• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.107-113
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• 2014

In this paper, controller Propose to prevent compressor surge and improve the transient response of the fuel flow control system of turbojet engine. Turbojet engine controller is designed by applying Artificial Neural Network PID control algorithm and make an inference by applying Artificial Neural Network Error Back Propagation Algorithm. To prevent any surge or a flame out event during the engine acceleration or deceleration, the ANN PID controller effectively controls the fuel flow input of the control system. ANN PID results are used as the fuel flow control inputs to prevent compressor surge and flame-out for turbo-jet engine and the controller is designed to converge to the desired speed quickly and safely. Using MATLAB to perform computer simulations verified the performance of the proposed controller. Response characteristics pursuant to the gain were analyzed by simulation.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.107-114
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose controller to control the acceleration of unmanned aircraft turbojet engine. The high-gain observer to estimate the rotational speed of compressor is used, and the turbojet engine controller applying fuzzy heuristic techniques and PID control algorithm are designed. fuzzy PID controller produces the flow control input to prevent the surge and flame-out phenomena at the acceleration and deceleration of the turbojet engine. The standard acceleration is set and the fuel flow control is defined by the fuzzy heuristic. Computer simulations are performed using MATLAB in order to verify the performance of the proposed controller.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.75-81
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• 2012

Autoignited lifted flames in laminar jets with hydrogen-enriched methane fuels have been investigated experimentally in heated coflow air. The results showed that the autoignited lifted flame of the methane/hydrogen mixture, which had an initial temperature over 920 K, the threshold temperature for autoignition in methane jets, exhibited features typical of either a tribrachial edge or mild combustion depending on fuel mole fraction and the liftoff height increased with jet velocity. The liftoff height in the hydrogen-assisted autoignition regime was dependent on the square of the adiabatic ignition delay time for the addition of small amounts of hydrogen, as was the case for pure methane jets. When the initial temperature was below 920 K, where the methane fuel did not show autoignition behavior, the flame was autoignited by the addition of hydrogen, which is an ignition improver. The liftoff height demonstrated a unique feature in that it decreased nonlinearly as the jet velocity increased. The differential diffusion of hydrogen is expected to play a crucial role in the decrease in the liftoff height with increasing jet velocity.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.18-24
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• 1999

Liquid ramjet combustor is closely connected with complex phenomena due to a series of processes such as intake air, spray, mixing, and combustion. The present numerical experiments were peformed to investigate these flow characteristics for two and three dimensional liquid ramjet combustor. Grid system was made with three domains: intake region where air is supplied and fuel is injected, combustor and nozzle region, and exit atmosphere region. The numerical results showed that two and three dimensional flow patterns in recirculation region of combustor were significantly different each other and spray model was necessary to predict correctly the chemical reaction flow characteristics. Numerically examined for two different location of fuel injector, one is located on the bottom position of curved intake and the other is located on the top position. We found that bottom position of fuel injector is better than top position because fuel influx to the recirculation region which is need to sustain chemical reaction is more than the latter.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.305-312
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• 2014

Most of military supersonic aircraft use an afterburner. It plays an important role in performing unusual duties for supersonic flight, takeoff, and combat situations. Recently, repetitive fuel leakage from the inner piston packing rubber of afterburner fuel pump in an aircraft J85-GE-21 turbojet engine has happened. These failures have only happened in one manufacturer's parts of two manufacturers. Thus, the cause of these failures was investigated through the comparative analysis for both the failed and the unfailed with two different manufacturers using various analysis methods. The failure analysis was performed using analysis methods such as swelling or swelling ratio, total sulfur content, polymer identification, loading and surface area of carbon black, and hardness. Consequently, the main cause of this failure was identified to be insufficient loading of carbon black as a reinforcing agent, together with small surface area of carbon black and somewhat low sulfur content.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2022

In a gas turbine, fuel is exposed to a high temperature environment until it is fed to the combustor through the injector. Hydrocarbon fuels can coke under high temperature conditions, which can cause coking material to deposit on fuel lines or block the injector passages. In this study, a specimen simulating a fuel line located inside a gas turbine and Jet A-1 were heated using electric devices. Jet A-1 coking tests were performed by changing the wall temperature of the stainless steel specimen and the temperature of Jet A-1 supplied to the specimen. After the coked specimens were cut, the coking material and the inner surface were analyzed using an energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer and a field emission scanning electron microscope.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.9-9
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• 2000

액체 램제트 엔진의 V형 유입구에 3개의 안내깃이 있은 경우에 대하여 유동 해석을 수행하였다. 수치해석에 앞서 본 연구에서는 ONERA에서 발표한 고체 램제트 연소기에 대한 실험 결과를 유동 해석 결과와 비교하여 해석의 정확성을 검증하였다. 안내깃에 의하여 연소실로 유입되는 공기는 유입구 곡관에서 효율적인 흐름을 유지할 수 있고 분사되는 연료의 분포도 제어될 수 있다. 안내깃의 두께가 큰 경우 자칫 유입되는 공기의 흐름을 방해하는 장애물의 역할을 할 수 있으므로 두께의 변화에 대한 영향도 계산하였으나 선정된 안내깃에 의한 연소실에서의 유동특성 변화는 적은 것으로 나타났다. 입구조건을 균일 유동으로 주고 해석한 결과, 연소실에서의 유동은 안내깃의 유무에 따라 큰 영향을 받지 않았다. 그러나 흡입구로 유입되는 공기의 속도 분포는 다양한 비행조건에서 균일하지 않기 때문에 주 유동을 방해하지 않는 안내깃의 설치는 연소실에서의 좀 더 안정된 화염의 생성을 위해 필요하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.62-67
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• 2004

This paper investigates the off-design performance of methane-fueled air turbo ramjet(ATR) engine in subsonic flight speed range. The ATR engine was modeled and simulated numerically. Each component was modeled to enable their off-design calculation. Compressor operating point was determined by flow matching with nozzle, and turbine by work matching. The ATR engine exhibited quite different off-design behavior compared to the conventional gas turbine engine.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.5-8
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• 2004

In this study, the fundamental design procedure for the Smart UAV fuel supply system was set up, and the preliminary design was peformed to meet the vehicle system requirements. The fuel system layout was determined through consideration of vehicle system requirements, and then fuel tank layout, design of components such as booster pump, jet pump, pipe, vent system, weight estimation, etc. were carried out.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2014

Blocking of fuel filter in aircraft greatly can affect loss of pilot's life and of the aircraft. The investigation of failures is, thus, of vital importance in preventing incidents in advance. The fuel filter of aircraft plays an important role in filtering various debris from jet fuel. It filters impurities smaller than 10 ${\mu}m$ particles from jet fuel provided with the speed of 1,330 pounds per hour. It must be replaced per 500 h on the basis of operating time. However, even before reaching 500 h, the warning sign lighted on due to blocking of fuel filter. Recently, these similar defects have happened repeatedly. Therefore, in this study, the cause of blocking fuel filter in aircraft was investigated using various analytical techniques such as FT-IR microscopy, FE-SEM/EDS, and total sulfur determinator. Consequently, the blocking material of fuel filter was identified to an accelerator from the integral fuel tank sealant. And a mechanism for the formation of the blocking material of fuel filter by an accelerator blooming phenomenon in fuel tank was suggested.