• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.03a
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• pp.275-282
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• 2008

This paper presents numerical investigation of multi-phase flow in solid rocket motor nozzle and effect of multi-phases on the performance prediction of the Solid Rocket Motor. Aluminized propellants are frequently used in solid rocket motors to increase specific impulse. An Eulerian-Lagrangian description has been used to analyze the motion of the micrometer sized and discrete phase that consist of the larger particulates present in the Solid Rocket Motor. Uniform particles diameters and Rosin-Rammler diameter distribution method has been used for the simulation of different burning of aluminum droplets generating aluminum oxide smokes. Roe-FDS scheme has been used to simulate the effects of the multi-phase flow. The results obtained show the sensitivity of this distribution to the nozzle flow dynamics, primarily at the nozzle inlet and exit. The analysis also provides effect of two phases on performance prediction of Solid Rocket Motor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.419-422
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• 2006

Improvement of performance of sorbitol model rocket was studied. The rocket designed in this work was compared with the rocket manufactured previously with respect to the shape of body, grain of rocket motor, motor case and recovery system. From this comparative work, it is found that mass ratio is required to be increased and the rocket was designed under safety regulation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.816-821
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• 2015

In this paper, an in-flight prediction method of thrust profiles for solid rocket motors is proposed. Actually, it is very difficult to have detailed information about the performance of the rocket motors beforehand because it is quite sensitive to combustion environments. To overcome this problem, we have developed an algorithm for generating in-flight prediction of rocket motor performance in realistic environments via a reference burnback profile and accelerations measured at a short time-interval just after launch. The performance is evaluated through a lot of flight test results.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.86-93
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• 2016

Performance tests of a 75-tonf liquid rocket engine turbopump were conducted. The performance of sub-components - two pumps and a turbine - and their power matching were measured and examined firstly near the design speed under the LN2 and kerosene environment. In the real propellant - LOX and kerosene - environment tests, design and off-design performance of turbopump were fully verified in regime of the rocket engine operation. During the off-design performance tests, turbopump running time was set longer than the engine operating time to verify the pump operability and set the pump inlet pressure close to design NPSHr to investigate pump suction capability in parallel. It has been found that developed-turbopump satisfied all of the engine required performances.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.495-499
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• 2005

The INHA Rocket Research Institute changed the Ceramic nozzle material of their developed Solid Composite Propellant Motor with Teflon nozzle material. Static firings of the new Solid Rocket Motors was conducted on Thurst Tester to validate the increase in performance. The new enhanced Solid Roket Motor increased the total impulse by 18.3 percent while improving its reliability. The new process of manufacture reduced the time to produce a nozzle.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.356-359
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• 2011

In this study, applicable to Sounding Rocket about the development of high-performance propellant was studied. Sounding Rocket requires generally multistage rocket system for atmospheric research. This study describes the development of two types solid propellant compositions which are based on HTPB/AP for the two-stage rocket. CEA code of NASA and internal ballistic analysis were used for confirming the theoretical performance of designed propellants. The strand burner and JANNAF tensile test was used to measure ballistic and mechanical properties of designed propellants. Finally, static fired test of standard motors was performed to prove the possibility of development.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.90-98
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• 2001

Characteristics of high temperature rocket nozzle flow is discussed along with the aspects of computational analysis. Three methods of nozzle flow analysis, frozen-equilibrium, shifting-equilibrium and non-equilibrium approaches, were discussed, those were coupled with the methods of computational fluid dynamics code. A chemical equilibrium code developed for the analysis of general hydrocarbon fuel was coupled with three approaches of nozzle flow analysis. The approaches were used for the performance prediction of KSR-III Rocket, and compared with the theoretical results from NASA CEA (Chemical Equilibrium with Applications) code.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.219-222
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• 2007

This research on 2nd stage solid rocket motor of KSLV-I for performance change was carried out. Solid rocket motor shall ignite on altitude of 300km. Solid Rocket Motor performed Static Firing Test and High Altitude Test for motor performance. A study made an analysis of specific impulse variation for nozzle ambient pressure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.433-438
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• 2009

The main objective of this research effort is to develop the performance of C/SiC composites manufactured by LSI (Liquid Silicon Infiltration) method for solid and liquid rocket propulsion system and ensure the performance analysis technique. The high performance and reliability of C/SiC composite are proved for solid and liquid rocket propulsion system. And the performance analysis technique related to mathematical ablation model is originated.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.11
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• pp.1081-1086
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• 2010

The technical procedure of an enhancement of a 120 mm rocket assisted projectile has here addressed by analyzing the ballistic performance with several the solid rocket propellants and shell designs. The performance was evaluated by aero-ballistic analyses and static ground tests of the rocket motor. Consequently, firing tests showed that one of tested models gave about 70% of extended range compared with conventional projectiles.