• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.12a
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• pp.131-136
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• 2003

Experimental study on combustion characteristics of double swirl coaxial injectors has been conducted for the assessment of critical design parameters of injectors. A subscale thrust chamber has been fabricated with a water-cooled copper nozzle, which allows a chamber to be reused without replacing parts. Two different designs of injectors have been tested for the understanding of the effects of recess length on combustion. Clearly, the recess length drastically affects the combustion efficiency and hydraulic characteristics of the injector. Internal mixing of propellants in the injector with the recess number of two increases a combustion efficiency and reveals sound combustion although a pressure drop required for the similar amount of mass flow rates increases compared with the injector of the recess number of one.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.85-88
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• 2010

This study has been mainly motivated to numerically model the supercritical mixing and combustion processes encountered in the liquid propellant rocket engines. In the present approach, turbulence is represented by the extended $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence model. To account for the real fluid effects, the propellant mixture properties are calculated by using SRK (Souve-Redlich-Kwong) equation of state. In order to realistically represent the turbulence-chemistry interaction in the turbulent nonpremixed flames, the flamelet approach based on the real fluid flamelet library has been adopted. Based on numerical results, the detailed discussions are made for the real fluid effects and the precise structure of gaseous methane/liquid oxygen coaxial jet flame.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.16-19
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• 2011

An experimental study on the spray characteristics of Gas-centered swirl coaxial injectors(GCSCI) for high-performance staged combustion rocket engines has been carried out using cold flow tests. In this study, water and gaseous nitrogen are used as working fluids and a back-lit photography technique with image processing for the measurements of spray characteristics. Our study is focused on the effect of injector geometries like as gap thickness of liquid nozzle and gas nozzle and momentum flux ratio for fundamental understanding of the injectors.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.8-16
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• 2009

The development of high-pressure sub-scale combustion chambers is described. A total of four high-pressure sub-scale combustion chambers having either a detachable structure of the mixing head and the chamber or a single welded regenerative cooling structure have been developed. The sub-scale combustion chambers have a chamber pressure of 70 bar and propellant mass flow rate of 5.1~9.1 kg/s. The propellant mass flow rate and the recess number of the injector were changed for the improvement of combustion performance and they were validated through hot firing tests. The design and manufacturing techniques of regenerative cooling channel and film cooling to be applied to the full-scale combustion chamber were adopted through the present development and verified.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.141-145
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• 2004

The objective of the present study is to conduct model combustion tests for various injectors to identify their combustion stability characteristics. Three different double swirl coaxial injectors with variation of a recess length have been tested for the comparative study of CH flame structure and dynamic characteristics. Gaseous oxygen and mixture of gaseous methane and propane have been employed for simulating actual propellants used for a full-scale thrust chamber. Upon test results, the direct comparison between various types of injectors can be realized for the selection of the best design among prospective injectors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.229-234
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• 2004

The objective of the present study is to conduct model combustion tests for double swirl coaxial injectors to identify their combustion stability characteristics. Gaseous oxygen and mixture of methane and propane have been used as simulant propellants. Two model chambers tuned to the If acoustic resonance mode of a full-scale thrust chamber were manufactured to be used as a combustion cylinder. The main idea of the experiment is that the mixing mechanism is considered as a dominant factor significantly affecting combustion instability in a full-scale thrust chamber. Self-excited dynamic pressure values in a model chamber show different combustion stability zones with respect to a recess number. Upon test results, couplings between combustion conditions and the IT acoustic resonance mode become strengthened with the increase of a recess length.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.454-456
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• 2012

Conceptual design results of a thrust chamber for a 7 tonf-class liquid rocket engine of KSLV-II 3rd stage were described. The engine system for KSLV-II 3rd stage is pump-fed system, the thrust chamber has vacuum thrust of 6.9 tonf, vacuum specific impulse of 336.9 sec, chamber pressure of 70 bar, nozzle expansion ratio of 94.5, total propellant mass flow rate of 20.5 kg/s, mixture ratio(O/F) of 2.45. The thrust chamber consists of mixing head with 90 coaxial swirl injectors and regeneratively combustion chamber cooled by kerosene.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.59-66
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• 2013

Spray characteristics of single round jet with liquid nitrogen and coaxial spray with liquid nitrogen and gaseous argon were observed. Shadowgraph method was used for spray visualization, and density gradient magnitude image was used to analyse the result. In subcritical condition, irregularity of the jet surface was harder in the coaxial spray. In supercritical condition, diffusion of nitrogen injected from shear coaxial injector was faster than single jet. Jet diameter was induced by averaging images, in supercritical condition, difference of diameter of coaxial jet was rapidly decreased than that of single jet.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1215-1222
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• 1989

본 논문의 목적은 공기 유동장내에 가스분류의 거동을 조사하고 실용 가스 기관의 설계시에 필요한 기초적 데이타를 제공하고자 하는데 있다.본 연구와 관련 된 후래의 연구를 보면 자문등은 열선농도프로브를 사용하여 정상분류중의 농도측정을 행하였고, 분류내의 내부구조를 상세히 조사하였다. 특히, 종래에는 일정하게 보였 던 분류코아 부의 농도변동값의 경향을 구체적으로 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.205-209
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• 2004

The configuration and arrangement of injector in LRE gas generator and combustor have a great impact on combustion process and heat exchange because of affecting atomization, vaporization, mixing and chemical reaction. A relation between injector array and mixing distribution of propellants based on a physical approach was investigated in this study. Programming method of this relation is used to predict mixing distribution of propellants. Simplicity of physical approach and various assumptions make it reduce the accuracy and application of the results of present study. But, this method is very useful to predict the mixing distribution of full scale combustor due to difficulties in cold flow testing.