In this study, a 3-D flame cooling analysis is conducted to examine thermal safety for the flame deflector of the 75 tonf class propulsion test facility, and the safe discharge of the exhaust gas is assessed by using numerical results. The Mixture multiphase model is adopted for the simulation of heat transfer and phase exchange process between flame and cooling water, and the computational study using the single species unreacted model for the exhaust plume is carried out for the flame cooling. Numerical analysis predicts maximum temperature on the flame deflector wall for different water flow rates, and evaluates the safe minimum flow rate of water corresponding to the fire-resistant temperature for concrete.
A numerical study has been performed to investigate 1-D steady/unsteady start-up characteristics for liquid rocket engines using SINDA/FLUINT. First, in order to verify the analysis of cryogenic fluid, RL-10 engine having expander cycle is selected as a target of present study. Pressure drop in cooling channels was simulated through orifice devices. Satisfactory agreement has been obtained through the comparison of the numerical analysis and the experimental results. Based on these results, a start-up analysis of RD-8 having staged combustion cycle has been performed. As comparison of the numerical analysis and the experimental results, tendency of start-up characteristics had good agreements. This methodology of present study will be able to be used for the analysis of liquid rocket engines as a future work.
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