• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2011

It has been shown in the literature that active adjustment of the intake area of a jet engine has potential to improve its fuel efficiency. This paper presents the design and control of a novel proof-of-concept active jet engine intake using Nickel-Titanium (Ni-Ti or Nitinol) shape memory alloy (SMA) wire actuators. The Nitinol SMA material is used in this research due to its advantages of high power-to-weight ratio and electrical resistive actuation. The Nitinol SMA material can be fabricated into a variety of shapes, such as strips, foils, rods and wires. In this paper, SMA wires are used due to its ability to generate a large strain: up to 6% for repeated operations. The proposed proof-of-concept engine intake employs overlapping leaves in a concentric configuration. Each leaf is mounted on a supporting bar than can rotate. The supporting bars are actuated by an SMA wire actuator in a ring configuration. Electrical resistive heating is used to actuate the SMA wire actuator and rotate the supporting bars. To enable feedback control, a laser range sensor is used to detect the movement of a leaf and therefore the radius of the intake area. Due to the hysteresis, an inherent nonlinear phenomenon associated with SMAs, a nonlinear robust controller is used to control the SMA actuators. The control design uses the sliding-mode approach and can compensate the nonlinearities associated with the SMA actuator. A proof-of-concept model is fabricated and its feedback control experiments show that the intake area can be precisely controlled using the SMA wire actuator and has the ability to reduce the area up to 25%. The experiments demonstrate the feasibility of engine intake area control using an SMA wire actuator under the proposed design.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.579-584
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• 2005

Unsteady state free natural gas jets injected from several types of injectors were numerically simulated. Simulations showed good agreements with the schlieren experimental results. Moreover, injections of natural gas in intake manifolds of a single-valve engine and a double-valve engine were predicted as well. Predictions revealed that large volumetric injections of natural gas in intake manifolds led to strong impingement of natural gas with the intake valves, which as a result, gave rise to pronounced backward reflection of natural gas towards the inlets of intake manifolds, together with significant increase in pressure in intake manifold. Based on our simulations, we speculated that for engines with short intake manifolds, reflections of the mixture of natural gas and air were likely to approach the inlets of intake manifolds and subsequently be inbreathed into other cylinders, resulting in non-uniform mixture distributions between the cylinders. For engines with long intake manifolds, inasmuch as the degrees of intake interferences between the cylinders were not identical in light of the ignition sequences, non-uniform intake charge distributions between the cylinders would occur.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.10-20
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• 2022

한국항공우주연구원의 자유제트형 지상추진시험설비인 스크램제트 엔진 시험설비의 마하 5 조건에서 스크램제트 엔진 흡입구의 성능분석 시험을 진행하였다. 스크램제트 엔진 흡입구의 대표적인 성능 인자인 전압력 회복률, 공기 포획율 측정을 위하여 격리부 후방에 설치되는 피토/정압 레이크가 설계 제작되었다. 격리부 후방에 장착된 레이크가 전방의 흡입구 램프와 격리부에 미치는 영향과 레이크로 측정된 흡입구의 성능 인자 분석 그리고 흡입구의 받음각 변화에 따른 벽면 정압력 분포 변화에 대한 분석이 수행되었다. 끝으로 연소기에서의 압력 상승을 모사하는 장치인 흡입구 후방 배압 조정 장치를 이용하여 흡입구 불시동이 발생하는 시점을 확인하였으며, 본 논문에는 그 결과를 정리하였다.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.42-47
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• 2016

This paper presents the development of a floating outboard type of compact water jet propulsion system. The planning case of the water jet system is developed by performing precision processing after manufacturing FRP (Fiber Reinforced Plastics) from plug mold casting. This system is composed of an intake, impeller, diffuser, reverse bucket, and main shaft. In addition, a rebuilt engine was applied through marine engineering. The water jet propulsion system performance was verified to discharge a maximum $0.29m^3/s$ of flow rate and 37 m/s of flow velocity in a test pool on land. A field test was performed by installing the water jet propulsion device on board a ship that was tested off the coast of Korea. The weight of the hull, engine, and other equipment was approximately 1.2 tons, and the sailing speed was a maximum 22 knots at 3,600 rpm.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.77-87
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• 2022

