• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.03a
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• pp.753-762
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• 2004

Conceptual studies of a combined-cycle engine have been conducted. Herein, the results are presented. The engine is composed of ejector-jet, ramjet, scramjet and rocket modes, and will be mounted on the Single-Stage-to-Orbit aerospace plane. Propellants are hydrogen and oxygen. Calculated engine thrust performances and cooling requirement of the engine are presented. Pitching moment of the plane with the engine will be balanced even in the vacuum condition. The experimental results of the inlet and the ejector-jet, ramjet and scramjet modes are presented. The effect of the airframe configuration on the engine performance and the thermal environment in the in-side of the plane are also presented. Through the investigations, possibilities of the combined-cycle engine and the aerospace plane are being made clear now.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• v.y2005m4
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• pp.355-358
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• 2005

Advances in scramjet technology over the past 40 years odd have been remarkable, involving dramatic advances in hypersonic flight-demonstrated technologies. Especially, it is noticeable that since 1990s the international activity in scramjet development has increased considerably Strong scramjet development capabilities in developed countries are being created through many ongoing research programs for a new generation of industrial and military capability. In this paper the current status of scramjet technology is identified through the investigation of scramjet development programs of each developed country.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.581-585
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• 2009

In this study, conceptual design of the RBCC (Rocket Based Combined Cycle) engine was performed for the hypersonic propulsion system development. For the flight mission, RBCC engine takes off at sea level and accelerates up to Mach 8 at the altitude of 30km. By the flight speed characteristics, operating pattern of the engine is categorized into 3 modes : Ejector jet (~Mach 3), Ramjet (Mach 3~6), Scramjet (Mach 6~8). According to the engine mode characteristics, RBCC engine design and analysis was performed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.584-587
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• 2011

An internal flow aerodynamic test was performed for a Mach 5 scramjet engine. The test was done without fuel injection, as a preliminary test for the combustion test. Test engine is an engineering model with intake cross-section of $70mm{\times}200mm$ and total length of 1.7m. Test facility is a blowdown-type, high enthalpy, hypersonic facility. 19 pressures were measured through the holes on the model surface along the engine internal flow passage. It was found that the facility start is possible, and also supersonic flow is maintained inside the engine.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.03a
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• pp.734-741
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• 2004

Boundary layer ingestion in airframe-integrated scramjet engines causes engine stall (“engine un start” hereafter) and restricts engine performance. To improve the unstart characteristics in engines, boundary layer bleed and a two-staged injection of fuel were examined in Mach 4 and Mach 6 engine tests. A boundary layer bleed system consisting of a porous plate, an air coolers, a metering orifice and an ON/OFF valve, was designed for each of the engines. First, a method to determine bleed rate requirements was developed. Porous plates were designed to suck air out of the Mach 4 engine at a rate of 200 g/s and out of the Mach 6 engine at a rate of 30 g/s. Air coolers were then optimized based on the bleed airflow rates. The exhaust air temperature could be cooled below 600 K in the porous plates and the compact air coolers. The Mach 4 engine tests showed that a small bleed rate of 3% doubled the engine operating range and thrust. With the assistance of two-staged fuel injection of H2, the engine operating range was extended to Ф0.95 and the maximum thrust was tripled to 2560 N. The Mach 6 tests showed that a bleed of 30 g/s (0.6% of captured air in the engine) extended the start limit from Ф0.48 to Ф1 to deliver a maximum thrust of 2460 N.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.76-84
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• 2000

A numerical study was conducted for the investigation of thermal choking process in a model scramjet engine based on the experimental results at the Australian National University. The results of numerical simulation showed that thermal choking process could be related to the interaction between hypersonic flow and fuel-air mixing process. Especially, we could make sure that turbulent mixing was most important parameter to the thermal choking process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.339-343
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• 2006

Model SCRamjet Engine intake is designed for Ground test. The designed Intake provides hot and slow flow with the combustor. Flow separation is controlled by the shock wave segregation based on the Korekegi criteria. With Kantrowitz limit analysis, side wall cut out region is also set for the self start.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.38-48
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• 2005

For the development of Scramjet engine technology, intake designing processes are investigated. The basic geometry is determined by the inviuld relation such as shock wave relations and geometric relations. Furthermore, bleed duct is installed for preventing boundary layer development and shock wave impingement. Performance of the designed intake is validated by numerical analysis. As a result, double- wedge intake showed better characteristics in total pressure recovery than single-wedge intake.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.236-239
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• 2017

A part of the development of Scramjet Engine, this study was performed about Injectors. Barbotage injectors were used for experiment. To study characteristics of injector spray, water is supplied as a main fuel and Nitrogen is supplied for water atomization. Spray test facility and PDPA equipment were used in KARI(Korea Aerospace Research Institute). It was found that gas pressure change and spray distance is important value to spray atomization.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.03a
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• pp.452-455
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• 2008

Model Scramjet engine is tested with T4 free-piston shock tunnel at University of Queensland, Australia. Basically, test condition is fixed as Mach 7.6 at 31 km altitude. With this condition, variation effects of fuel equivalence ratio, cavity, cowl setting and angle of attack were investigated. In the results, supersonic combustion was observed with low and middle fuel equivalence ratio. At high equivalence ratio, thermal choking was occurred due to the intensive reaction. Cavity and W-shape cowl showed early ignition and enhanced mixing respectively.