• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2011년도 제37회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.182-186
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• 2011

Ejector-diffuser system has long been used in many diverse fields of engineering applications and it has advantages over other fluid machinery, because of no moving parts and structural simplicity. This system makes use of high-pressure primary stream to entrain the low-pressure secondary stream through pure shear actions between two streams. In general, the flow field in the ejector-diffuser system is highly complicated due to turbulent mixing, compressibility effects and sometimes flow unsteadiness. A fatal drawback of the ejector system is in its low efficiency. Many works have been done to improve the performance of the ejector system, but not yet satisfactory, compared with that of other fluid machinery. In the present study, a mixing guide vane was installed at the inlet of the secondary stream for the purpose of the performance improvement of the ejector system. A CFD method has been applied to simulate the supersonic flows inside the ejector-diffuser system. The present results obtained were validated with existing experimental data. The mixing guide vane effects are discussed in terms of the entrainment ratio, total pressure loss as well as pressure recovery.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2010년도 제35회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.130-134
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• 2010

1차 유동과 2차 유동이 일정 압력으로 혼합하는 초음속 이젝터의 설계 인자들에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 선정된 이젝터의 설계 인자는 1)질량유량비 2)면적비 3)1차유동의 마하수 이다. 이를 위해 이젝터 유동을 1차원으로 가정하였으며 손실이 있는 경우와 이상적인 경우에 대해 이적테의 성능을 압력비의 항으로 모사하였고 요구되는 이젝터의 수축률을 계산하였다. 또, 이젝터의 최적 설계를 위해 손실을 고려한 경우와 이상적인 경우를 비교하여 작동조건에 필요한 설계점을 도출하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.548-553
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• 2015

The conventional ejector-diffuser system makes use of high pressure primary stream to propel the secondary stream through pure shear action for the purposes of transport or compression of fluid. It has been widely used in many industrial applications such as seawater desalination, solar refrigeration, marine engineering, etc. The present study is performed numerically to study the performance of a two-stage ejector-diffuser system. The detailed flow phenomenon of the ejector-diffuser system has been critically predicted by means of the numerical approach using compressible Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. The axi-symmetric supersonic ejector-diffuser flow has been solved by a fully implicit finite volume scheme with a two-equation k-omega turbulence model. The numerical results are validated with existing experimental data. Detailed flow physics and their contributions on ejector performance are detected to compare both single-stage and two-stage ejectors. The performance improvement on the ejector-diffuser system is discussed in terms of the mass flux ratio and the coefficient of power.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2009년도 제33회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.318-322
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• 2009

Supersonic ejectors are simple mechanical components, which generally perform mixing and/or recompression of two fluid streams. Ejectors have found many applications in engineering. In aerospace engineering, they are used for altitude testing of a propulsion system by reducing the pressure of a test chamber. It is composed of three major sections: a vacuum test chamber, a propulsive nozzle, and a supersonic exhaust diffuser. This paper aims at the improvement of ejector-diffuser performance by focusing attention on reducing exhaust back flow into the test chamber, since alteration of the backflow or recirculation pattern appears as one of the potential means of significantly improving low supersonic ejector-diffuser performance. The simplest backflow-reduction device was an orifice plate at the duct inlet, which would pass the jet and entrained fluid but impede the movement of fluid upstream along the wall. Results clearly showed that the performance of ejector-diffuser system was improved for certain a range of system pressure ratios, where as there was no appreciable transition in the performance for lower pressure ratios and the orifice plate was detrimental to the ejector performance for higher pressure ratios. It is found that an appropriately sized orifice system should produce considerable improvement in the ejector-diffuser performance in the intended range of pressure ratios.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.2145-2150
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• 2003

Ejector system is one of fluid machinery which can entrain the fluid in low pressure part and transport it to the higher pressure part. The ejector system has been widely used for the purpose of obtaining high-vacuum state, fluid transport, thrust augmentation, etc. It can transport a large capacity of fluid with relatively small device of no any moving parts, and thus seldom causes mechanical troubles. However, the conventional ejector system has been pointed out that its overall efficiency is quite low compared with other fluid machinery since it is derived by only the pure shear stresses. In the present study, 4, 6, and 8 lobed petal nozzles with a design Mach number of 1.7 are adopted as a primary nozzle to improve the ejector performance, and are compared with a conventional circular nozzle. The static pressures along the diffuser wall are measured to qualify the flow field inside the supersonic petal ejector system.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2010년도 제34회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.321-325
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• 2010

