• 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.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.03b
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• pp.547-550
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• 2008

A solid rocket motor has quite complex physical condition such exothermal chemical reaction in subsonic area and supersonic ex pansion in a converging-diverging nozzle. To introduce a simulation tool for compressible flow in supersonic range as well as incompressible chemical reaction zone in a whole rocket nozzle is a essential demand. Since the flow vary subsonic to super sonic, the convergence in computation becomes very low and unstable in a whole domain of rocket motor. This paper reports the 2-D Axisymmetric and simple 3-D solid propellant combustion and flow of gases in rocket motor by using a precondi tioning, shear stress turbulence modeling, AUSM(p). To simulate the simplified combustion process, Double base solid propellant is used to calculate reaction of solid propellant.

• 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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• 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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• 2004.03a
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• pp.601-604
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• 2004

Precise position and attitude control of pico-satellite requires huge number of impulses of the order of 10$^{-6}$ Ns. MEMS solid rocket array is a promising propulsion system but the higher degree of miniaturization causes unreliable operation mainly due to quenching. In order to breakthrough this situation, a novel design of solid micro-rocket is proposed, which generates tiny impulses repetitively from a single rocket not from array. This unique micro-rocket is based on the utilization of quenching, which causes propellant reaction to sustain only in a small area. A test chip of a micro solid propellant tank and micro heater array is fabricated and ignition test is conducted. Obtained results show the feasibility of this concept and future direction of this quenching-based propulsion is discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.133-137
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• 2010

A dual pulse solid rocket motor has several advantages compared to the single one. The range and the terminal velocity of the guided missile can be remarkably increased by the application of the pulse separation device(PSD) to the solid rocket motor which resulted in appropriate thrust distribution. In this study, the subscale dual pulse solid rocket motor with the bulkhead type PSD was designed, manufactured, and fire-tested. The bursting pressure, thermal characteristics, and the structural safety of the PSD were obtained by the tests and the results will be applied to the design of full-scale dual pulse rocket motor.

• International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.58-61
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• 2015

Combustion instability in solid rocket motors is a long-term open problem since the first rockets were used. Based on the numerous previous studies, it is known that the limit cycle amplitude is one of the key characteristics of the nonlinear combustion instability in solid rocket motors. Flandro's extended energy balance corollary, aims to predict the limit cycle amplitude of complex, nonlinear pressure oscillations for rockets or air-breathing engines, and leads to a precise assessment of nonlinear combustion instability in solid rocket motors. However, based on the comparison with experimental data, it is revealed that the Flandro's method cannot accurately describe such a complex oscillatory pressure. Thus in this work we make modifications of the nonlinear term in the nonlinear wave equations which represents the interaction of different modes. Through this modified method, a numerical simulation of the cylindrical solid rocket has been carried out, and the simulated result consists well with the experimental data. It means that the added coefficient makes the nonlinear wave growth equations describe the experimental data better.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.1176-1179
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• 2017

In this study, internal ballistic analysis theories of dual-thrust solid rocket motor using two kinds of propellant are found, and the theories are applied to develop internal ballistic analysis model. Internal ballistic analysis which is dual-thrust solid rocket motor using two kinds of propellant is carried out an applying of the random figures of two kinds of propellant and an analyze of the test results. Through this analytical model was able to an applying internal ballistic analysis for dual-thrust solid rocket motor using two kinds of propellant.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.77-83
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• 2021

In the current study, the numerical method was established to predict the performance of a solid rocket motor with two kinds of propellants. On the basis of a numerical study, an internal ballistics analysis code was developed. To verify the internal ballistics analysis code two solid rocket motors were manufactured and tested. The accuracy and applicability of the internal ballistics code for dual-propellant solid rocket motor were verified by comparing the experimental results with the numerical calculation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.215-218
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• 2009

A design of a subscale solid propellant rocket motor was conducted to do the similitude experiments for the large scale rocket motor. One of the main factor to subscale was the mach number of the solid propellant flume through a nozzle exit The analysis of the flume flow was done to obtain the mach number for the large and subscale rocket motor. The flume shapes on the non dimensional axises by the nozzle exit diameter was matched each other. The propellant grain of a subscale solid rocket motor was designed by the profile of pressure vs time obtained by the mach number of the flume shape. Some analyses of the theoretical solution were compared with the results of the ground static test.