• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.1-1
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• 1998

로켓엔진 추력발생용으로 광범위하게 사용되는 액체추진제는 고성능, 대용량의 액체추진제 로켓엔진에서는 필연적으로 고주파 연소불안정의 문제를 수반하며, 이 연소불안정의 정도는 연소성능과 더불어 엔진개발의 성패를 좌우하는 중요한 여건이 된다. 따라서 안정한 로켓의 비행을 보장하기 위해서는 연소불안정의 문제가 선결되어야 한다. 연소불안정의 기본 메커니즘은 연소기에서 발생하는 압력섭동에 반응하여 불안정한 음향에너지를 되먹임하는 연소과정으로 설명된다. 연소불안정 현상이 발견된 이후 실험 및 이론적 접근에 의해 이와 같은 연소불안정 메커니즘 및 예측에 대한 체계적인 연구가 이루어져 왔으며, 현재까지의 다양한 고주파 연소불안정 예측방법 중에서 음향 및 기화 응답함수를 이용하는 방법은 직관적 고찰에 의존하는 단순한 연소모델을 적용하며 주로 음향적 섭동에 의한 연소의 반응을 연소안정성 평가의 파라메터로 사용한다. 이와 같은 음향적인 예측방법은 연소불안정 현상을 이론적으로 전개하므로 경제적으로 각종 설계변수에 대한 연소불안정의 변화를 구분할 수 있는 장점이 있어 성능 및 호환설계와 병행하여 로켓엔진 연소실의 초기 안정성 설계방법으로 주로 사용된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.257-263
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• 2006

Liquid rocket combustion chamber must have high confidence in combustion performance and combustion stability. Expecially, an injector playing a part in the mixing of propellants is an important parameter to determine it. The present study was carried out in the viewpoint of combustion stability to evaluate the combustion stability characteristics of Coaxial Swirl Injector, using a model similarity method. Besides, in case of baffle applied to improve combustion stability, the effectiveness getting from changing the axial length and the gap of baffle was investigated.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.92-100
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• 2010

Combustion stability rating tests of 75-tonf-class thrust chamber for technology demonstration were carried out at a low pressure. Two kinds of mixing heads were used in this study. One of them has injectors of 631 and the other has injectors of 721. Mixing head with injectors of 631 showed a self-oscillation instability at the chamber pressure of 30 bar. Mixing head with injectors of 721 showed that a high frequency combustion stability was maintained under the same pressure and the same mass flow rate. But mixing head with injectors of 721 generated a self-oscillation instability at the chamber pressure of 20 bar and it was found that stability boundary region was changed due to the configuration of a mixing head from these results.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.52-60
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• 2010

Combustion stability tests of 30 $ton_f$-class LRE thrust chamber with double swirl coaxial injector were carried out in domestic ground combustion test facility by means of artificial perturbation method. In these tests, thrust chambers with varying design factors like recess number of injector, baffle length, types of film cooling and chamber diameter were used and test results showed that these design factors are closely related with high frequency combustion stability. By using the oscillation decrement instead of the decay time in the combustion stability analysis of artificially perturbed LRE thrust chamber, it was confirmed that increment of damping factor results in the improvement of high frequency combustion stability of LRE thrust chamber.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.99-106
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• 2005

The SRT(stability rating test) technique, which is indispensable for the development of a LRE(liquid rocket engine), essentially requires a development of a combustion test sequence as well as artificial perturbation devices. For the development of an indigenous SRT technique, several combustion tests of sub-scale LRE were performed to search a proper combustion test sequence. At first, a pressure-wave inducing device which is used for adapting pulse gun was designed and a cooling gas supply system for the pressure-wave inducing device was set up to prevent a malfunction of pulse gun. Through the several combustion tests which included cooling procedure of a pressure-wave inducing device, a proper combustion test sequence was found out. It did not make any significant disturbance at normal combustion process. Finally, an indigenous SRT technique has been developed successfully.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2007

Effects of combustion chamber design on combustion stability characteristics of a full-scale gas generator were studied experimentally. Thirty seven double-swirl injectors with recess number of 1.5 were distributed in the injector head, which significantly influences combustion performance. The characteristics of combustion stability were inspected by the parametric variations such as changing length and diameter of the combustion chamber and installing a turbulence ring. The experimental result shows that as the effective length of the combustion chamber decreased, an instability frequency took place in a high-frequency region, and the amplitude of the dynamic pressure generally diminished and could be reduced to the unharmful level. However, the dynamic pressure fluctuation in the region of longitudinal resonant frequency could not be suppressed perfectly.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.515-519
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• 2011

Structural tests for the mixing head of a 75tonf class thrust chamber were performed to verify structural stability. The mixing head of a thrust chamber is loaded by high pressure with regeneratively cooled fuel and cryogenic liquid oxygen(LOx) as well as it transfers thrust load generated by liquid rocket engine. Therefore structural stability of mixing head is a very important factor to work without any plastic deformation or structural failure. In this study, two mixing heads were manufactured using different welding methods, Tungsten Inert Gas(TIG) welding and Electron Beam Welding(EBW) and evaluated a structural stability. The results of structural tests showed that the mixing head assembled by EBW can withstand the applied design load without any structural failures and be structurally more stable than that of TIG welding.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.171-177
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• 1995

추진기관 연소관 제작시 발생하는 결함등에는 주로 표면결함의 형태의 것이 많은데 연소관 설계시 이러한 결함들의 영향을 고려하는 것이 구조물의 안정성에 있어 중요한 요소가 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 연소관에 발생할수 있는 결함들에 대한 파단하중 및 파단압력에 대한 탄성 및 탄소성해석을 통하여 파괴 매개변수인 J적분을 유한요소 프로그램인 ABAQUS를 이용하여 3차원 비선형해석을 수행하여 5가지의 균열모델을 사용하여 평판, 양단개방 압력용기(open tube) 및 양단막힘 압력용기 (closed tube)의 파단하중하에서의 J적분의 영향을 분석하였다. 평판 결함시편의 J적분으로부터 압력용기의 손상허용설계를 할 수 있는 방안을 조사 하였으며 추진기관 연소관에 적용하여 발생가능한 크기의 결함에 대한 안정성을 조사한결과 충분한 안정성을 확보하고 있음을 알수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.171-176
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• 2006

An experimental study on a fuel-rich gas generator was carried out. Thirty seven double-swirl injectors with recess number of 1.5 were distributed and installed in the injector head, which significantly influences the combustion performance. In the paper, the characteristics of combustion stability are inspected by the parametric varations such as changing length and diameter of a combustion chamber and installing a turbulence ring. The experimental results show that as a resonant frequency took place in a high region, the amplitude of the dynamic pressure generally diminished, however, the combustion instability could not be suppressed perfectly.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.240-246
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• 2005

A series of combustion tests of a 30-tonf-class full scale liquid rocket thrust chamber under development has been carried out to verify its design. The test results revealed decent performance in the aspects of efficiency. The combustion stability is one of the most important parameters of liquid rocket engine in addition to the efficiency. Assessment tests of combustion stability must be accomplished to confirm the possibility of combustion instability due to spontaneous or external disturbances. The combustion stability rating tests of the full scale thrust chamber with temporary baffles made of stainless steel were carried out utilizing pulse guns to estimate combustion stability characteristics. The tests results show highly stable combustion stability characteristics. The outcome acquired from the present experimental study will be used to design an actively cooled baffle that can survive for the life time operation of the thrust chamber.