• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.47-53
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• 2017

One of the most common causes of failure of space launch vehicles is combustion instability. Combustion instability is a phenomenon that the pressure perturbation inside the combustion chamber is greatly amplified due to the interaction of the pressure perturbation inside the combustion chamber and the heat release perturbation. When this phenomenon becomes worse, an engine failure or launch vehicle crash occurs. In order to predict and avoid such combustion instability, understanding of the phenomenon is indispensable, and numerical, theoretical, and experimental approaches to combustion instability have been carried out worldwidely.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.61-69
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• 2016

This study is the results related to the combustion instability phenomenon with respect to combustor length and thermal power as variables in dual swirling combustor configuration. Especially, the beating phenomena having the insensitive resonance frequency of relatively constant peaks are observed when the combustor lengths increase in a lower power regime. This beating phenomenon might be occurred due to the interacting behaviors of pilot and main burners with different periods. Therefore, such insensitive response seems to be a result of the beating phenomenon with interaction between the pilot and main flames even though the combustor lengths are increased.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.1 no.2 s.2
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• pp.75-83
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• 2001

The characteristics of structural behavior for a cable dome shows a strong nonlinearity and very sensitive by the initial imperfection. The instability phenomenon of Geiger-type cable dome structure is generated due to the in-plane twisting near the critical load level. In this study, therefore, the effect of bracing reinforcement resisting to the in-plane twisting is investigated for the Geiger-type model reinforced by bracing. The effect of initial imperfection is also studied because the structural instability phenomenon of shell-like structure is very sensitive according to the initial condition.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.29-37
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• 2016

This study described the experimental investigations of combustion instability in a model gas turbine combustor. Strong coupling between pressure oscillations and unsteady heat release excites a self-sustained acoustic wave, which results in a loud and annoyed sound, and may also lead to a structural damage to the combustion system. In this study, in order to examine the combustion instability phenomenon of a dual swirling combustor configuration, the information of heat release and pressure fluctuation period with respect to the variation in both thermal power and combustor length was collected experimentally. As a result, the fundamental acoustic frequency turned out to increase with the increasing thermal power without respect to the combustor length. The frequency response to the combustor length was found to have two distinct regimes. In a higher power regime the frequency significantly decreases with the combustor length, as it is expected from the resonance of gas column. However, in a lower power regime it is almost insensitive to the combustor length. This insensitive response might be a result of the beating phenomenon between the interacting pilot and main flames with different periods.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.63-77
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• 2008

This paper described the general concept of combustion instability and its mechanism in gas turbine engines. The approaching method to study this phenomenon was introduced including the up-to-date research activity in tile world. Combustion instability is one of critical problems, still now, affecting engine performance, durability and operation. In addition it is known that this problem is caused by coupling between fuel or air flow fluctuation and heat release rate in gas turbine engines, which is related with NOx reduction strategies. Therefore, in order to understand the current status of combustion instability we reviewed the combustion instability phenomenon in gas turbine engines.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.229-232
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• 2009

DC-shift phenomenon can be observed in Hybrid rocket combustion. This phenomenon makes performance drop which is structure problem or reduce thrust. Understanding of DC-shift phenomenon, the conditions of the hybrid rocket combustion stability can be found. In this paper, the condition of DC-shift was found and made by using acoustic mode and vortex shedding frequency. The conditions of stable combustion was defined from the experimental study of DC-shift phenomenon.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.522-525
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• 2009

DC-shift phenomenon can be observed in Hybrid rocket combustion. This phenomenon makes performance drop which is structure problem or reduce thrust. Understanding of DC-shift phenomenon, the condition of the hybrid rocket combustion stability can be found. In this paper, the condition of Negative DC-shift was found and made by changing oxidizer flow with pre-post chamber. The Negative C-shift phenomenon and characteristic were defined from the experimental study.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.131-133
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• 2003

Voltage instability has been studied for some decade now. But, there is not generally accepted definition of voltage instability because of the complex phenomenon and the variety of ways in which it can manifest itself. Both IEEE and CIGRE have the respective definitions. The areas of voltage instability research arc the analysis, simulation and countermeasure of voltage instability. In this paper, we perform a dynamic simulation of voltage instability and voltage collapse using EMTP MODELS. The exponential load model is designed with MODELS and this load model is connected with test power system. The result shows the process of voltage change in time domain when the voltage instability or voltage collapse occurs.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.3 no.1 s.7
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• pp.87-97
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• 2003

The structural system that discreterized from continuous shells is frequently used to make a large space structures. As well these structures show the unstable phenomena when a load level over the limit load, and snap-through and bifurcation are most well known of it. For the collapse mechanism, rise-span ratio, element stiffness and load mode are main factor, which it give an effect to unstable behavior. In our real situation, most structures have semi-rigid joint that has middle characteristic between pin and rigid joint. So the knowledge of semi-rigid joint is very important problem of stable large space structure. And the instability phenemena of framed space structures show a strong non-linearity and very sensitive behavior according to the joint rigidity For this reason In this study, we are investigating to unstable problem of framed structure with semi-rigidity and to grasp the nonlinear instability behavior that make the fundamental collapse mechanism of the large space frame structures with semi-rigid joint, by proposed the numerical analysis method. Using the incremental stiffness matrix in chapter 2, we study instability of space structures.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.99-104
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• 2001

This paper deals with the development of shock stable scheme that is free from shock instability. Roe's FDS is known to preserve good accuracy but to suffer from shock instability, i.e. the carbuncle phenomenon. As the first step toward the shock stable scheme, Roe's FDS is compared with HLLE scheme to identify the source of shock instability. Then control function f is introduced into the pressure term in Roe's FDS to cure shock instability. Various numerical tests concerned with shock instability are performed to demonstrate the shock stability of the proposed scheme.