• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.437-443
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• 2014

Engine is one of the most important parts in a rocket for completing its mission successfully. In this paper, we provide a methodology for estimating reliability and development cost of a liquid rocket engine newly developed. To estimate reliability, a baseline engine is selected considering factors whose effects on reliability are unquantifiable. Then reliability of a baseline engine is adjusted to reflect the effect of factors that can be modeled quantitatively. Using the previous Transcost engine cost expressed in terms of mass and the number of hot firing tests, the engine development cost is reexpressed in reliability and thrust requirements. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the application of the methodology to a turbopump rocket engine using staged combustion cycle with LOX/LH2 propellant.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.69-73
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• 2009

Combustion test results of 1/2.5-scale thrust chamber for 75tonf-class liquid rocket engine were described. The thrust chamber has chamber pressure of 60 bar, propellant mass flow rate of 89 kg/s, and nozzle expansion ratio of 12. The combustion tests were conducted to verify the combustion performance, the regenerative cooling performance and the durability of thrust chamber at design point condition, and then were performed to confirm the operation and the combustion performance at low combustion pressure condition. All the tests had been successfully executed without the damage of the hardware. These test results present a possibility of hot firing test at low combustion pressure condition, and can be used as fundamental data to predict the combustion performance at design point condition for 75 tonf thrust chamber.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.54-61
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• 1998

A numerical simulation is attempted for the regenerative cooling heat transfer processes of the liquid propellant rocket engine. The heat transfer from the combustion gases to the thrust chamber wall is called gas side heat transfer. This heat is conducted radially to the coolant through the carbon deposit and metallic wall of thrust chamber Finally, this heat is convected away by the coolant flowing along the passages in the thrust chamber. The equivalence of these three heat fluxes of the above processes is utilized to determine the coolant side wall temperature, gas side wall temperature and the heat flux. When the number and shape(width, height) of coolant passages, the shape(size) of thrust chamber, oxidant and fuel properties, coolant properties, oxidant/fuel mixture ratio, coolant inlet temperature, the thickness of carbon deposit formed along the thrust chamber wall during combustion are given, reasonable radial direction temperature distributions and heat fluxes along the thrust chamber axis are obtained.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.183-198
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• 2015

Scramjets are a class of hypersonic airbreathing engine that are associated with realizing the technology required for economical, reliable access-to-space and high-speed atmospheric transport. After-burning augments the thrust produced by the scramjet nozzle and creates a more robust nozzle design. This paper presents a numerical study of three parameters and the effect that they have on thrust augmentation. These parameters include the injection pressure, injection angle and streamwise injection position. It is shown that significant levels of thrust augmentation are produced based upon contributions from increased pressure, mass flow and energy in the nozzle. Further understanding of the phenomenon by which thrust augmentation is being produced is provided in the form of a force contribution breakdown, analysis of the nozzle flowfields and finally the analysis of the surface pressure and shear stress distributions acting upon the nozzle wall.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.17-26
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• 2004

In this paper, power transmission systems converts the shaft power of a Turbo-shaft Engine with Free Power Turbine into the generator power and be composed of a method being supplied in the thrust motor driving a propellers. Being used this, Gas turbine engine works to flat rating about 110 kw (147 shp) that the thrust motor be extremely supplied from the engine of 317shp. In this test equipment, the engine is installed with the flywheel being able to the damping function when happen to the varying load between gas turbine engine output-shaft and generator. Then if the flywheel of inertial moment be not considered, the generator and motor not get the required power from the engine for raising the load. Also it is certified that the engine works the abnormal operation. Hence the flywheel of inertial moment is determined the required range to do the performance analysis with the dynamic transient from the given and tested engine data. This system is able to get the required power after a mounting test with the redesigned flywheel.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• v.y2005m4
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• pp.139-143
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• 2005

Combustion Test Facility for Liquid Rocket Engine using kerosene and liquid oxygen has been developed for the purpose of cooling and performance study. Test engine of thrust 0.5 KN(design thrust) is tested to confirm the normal operation. Therefore, water-cooled firing tests using kerosene engine with injectors of fuel-centered coaxial type are conducted. With the viewpoint of characteristic velocity, and specific impulse at sea level, and chamber pressure on OF mixture ratio are analyzed.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.136-145
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• 2007

A computation was made to predict the movement of the thrust center position due to the rocket nozzle deflection. Three dimensional computations were done for the nozzle deflection angles of 0/1/3 degrees, and the oscillation of aerodynamic coefficients, not observed for the axisymmetric cases, was encountered. The position of the thrust center was found to be at -16 mm and -4 mm for the deflection angles of 1 and 3 degrees, respectively, and it can be concluded that the thrust center movement due to nozzle deflection is negligible. In addition to the computational results, the mechanism of thrust generation in a rocket engine is described with a brief mathematical derivation as it is sometimes mistaken. Also presented are some descriptions on the problem of pressure center definition for symmetric cases such as a rocket external flow problem and the nozzle deflection case.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.20-26
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is preventing the stick, scuffing, scratch between piston and cylinder in advance, and obtaining data for duration test in actual engine operation. The temperature gradient in cylinder bore according to coolant temperature were measured using $1.5{\ell}$ class diesel engine. 20 thermocouples were installed 2mm deep inside from cylinder wall near top ring of piston in cylinder block, at which points major thermal loads exist. It is suggested as proper measurement points for engine design by industrial engineers. Under full load and $70^{\circ}$, $80^{\circ}C$ and $90^{\circ}C$ coolant temperature conditions, the temperature in cylinder block and engine oil increased gradually according to the increase of coolant temperature, the siamese side temperature of top dead center is $142^{\circ}C$ in peripheral distribution, that is about $20^{\circ}C$ higher than that at thrust, anti-thrust, and rear side temperature, respectively. The maximum pressure of combustion gas in $70^{\circ}C$ coolant temperature is about 2 bar lower than those of $80^{\circ}C$ and $90^{\circ}C$ coolant temperature. The engine torque in $80^{\circ}C$, $90^{\circ}C$ coolant temperature condition is about 4.9Nm higher than that of $70^{\circ}C$ coolant temperature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.03a
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• pp.870-875
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• 2004

In Japan, a long-waited civil aero engine development project has been recently started by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, NEDO. “High efficiency,” “environmentally friendliness” and “low-cost” are the key words of the target engine. The target engine is of l0000-lb thrust with project consists of three phases: Feasibility studies and market research in the first phase, FY 2003, engine component development in the second phase, FY 2004-2006, and core and full engine demonstrators in the third phase, FY 2007-2009. In league with this government/industry joint funded project, Institute of Space Technology and Aeronautics, JAXA, has initiated “Clean Engine Technology” project.

• 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.