• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.40-45
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• 1983

The paper describes an experimental investigation of axisymmetric diesel spray and flame which is held in rapid compression machine (RCM) with electromagnetic single injection nozzle. The axisymmetric diesel spray and flame are taken with high speed photograph and analysis it with image processor. The data presented include fuel concentration of spray, flame temperature, soot concentration of flame in axial and radial direction at a moment and compared it with each other.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.4-4
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• 1999

최근 충남대에서는 다양한 추진제와 연소 조건으로 액체로켓 연소 실험이 진행되고 있으며 그에 비례하여 많은 사고들이 발생하고 있다. 한 예로 GO$_2$/kerosene을 추진제로 하는 노즐삭마 시험용 로켓엔진(추력 1001bf, 연소실 압력 600psia) 개발 중에 화염이 인젝터면에 형성되어 인젝터면을 손상시키는 사고를 여러 번 경험하게 되었다. 본 연구는 인젝터 손상의 원인을 규명하여 안정적인 인젝터 설계에 도움을 주기 위한 목적으로 실험용 동축 인젝터를 제작하여 화염 부상 특성을 실험적으로 연구하였다. 사용된 인젝터는 연료인 Kerosene을 접선형 선회기로부터 90$^{\circ}$의 원뿔 각을 가지고 분무되도록 설계하였으며, 그 주위로 산하제인 GO$_2$가 연소실의 축방향에 수평하게 분무되도록 설계하였다. 2-유체 동축 인젝터의 난류 확산 화염에서 연료와 산화제의 혼합은 화염 특성을 결정하는 주요 변수이므로 인젝터로부터 분무되는 추진제간의 유량을 변화시켜 화염 부상 특성을 연구하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.639-646
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• 2012

The characteristics of autoignited lifted flames in laminar jets of carbon monoxide/hydrogen fuels have been investigated experimentally in heated coflow air. In result, as the jet velocity increased, the blowoff was directly occurred from the nozzle-attached flame without experiencing a stabilized lifted flame, in the non-autoignited regime. In the autoignited regime, the autoignited lifted flame of carbon monoxide diluted by nitrogen was affected by the water vapor content in the compressed air oxidizer, as evidenced by the variation of the ignition delay time estimated by numerical calculation. In particular, in the autoignition regime at low temperatures with added hydrogen, the liftoff height of the autoignited lifted flames decreased and then increased as the jet velocity increased. Based on the mechanism in which the autoignited laminar lifted flame is stabilized by ignition delay time, the liftoff height can be influenced not only by the heat loss, but also by the preferential diffusion between momentum and mass diffusion in fuel jets during the autoignition process.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.647-653
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• 2012

A short reaction mechanism for premixed $CH_4$-air flames at high pressure was developed using a reduction method based on the combined application of the simulation error minimization connectivity method and the iterative species-removal sensitivity method. It consisted of 43 species and 554 elementary reactions under the condition that it produces less than 5% of the maximum error. The flame structures obtained using a detailed reaction mechanism and the short reaction mechanism were compared for $CH_4$-air flames with various initial temperatures and equivalence ratios at high pressure, and the results were in good agreement. Therefore, the short reaction mechanism developed could reproduce the flame speeds, temperatures, and concentrations of major and minor species at high pressure.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.9-16
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• 2016

An experimental study was performed to investigate the combustion characteristics of the liquid hydrocarbon fuel atomized by an ultrasonic oscillator. Configuration of the flame was caught by the high-speed camera, and images were analyzed in detail through a post-processing. In addition, the fuel consumption was measured using the balance during the combustion reaction. As a result, the consumption of atomized fuel increased with the increasing flow-rate of carrier-gas, but any correlation between the air/fuel ratio and carrier-gas flow-rate was not found. The variation of flame area was dependent on the fuel consumption and input power of the ultrasonic oscillator. FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) analyses using the flame area were conducted in order to discuss flame flickering.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.11
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• pp.1015-1025
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• 2010

In this present study, we experimentally investigated the effects of electric fields on the characteristics of flames spreading over electric-wires with AC fields. The dependence of the rate at which a flame spreads over polyethylene-insulated wires on the frequency and amplitude of the applied AC electric field was examined. The spreading of the flame can be categorized into linear spreading and non-linearly accelerated spreading of flame. This categorization is based on the axial distribution of the field strength of the applied electric field. The rate at which the flame spreads is highly dependent on the inclined direction of the wire fire. It could be possible to explain the spreading of the flame on the basis of thermal balance.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.173-181
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• 2014

The propagation behavior and structural variation of a premixed propane/air flame with frequency change in an ultrasonic standing wave at various equivalence ratios were experimentally investigated using Schlieren photography and pressure measurement. The propagating flame was observed in high-speed Schlieren images, allowing local flame velocities of the moving front to be analyzed in detail. The study reveals that the distorted flame front and horizontal splitting in the burnt zone are due to the ultrasonic standing wave. Vertical locations of the distortion and horizontal stripes are intimately dependent on the frequency of the ultrasonic standing wave. In addition, the propagation velocity of the flame front bounded by the standing wave is greater than that of the flame front without acoustic excitation. As expected, the influence of the ultrasonic standing wave on premixed-flame propagation becomes more prominent as the frequency increases.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.33-42
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• 2009

A numerical analysis of reactive flow in a liftoff flame is accomplished to elucidate the characteristics of liftoff flame. To verify reliance of numerical calculation, the liftoff heights of liftoff flame for various fuel exit velocities are compared between the existing experimental research results and the present calculation results. The flame propagation velocity is conducted at the flow redirection point which is on a stoichiometric line ahead of flame front. This point was selected constant distance from triple point regardless of fuel exit velocity at the previous research. This causes considerable errors for the flame propagation velocity and scalar dissipation rate. The main issue of the present research is to establish the resonable method to select the redirection point and so that to clarify the relationship between flame propagation velocity and scalar dissipation rate, which is the core properties in a triple flame stability.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.121-131
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• 2013

The characteristics of flame dynamics occurring near the bluff body was experimentally investigated in a model combustor with V-gutter bluff body. Measurements of chemiluminescence with high speed camera and PIV were performed for visualization of flame structure. Flashback occurs due to the change of pressure gradient in the combustor, and the flashback distance depends on equivalent ratio. Unstable flames can be classified into three types depending on the flashback distance and structure. When the flame goes over the bluff body, an unusual flame structure occurs at the front of the bluff body. Re-stabilization takes place as the flame moves downstream of the combustor. This process is supported by a strong vortex structure behind the bluff body.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.41-48
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• 2017

The combustion characteristics of gaseous methane-gaseous oxygen, an eco-friendly bipropellant injected by shear coaxial injector, were investigated. Flame was photographed under various combustion conditions using a DSLR camera, and the characteristics of the flame shape was quantified by image post-processing. From the view point of stabilization, the diffusion flame could be divided into anchored flame regime and blow-off regime. As the oxidizer Reynolds number ($Re_o$) increased, a probability of the formation of anchored flame increased with the length of flame. The shear coaxial injector used in this experiment was found to require a large length-to-diameter ratio of combustion chamber because it formed a relatively long flame in the injection direction due to a poor mixing depending only on the momentum diffusion of two propellant jets.