• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.8-14
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• 2015

This study has been done as a preliminary work in the process of confirming the modeling and calculation results on the dynamic characteristics of closed-type swirl injector which were performed by Ismailov et al. in Purdue university. Closed-type swirl injectors with replaceable swirl chamber parts were designed and manufactured. The steady state spray characteristics of closed-type swirl injector with varying swirl chamber length and diameter were verified. Mass flow rate was measured with a mass flow meter installed in front of the injector, and liquid film thickness was measured by Lefebvre's method with electrodes installed at the orifice of the injector. Variation of spray cone angle and break-up length were investigated from the spray images captured under different manifold pressure conditions.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.75-88
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• 2023

In this paper, the atomization characteristics of bi-swirl coaxial injectors for a 420 N-class bipropellant thruster were investigated. Three types of injectors, namely closed-type, open-type, and screw-type, were manufactured and designed to have the same spray angle and injection pressure drop. Water was used as a simulant, and cold-flow tests were conducted under ambient temperature and pressure conditions. Since the inner and outer injectors were designed to be the same type, only the inner fuel injectors that were easy to measure were used. Using a phase doppler particle analyzer, the velocity and diameter of atomized droplets were measured. Closed-type swirl injector exhibited droplet distributions with relatively high velocities and small SMD compared to the other two injectors. Open-type swirl injector formed droplets with reverse velocities in the center region and had a large recirculation zone. Screw-type swirl injector showed a sharp decrease in droplet velocity and size with radial distance from the liquid film breakup point. For the same design requirements, the closed-type swirl injector has superior atomization performance.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.159-168
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• 2017

Numerical studies on the spray characteristics of closed-type and open-type swirl injectors were conducted using ANSYS Fluent. By changing injection pressures, discharge coefficient and spray angle were calculated using the Reynolds stress BSL turbulent model. The numerical results were compared with previous experimental data to examine their accuracy. For a closed-type swirl injector, spray angles matched well with experimental results and discharge coefficients showed approximately 8% differences. On the contrary, discharge coefficients of an open-type swirl injector were similar with experimental result but its spray angles presented around 15% differences. Though the numerical results were not perfectly consistent with experimental data, it is thought that they could be sufficiently used for analyzing spray characteristics, specially which is hard to be measured from experiments. Numerical simulation with different turbulent models was also performed to examine their effects on the numerical results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.335-340
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• 2005

A study on the variation of combustion characteristics by injector geometries was conducted. Coaxial swirl injectors were used. Existence of swirl chamber and variation of a nozzle length become key parameters. Injectors were identified as open, closed and mixed type by existence of swirl chamber. Variation of nozzle length was made extruding the both nozzle along the axis while other design parameters remain the same. A uni-element combustor with ablative material liner and a water cooled nozzle made by oxygen free copper with outer stainless steel casing were used.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.699-703
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• 2017

Numerical simulations of closed-type and open-type single injectors were conducted to investigate the flow characteristics of a swirl-coaxial injector used in a liquid rocket engine. Numerical analysis was conducted using a commercial program ANSYS FLUENT. The injectors has three models with different recess length. Numerical analysis was conducted to investigate the variation of the flow characteristics of the injector when the flow condition were changed. It was also compare and analyzed with experimental results. The results obtained from the numerical simulation show that the difference between the inlet pressure and the discharge coefficient is not significant.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.159-168
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• 2018

Thrust throttling in a liquid rocket engine can be implemented via several ways such as high pressure drop injector, dual manifold, multiple chamber, pintle injector, and gas injection. Thrust throttling using gas injection controls thrust by usually injecting inert gas into propellant through an aerator to reduce the propellant's bulk density. In this study, the outside-in aerator was used in the propellant line to create two phase flow. Closed-type, open-type, and screw-type bi-swirl coaxial injectors were utilized for investigating throttling characteristics such as pressure drop, mixture density, and discharge coefficient according to gas-liquid mass ratio.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.288-291
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• 2004

The spray characteristics of coaxial swirl injector under ambient high pressure conditions were investigated in this paper. Three injectors were used to study the effect of recess length and fuel injector type(open or closed). In this research, experimental conditions(ambient gas density) were calculated by Buckingham Pi-theory and spray characteristics of the injectors were represented by mass flow rate according to the injection pressure, the spray angle, mass distribution, and mean diameter of droplet.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.49-57
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• 2018

Numerical study under single-injection on bi-swirl coaxial injectors with different recess lengths was performed using ANSYS Fluent. The bi-swirl coaxial injectors which consisted of inner closed-type and outer open-type swirl injectors, had three different recess lengths. By changing mass flow rates, numerical simulation was repeated using the Reynolds stress BSL turbulent model. The numerical results such as discharge coefficient and spray angle were compared with previous experimental data and were found to be approximately matched well with them, irrespective of recess length. Quantitative data which was hard to be measured from experiments, were successfully obtained through the present numerical study.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.259-264
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• 2004

The critical component of combustor having high combustion efficiency for high performance liquid rocket engine is injector. The results of design and hot firing tests of six sub-scale combustors which have respectively an impinging type injector(1ea.), an bi-propellant swirl closed injector(1ea.), and hi-propellant swirl mixed injector(4ea.) were described in this paper. The combustion test were successfully performed. The combustion efficiency have higher value than predicted value and high frequency combustion instability does not occur.