• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.390-396
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• 2007

In the present study, we have developed a flapping wing using a smart material to mimic the nature's flyers, birds. The wing consists of composite frames, a flexible PVC film and a surface actuator, and the main wing motions are flapping, twisting and camber motions. To change the camber, a Macro-Fiber Composite(MFC) is used as the surface actuator, and it's structural response is analyzed by the use of piezoelectric-thermal analogy. To measure the lift and thrust simultaneously, a test stand consisting of two load cells is manufactured. Some aerodynamic tests are performed for the wing in a subsonic wind tunnel to evaluate the dynamic characteristics. Experimental results show that the main lift is mostly affected by the forward velocity and the pitch angle, but the thrust is mostly affected by the flapping frequency. The effect of the camber generated by the MFC actuator can produce the sufficient lift increment of up to 24.4% in static condition and 20.8% in dynamic condition.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.207-214
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• 2002

One of the way to derive design parameters of the fuel feeding system in satellite propulsion system is to analyze unsteady flow of liquid propellant (hydrazine). During steady thruster firing the flow rate is constant: if a thruster valve is abruptly shut down among a set of thrusters, pressure spikes much higher than the initial tank pressure occur. This renders the fuel flow unsteady, and the fluid pressure and flow rate to oscillate. If the pressure spikes are high enough, there are possibilities that propellant explosively decomposes, thruster valves we damaged, and adiabatic detonation of the hydrazine propellant is potentially incurred. Reflected shockwaves could also affect the calibration and operation of the pressure transducers. These necessitate the analysis of unsteady flow in the propulsion system design, and pressure behavior inside the propellant line obtained through some governing parameter variation is presented in this work.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.29-30
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 Boeing사에서 개발한 EASY5 프로그램을 이용하여 터보팬 엔진을 모델링하고 성능해석을 수행하였다. 연구대상 엔진인 BR715-56 엔진은 추력이 20,000lbf급인 2 스풀 터보팬 엔진으로 분리흐름(Separate Flow) 형이다. 엔진은 팬, 압축기, 연소기, 저압터어빈, 압축기터어빈, 팬 노즐 및 Core 노즐로 구성되어 있으며 Station No.는 Fig 1과 같다. 연구에 사용된 EASY5 프로그램은 동역학 시스템을 모델링하고 해석하는 프로그램으로, 제공되는 라이브러리 구성품을 이용하여 보다 쉽게 동적 시스템을 모델링할 수 있다. 또한 Steady-State Solver를 이용하여 정적 평형상태를 빠른 시간에 찾을 수 있어 보다 빠른 해석을 수행할 수 있다. 또한 해석된 동역학 모델을 FORTRAN이나 C 코드로 생성하여 제공함으로써 프로그램의 수정이나 보완이 용이하고, 제공되지 않은 시스템의 라이브러리 구성품의 경우에는 사용자 정의 코드를 만들어 사용함으로써 프로그램의 기능을 확장할 수 있다. EASy5는 대표적인 제어기 설계 소프트웨어인 MATLAB, MATRIX-x와의 호환도 가능하며 NASTRAN등과 같은 유한요소 해석 프로그램과의 데이터 공유도 가능하여 보다 폭 넓은 시스템 모델링과 제어기 설계도 쉽게 할 수 있다.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.82-97
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• 2009

In this study, a linearlized model of liquid rocket engine specifically for the gasgenerator cycle one was developed to serve as a basic control model. A commercial software Simulink was used for the modeling. Using this tool we studied the throttling characteristic of engine around its nominal mode. To obtain the effect of the throttle valve design on the engine's control characteristic, we included mathematical model of the control valve with driving motor and the pressure stabilizer which installed on the gas-generator fed line to sustain the mixture ratio of the gas-generator.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.143-147
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 비행물체의 운동에 기초한 지능제어 알고리즘을 사용하여 대기의 환경적 요인과 기체형태 및 추력의 인위적 요인들간의 복잡한 함수관계를 지식과 경험에 의한 제어규칙으로서 비행안정성 확보와 자율비행을 위한 비행 자세제어를 행하였다. 비행 자세제어를 위하여 사용한 지능제어기는 다변수 입력 및 출력이 가능하며 강인성을 지닌 퍼지제어기를 사용하였다 실험을 위해 모형비행기와 자세 검출용 센서를 제작하고, 비행 전문가의 지식과 경험을 기초로 하여 작성한 제어규칙에 의하여 프로그램 된 퍼지제어기를 수 차례의 시험비행을 통해 제어규칙을 조정한 결과 안정된 자세제어를 행할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.68-73
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• 2005