한국항공우주연구원 스크램제트 엔진 시험설비를 활용한 스크램제트 엔진 흡입구 지상 시험을 수행하기 위하여 일반적으로 진행하는 시험 가능 여부 확인 절차를 소개하였다. 스크램제트 흡입구 시험을 수행하기 위하여 새롭게 제작된 마하 5 노즐의 설계 과정을 정리하였으며, 노즐의 코어 유동 분포를 확인하기 위한 장치를 설명하고 코어 유동 시험 분석 결과를 기록하였다. 일련의 시험 결과를 통하여 흡입구가 신규 마하 5 노즐 코어에 위치하는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.259-267
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• 2001

The flow field in a cylinder of a 4-valve pentroof engine is studied using the KIVA-3V code. Turbulence is generated from the jet flow through valves and broken down to the small scale eddies in the compression process. It is known that the tumble effectively keeps turbulence during the compression process. In the combustion process, turbulence is known to enhance flame speed by increasing mass, momentum and heat transfer rates. The effects of the intake port angles on the flow and combustion characteristics are studied in this study. To study the effect of turbulence on the combustion process, Cantore combustion model is applied in this study.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.45-57
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• 2007

This paper presents both experimental and numerical studies regarding nozzles used for the SI engine application, particularly for the intake-port fuel injection type. The atomization mechanism of the multi-hole plate nozzle was investigated experimentally. It was found that the nozzle design added turbulence into the liquid-film jet and the jet disintegrated rapidly. Based on the results, various plate types for the nozzle were developed and tested; six hole nozzle for liquid jet interaction, plate-type nozzle with flat duct channel, and the simpler structured nozzle. The spray characteristics of the prototype nozzles were examined experimentally while the internal flow of the nozzle was investigated computationally. It was shown that turbulent liquid-film was injected and atomization quality was improved by controlling the internal flow condition of the plate-type nozzle.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2004년도 제22회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.491-498
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• 2004

Lift Fan Engines of JAXA's conceptual Jet VTOL aircraft have a very small bellmouse shape air intake, which make some differences in aerodynamic design of the blades. To obtain a better rotor or stator blade design, this paper performs a numerical analysis of the throughflow on a lift fan as a two-dimensional axisymmetrical flow. Based on the last report focusing on the air intake's influence on the throughflow, a more realistic bellmouse air intake case is treated to reconsider the influence on the throughflow by the small bellmouse air intake. Three work input patterns are tested to reduce some problematic influences on the throughflow or blade designs. The obtained result shows one of acceptable blade designs for the lift fan engine.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.15-26
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• 1997

The present study is mainly motivated to numerically simulate the autoignition and combustion process of a diesel spray in RCM and effects of design parameters on combustion and engine performance in the DI diesel engine using EGR. In case of the burning spray in RCM, special emphasis is given to the autoignition process coupled with the fluid mechanics and chemical reaction. Computations are carried out for a wide range of operating condition in terms of temperature, concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide of the intake gas in the DI diesel engine. Numerical results indicate that the mixing process along the edges of spray jet has a crucial role for autoignition and combustion process. Temperature and concentration of O2 and CO2 of intake gas significantly influence the combustion characteristics and engine performance in the diesel/EGR environment.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.246-252
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• 2014

본논문은 150마력급 선내형 소형 워터제트 추진시스템 개발에 대한 연구이다. 워터제트는 흡입부, 임펠러, 디퓨저(공기확산기), 후진부와 메인 샤프트로 구성되어 있다. 워터제트의 구성품은 사형 주조후 정밀가공을 거쳐 개발하였다. 워터제트 추진기관의 개발은 각각의 부품에 대한 설계-제작-검사의 과정을 거쳐 최종 완성하였으며, 육상 시험 풀에서는 선체의 이동 없이 워터제트의 펌프 특성을 확인한 결과, 최대 37m/s의 유속과 0.29m3/s의 유량을 배출할 수 있는 성능을 확보하였다. 본 연구에서 개발된 워터제트 추진장치를 설치한 21ft 시험선을 사용하여 실증 연구를 수행하였다. 그 결과, 국내 연안에서 시험시 선체무게와 엔진등 기타 부수적인 무게가 대략 1.2ton 가량 이였으며 이 상태에서 엔진회전수 3,700rpm에서 최대시속 45km/h의 운항속도를 기록하였다.