• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.35-41
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• 2012

Performance of a liquid rocket thrust chamber with regenerative cooling scheme has been numerically analyzed using in-house CFD code which can predict combustion/cooling performance and provide nozzle design parameters. This paper investigates trade-offs between combustion and cooling performance with varying amount of fuel directly injected into the chamber wall to form cooling films. Also is analyzed the effect of varying mixture ratios for the peripheral injectors on combustion performance enhancement. Further efforts to verify/improve the simulation methodology including comparison with the firing test results are planned to make it a reliable tool to optimize the film cooling and other major design parameters.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.436-442
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• 2012

In the process of liquid rocket engine design, obtaining method of the dynamic characteristics of engine should be emphasized typically to determine the control logic and algorithms of the throttle valves in the propellant feed pipeline. However, determining the dynamic characteristics of an engine through the autonomous test is very hard and laborious, so that the numerical approach is prevailing. In this study, using the previously developed dynamic analysis model of the engine around the steady state, we introduced a disturbance to this model, and obtained the dynamic response in the time domain. And by applying the well-known Levy method to this temporal response, we could deduce the transfer function of that system that can give us various information of engine and can be manipulated to design the control system.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.45-54
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• 2011

A program aiming at predicting dynamic characteristics of a Liquid Rocket Engine(LRE) was developed and examined to trace entire LRE operation. In the startup period, transient characteristics of the propellant flows were predicted and validated with hydraulic tests data. An arrangement of each component for the pipelines was based on an operating circuit of open cycle LRE. The flow rate ratio for the gas generator and the main chamber was determined to mimic that of real open cycle LRE. Individual component modeling at its transient was completed and was integrated into the system prediction program. Essential parameters of the component dynamic characteristics were examined in an integrated fashion.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.50-58
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• 2014

This paper is about a short survey on the recent research activities regarding health monitoring and management for liquid rocket engines. For this, we investigate the precedent techniques developed in advanced space-industry countries which are USA, EU, Russia, Japan and China. Particularly, we focus on the technologies applied in China, a recently joined to the advanced space-industry countries in this field. Then we discuss some important points to be considered to apply to the development of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle KSLV-II and other related projects.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.162-165
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• 2004

A layout of regenerative liquid rocket engine using turbo pump has been designed for development of high performance liquid rocket engine. each components of engine system was placed by considering assembly and characteristic. first stage engine system is controled by one plane of axis gimballing and composed of four engine assembly to cluster with launch vehicle. second stage engine system is controled by two plane of axis gimballing and composed of one engine assembly. assembly and disassembly processes and required program have been developed. various shape of instruments were also developed for carrying out assembly and disassembly process efficiently

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.16-23
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• 2001

For liquid rocket engine test, one of most important design parameters to be measured is thrust. However, not like solid rocket motor, a liquid rocket engine is attached to the propellant feed system, control valve and many other safety systems. Without considering these effects, thrust data measured from firing test is not reliable and sometimes almost meaningless. In this research, new thrust measurement system, which includes all these side effects, was designed and fabricated.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.03b
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• pp.328-331
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• 2008

A literature survey has been reported of the systems analysis on the liquid rocket engines. The analysis tools are mainly about the calculation of the rocket engine performance at the early days. However recent trend shows that researchers try to develop an integrated environment of distributed analysis tools for faster and cheaper analysis. This article presents the systems analysis results of the liquid rocket engine of gas generator cycle using the published mass estimating model. The specific impulse change for various thrust to weight ratio agrees qualitatively well with the published data.

• 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 Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.174-177
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• 2007

In this work, we researched static and dynamic characteristics concern to hydraulic regulator control process and parameter setting, which is used on liquid rocket engine regulation. The hydraulic regulator of 8K14 "SCUD" 9D21 engine is analyzed and on the basis of the developed mathematical modeling the analysis of response time and certification on automatic control accuracy is carried out. In this process, we find out specific design configuration of needle valve flow section that effects on pressure regulation performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.181-189
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• 2010

개방형 액체로켓엔진 시스템에 대한 동특성 예측 프로그램을 작성하였다. 이 프로그램을 통해 얻은 펌프 시동 시 시간에 따른 압력 및 유량 변화 결과를 수류실험장치를 구축하여 실험적으로 검증하였다. 수류실험장치는 실제 액체로켓엔진 추진제 공급 계통에서 구성품의 형태와 배치위치, 가스발생기와 주연소실로 분기되는 유량비를 기준으로 모사되었다. 측정 시 관로가 채워진 상태에서 펌프를 시동하였으며 펌프는 전동기로 구동된다. 동특성 예측 프로그램의 작성을 위해 구성품별 동특성 모델링을 수행하고 엔진 시스템을 기준으로 각 모델링을 순차적으로 통합하였다. 구성품의 동특성 파라미터를 측정 반영하였고 압력 밸런싱을 통해 수렴 조건이 결정된다. 수렴된 밀도와 유량을 가지고 다음 시간에서의 초기 입력 값으로 대체하여 계산을 수행하였다. 천이 작동 상태에서 엔진 시스템 내의 물리량 변화를 전산 예측과 더불어 실험적으로 측정하고 비교하였다.