• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.61-65
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• 2010

To research and develop a liquid rocket engine injector, it needs empirical studies about the hydrodynamic and spray characteristics such as pressure drop, mixing and atomization. In this study, the design and implementation of lab-scale cold-flow/hot fire test stand which can supply cryogenic propellant and be controlled by time-critical LabVIEW cyclogram logic has been done. In order to visualize the spray of a liquid-centered swirl coaxial injector in cryogenic condition, LN2-GN2 cold-flow test has been done, and combustor assembly and thrust bed for LOX-$GCH_4$ hot-fire test have been fabricated.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.222-229
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• 2012

The cooling of a injector effects on the vapor pressure of cryogenic oxidizer spray, and it decides the phase transition point at the ignition process, when the combustion chamber pressure increases drastically. The phase transition of oxidizer spray affects the ignition characteristics, and several ignition tests with the LOx/$GCH_4$ uni-element coaxial swirl injector was performed in the different initial temperatures of oxidizer injector, in order to investigate the effect of injector cooling on the ignition transient characteristics. At the transition point of oxidizer phase, where the combustion chamber pressure increased over the LOx vapor pressure, the temporary quenching phenomenon of the flame occurred. The lower temperature of chilled down injector and tubing tends to move up the phase transition earlier.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.41-47
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• 2017

By using liquid and gaseous nitrogen as simulants, effects of pintle opening distance and simulant supplying condition on spray from pintle injector were investigated qualitatively. The experiment was performed by fixing the liquid supply pressure and varying the opening of the pintle and the supply pressure of gaseous nitrogen. Shadowgraph method with CCD camera was used for image visualization, and the differences of liquid-gas spray were compared by image post processing. In case of liquid nitrogen single injection, as the opening distance was increased, the injection speed was decreased. Therefore, the end of liquid sheet were converged to the center of spray. In the case of liquid nitrogen/Gaseous nitrogen spray, although shadowgraph images look similar to each other, It is shown that it can be analysed by image post processing.