• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.202-202
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• 2016

홀 플라즈마 엔진은 인공위성의 궤도유지 및 자세제어 등의 임무수행이나 우주선의 심우주 활용에 있어 필수적인 핵심 우주 부품이다. 홀추력기 연구개발의 최근 큰 관심사는 추력기의 장시간 운전성 확보 및 방전효율 향상이다. 최근 고리형 홀추력기에서 방전 영역 내 플라즈마와 유전체 벽 간의 충돌을 줄임으로써 전극 손상 및 전자온도 손실을 감소시키기 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 특히 전자석 코일을 활용해 방전 채널 벽면과 평행한 방향의 자기장을 형성하여 플라즈마와 유전체 벽 간의 상호작용을 감소시키는 연구들이 소개되고 있으며, 이러한 방법을 자기차폐(magnetic shielding)라 한다. 본 연구에서는 자기차폐 개념이 적용된 방전 소모전력 500 W급 고리형 홀추력기의 방전 및 추력 발생 특성을 연구하였다. 자기장구조 제어를 통해 유전체 벽과 플라즈마 간 상호작용을 감소시킨 결과, 500 V 수준의 방전 전압에서도 유전체 벽에서의 이차전자 발생에 의한 방전전류의 급격한 증가없이 안정적인 방전이 가능하였으며, 이러한 방전 형태는 기존의 자기차폐 개념이 적용되지 않은 일반 고리형 홀 추력기에서 구현하기 어려운 방전 상태이다. 추력기의 자기장 구조 최적화 조건에서 제논 가스 방전을 통해 얻은 최대 추력은 $22{\pm}1mN$, 비추력 $2200{\pm}70s$, 양극효율 $51{\pm}2%$로 매우 우수한 성능을 보여 주었다

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.476-482
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• 2009

The effect of pintle shape on the thrust level of pintle-nozzle Solid Rocket Motor(PNSRM) was studied numerically using the Spalart-Allmaras turbulent model of Fluent. Mass flow rate of PNSRM was always less than theoretical value and the extent of decrease in mass flow rate grew in the large pintle because of increase in the relative boundary layer thickness between pintle body and nozzle wall. The bigger pintle size was, the more thrust of pintle tip pressure was obtained. Meanwhile the more thrust of nozzle and chamber pressure decreased. Hence, total thrust of big pintle was less than a small pintle under same throat area condition. Specific impulse was relatively flat for all pintle shape.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.50 no.5
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• pp.325-332
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• 2022

The vertical take-off and vertical landing (VTVL) function is essential to carry out exploration missions on the moon or Mars. For this, the engine of the exploration vehicle must have appropriate thrust control accuracy and response time. The hybrid rocket engine (HRE) is known to have a high level of thrust control capability that can satisfy these conditions. This study aims to first verify whether the thrust control performance of the developed HRE is suitable for VTVL. To this end, an oxidizer supply system that does not use a pressurization device was adopted, aiming for a mission time of about 10 seconds. In this study, the thrust control characteristics appearing under various supply pressure decreasing conditions were identified through experiments. Appropriate tank and charging conditions were set from the experimental results. In addition, the results of previous studies and current study's test were compared to confirm whether the developed HRE had adequate control performance for VTVL, and finally, the thrust control performance was verified through altitude control simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.42-49
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• 2014

Performance evaluation was carried out for the 70 N-class hydrazine thruster whose design performance had been already verified. The pulse-mode firing test was conducted for the development model thrusters with various thrust chamber diameters. Evaluation was made by the performance parameters such as specific impulse, impulse bit, and characteristic velocity, etc: specific impulse and characteristic velocity were deteriorated as the thrust chamber diameter deviates from a standard model. Consequently, it is revealed that the performance characteristics of standard model is most superior among the test models.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.89-93
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• 2008

The effect of pintle shapes and position to the thrust performance of Solid Rocket Motor was studied by experimental-aided Computational Fluid Dynamic(CFD). Among the turbulent models for RANS in Fluent, Spalart-Allmaras model was better agreement with the nozzle wall pressure distribution attained by cold-flow test than other models. When nozzle throat area was decreased, magnitude of thrust was increased. The bigger pintle size was, the more thrust of pintle tip pressure was obtained. Meanwhile the more thrust of nozzle and chamber pressure decreased. Hence, total thrust of big pintle was less than a small pintle under same throat area condition.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.61-70
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• 2017

Robust thrust distribution method of solid DACS is researched. For the case of the system which has higher number of actuation nozzles than the degree of freedom of thrust to be controlled, the robust thrust allocation law which accommodate the abnormal operation is suggested. Assuming the situation that some nozzles are uncontrollable, the error between nozzle throat area command and response can be calculated. The error is used for realtime reshaping of weighting matrix. From the weighting effect, the nozzle which operated abnormally has low responsibility for the command then, the thrust error is reduced. The suggested algorithm is verified by the simulation of abnormal operation condition of DCS and ACS nozzle respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.43 no.8
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• pp.722-730
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• 2015

Drive mechanism of multi-axis pintle thrusters for DCS(Divert Control System) was designed to meet the needs of minimizing the number of driving motors. In this study, preliminary model was designed in order to implement appropriate pressure control and thrust distribution. Based on the preliminary model study, the drive mechanism for DCS multi-axis pintle thrusters using piston was designed and evaluated by using AMESim software. Results show that three driving motors are enough to actuate four pintle thrusters.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.144-149
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• 2014

A ground firing test for hot-fire performance evaluation according to the characteristic length($L^*$) variation of thrust chamber was carried out for the hydrazine thruster which may be employed in space launch vehicles. A scrutiny into the performance characteristics of each thruster is made in terms of thrust, specific impulse, response characteristics, and characteristic velocity at steady-state firing mode with propellant inlet pressure of 2.41 MPa (350 psia). Through the test results, it has been verified that performance of characteristic velocity and specific impulse degrades as the characteristic length deviates from that of the standard model. Thus, it is confirmed that the thrust chamber configuration of standard model was suitably designed for the requirement specified.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.237-240
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• 2011

Numerical simulation was carried out to investigate the effect of pintle inflection point on the performance of the SNECMA modulatable thrust devices. Results show that the effect of inflection points in the pintle is to decrease aerodynamic load while maintaining required thrust level.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2017

Numerical computations are performed to investigate the effect of pintle stroke on the performance of an internal pintle thruster. Results show that the thrust control ratio was less than 2% and the aerodynamic load ratio was 22% as the pintle stroke increased. The flow past the nozzle throat rapidly expanding because of the shape of the pintle, and a shock wave was generated. Particularly, at the pintle stroke distance of 4 and 5 mm, the shock wave hit the wall of the nozzle, results in peeling bubbles. Depending on the altitude, the thrust increased and the aerodynamic load decreased, but the difference was as small as 1.5%. In the presence of the bore, the reduction of the pintle tip area resulted in a decrease in aerodynamic load.