamber in the test condition specified, and the oscillation hampered the pulse response performance of test models.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• v.y2005m4
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• pp.183-188
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• 2005

This study targets to investigate thermal wave transfer in a droplet strongly coupled with acoustic pressure and its effects on combustion response. The one-dimensional vaporization model uses SRK equation of state and flash calculation method to obtain more accurate thermophysical properties and compute vapor-liquid equilibrium. Calculations of an n-pentane droplet exposed into a perturbing nitrogen gas is carried out in terms of different ambient gas pressures and wave frequencies. The thermal wave is transferred more effectively at lower frequencies, which results in the decrease in the amplitude of the response.