• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.92-92
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• 2010

전북대학교에서는 우리나라 최초로 0.4 및 2.4 MW 급 초음속 열플라즈마 시험 시설 구축사업을 진행하고 있으며, 이를 이용한 응용 분야 별 선행연구를 수행하고 있다. 구축 시험 시설의 핵심장치인 MW 급 대출력 초음속 열플라즈마 발생기로는 양극과 음극 사이에, 전기적으로 절연된 도넛 형태의 간극을 다수 삽입하여 아크 길이를 늘림으로써, 플라즈마 출력을 비례하여 높일 수 있는 Segmented 형 아크 직류 토치를 사용하고자 하며, 제작을 위해 설계 중인 토치는 0.4 및 2.4 MW 출력에 대해, 마하 2 이상의 초음속 유동에서 각각 13 및 20 MJ/kg 이상의 플라즈마 비엔탈피 구현을 목표로 하고 있다. 특히, 이와 같은 고엔탈피 초음속 유동의 달성은 0.4MW 급의 경우엔 공기유량 0.01 kg/s 이상에서, 2.4 MW 급의 경우엔 0.05 kg/s 이상에서 10Torr 이하의 진공과 투입된 MW 규모의 열량을 지속적으로 유지 및 제거할 수 있는 시설이 있어야 구현 가능하므로 이를 위한 건축과 지원시설 구축을 동시에 진행하고 있다. 본 발표에서는 0.4 MW 급 초음속 열플라즈마 시험 시설을 중심으로, 상기 MW 급 Segmented 형 아크 직류토치와 이를 구동하기 위한 대출력 초음속 열플라즈마 시험 시설에 대해 그 동안 전북대학교에서 진행되어 온 개념설계 내용을 소개하고자 한다. 덧붙여, 최근 본 사업단에서 선행 연구 중인 고엔탈피 초음속 열플라즈마 진단 계측 기법과 향후 응용분야 및 핵심 연구개발 과제 등에 대한 간략한 소개도 함께 하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.10-19
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• 1998

When an under-expanded supersonic jet impinges on an inclined flat surface, a complex flow structure is established due to the intersection between the flat surface and the shock system of the free jet. This study reports on an experimental results of flows due to under-expanded axisymmetric sonic jets impinging on flat plate. Plate inclination from $60^{\cire}$~$90^{\cire}$ were investigated by means of detailed measurements of the surface pressure and schlieren photograph and surface flow visualization. The schlieren photograph are consistent with the pressure distribution and the surface flow visualization pictures are clearly related to the pressure distributions. The maximum wall pressure is found to be large on the inclined plate than on the perpendicular plate.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.387-395
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• 2015

A technique for calculating the additive drag of the inlet in supersonic flow was studied using commercial CFD software, STAR-CCM+, which provides a efficient way of 3 dimensional flow analysis with polyhedron-shaped grid system. Three configurations were chosen and applied to the calculation with various flow conditions of two different free stream Mach No. and some mass flow ratios. Comparisons with results from wind tunnel test gave good agreements. Though computation were carried out with the inviscid and compressible flow around the supersonic inlet for the supercritical condition, ignoring the viscous effects is concluded to give little effects on the accuracy of the additive drag calculation and to make the calculation more efficient owing to less effort and time consumed for grid system build-up and for iteration because of less grid number and simpler boundary condition.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.51-58
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• 2001

Supersonic, axisymmetric, jets issuing from several kinds of dual, coaxial, nozzles were experimentally investigated. Four different kinds of coaxial, dual nozzles were employed to characterize the major. features of the supersonic, coaxial, dual jets. Two convergent-divergent supersonic nozzles with different impinging angle on the jet axis of were designed to have the Mach number 2.0 and used to compare the coaxial jet flows with those discharging from two sonic nozzles. The primary pressure ratio was changed in the range from 4.0 to 10.0 and the assistant jet ratio from 1.0 to 4.0. The results obtained show that the assistant jets from the annular. nozzle affect the coaxial jet flows and an increase of both the primary jet pressure ratio and assistant jet pressure ratio lead to a longer supersonic length of the dual, coaxial jet.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.717-722
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• 2010

