• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국추진공학회 2006년도 제27회 추계학술대회논문집
• /
• pp.237-240
• /
• 2006

Hybrid propulsion systems provide many advantages in terms of stable operation and safety. However, classical hybrid rocket motors have lower fuel regression rate and combustion efficiency compared to solid propellant rocket motor. Accordingly, the recent research efforts are focused on the improvement of engine efficiency and regressionrate in the hybrid rocket engine. The present study has numerically investigated the combustion processes and the flame structure in the hybrid rocket engine. The turbulent combustion is represented by the flamelet model and Low Reynolds number $k-{\varepsilon}$turbulent model is employed to reduce the uncertainties for convective heat transfer near solid fuel surface having strong blowing effect. Numerical results suggest that the present approach is capable of realistically simulating the combustion characteristics of the hybrid rocket engines.

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 유체기계공업학회 2006년 제4회 한국유체공학학술대회 논문집
• /
• pp.245-248
• /
• 2006

Hybrid propulsion systems provide many advantages in terms of stable operation and safety. However, classical hybrid rocket motors have lower fuel regression rate and combustion efficiency compared to solid propellant rocket motor. Accordingly, the recent research efforts are focused on the improvement of engine efficiency and regression rate in the hybrid rocket engine. The present study has numerically investigated the combustion processes in the hybrid rocket engine. The turbulent combustion is represented by the flamelet model and Low Reynolds number $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulent model is employed to reduce the uncertainties for convective heat transfer near solid fuel surface having strong blowing effect. Based on numerical results, the detailed discussions have been made for the effects of oxygen injection methods and oxygen injection flow rate on flame structure and regression rate in the vortex hybrid rocket engines

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국추진공학회 2001년도 제17회 학술발표회 논문초록집
• /
• pp.61-67
• /
• 2001

Hybrid propulsion systems provide many advantages in terms of stable operation and safety. However, classical hybrid rocket motors have lower fuel regression rate and combustion efficiency compared to solid propellant rocket motor. The recent research efforts are focused on the improvement of volume limitation and regression rate in the hybrid rocket engine. The present study has numerically investigated the combustion processes in the hybrid rocket engine. The turbulent combustion is represented by the eddy breakup model and Hiroyasu and Nagle and Strickland-Constable model are used for soot formation and soot oxidation. Radiative heat transfer is modeled by finite volume method. To reduce the uncertainties for convective heat transfer near solid fuel surface having strong blowing effect, the Low Reynolds number k-$\varepsilon$ turbulent model is employed. Based on numerical results, the detailed discussion has been made for the turbulent combustion processes in the vortex hybrid rocket engine.

• 한국추진공학회지
• /
• 제6권1호
• /
• pp.21-29
• /
• 2002

하이브리드 연소 시스템은 안정된 작동조건이나 안전성 면에서 많은 장점을 가지고 있는 반면 기존의 하이브리드 모터는 고체 추진 로켓모터보다 낮은 연료 regression율과 연소효율은 갖는 단점이 있다. 따라서 최근의 연구들은 하이브리드 로켓모터의 연소실 체적의 제한과 연료의 regression율을 향상시키는데 그 초점을 맞추고 있다. 본 연구는 하이브리드 로켓 엔진의 연소과정을 수치적으로 해석하였다. 난류연소는 eddy breakup 모델을 이용하였으며 soot의 생성 및 산화를 다루기 위하여 Hiroyasu와 Nagle and Strickland-Constable 모델을 적용하였다. 복사열전달은 유한체적법을 이용하여 계산하였으며 고체 연료 벽면에서의 분출 효과로 야기되는 대류열전달의 불확실성을 줄이기 위하여 낮은 레이놀즈 수 $\kappa-\varepsilon$ 난류모델을 적용하였다. 계산된 수치결과를 토대로 선회 유동을 가지는 하이브리드 로켓 엔진의 난류연소과정에 대하여 상세히 기술하였다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
• /
• 제17권10호
• /
• pp.1572-1582
• /
• 2003