Supersonic ejectors are simple mechanical components, which generally perform mixing and/or recompression of two fluid streams. Ejectors have found many applications in engineering. In aerospace engineering, they are used for altitude testing of a propulsion system by reducing the pressure of a test chamber. It is composed of three major sections: a vacuum test chamber, a propulsive nozzle, and a supersonic exhaust diffuser. This paper aims at the improvement of ejector-diffuser performance by focusing attention on reducing exhaust back flow into the test chamber, since alteration of the backflow or recirculation pattern appears as one of the potential means of significantly improving low supersonic ejector-diffuser performance. The simplest backflow-reduction device was an orifice plate at the duct inlet, which would pass the jet and entrained fluid but impede the movement of fluid upstream along the wall. Results clearly showed that the performance of ejector-diffuser system was improved for certain a range of system pressure ratios, whereas the orifice plate was detrimental to the ejector performance for higher pressure ratios. It is also found that there is no change in the performance of diffuser with orifice at its inlet, in terms of its pressure recovery. Hence an appropriately sized orifice system should produce considerable improvement in the ejector-diffuser performance in the intended range of pressure ratios.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제33권12호
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• pp.68-75
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• 2005

주유동 기체의 물리적 특성이 초음속 이젝터 성능에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 기체의 분자량과 정압 비열 변화에 따른 성능 변화에 관한 연구는 축대칭 환형 분사 초음속 이젝터를 사용하였다. 주유동 기체로는 공기, $CO_{2}$, Ar, $C_{3}H_{8}$, $CCl_{2}F_{2}$를 사용하였다. 주유동 기체의 분자량과 정압 비열이 증가함에 따라 일정 주유동 압력에 대한 부유동 압력은 증가하였고 이러한 경향은 몰비열이나 비열비의 형태로 통합되어 확인되었다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2013

이젝터-디퓨저 시스템의 성능을 효과적으로 향상시키는 연구는 복잡성과 어려움을 고려하여 중요한 과제이다. 이 연구에서는, 성능 향상을 위해 이젝터-디퓨져 시스템의 이차유동 입구에 Chevron를 설치하여 재설계하였다. 이젝터 내부의 초음속 유동과 충격파를 모사하기 위해 Fluent를 사용하여 수치해석을 수행하였다. 주된 수치해석 결과로부터 Chevron은 이젝터 유동에 긍정적인 영향을 얻었다. 그리고 Chevron의 유무에 따라 이젝터 성능을 비교하였고, chevron의 최적 수는 성능 향상을 위해 설명하였다. 이젝터-디퓨져 시스템의 성능은 유인비, 압력회복 뿐만 아니라 전압손실 관점에서 분석하였다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 기존에 수행되었던 초음속 이젝터에 대한 실험적 연구 및 수치계산 결과에 대한 타당성을 검증하고, 이젝터 유동을 보다 명확히 해석하기 위하여 이젝터 목을 가지는 초음속 이젝터 유동 장에 대하여 k-$\varepsilon$ 난류모델을 적용하였다. 수치계산은 3~200까지의 매우 넓은 범위의 이젝터 작동 압력비에 대하여 수행되었으며, 수치계산 결과들은 이젝터 내부의 유동특성들을 조사하는데 이용되었다. 계산결과, 이젝터 압력비가 6 이상인 경우 이젝터 내부에서 발생하는 유동장은 이젝터 압력비에 크게 의존하지 않는다는 것을 알았다. 본 연구에서 사용된 단순 형태의 초음속 이젝터에 대하여, 2차 정체실의 압력은 이젝터 압력비가 6인 경우에 약 7k㎩로 최소로 되었다. 그러나 이젝터 압력비가 6이상으로 증가하는 경우 2차 정체실의 압력은 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 2차 정체실의 압력증가는 1차 노즐로부터 방출되는 부족팽창 제트유동이 이젝터 벽면에 충돌함으로써 발생하는 재순환 유동으로 설명할 수 있었다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제27권12호
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• pp.1673-1680
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• 2003

It is essential to operate chemical lasers with supersonic ejector system as the laser output power goes up. In this research, ejector design parameter study was carried out for optimal ejector design through understanding the ejector characteristics and design requirements for chemical lasers operating. Designed ejector was 3D annular type with 2$^{nd}$ -throat geometry and pressurized air was used for primary flow. Ejector design was carried out with two steps, quasi-1D gas dynamics was used for first design and commercial code was used to verify the first design. In this study, to get the effect of ejector geometry on its performance, three cases of primary nozzle area ratio and 2$^{nd}$ -throat cross sectional area and two cases of 2$^{nd}$ -throat L/D ratio experiments were carried out. Primary and secondary pressures were measured to get the mass flow rate ratio, minimum secondary pressure, ejector starting pressure and unstarting pressure at every case. In the result, better performance than design level was shown and optimal ejector design method for chemical lasers was obtained.