• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.807-815
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• 2017

For liquid rocket engine(LRE)-based space launch vehicles, longitudinal instability, often referred to as the pogo phenomenon in the literature is predicted. In the building block of system-level task, accurate dynamic modeling of a fluid-filled tank is an essential. This paper attempts to apply the virtual mass method that accounts for the interaction of the vehicle structure and the enclosed liquid oxygen to LOX-filled tanks. The virtual mass method is applied in a modal analysis considering the hydroelastic effect of the launch vehicle tank. This method involves an analysis of the fluid in the tank in the form of mass matrix. To verify the accuracy of this method, the experimental modal data of a small hemispherical tank is used. Finally, the virtual mass method is applied to a 1/8-scale space shuttle external tank. In addition, the LOX tank bottom pressure in the external tank model is estimated. The LOX tank bottom pressure is the factor required for the coupling of the LOX tank with the propulsion system. The small hemispherical tank analysis provides relatively accurate results, and the 1/8-scale space shuttle external tank provides reasonable results. The LOX tank bottom pressure is also similar to that in the numerical results of a previous analysis.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.46-52
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• 2017

High-frequency combustion instabilities may occur during the development of feasible engine combustors. These instabilities can result in irreparable damages to the wall of combustors or the degradation of engine performance. So, it is essential to identify injectors that have high stability characteristics during the early stages of development. The objective of present study was to assess the stability of coaxial injectors and an impinging injector with different recess lengths in order to develop stable injectors optimally. Stability margin was evaluated based on the distance from operating condition to the unstable regions. A simulating combustion test method was used to analyze the stability of injectors. A small-scale combustion chamber was designed to simulate the first tangential acoustic mode of the actual combustor. Gaseous oxygen and a mixture of methane and propane were used as simulant propellants to satisfy their flow similarity to the actual propellants of a combustor in a liquid rocket combustor. The results indicated that injectors having small recess lengths showed relatively large combustion stability margins. For the injectors of large recess lengths, instability regions with large and super-large amplitude oscillations were observed. Thus, injector with shorter recess lengths had a higher stability than that of longer one due to the different mixing processes.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2011년도 제36회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1-2
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• 2011

Hybrid rockets have lately attracted attention as a strong candidate of small, low cost, safe and reliable launch vehicles. A significant topic is that the first commercially sponsored space ship, SpaceShipOne vehicle chose a hybrid rocket. The main factors for the choice were safety of operation, system cost, quick turnaround, and thrust termination. In Japan, five universities including Hokkaido University and three private companies organized "Hybrid Rocket Research Group" from 1998 to 2002. Their main purpose was to downsize the cost and scale of rocket experiments. In 2002, UNISEC (University Space Engineering Consortium) and HASTIC (Hokkaido Aerospace Science and Technology Incubation Center) took over the educational and R&D rocket activities respectively and the research group dissolved. In 2008, JAXA/ISAS and eleven universities formed "Hybrid Rocket Research Working Group" as a subcommittee of the Steering Committee for Space Engineering in ISAS. Their goal is to demonstrate technical feasibility of lowcost and high frequency launches of nano/micro satellites into sun-synchronous orbits. Hybrid rockets use a combination of solid and liquid propellants. Usually the fuel is in a solid phase. A serious problem of hybrid rockets is the low regression rate of the solid fuel. In single port hybrids the low regression rate below 1 mm/s causes large L/D exceeding a hundred and small fuel loading ratio falling below 0.3. Multi-port hybrids are a typical solution to solve this problem. However, this solution is not the mainstream in Japan. Another approach is to use high regression rate fuels. For example, a fuel regression rate of 4 mm/s decreases L/D to around 10 and increases the loading ratio to around 0.75. Liquefying fuels such as paraffins are strong candidates for high regression fuels and subject of active research in Japan too. Nakagawa et al. in Tokai University employed EVA (Ethylene Vinyl Acetate) to modify viscosity of paraffin based fuels and investigated the effect of viscosity on regression rates. Wada et al. in Akita University employed LTP (Low melting ThermoPlastic) as another candidate of liquefying fuels and demonstrated high regression rates comparable to paraffin fuels. Hori et al. in JAXA/ISAS employed glycidylazide-poly(ethylene glycol) (GAP-PEG) copolymers as high regression rate fuels and modified the combustion characteristics by changing the PEG mixing ratio. Regression rate improvement by changing internal ballistics is another stream of research. The author proposed a new fuel configuration named "CAMUI" in 1998. CAMUI comes from an abbreviation of "cascaded multistage impinging-jet" meaning the distinctive flow field. A CAMUI type fuel grain consists of several cylindrical fuel blocks with two ports in axial direction. The port alignment shifts 90 degrees with each other to make jets out of ports impinge on the upstream end face of the downstream fuel block, resulting in intense heat transfer to the fuel. Yuasa et al. in Tokyo Metropolitan University employed swirling injection method and improved regression rates more than three times higher. However, regression rate distribution along the axis is not uniform due to the decay of the swirl strength. Aso et al. in Kyushu University employed multi-swirl injection to solve this problem. Combinations of swirling injection and paraffin based fuel have been tried and some results show very high regression rates exceeding ten times of conventional one. High fuel regression rates by new fuel, new internal ballistics, or combination of them require faster fuel-oxidizer mixing to maintain combustion efficiency. Nakagawa et al. succeeded to improve combustion efficiency of a paraffin-based fuel from 77% to 96% by a baffle plate. Another effective approach some researchers are trying is to use an aft-chamber to increase residence time. Better understanding of the new flow fields is necessary to reveal basic mechanisms of regression enhancement. Yuasa et al. visualized the combustion field in a swirling injection type motor. Nakagawa et al. observed boundary layer combustion of wax-based fuels. To understand detailed flow structures in swirling flow type hybrids, Sawada et al. (Tohoku Univ.), Teramoto et al. (Univ. of Tokyo), Shimada et al. (ISAS), and Tsuboi et al. (Kyushu Inst. Tech.) are trying to simulate the flow field numerically. Main challenges are turbulent reaction, stiffness due to low Mach number flow, fuel regression model, and other non-steady phenomena. Oshima et al. in Hokkaido University simulated CAMUI type flow fields and discussed correspondence relation between regression distribution of a burning surface and the vortex structure over the surface.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.55-63
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• 2012