Hybrid rocket combustion has a manifestation of stable response to the perturbations compared to solid propellant combustion. Recently, it has revealed that the low frequency combustion instability about 10 Hz was occurred mainly due to thermal inertia of solid fuel. In this paper, the combustion response function was theoretically derived by use of ZN (Zeldovich-Novozhilov) method. The result with HTPB/LOX combination showed a quite good agreement in response function with previous works and could predict the low frequency oscillations with a peak around 10 Hz which was observed experimentally. Also, it was found that the amplification region in the frequency domain is independent of the regression rate exponent n but showed the dependence of activation energy. Moreover, the response function has shown that the hybrid combustion system was stable due to negative heat release of solid fuel for vaporization, even though the addition of energetic ingredients such as AP and Al could lead to increase heat release at the fuel surface.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국추진공학회 2004년도 제22회 춘계학술대회논문집
• /
• pp.524-527
• /
• 2004

Hybrid rocket had many advantage with compared to solid and liquid rockets. However, the engines have not yet been used in practical rocket systems, due mainly to the disadvantage of hybrid combustion, such as low fuel regression rate. In this study, lab-scale hybrid motor was designed and manufactured. And the methods of regression rate improvement were considered. Test firings with thrusts up to 300 N were conducted with GOX and transparent PMMA. Thrust was calculated with the pressure of the combustion chamber and the regression rate was measured in with variation of oxidizer flow rate. The regression rates showed a strong dependency on GOX mass flux. The frequency analysis technique of the bulk-mode oscillation of motor was applied to a hybrid rocket motor and was based on the principle that this frequency was inversely proportional to the square root of the chamber volume. Several problems and solutions of operating hybrid rocket were presented.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국추진공학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
• /
• pp.229-232
• /
• 2009

하이브리드 로켓의 연소 과정에서 DC-shift 현상을 관찰할 수 있다. 이와 같은 현상은 갑작스런 구조적 문제를 일으키거나 추력의 감소를 가져와 성능의 저하를 유발한다. DC-shift 현상에 대한 이해를 통해 하이브리드 로켓의 연소 안정의 조건을 알 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 음향모드와 와류유출주파수를 이용하여 DC-shift 현상을 유도하고 주파수의 변화에 따른 DC-shift 현상의 발생 조건과 세기에 대해서 알아보았다. DC-shift 현상에 대한 실험적 연구를 통하여 연소 안정의 조건을 정의하였다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국추진공학회 2010년도 제35회 추계학술대회논문집
• /
• pp.692-693
• /
• 2010

본 연구에서는 하이브리드 로켓 추진제의 단일 포트에서 포트 직경 변화에 따른 연소특성를 연구하였다. 하이브리드 로켓 연소실험에 사용한 추진제로는 PolyEthylene, 산화제로는 기체 산소를 사용하였다. 포트 직경의 변화에 따라 후퇴율 특성과 O/F ratio를 분석하였다.

• 한국추진공학회지
• /
• 제17권6호
• /
• pp.1-10
• /
• 2013

본 연구에서는 다이아프램이 설치된 하이브리드 로켓 모터에서 발생하는 큰 압력진동의 가진 요인을 분석하였다. 다이아프램 유 무와 다이아프램 직경, 산화제 유량, 연료 길이 등의 다양한 실험조건을 고려하여 하이브리드 로켓 모터 추진시험을 수행하였고, 하이브리드 로켓 모터 가시화 장치를 이용하여 다이아프램이 삽입된 연소기의 내부 연소장을 가시화 하였다. 이러한 실험을 통해 주요 연소실 압력 가진 요인은 hole-tone인 것으로 판단되고, hole-tone 모델로 예측한 주파수와 추진 시험을 통해 획득한 주요 압력진동 주파수가 잘 일치함을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
• /
• 제13권4호
• /
• pp.507-514
• /
• 2012

The present study is the analyses of what has been attempted and what was understood in terms of improving the regression rate and enlarging the basic understanding of internal flow dynamics. The first part is mainly intended to assess the role of helical grain configuration in the regression rate inside the hybrid rocket motor. To improve the regression rate, a combination of swirl (which is an active method) and helical grain (which is a passive method) was adopted. The second part is devoted to the internal flow dynamics of hybrid rocket combustion. A large eddy simulation was also performed with an objective of understanding the origin of isolated surface roughness patterns seen in several recent experiments. Several turbulent statistics and correlations indicate that the wall injection drastically changes the characteristics of the near-wall turbulence. Contours of instantaneous streamwise velocity in the plane close to the wall clearly show that the structural feature has been significantly altered by the application of wall injection, which is reminiscent of the isolated roughness patterns found in several experiments.