Supersonic/Hypersonic wind tunnel is a facility which is intended to test and to observe the physical phenomena around a model by creating supersonic flow in the test section. In designing an airplane, the wind tunnel test is demanded to analyzing aerodynamic characteristics of the model without making a prototype. In this research, the model aerodynamic facility(MAF) is modified for the purpose of increasing running time and its functionality. New pneumatic valves for remote control was installed for safety requirement, and new air tanks was installed on MAF as well. A pipe system is also modified to use those new valves and tanks, and the ceiling and side glasses of the test section are switched to ones with the larger surface area. After the MAF modification, a test is performed at Mach 2, 3 and 4. In this test, shadow graph technique, one of the flow visualization methods, is used to visualize supersonic flow field. The pressure in the settling chamber and working section at Mach 2, 3 and 4 was measured in each case. As a result, the possible model size and running time are obtained.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.30-38
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• 2010

Experiments were performed to investigate the flow characteristics of a partial admission supersonic turbine depending on the relative positions of nozzle and cascade. The flow was visualized by a Schlieren system. The static pressures at the turbine cascade inlet, passage and outlet were measured by pressure transducers. Highly complicated flow patterns including shocks, nozzle-cascade interaction and shock boundary layer interactions of the supersonic turbine were observed by the experiments. And the flow characteristics in the supersonic turbine as the relative positions were observed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 2002

Computational modeling and simulation can provide an effective predictive capability for the major features of the supersonic microjets. In the present study, computations using the axisymmetic, compressible, Navier-Stokes equations are applied to understand the supersonic microjet flow physics. The pressure ratio of the microjets is changed between 0.2 and 1.25 to obtain both the under- and over-expanded flows at the exit of the micronozzle. and Reynolds number Re is changed between 600 to 40000. For both laminar and turbulent microjet flows, sonic and supersonic microjets are simulated and compared with some experimental results available. Based on computational results, two microjets are discussed in terms of total pressure, jet decay and supersonic core length.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.173-179
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• 2012

Steady and unsteady three-dimensional RANS simulations have been performed on partial admission supersonic axial turbine having backward/forward sweep angles(${\pm}15^{\circ}$) and the results are compared with each other. The objective of this paper is to study the effect of unsteadiness on turbine flow characteristics and performances. The all results indicated that the losses of unsteady simulations were greater than those of steady cases. It was also shown that BSW model give the effect on the reducing of mass flow rates of tip leakage. In unsteady simulation, the increase of t-to-s efficiency at Rotor Out plane was observed more clearly.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.41 no.7
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• pp.489-495
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• 2017

An experimental study on supersonic jets produced by supersonic nozzles at low operating pressure ratio is conducted. In the present experiments, particle image velocimetry (PIV) was employed to quantitatively specify the jet flowfield, and a color Schlieren optical method was applied to observe the same jets qualitatively. Convergent-divergent nozzles were used to generate the jet flow with design Mach numbers of 1.5 and 1.8. Nozzle pressure ratios (NPRs) were varied from 4 to 7. A good comparison of the jet size from the Schlieren images with the theoretical values is obtained. The obtained images clearly showed the major features of the under-expanded jet and over-expanded jet.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 1998

Industrial ejector system is a facility to transport, to compress or to pump out a low pressure secondary flow by using a high pressure primary flow. An advantage of the ejector system is in its geometrical simplicity, not having any moving part, compared with other fluid machinery. Most of the previous works have been performed experimentally and analytically. The obtained data. are too insufficient to improve our current understanding on the detailed flow field inside the ejector. In order to provide more comprehensive data on this ejector flow field, two-dimensional computations using Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations were performed for a very wide range of operating pressure ratio of the supersonic ejector with a secondary throat. The current results showed that the supersonic ejector system has an optimum pressure ratio for the secondary flow total pressure to be minimized. The numerical results clearly revealed the shock system, shock/boundary layer interaction, and secondary flow entrainment inside the supersonic ejector.