• 한국연소학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2001

Propagation characteristics of tribrachial flames have been studied numerically in a two-dimensional fuel/oxidizer mixing layer. A flame is initiated by imposing a high temperature ignition source. Subsequent propagation of a tribrachial flame is traced. The flow redirection effect at the leading edge of a tribrachial flame increases the propagation speed beyond the corresponding stoichiometric laminar burning velocity. The effect of mixture fraction gradient on the propagation speed of a tribrachial flame is analyzed in a mixing layer considering that mixture fraction gradient increases as a tribrachial flame propagates toward upstream. As the flame curvature at the leading edge increases with decreasing mixture fraction gradient, the flow redirection effect becomes more pronounced on the flame propagation speed. As a result, the propagation speed of a tribrachial flame increases with decreasing mixture fraction gradient.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.232-241
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• 2011

하이브리드 로켓은 난류 산화제 유동과 고체 추진제의 기화로 인한 분사 유동 사이의 상호 작용에 의해 복잡한 형태의 혼합 전단층이 존재한다는 특별한 성질을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 유동 간섭에 의해 표면에서 발생하는 진동 유동의 물리적 특성을 연구하기 위하여 압축성 효과를 고려한 질량분사가 있는 덕트 유동의 LES(Large Eddy Simulation) 해석을 수행하였다. 계산 결과에 따르면, 기화 질량이 분출됨에 따라 주유동방향 와류의 특성이 강해지고 국부적으로 발생하는 역류 현상을 근거로 벽면 근방에서 원주방향 와류가 생성됨을 확인하였다. 그리고 시간 특성을 갖고 나타나는 와류 흘림 현상은 혼합 전단층에 기인한 유동 불안정성에 의해 촉진되었으며, 분출유동에 의해 발달한 고유 진동 유동을 의미하는 압력 섭동의 특정 진동수가 $\omega$=8.8에서 검출됨을 확인하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.625-632
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• 2011

[ $CH_4$ ]고온공기 대향류 확산화염의 점화특성을 화염제어 연속계산법을 이용하여 수치해석적으로 검토하였다. 화학반응의 계산에는 GRI-v1.2 반응기구를 이용하였으며, 화염 최고온도를 총괄 스트레인율의 역수에 대해 나타내어 점화 및 소화특성에 관한 화염 최고온도의 S-곡선을 얻을 수 있었다. 총괄 스트레인율 변화에 따른 화염구조를 고찰하기 위해 S-곡선에서 Upper Branch와 Middle Branch의 화염 온도 분포와 속도구배를 비교하였다. 총괄 스트레인율값은 화염면과 혼합층의 연료과 공기측 경계에서 정의되는 국소 스트레인율값과도 비교하였다. 연료측과 공기측의 국소 스트레인율은 총괄 스트레인율과의 좋은 상관관계에 있음을 알 수 있었다. 화염제어 연속계산법이 확산화염의 점화, 소화특성을 검토하는 데 매우 유용한 방법임을 확인하였다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.9-19
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• 2015

초공동 수중운동체의 연료 및 산화제 분사기 설계를 위한 동축형 분사기를 이용한 입자 부상유동의 특성에 대한 실험적 연구가 수행되었다. 입자와 유동의 특성을 계측하기 위하여 $1{\mu}m$의 $42{\mu}m$의 입자를 동시에 분사하였다. 작은 입자($1{\mu}m$)와 큰 입자($42{\mu}m$)는 각각 유동장와 연료의 특성을 대표한다. 작은 입자는 PIV 기법을 사용하고 큰 입자는 PTV 기법을 통하여 속도장을 측정하였다. 이를 통하여 입자의 로딩비가 증가 할수록 유동의 축방향 속도 변화가 크다는 것을 알 수 있었고, 입자 분포는 높은 와도를 지니는 혼합영역 바깥 부분에 주로 분포한다는 것을 알 수 있다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2011년도 제36회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1-2
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• 2011

