• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.788-794
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• 2002

In liquid rocket engine, propellant feed rate is proportional to approximately square root of the pressure difference between injector head and combustion chamber. This ΔP depends on the engine design, but in general on the order of 50psi. However, during ignition period, especially for the pressurized feed system, combustion chamber pressure is almost atmospheric and large ΔP causes over flow of propellants which may lead to catastrophic accident due to hard start. Hard start may be prevented by applying cavitating venturi or/and two step ignition. In cavitating venturi, evaporated propellants near the venturi throat become chocked and flow rate depends on only upstream condition. In two step ignition propellants are supplied to the liquid engine in two different flow rate. First step, to avoid hard start, small amount of propellants are supplied to build up chamber pressure in safe zone, then full propellants to ensure design pressure. In this study, both cavitating venturi and two step ignition method were used for the hot test and hard start problem was completely solved.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.10-19
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• 1999

In this study , a simple method has been developed to detect the required spark voltage by using the primary spark voltage instead of the secondary spark voltage. Through engine motoring experiments, this method testified to be quite satisfactory. Though the required spark voltage is affected by many in-cylinder conditions, temperature is one of the most important factors. The temperature increases significantly by combustion and the required spark voltage also changes by the temperature during the expansion stroke. On the basis of this fact, misfire can be monitored by comparing the required spark voltage between compression stroke and expansion stroke. So, in this study, two step ignition method is introduced to monitor combustion at expansion stroke. The test result shows that this method can be used to detect complex misfire pattern.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 1997년도 제8회 학술강연회논문집
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• pp.259-265
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• 1997

An analytical study has been peformed to investigate the unsteady ignition characteristics of pulse combustion. In many combustion applications, strain rate of the flow can significantly affect the combustion features; ignition, extinction, and reignition. In the pulse combustion, two jets (hot combustion gases and fresh mixtures) coming from the opposite side of the combustor will collide in the combustor forming a stagnation region where the chemical reaction is suppressed by the strain rate until this becomes below the critical value. In this research, the method of large activation energy asymptotic is adopted with one step irreversible kinetics to examine the ignition response to the periodic variation of the strain rate of flow. The results show the variation of the maximum value of strain rate can determine whether the ignition or extinction occur.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.259-268
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• 2007

A knock detection circuit that is based on the signal of an accelerometer installed on the engine block of a spark ignition automotive engine has a band-pass filter with a certain frequency as a parameter to be calibrated. A new statistical method for the determination of the frequency which is the most suitable for the knock detection in real-time applications is proposed. The method uses both the cylinder pressure and block vibration signals and is divided into two steps. In both steps, a new recursive trigonometric interpolation method that calculates the frequency contents of the signals is applied. The new trigonometric interpolation method developed in this paper improves the performance of the Discrete Fourier Transformation, allowing a flexible choice of the size of the moving window. In the first step, the frequency contents of the cylinder pressure signal are calculated. The knock is detected in the cylinder of the engine cycle for which at least one value of the maximal amplitudes calculated via the trigonometric interpolation method exceeds a threshold value indicating a considerable amount of oscillations in the pressure signal; this cycle is selected as a knocking cycle. In the second step, the frequency analysis is performed on the block vibration signal for the cycles selected in the previous step. The knock detectability, which is an individual cylinder attribute at a certain frequency, is verified via a statistical hypothesis test for testing the equality of two mean values, i.e. mean values of the amplitudes for knocking and non-knocking cycles. Signal-to-noise ratio is associated in this paper with the value of t-statistic. The frequency with the largest signal-to-noise ratio (the value of t-statistic) is chosen for implementation in the engine knock detection circuit.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.64-72
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• 1997

맥동연소의 비정상 점화현상을 연구하기 위하여 이론적인 해석을 수행하였다. 맥동연소에서는 연소기의 양쪽에서 유입되는 고온의 연소가스와 미연 혼합가스가 연소실 내부에서 충돌하여 정체면을 형성하며 유동변형율이 임계 값 이하가 될 때까지 점화가 억제된다. 본 연구에서는 유동의 유동변형율의 변화에 대한 점화현상의 반응을 연구하기 위하여 활성화 에너지 점근법과 비가역 1단계 화학반응을 이용하였다. 또한 유동에 의한 유동변형율은 두 가지 요인에 의하여 발생하는 것으로 모델링 하였는데, 비정상 유동에 의한 평균 유동변형율과 난류에 의하여 유도되는 유동변형율이 그것이다. 해석 결과에 의하면, 맥동연소에서는 잘 정의된 점화지연이 존재하며, 점화 또는 소염의 발생 여부는 Damkohler 수에 의하여 거의 결정된다.

• 한국공작기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국공작기계학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.72-78
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• 1996

Based on experimental analysis, the characteristics of pulsating pressure wave propagation is clarified by testing of 4-stroke gasoline engine. The pulsating pressure wave in exhaust system is generated gyulsating gas flow due the working of exhaust valve. The pulsating pressure wave is closely concerned to the loss of engine power according to back pressure and exhaust noise. It is difficult to exactly calculate pulsating pressure wave nonlinear effect. Therefore, in the first step for solving these problems, this paper contains experimental model and analysis method which are applied two-port network analysis. Also, it shows coherence function, frequency response function. back pressure, and gradient of temperature in exhaust system.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.74-80
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• 2008

A combustion of CAI engine is purely dominated by fuel chemical reactions. In order to simulate the combustion of CAI engine, it should be considered the effect of fuel components and chemical kinetics. So it needs enormous computational power. To overcome this problem reduced problem of needing massive computational power, chemical kinetic mechanism and multi-zone method is proposed here in this paper. A reduced chemical kinetic mechanism for a gasoline surrogate was used in this study for a CAI combustion. This gasoline surrogate was modeled as a blend of iso-octane, n-heptane, and toluene. For the analysis of CAI combustion, a multi-zone method as combustion model for a CAI engine was developed and incorporated into the computational fluid dynamics code, STAR-CD, for computing efficiency. This coupled multi-zone model can calculate 3 dimensional computational fluid dynamics and multi-zoned chemical reaction simultaneously in one time step. In other words, every computational cell interacts with the adjacent cells during the chemical reaction process. It can enhance the reality of multi-zone model. A greatly time-saving and yet still relatively accurate CAI combustion simulation model based on the above mentioned two efficient methodologies, is thus proposed.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.38-43
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• 1999

본 연구는 액체 추진제 로켓 엔진의 연소성능을 평가할 수 있는 절차를 확립하고, 운동량비와 혼합비가 연소성능에 미치는 영향을 고찰하여 안정된 연소를 보장하면서 최대의 효율을 제공하는 설계조건을 결정하고자 수행되었다. 연구를 위해 질산/Kerosene을 추진제로 사용하고 추력 24 $\iota{b}_f$, 연소실 압력 200 psia, uni-element impinging streams doublet injector를 사용하는 엔진을 설계 및 제작하여 연소시험을 수행하였다. 연구로부터 점화시 발생하는 hard start 현상은 연소실 압력을 설계치의 25 % 정도가 되도록 한 후, 설계 압력으로 상승시키는 2단계 점화방법을 채택함으로서 최소화 할 수 있었다. 그리고 최대의 연소성능은 혼합비 3.6에 존재하였고, 연소성능은 운동량비 증가에 따라서 감소하였다.