• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.70-71
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• 2002

연소실의 세장비(aspect ratio)가 작으면서 추진제의 고 충전을 이용한 단시간 연소 모타는 유도탄의 사출 모타 용으로 사용될 수 있다. 사출 모타는 일반적으로 모타 무게에 대한 제약 조건이 까다롭지 않기 때문에 무게 경량화에 대한 부담은 줄어들지만, 모타의 부피가 커지면 유도탄 발사 장치의 부피가 커지기 때문에 공간적인 측면에서 가능한 작게 하는 것이 시스템 전체의 효율을 증대시킬 수 있다. 또한 사출 모타의 연소 시간이 짧기 때문에(1초 이내) 추진제의 웹 두께가 작으므로 연소실의 주어진 공간에서 추진제를 많이 채우기 위한 방법으로 원통 튜브형 그레인을 여러 개의 다발로 사용하는 방법이 효과적이다. 이러한 관점에서 사출 모타용으로 다발 원통 튜브형 그레인을 설계/제작/연소시험을 하였더니 작은 저주파(약 10Hz)의 연소 불안정 현상이 발생하였다. (그림1). 이러한 주파수 대역은 일반적으로 잘 알려진 연소 불안정 모드 (longitudinal, tangential, and radial mode)와는 다른 아주 특이한 현상이다. 이러한 현상의 주 원인은 연소실 내 압력의 비평형에 의한 현상이라 판단되어 다음과 같은 연구를 수행하였다. 1) 그레인 튜브간의 압력 평형을 원활하게 하기 위하여 그레인에 구멍(홀)을 뚫어서 연소 안정화에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구(그림2), 2) 그레인에 홀을 뚫지 않고 격자와 격자간의 공간을 이용하여 그레인 간에 발생된 저주파의 압력 진동을 산란/소멸 시키는 연소 안정화 연구(그림3).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1996.05a
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• pp.59-73
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• 1996

체계적 관점에서 추진기관에 요구되는 설계 제한조건의 합리적 조정에 의한 최적화 달성을 위하여 주 체계(Main System)와의 신속한 자료을 제시/교환가 요구된다. 이를 위하여 비록 많은 가정사항들이 내재해 있더라도 성능과 형상, 그리고 무게에 대한 자료을 제시할 수 있는 추진기관 설계 자동화 도구를 개발한다. 본 연구에서는 일차적으로 추진제 조성과 특성의 상관관계를 추진기관 체계와 그레인 내탄도/구조성능의 설계 관점에서 관계식화하여 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.957-967
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• 2017

Firing test of the fuel grain for solid fuel ramjet with additives and ignition support material was conducted. Fuel grain consist of HTPB mixed with AP particle 15 wt.%, Boron particle 5 wt.%. To cause the short ignition delay, ignition support consist of $NC/BKNO_3$ and composite propellant was coated to the fuel grain. An oxidant gas having a controlled temperature, pressure and oxygen composition close to the air condition in the ramjet combustor was supplied using the Ethanol blended $H_2O_2$ gas generator. Gas was set to flow at a mass flow rate of 150 g/s and mass flux of $200kg/m^2s$ in the grain port. Through the test, ignition support operated well and ignition delay of 0.5. During the test, stable chamber pressure with 8 bar and high combustion efficiency of 0.86 was confirmed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.35-43
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• 2022

Precise modeling and analysis of closed bomb test(CBT) combustion using solid propellants was performed. The fluid structure interaction(FSI) method was implemented to analyze the gas and solid phases at the same time. The Eulerian analysis method was applied for the gas phase and grain combustion, and the Lagrangian analysis method was implemented for the grain movement. The interaction between the solid phase grains and the combustion gas was fully coupled through the source term. The volume of fluid(VOF) method was used to simulate the burning distance of the grain and the movement of the combustion surface. The force acting on the grain was comprised of the pressure and gravity acting on the grain burning surface, and the grain burning rate and grain movement speed were considered in the velocity term of the VOF. The combustion analysis was performed for both one and three grains, and fairly compared with the experiments. The acoustic field during grain combustion due to pressure fluctuations was also analyzed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.21-27
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• 2022

In this paper, the combustion characteristics of solid propellant embedded with metal wires were analyzed by the ground tests of motors. The propellant grains were made of thermoplastic propellants with Al and Cu as metal wires for the enhancement of burning area and designed with cone shape for better ignition. These metals were used to confirm the enhancement of burning rate on thermal diffusivity properties. The internal ballistics analysis and ground test were performed to investigate the effect of burning rate for each metal wire. We obtained the results of burning rate on a difference of thermal diffusivity of each metal wire with well-made propellant grains.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.12-19
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• 2022

Propellant grains with embedded metal wires have been used for enhancement of burning rate while maintaining high loading density. For the performance design of a solid rocket motor using propellant grain with embedded metal wires, burn-back analysis is required according to number, location, arrangement angle of metal wires, and augmentation ratio of the propellant burning rate near a wire region. In this study, a numerical method to quickly calculate a burning surface area was developed in response to the design change of the propellant grain with embedded metal wires. The burning surface area derived from the developed method was compared with the results of a CAD program. Error rate decreased as the radial size of the grid decreased. Analysis for characteristics of burning surface area was performed according to the number and location of metal wires, the initial and final phases were shortened and the steady-state phase was increased when the number of metal wires increased. When arranging the metal wires at different radii, the burning surface area rapidly increased in the initial phase and sharply decreased in the final phase compared to the case where the metal wires were disposed in the same radius.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.398-401
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• 2007

The performance characteristics of Polyethylene-Nitrous oxide (PE-N2O) hybrid rocket motor with the variation of the grain geometry was investigated. To compare the performance parameters under the different port number, single and four port grains were used in this study. In order to improve the performance by enhancing mixing between fuel and oxidizer, the fuel grain having the mixing chamber was additionally studied. From the motor firing tests, it is found that the motor having 4-port fuel grain with the mixing chamber showed the highest performance among all cases. Therefore we have confirmed that with only the geometrical change of the fuel grain, it was possible to give quite influential improvement on the motor performance

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.40-47
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• 2014

The grain burn-back analysis has been performed for the internal ballistics analysis code to be used for the optimal design of the space launch vehicles. The grain burn-back has been used to calculate the burning surface that is essential to the internal ballistics. The calculation of internal ballistics code used in the optimal design is repeated until satisfying the required performance through the change of the design parameter. Therefore, the burn-back method applied to the internal ballistics analysis should be easy to change the design parameter and calculation time should be short. In this study, a burn-back analysis code has been developed using the analysis method. Also, geometric parameters of the grain have been selected and organized. The developed code has been verified by comparison of results of a numerical method.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.53-61
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• 2022

The estimation method of combustion efficiency has been introduced by using closed bomb test(CBT). The Noble-Abel equation of state was applied to consider the real gas effects to take account of high operation pressure about a couple of 100 atm. of CBT. The heat loss through the CBT wall was considered. The volume change of grain was calculated by applying form functions, which estimated combustion efficiency of 8 different gain shapes. The combustion estimation method proposed in this study was fairly validated by the comparision with the pressure-time history data of the CBT experiments. The effects of both grain shape and propellant loading density were analyzed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.89-92
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• 2008

In generally, the regression rate equation was only expressed by function of oxidizer massflux in hybrid propulsion system. This can not represent the local value of regression rate along with oxidizer flow direction. In this study, experimental studies were performed with several pieces of solid fuel. As results, the local regression rate decreases rapidly with axial location near entrance, and increases with axial distance from the leading edge. The empirical formula for local regression rate with function of oxidizer massflux and length was derived.