Hybrid rockets have lately attracted attention as a strong candidate of small, low cost, safe and reliable launch vehicles. A significant topic is that the first commercially sponsored space ship, SpaceShipOne vehicle chose a hybrid rocket. The main factors for the choice were safety of operation, system cost, quick turnaround, and thrust termination. In Japan, five universities including Hokkaido University and three private companies organized "Hybrid Rocket Research Group" from 1998 to 2002. Their main purpose was to downsize the cost and scale of rocket experiments. In 2002, UNISEC (University Space Engineering Consortium) and HASTIC (Hokkaido Aerospace Science and Technology Incubation Center) took over the educational and R&D rocket activities respectively and the research group dissolved. In 2008, JAXA/ISAS and eleven universities formed "Hybrid Rocket Research Working Group" as a subcommittee of the Steering Committee for Space Engineering in ISAS. Their goal is to demonstrate technical feasibility of lowcost and high frequency launches of nano/micro satellites into sun-synchronous orbits. Hybrid rockets use a combination of solid and liquid propellants. Usually the fuel is in a solid phase. A serious problem of hybrid rockets is the low regression rate of the solid fuel. In single port hybrids the low regression rate below 1 mm/s causes large L/D exceeding a hundred and small fuel loading ratio falling below 0.3. Multi-port hybrids are a typical solution to solve this problem. However, this solution is not the mainstream in Japan. Another approach is to use high regression rate fuels. For example, a fuel regression rate of 4 mm/s decreases L/D to around 10 and increases the loading ratio to around 0.75. Liquefying fuels such as paraffins are strong candidates for high regression fuels and subject of active research in Japan too. Nakagawa et al. in Tokai University employed EVA (Ethylene Vinyl Acetate) to modify viscosity of paraffin based fuels and investigated the effect of viscosity on regression rates. Wada et al. in Akita University employed LTP (Low melting ThermoPlastic) as another candidate of liquefying fuels and demonstrated high regression rates comparable to paraffin fuels. Hori et al. in JAXA/ISAS employed glycidylazide-poly(ethylene glycol) (GAP-PEG) copolymers as high regression rate fuels and modified the combustion characteristics by changing the PEG mixing ratio. Regression rate improvement by changing internal ballistics is another stream of research. The author proposed a new fuel configuration named "CAMUI" in 1998. CAMUI comes from an abbreviation of "cascaded multistage impinging-jet" meaning the distinctive flow field. A CAMUI type fuel grain consists of several cylindrical fuel blocks with two ports in axial direction. The port alignment shifts 90 degrees with each other to make jets out of ports impinge on the upstream end face of the downstream fuel block, resulting in intense heat transfer to the fuel. Yuasa et al. in Tokyo Metropolitan University employed swirling injection method and improved regression rates more than three times higher. However, regression rate distribution along the axis is not uniform due to the decay of the swirl strength. Aso et al. in Kyushu University employed multi-swirl injection to solve this problem. Combinations of swirling injection and paraffin based fuel have been tried and some results show very high regression rates exceeding ten times of conventional one. High fuel regression rates by new fuel, new internal ballistics, or combination of them require faster fuel-oxidizer mixing to maintain combustion efficiency. Nakagawa et al. succeeded to improve combustion efficiency of a paraffin-based fuel from 77% to 96% by a baffle plate. Another effective approach some researchers are trying is to use an aft-chamber to increase residence time. Better understanding of the new flow fields is necessary to reveal basic mechanisms of regression enhancement. Yuasa et al. visualized the combustion field in a swirling injection type motor. Nakagawa et al. observed boundary layer combustion of wax-based fuels. To understand detailed flow structures in swirling flow type hybrids, Sawada et al. (Tohoku Univ.), Teramoto et al. (Univ. of Tokyo), Shimada et al. (ISAS), and Tsuboi et al. (Kyushu Inst. Tech.) are trying to simulate the flow field numerically. Main challenges are turbulent reaction, stiffness due to low Mach number flow, fuel regression model, and other non-steady phenomena. Oshima et al. in Hokkaido University simulated CAMUI type flow fields and discussed correspondence relation between regression distribution of a burning surface and the vortex structure over the surface.