• Transactions of the KSME C: Technology and Education
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.93-99
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• 2016

High pressure nozzles and turbines of a gas turbine engine should be required to be operated under extreme operating conditions in order to maximize the performance. Engine manufactures have utilized nickel-base superalloys, enhanced cooling design, and thermal barrier coating techniques to overcome them and furthermore, material modeling, finite element analysis, optimization techniques, and etc. have been utilized widely for elaborate predictions. We aim to evaluate the effects on the low cycle fatigue life of the high pressure turbine blade caused by thermal barrier coatings and the cooling design of the endwall of the first stage turbine nozzle. To achieve it, the structural analysis, which utilized the results of conjugate heat transfer analysis as loading boundary conditions, was performed and then the results were the input for the assessment of low cycle fatigue life at several critical zones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• v.y2005m4
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• pp.252-255
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• 2005

The operation of a gas-turbine engine gradually deteriorates the performance of its main components and often generates the defects of its components. The GPA method has been usually used for the diagnosis of the deterioration. In this study, the diagnostic code of the engine performance using the thermodynamic sensitivity between the sensed parameters and the health parameters has been developed without an application of the commercial program. The single performance deterioration of the turbo-shaft engine for SUAV has been estimated with this code.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.17-24
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• 2005

In this study, the GSP and in-house numerical codes have been used for analyses of the on-design, static off-design and dynamic off-design performances. Through the various missions including altitude, velocity, and power variations the static engine performance have been investigated. The dynamic engine performances based on these complicated variations have been also analyzed. Especially, the power, engine rpm and heat overload characteristics of the turbine have been estimated with the response time through the control of the throttle setting rather than the power setting. It could be applied to the FADEC system as an engine control device.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.52-57
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• 2012

A liquid rocket system consists of a combustion chamber, a gas generator, a turbo pump, and a turbine, etc. Each component is connected by supply components such as valves, pipes, and orifices. Since each component has a combined effect on engine performance, preliminary analysis for overall system must be required before the conceptual design stage. Comprehensive analysis program considered the supply system has not been developed yet. In this paper, a supply component model of the liquid rocket engine has been designed after verification of each component. The gas generator cycle with supply components has been composed. The results of the cycle has been compared to those of the F-1 engine with the representative gas generator cycle.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.563-568
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• 2010

Turbopump-gas generator open-loop coupled tests are performed during the development of a 30tonf-LOx/Kerosene rocket engine. In the turbopump-gas generator open-loop tests, the propellants to gas generator are supplied from the outlets of turbopump, while the gas exhausted from the gas generator is vented out to the atmosphere, instead of being used to turbine driving. This paper presents the objectives, procedure, and results of the open-loop coupled test, in addition to a schematic representation of the test apparatus and the operating conditions for the test facility system and control system. The results of turbopump-gas generator open-loop coupled test confirm chill-down procedure, startup characteristics, nominal operability and smooth shutdown of the open-loop coupled Test Plant in test conditions simulating engine system operation environment.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.457-463
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• 2015

A gas turbine engine plays an important role as a prime mover that is used in the marine transportation field as well as the space/aviation and power plant fields. However, it has a complicated structure and there is a time delay element in the combustion process. Therefore, an elaborate mathematical model needs to be developed to control a gas turbine engine. In this study, a modeling technique for a gas generator, a PLA actuator, and a metering valve, which are major components of a gas turbine engine, is explained. In addition, sub-models are obtained at several operating points in a steady state based on the trial running data of a gas turbine engine, and a method for controlling the engine speed is proposed by designing an NPID controller for each sub-model. The proposed NPID controller uses three kinds of gains that are implemented with a nonlinear function. The parameters of the NPID controller are tuned using real-coded genetic algorithms in terms of minimizing the objective function. The validity of the proposed method is examined by applying to a gas turbine engine and by conducting a simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.30 no.7
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• pp.36-43
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• 2002

A new scaling method for the prediction of gas turbine components characteristics using experimental data or partially given data from engine manufacturers has been proposed. In order to minimize the analyzed performance error in the this study, firstly component maps were constructed by identifying performance data given by engine manufacturers at some operating conditions, then the simulated performance using the identified maps was compared with the performance result using the currently used traditional scaling method. In comparison, the performance result by the currently used traditional scaling method was well agreed with the real engine performance at on-design point but it had maximum 12% error at off-design points within the flight envelope of a study turboprop engine. However because the analysed performance by the newly proposed scaling method had maximum 6% reasonable error even within all flight envelope.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.91-96
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• 2004

An optimal design of the gas generator for Liquid Rocket Engine (LRE) was conducted. A fuel-rich gas generator in open cycle turbopump system was designed for 10ton in thrust with RP-1/LOx propellant. The optimal design was done for maximizing specific impulse of thrust chamber with constraints of combustion temperature and for matching the power requirement of turbopump system. Design variables are total mass flow rate to gas generator, O/F ratio in gas generator, turbine injection angle, partial admission ratio, and turbine rotational speed. Results of optimal design provide length, diameter, and contraction ratio of gas generator. And the operational condition predicted by design code with resulting configuration was found to maximize the objective function and to meet the design constraints. The results of optimal design will be tested and verified with combustion experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.379-380
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• 2009

한국항공우주연구원 추진기관팀은 1999년 10월에 3,000 lbf 급 고공환경 엔진시험 설비를 갖추고 소형 가스터빈 엔진의 고공환경 성능시험에 이를 활용하고 있다. 하지만 새롭게 2008년부터 고공환경 성능시험을 진행하고 있는 엔진은 1,000 lbf 미만의 초소형 엔진으로써 기존 추력측정 시스템을 이용하여서는 정확한 추력의 측정을 보장할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 초소형 엔진의 고공환경 성능시험 수행을 위한 추력대의 구축 과정을 다루고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.19-19
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• 2000

가스 터빈 엔진의 주요 구성품의 하나인 압축기는 입구 유동 조건의 변화에 따른 성능 변화가 민감하므로 엔진 성능 예측 시 압축기 성능은 매우 중요한 요소라 할 수 있다. 압축기 내의 유동은 본질적으로 비정상 유동이며 역압력 구배에서 작동하는 점에서 해석이 어려운 것으로 알려져 있지만 최근 컴퓨터의 비약적인 발전에 힘입어 전산유체역학(CFD)을 이용한 압축기 익렬 유동해석에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 그러나 이러한 연구는 설계 점 주위의 조건, 즉 압축기 익렬에 대한 입사각이 그다지 크지 않은 경우에 대한 것이 거의 대부분이다.(중략)