동축제트분사기에 대한 난류유동의 특징이 비선형 $k-{\varepsilon}-f_{\mu}$ 모형[1]과 큰에디모사법에 의해서 조사되었다. 비연소조건에서 밀도가 다른 유체가 혼합될 때 레이놀즈수가 일정한 조건에서 리세스와 운동량비가 변화되었다. 비선형 $k-{\varepsilon}-f_{\mu}$ 모형은 리세스와 운동량비의 다양한 조건에서 의미있는 상관관계를 제안하였다. LES결과는 리세스에 의해서 난류유동 구조의 변화를 잘 묘사해 주었다. 리세스가 있는 경우 난류운동에너지의 발달은 리세스가 없는 경우보다 빠르게 나타났다. 또한, 혼합특성은 전단변형률의 변화가 지배적이었지만 국부적인 혼합은 리세스에 의해서 변화되었다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2007년도 제28회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.3-6
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• 2007

한국항공우주연구원에서는 소형의 위성을 원하는 궤도에 투입할 수 있는 최초의 민간 로켓인 KSLV-I을 개발하고 있다. 우주 발사체의 개발에는 큰 스케일과 복잡성, 그리고 기술적 난점에 의한 수많은 불확실성이 존재한다. 이러한 불확실성은 사업적 측면에서는 일정의 차질, 비용의 증가 등을 야기하고 기술적 측면에서는 서브시스템이나 부품단위의 설계 변경 등을 가져오게 된다. 이 연구는 발사체 추진기관에 있어서 fault tree analysis (FTA)를 이용한 기술적 위험 식별과 위험 분석 및 완화의 과정을 보여주고자 한다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2005년도 제25회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.353-357
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• 2005