This paper presents the characteristics analysis of an electromagnetic pump using the linear induction motor(LIM). The electromagnetic pump can be used to transfer the molten metals by the electromagnetic force of LIM. The characteristics of the pump are analyzed solving a hydrodynamic equation with an electromagnetic one.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.69-78
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• 2010

As part of preliminary study for development of 1,200 N-class bipropellant rocket engine with the concentrated hydrogen peroxide, bipropellant engine elements were designed and experimentally tested. The catalysts of $MnO_2$ and $MnO_2$ added Pb as an additive were compared to achieve high decomposition performance and the catalytic reactor with $MnO_2$ added Pb was designed and its decomposition efficiency of 97.2% was achieved. The autoignition tests of kerosene by decomposed hydrogen peroxide were carried out under various equivalence ratios to ignite without additional ignition sources. Autoignition were achieved in all experimental conditions and $C^*$ efficiencies at each condition were at or above 90%. From the measured thrust results, the highest value was 830 N which is in corresponds with 1,035 N at vacuum level assuming $C^*$ efficiency equals $I_{sp}$ efficiency.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.189-196
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• 2018

Propeller performance measurement system for high altitude UAV was designed and applied to the wind tunnel test for 2 propeller models with a diameter around 1 m. Mechanical power of the propeller was directly measured by using the torque sensor installed on the rotating axis. The thrust of whole operation body including the propeller was measured by thrust road cell. The guide rail system was suggested to reduce the weight influence of operation body on the thrust road cell. The influence of each measured variables on the aerodynamic coefficients was studied with the repeatability and uncertainty analysis. This analysis result shows that the accuracies of the road cell and the wind velocity were major factors for the thrust coefficient. Propeller performance with typical RPM was measured with various wind speeds and the test results was summarized by performance coefficients for 5 different RPM.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.585-589
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• 2010

It is important for the liquid rocket engine to meet the exact performance requirements in order to guarantee the successful mission of the launch vehicle. Usually, a ground combustion test for the engine is conducted to reduce the performance error and for the tuning. For the gas-generator (GG) cycle engine, this adjustment process can be easily tuned by means of the control valves. A linearized correlation between the process parameters of the control - the combustion chamber pressure and the mixture ratio of engine - and the independent parameter of the control- rotational angle of the control valve - could be suitable to reduce the tuning errors. Also this linearity can reduce the effort for the tuning and make the process more explicit by ensuring a more intuitive control. In this point, we proposed an algorithm in the frame of the in-house-developed program to obtain the control valves' inherent characteristics which satisfy the linearity.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.591-596
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• 2019

A recently developed propellant, ammonium dinitramide (ADN, $NH_4N(NO_2)_2$ is stable and safe at an ambient condition. However, it requires high purity for practical applications. A very little quantity of foreign impurities in ADN may cause clogging of thruster nozzles and catalyst poisoning for the use of a liquid propellant. Thus, several purification processes for precipitated ADN particles such as repetition extraction, activated carbon adsorption and low-temperature extraction were presented in this study. The purifying methods helped to improve the chemical purity as evaluated by FT-IR and UV-Vis spectroscopy in addition to ion chromatography (IC) analyses. Among the purification processes, adsorption was found to be the best, showing a final purity of 99.8% based on relative quantification by IC. Thermal analysis revealed an exothermic temperature of $148^{\circ}C$ for the synthesized liquid monopropellant, but rose to $188^{\circ}C$ when urea was added.