• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.18-27
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• 2003

To perform combined tests with propellant feeding system and engine, which were developed for KSR-III launcher, vertical test stand was organized and a series of hot-fire combustion tests were carried out with engines of several injector faceplate types. In hot-fire tests in vertical installation, combustion instabilities occurred right after ignition with an engine without baffle, and such combustion instabilities did not occur at ignition add during mainstage operation for an engine with STS or composite baffle. 1.regular and temporary pressure pulsations(popping) were detected during steady operation with a baffle engine, however a development to combustion instabilities with resonant mode was highly suppressed by baffle. With a series of tests, it was confirmed that the last developed engine, which has composite baffle, was operated successfully in KSR-III flight propulsion system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.207-210
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• 2008

We developed an integrated design system for a solid rocket motors. We can do a conceptual design of a solid rocket motor easily and quickly with this system. It consists of four modules, or, size design, structure design, grain design and performance analysis module. Size design module determines the lengths and diameters of some major parts, which results in fixing the whole size of a motor. Structure design module has many master models, which enables a designer can do a conceptual design of almost parts of motor structures. Grain design module can design a solid fuel according to the result of structure design. Finally performance analysis module verifies the proposed design with the output from grain design module.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.44 no.8
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• pp.686-694
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• 2016

During the Cold War, all space developments were focused on the performance only. However economy becomes more important for space development after the Cold War. There is a growing interest in reusable launch vehicle to secure the economic feasibility. In this paper, technology development prospects and direction of reusable launch vehicles and future propulsion systems of various countries are presented.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.57-66
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• 2001

The precise prediction of the performance is essential to develope the system at the development of propulsion system since no experimental data are available. The accuracy of 1on the total system's performance as well as itself, which depends on how the correction fac $I_{sp}$, and so on, are determined in accurate. However some of the design factors are dete engineer's experience or the similar test data if they are available, so far. This study was the method of the determination of correction factors of both $I_{sp}$ and thrust in direct. The bas is to define the detail performance loss mechanism of solid rocket motors, might be occurre and to calculate in quantitative those correction factors from the performance loss mechanism the test results, the model of this study can predict those factors less than 1% error, in additi physical variances of each loss mechanism.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.1-10
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• 2006

In this paper, a calculation method of the thermodynamic parameters of cryogenic propellant is proposed when a cryogenic propellant tank is pressurized by gaseous helium(GHe) bubbling. Temperature of cryogenic propellant and mass of dissolved GHe into propellant were analyzed at the various operation of pressurization of tile liquid oxygen(LOX) and hydrogen($LH_2$) tank using helium bubbling. It was evaluated how the GHe bubbling influences to the thermodynamic parameters of LOX and $LH_2$ with results of the analysis. With the proposed calculation method, It will be able to confirm the feasibility of GHe bubbling as a pressurization system of cryogenic propellant tank and to optimize the pressurization system using GHe bubbling.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.58-64
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• 2003

Pogo is the instability resulting from the interaction between rocket structure and propulsion system of liquid propellant rocket. The coupling of structure and propulsion system can lead to severe problem in rocket. For the analysis of pogo, a time-invariant linearized mathematical model is developed for a selected flight time. Propulsion system is modeled using element representations for each components. Rocket structure is modeled using FEM. Form the results of modal analysis of structure, the behavior of structure can be represented. System equations for coupling structure and propulsion system are composed. The stability in obtained by the eigen solution of system matrix. The optimization of the design variables such as size, place of accumulator for suppressing pogo instability in carried out. This article of study can be used to determine the degree of stability, and guide the design of pogo suppression system.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.26-37
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• 2007

A virtual engine test based on "Numerical test cell" can extremely reduce the time and cost for the development of a hardware by coupling multidisciplinary analysis. This paper introduces the development activities of full engine simulation programs in U.S.A. and Europe, with the their related techniques(the engineering models, the simulation environment and high performance computing) based on the NPSS(Numerical Propulsion System Simulation). NASA Glenn research conte. leads the development efforts of NPSS by assembling the current codes and improving their Auctions. VIVACE(Value Improvement through a Virtual Aeronautical Collaborative Enterprise), a consortium of universities, research centers and companies in Europe, is developing the PROOSIS(PRopulsion Object Oriented Simulation Software). The capability for the domestic development is also estimated by surveying the current status.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.133-142
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• 2010

Propulsion system of launch vehicle is composed with subsystems as propellant tank, pressurization system, propellant fill/drain system, valve operating system, purge system and so on. Among others, pressurization system is the most important subsystem, because of the real-time control part for pressure control of propellant tank. Therefore, it is the subsystem that must be primarily considered on conceptual design process. In this paper, the data of the previously developed pressurization systems were collected and the optimum configuration was selected by analysis of advantage and disadvantage of the systems.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.25-37
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• 2005

For pump-fed rocket propulsion system, the temperature of LOX to be supplied to turbopump inlet should be satisfied with pump inlet temperature requirement during all operating stages, as excessive temperatures can result in cavitation due to reduction in NPSH, thus either damaging the pump or adversely affecting pump performance rise. So exact estimation of LOX temperature rise is absolutely needed for developing reliable propulsion system. This paper presents systematic analysis scheme for estimating inner process of cryogenic propellant tank which is needed for LOX temperature rise. And this paper presents LOX temperature rise and thermal stratification for all rocket operating stages including cooling, filling, waiting, pre-pressurization and firing, with the application of buoyancy driven boundary layer theory.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.795-796
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• 2011

During launch process, ground support facilities perform its duty in established processes by communications with launch vehicle. All ground support systems are operated independently or organically. This paper studied algorithm of propellant filling process and method for liquid oxygen filling system in launch operation in Naro space complex.