본 연구는 30톤급 엔진 개발에 필요한 실물형 가스 발생기를 개발하는 과정에서 분사기 LOx post에 발생한 손상에 대해 기술하였고 손상에 대한 원인 분석에 대해 논의하였다. 4분사기, 실물형 가스발생기 및 1차 재설계된 분사기에 대한 연소시험 결과를 기술하였고 이에 대한 원인으로 연소 불안정, 종단시 purge, LOx 분무의 낮은 모멘텀, 작은 recess number, 적은 LOx 분사기 유량, 큰 분무 각도 등이 주원인임을 알 수 있었다. 이 분석 결과에 따라 recess number를 증가, 분사기 LOx 및 연료 분무각 증가, LOx post 외벽과 연료막 사이 간격 축소, LOx post 벽 두께 증가의 방향으로 분사기에 대한 재설계가 이루어졌다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2017년도 제48회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.622-627
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 실물형 연소기와 동일한 연소 및 음향 공진 조건을 가질 수 있는 축소형 모델 연소기의 추진제 공급부 매니폴드의 수치해석을 진행하였다. 비원통형 연소기의 형상을 고려한 일렬형 다중 인젝터로 구성된 헤드를 대상으로 해석하였으며 매니폴드의 형상과 유입유로의 개수 및 형태에 따라 해석결과를 분석했다. 메인추진제의 매니폴드 형태는 재순환영역이 적고 제작이 용이할 수 있게 원형으로 구성하였다. 액체산소는 유동을 균일하게 공급하기 위해 distributor를 구성하였고 케로신은 직접 화염면이 닿는 곳이기 때문에 재순환영역을 최대한 줄이도록 방사형 $360^{\circ}$로 유입유로를 구성하였다. 액체질소 매니폴드는 분사기 근처의 속도차이를 줄이고자 방사형 유입유로로 구성하였다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제44권7호
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• pp.585-592
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• 2016

하이브리드 로켓의 연소실험에서 관찰된 500 Hz 대역의 연소압력과 연소반응 변동이 안정한 연소에서 발생하는 원인과 LFI로 발전하는 과정을 분석하기 위하여 $CH^*$ 화학발광 이미지와 PMT(photomultiplier tube)에 의한 광자방출 측정으로 연소반응 변화를 가시화하였다. 안정한 연소에서는 500 Hz 대역의 연소압력과 연소반응 변동의 위상차이가 180 도 정도를 이루며 전단층 유동을 따라서 정상적인 연소가 발생하였다. 그러나 불안정 연소가 발생하면, 500 Hz 주파수의 두 변동의 위상차는 60~70 도로 양의 관계(positive coupling)를 이루며 상하 대칭의 와류 발생과 국부적 소염이 나타나는 주기적 변화를 반복한다. 또한 천이구간에서는 매우 불규칙적인 와류와 상하 대칭의 전단층 유동 형상이 번갈아 관찰되고 있다. 이것은 연소의 영향으로 와류가 발생하는 것으로 보염기 후류에서 발생한 BVK 유동불안정과 유사한 특성을 보여준다, 따라서 하이브리드 로켓 연소의 저주파수 연소불안정은 500 Hz 대역의 연소반응 변동에 의한 와류의 발생과 이로 인한 국부적인 소염이 점진적으로 발전하여 완전한 주기적 소염으로 이어졌고, 20 Hz의 연소불안정으로 발전하는 것으로 판단하였다.

• Molecular & Cellular Toxicology
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.172-178
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• 2009

Nanoparticles are small-scale substances (<100 nm) with unique properties, complex exposure and health risk implications. Aluminum oxide ($Al_2O_3$) nanoparticles (NP) have been widely used as abrasives, wear-resistant coatings on propeller shafts of ships, to increase the specific impulse per weight of composite propellants used in solid rocket fuel and as drug delivery systems to increase solubility. However, recent studies have shown that nano-sized aluminum (10 nm in diameter) can generate adverse effects, such as pulmonary response. The cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of $Al_2O_3$ NP were investigated using the dye exclusion assay, the comet assay, and the mouse lymphoma thymidine kinase (tk$^{+/-}$) gene mutation assay (MLA). IC$_{20}$ values of $Al_2O_3$ NP in BEAS-2B cells were determined the concentration of 273.44 $\mu$g/mL and 390.63 $\mu$g/mL with and without S-9. However IC$_{20}$ values of $Al_2O_3$ NP were found nontoxic in L5178Y cells both of with and without S-9 fraction. In the comet assay, L5178Y cells and BEAS-2B cells were treated with $Al_2O_3$ NP which significantly increased 2-fold tail moment with and without S-9. Also, the mutant frequencies in the $Al_2O_3$ NP treated L5178Y cells were increased compared to the vehicle controls with S-9. The results of this study indicate that $Al_2O_3$ NP can cause primary DNA damage and cytotoxicity but not mutagenicity in cultured mammalian cells.