• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.13-19
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• 2016

Atmospheric spray characteristics were experimentally compared between liquid-gas and liquid-liquid sprays of a pintle injector. In order to study spray characteristics, water and air were used as the simulants and the visualization technic was adopted. Spray images were acquired by using a backlight method by a high-resolution CMOS camera. As a result, when the pintle opening distance increased, liquid sheets became unstabled and fluttering droplets increased. In the liquid-gas case, the breakup performance increased as the pressure of gas injected from the annular orifice increased. In the liquid-liquid case, atomization efficiency decreased as the pressure of liquid injected from the annular orifice increased. Spray angles presented a similar trend between two cases. At the same momentum ratio, the spray angle of liquid-liquid case was lower than the angle of liquid-gas case.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.153-156
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• 2014

This study was aimed to assess combustion stability for coaxial swirl injector and FOOF impinging injector which would be candidates in liquid rocket engine combustors. Simulating combustion tests under atmospheric condition have been conducted by gaseous oxygen and the mixture of methane and propane, using two actual injectors. By analyzing the measured dynamic pressure signals, we have evaluated the combustion stability margin of both injectors by drawing a stability map.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.144-154
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• 2022

Gas injection is a technique applied to improve throttling in liquid rocket engines and atomization in effervescent injectors. When a gas is injected into a liquid, it creates a two-phase flow inside the injector. The changes (bubbly flow, slug flow, annular flow, etc.) in the two-phase flow affect the injector's spray characteristics. In this study, cold-flow tests were performed by using three injectors with different orifice diameters and four aerators with different gas injection hole diameters. The experiments were done by changing the thrust ratio (liquid mass flow rate ratio) and gas-liquid mass flow rate ratio. Two-phase flow transition, breakup length, and discharge coefficient according to the injector/aerator design and flow conditions were investigated in detail.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

A water-flow test was carried out for the nonimpinging-type injector to be equipped on 70 N-class liquid-rocket engine under development. Breakup patterns of injector-spray transit from a smooth jet to wavy one as the injection angle increases, whereas spray-breakup lengths are inversely proportional to the injection pressure. It is confirmed that there exist ruffles on the surface of liquid column, which could be caught through the instantaneous spray images captured by high-speed camera. A phenomenon of spray shedding amplified at the specific pressure level of 0.93 MPa was an unexpected behavior of the injected stream and it is to be investigated further.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.43-53
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• 2000

Experimental studies on determination of the supply leading time of propellants to combustion chamber have been made to stably and efficiently guarantee the ignition process with liquid rocket engine. The propellant used is a Jet A-1 as fuel and a liquid oxygen as oxidizer. Unlike impinging FOOF type of injectors are arranged radially and the designed O/F ratio is 2.34. The present experiment program also includes the stability on the quadlet type of ignitor using the triethylalumimum as an ignition source and injector life tests. Experimental results clarifies that the propellant supply through LOx leading to combustion chamber is proper for stable ignition and combustion processes based on the fuel and oxidizer manifold pressures, combustion chamber pressure, and the variation of flame length from the nozzle exit with lapse time, and shows that the leading supply time of propellants affects the engine performance little. The effect of positioning cooling holes is remarkable to protect the injector face.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.61-65
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• 2010

To research and develop a liquid rocket engine injector, it needs empirical studies about the hydrodynamic and spray characteristics such as pressure drop, mixing and atomization. In this study, the design and implementation of lab-scale cold-flow/hot fire test stand which can supply cryogenic propellant and be controlled by time-critical LabVIEW cyclogram logic has been done. In order to visualize the spray of a liquid-centered swirl coaxial injector in cryogenic condition, LN2-GN2 cold-flow test has been done, and combustor assembly and thrust bed for LOX-$GCH_4$ hot-fire test have been fabricated.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.33-35
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• 2012

This study has been mainly motivated to numerically model the supercritical mixing and combustion processes encountered in the liquid propellant rocket engines. In the present approach, turbulence is represented by the extended k-e model. To account for the real fluid effects, the propellant mixture properties are calculated by using generalized cubic equation of state. In order to realistically represent the turbulence-chemistry interaction in the turbulent nonpremixed flames, the flamelet approach based on the real fluid flamelet library has been adopted. Based on numerical results, the detailed discussions are made for the effects of swirl number on flame structure of supercritical kerosene/LOx double swirl coaxial injector.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2012

To improve the mixing and atomizing performance at the center region of the conventional coaxial shear injector spray, the concept of a coaxial porous injector was invented. This novel injection concept for liquid rocket engines utilizes the Taylor-Culick flow in the cylindrical porous tube. The 2-dimensional injector, which can be converted in three injection configurations, was fabricated, and several cold flow tests using water-air simulant propellant was performed. The hydraulic characteristics and the effects of a gas flow condition on the spray pattern and the Sauter mean diameter (SMD) was analyzed for each configuration. The atomizing mechanism of coaxial porous injector was different with the coaxial shear injector, and it was explained by the momentum of the gas jet, which is injected normally against the center liquid column, and by the secondary disintegration at the wavy interface of liquid jet, which was generated at the recessed region. The SMD of 2D coaxial porous injector, which has higher gas momentum, was measured and it shows better atomizing performance at the center and outer side of spray than the 2D coaxial shear injector.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2004

The flow in the LOX manifold of liquid rocket (KSR-III) has been analyzed using a CAE technique with an objective of modeling injector orifices in order to reduce the computational cost for the flow analysis without much losing the accuracy of capturing the flow physics. The numerical result shows that the flow just above the injector orifices is not uniformly distributed in terms of pressure and mass flow rate in case pre-distributors are not equipped inside the manifold. This non-uniformity of mass flux is attributed to the presence of large-scale flow patterns. Several boundary conditions which were designed to effectively replace the presence of injector orifices have been tested and it was found that a simple modeling can be possible by mimicking the actual shape of the orifices.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.466-476
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• 2000

This paper presents atomization characteristics of a double impinging F -0-0- F type injector with four streams. A phase Doppler particle analyzer was employed to measure the droplet-size and water was used as the inert simulant liquid instead of reactive propellant liquids. The droplet mean diameter (SMD) and size distribution were measured to investigate the effects of the momentum ratio and pressure drop variations. This experimental results can be used during the preliminary design stage of a impinging stream type injector for liquid rockets.