• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.24-30
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• 2013

To guarantee the exact control of missile warhead, it is inevitable to ensure the stabilities in the view points of structural and fluid/thermo dynamics of the rocket motor. Specially, despite of shortness in operating time of the rocket motor which is initial turning type of missile, it occurs frequently some problems of ablation at the neighborhood of the nozzle throat, with the result that the system itself gets to failure. In these connections, in the present study, the effect of the operating time of a rocket motor on the coefficient of convective heat transfer at the nozzle wall is investigated by numerical analysis. As a result, it is turned out that the heat transfer coefficient is largest at the just ahead of nozzle throat and decreases with the increase of operating time of the rocket motor. Furthermore, we found that the radius of curvature of throat becomes smaller, the maximum coefficient of convective heat transfer becomes larger.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.27-33
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• 2013

In this study, the FMEA and FTA for reliability analysis of hybrid rocket motor are performed, that was designed in the Hybrid Rocket Propulsion Laboratory of Korea Aerospace University. In order to carry out these analyses the structure of the hybrid rocket motor is hierarchically divided into 36 parts down to the component level and FMEA is carried out with 72 failure modes. Reliability is assessed based on the FMEA, and the results are used in the FTA to evaluate the overall system reliability. In the FMEA, the relationship between the cause and failure modes, effects and their risk priorities are evaluated qualitatively. 27 failure modes are chosen as those with the critical severity that should be improved with priority. As a result of the FMEA / FTA study, a series of design or material changes are made for the improvement of reliability.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

In this paper, the main cause on excitation of the combustion instability which may occur in the hybrid rocket motor with a diaphragm was studied. Hybrid rocket motor propulsion tests considering various experimental conditions such as with a diaphragm or not, a diameter of diaphragm, oxidizer mass flow rate, fuel length, etc were performed, and the combustion visualization for the inside of a hybrid rocket motor with a diaphragm was performed. With these experimental results, it was confirmed that the main cause of a large excitation was the hole-tone, and it was shown that the hole-tone model can be predicted experimental primary pressure oscillation frequency quite well.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2007

Solid rocket motor that includes AL powder in propellant gets slag during static firing test. Slag is piled up to weak area in motor case and causes dangerous phenomena like explosion of motor. In this paper, It is shown that boots gap liner casting process was developed and static firing test was performed with better results.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.40-47
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• 2008

It is known that the adhesive interface testing of the rocket motor using the ultrasonic wave is superior to the other testing methods about the ability to economical detect the defects. But, the signal analysis of the ultrasonic wave takes a lot of time and efforts because the time interval of the transmitted pulse and the received pulse is too short to separate the reflected signals due to the multi-layers of the rocket motor. The ultrasonic testing of rocket motor have only applied to the automatic system about extremely limited areas like the debond in adhesive interface between the motor case and the insulator. In this study the new technique to detect the debond between the liner and the propellant using the property of the resonance and the lamb waves instead of the existing ultrasonic testing was described.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.55-59
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• 2007

It is known that the adhesive interface testing of the rocket motor which using the ultrasonic wave iS superior to the other testing methods about the economically detectable abiliη of the defects. But, the signal analysis of the ultrasonic wave takes too much time and effort that the time interval of the transmitted pulse and the received pulse is too short to be separated the reflected signals because the structure of the rocket motor is multi-layers. The ultrasonic testing of rocket motor have been only applied with automatic system about extremely limited area like the debond in adhesive interface between the motor case and insulator. In this study the new technique to detect the debond between the liner and the propellant using the property of the resonance and Lamb waves was described as comparing the existence ultrasonic testing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.129-132
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• 2010

The objective of IM rocket motor is to minimize the probability of inadvertent initiation and severity of subsequent collateral damage, hence it is important to define personnel and equipment survivability to a rocket motor accident. The violent response probability associated with shock, impact and thermal effects be minimized. And during production, transportation/storage and stack of rocket motor, sympathetic detonation, giving severe effects of the propagation of adverse reaction on its surroundings, be reduced. Hence Reaction type also based on reaction results of the overpressure, fragment throw and heat flux.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.521-528
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• 2017

In this paper, the numerical analysis for heat conduction of silica/phenolic composite material, which is used for solid rocket nozzle liner or insulator, was conducted. 1-D Finite Difference Method for the analysis of silica/phenolic during the firing of solid rocket motor was used to calculate the heat conduction considering the surface ablation and the thermal decomposition. The boundary condition at the nozzle wall took into account the convective heat transfer, which was obtained by integration equation. The numerical results of the surface ablation and char depth were compared with the results of test motor that is TPEM-10. It was found that the result of calculation is favorably agreed with the thermal response of test motor.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.76-84
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• 2018

In this paper, the numerical analysis for heat conduction of silica/phenolic composite material, used for solid rocket nozzle liners or insulators, is conducted. A 1-dimensional finite difference method for the analysis of silica/phenolic during the firing of a solid rocket motor is used to calculate heat conduction, considering surface ablation and thermal decomposition. The boundary condition at the nozzle wall, considering the convective heat transfer, is obtained via integration equations. The numerical results of the surface ablation and char depth are compared with the results of a TPEM-10 test motor, finding that the result of calculation agrees with the thermal response of the test motor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.61-67
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• 2001

Hybrid propulsion systems provide many advantages in terms of stable operation and safety. However, classical hybrid rocket motors have lower fuel regression rate and combustion efficiency compared to solid propellant rocket motor. The recent research efforts are focused on the improvement of volume limitation and regression rate in the hybrid rocket engine. The present study has numerically investigated the combustion processes in the hybrid rocket engine. The turbulent combustion is represented by the eddy breakup model and Hiroyasu and Nagle and Strickland-Constable model are used for soot formation and soot oxidation. Radiative heat transfer is modeled by finite volume method. To reduce the uncertainties for convective heat transfer near solid fuel surface having strong blowing effect, the Low Reynolds number k-$\varepsilon$ turbulent model is employed. Based on numerical results, the detailed discussion has been made for the turbulent combustion processes in the vortex hybrid rocket engine.