• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.498-501
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• 2012

The Model Rocket Engine Test Facility has been improved to develop the Korea Space Launch Vehicle II(KSLV-II). The modified Model Rocket Engine Test Facility will be used to develop 7-tonf class liquid rocket engine combustor. The test result and test technique acquired from this facility will be used to develop the high performance liquid rocket engine combustor. This paper describes the modified Model Rocket Engine Test Facility for a Sub-scale model test of the 7-tonf class combustor.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.12a
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• pp.139-143
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• 2003

Study on the ignition characteristics of combustor and gas generator for LOx-kerosene liquid rocket engine was performed experimentally through a series of combustion tests of sub-scale engine combustor and gas generator. Characteristic of gas-torch ignitor based on gaseous methane and gaseous oxygen was compared with hypergolic ignition using propellant tri-ethyl-aluminium. Gas-torch ignitor showed good performance on igniting sub-scale liquid rocket engine combustor and gas generator. It was observed that the ignition delay is also affected by the extent of nitrogen in the combustion chamber.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.83-89
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• 2011

A design plan was proposed for determining combustor configuration of regenerative- cooled liquid rocket engine in the process of preliminary design. Rocket performance and regenerative cooling results were calculated using the properties of combustion gas estimated in CEA. For required thrust, chamber pressure, atmosphere pressure and propellant mixture ratio the mass flow rate of propellants and combustor performance were predicted by one-dimensional and experimental correlations. Finally, determinable plan for the contour of combustor were presented through Rao nozzle design method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.37-42
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• 2010

A design plan was proposed for determining combustor configuration of regenerative- cooled liquid rocket engine in the process of preliminary design. Rocket performance and regenerative cooling results were calculated using the properties of combustion gas estimated in CEA. For required thrust, chamber pressure, atmosphere pressure and propellant mixture ratio the mass flow rate of propellants and combustor performance were predicted using one-dimensional and experimental equations. Finally, determinable plan for contour of combustor were presented through Rao nozzle design method.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.36-42
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• 2004

The Properties of material, C18200 which is used for development of high performance liquid rocket engine combustor chamber were obtained by tension tests. The specimen for regenerative combustor was designed by structural analysis using that Properties. After the designed specimen was manufactured by the same manufacturing process of regenerative combustor. the yielding stress and yielding strain were obtained by strength tests. The properties of C18200 was degraded very much after brazing. The estimation of yielding pressure by structural analysis was almost same as that of strength test. The collector Part was yielded and failed previously than that of cooling channel part during strength test.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.29-33
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• 2009

On the basis of the development experience of a gas generator for the 30 ton-f thrust liquid rocket engine combustor a Subscale Ground Firing Test Facility was designed and fabricated for a gas generator for the 75 ton-f thrust liquid rocket engine combustor. The Subscale Ground Firing Test Facility developed is going to be used to develop 75 ton-f class gas generator. Acquired data and test technique from this facility will be used to develope the high performance liquid rocket engine combustor and the Ground Firing Test Facility. This report describes the improved Subscale Ground Firing Test Facility for 75 ton-f class gas generator and results of the cold flow test.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.52-59
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• 2014

The effect of ceramic thermal barrier coating thickness on the cooling performance of a liquid-propellant rocket engine combustor has been investigated through combustion/cooling performance analysis whose results verified against measured data from hot-firing tests. Also have been confirmed the effects of film cooling amount near the face plate on the coolant temperature and on the thermal barrier coating surface temperature. Some important points to be considered for designing cooling schemes for regeneratively cooled rocket engine combustor have been drawn and reviewed from present study and further verification of the analysis tool should be performed in the future.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.9
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• pp.781-788
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• 2012

Flow in the oxidizer manifold of a liquid rocket combustor has been analysed using an open source CFD toolbox, OpenFOAM. The applicability of OpenFOAM to the problems with complex geometries involving porous media zones for simulating the pressure drop induced by the injectors has been evaluated by performing turbulent, incompressible steady-state flow analysis. The usefulness and applicable area of the OpenFOAM as a design evaluation and analysis tool will be confirmed and enlarged by further evaluation with various computational cases representing major physical phenomena in rocket combustion devices.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.247-250
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• 2005

In the case of appling a unielement injector developed for a full scale liquid rocket combustor, a operating condition or configuration of the injector is changed by combustion pressure, arrangement and injector quantity of a full scale liquid rocket combustor. In order to verify application, swirl coaxial injectors propelled by jet-A1 and liquid oxygen are tested at different conditions of a combustion pressure, a flowrate and an injector length. As a test result, the application of the present swirl coaxial injectors is excellent because an efficiency of a characteristic velocity is increased at the each test condition beyond that variation of dynamic pressure intensity is small.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.443-448
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• 2010

In this paper, the changes in performance parameters, e.g., the combustor pressure, turbine power, engine mixture ratio, temperature of gas generator, and product gas, of a liquid rocket engine employing gas generator cycle with the variations in propellant-supply pressure have been described. Engine performance is numerically calculated using the 13 major system-level variables of the rocket engine. The combustor pressure and turbine power increase with an increase in the oxidizer-supply pressure and decrease with an increase in fuel-supply pressure. The lower mixture ratio of gas generator for increased fuel mass flow rate decreases the gas generator gas temperature and deteriorates the gas material properties as the turbine working fluid. The turbine power decreases with an increase in fuel-supply pressure; this results in a decrease in the main-combustor pressure, which is directly proportional to engine thrust.