A SPRAY-INTERACTIVE FLAMELET MODEL FOR DIRECT INJECTION ENGINE COMBUSTION

作者:Keum SeungHwan*; Im Hong G; Assanis Dennis N
来源:Combustion Science and Technology, 2012, 184(4): 469-488.
DOI:10.1080/00102202.2011.647141

摘要

Toward higher efficiency and lower emissions, modern direct injection (DI) engines employ various injection strategies. This leads to more complex in-cylinder spray evaporation and combustion processes, requiring more comprehensive modeling approaches. In this study, an extended flamelet model is developed to describe DI engine combustion over a wide range of injection timings. A key feature of the model is to fully incorporate the interaction between spray evaporation and gas-phase combustion. Additional source terms representing the effect of evaporation were incorporated in the flamelet equation solved in the reactive space. A simple test problem demonstrated that the new formulation successfully accounts for the history of the spray evaporation. The extended formulation was implemented into a multidimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code KIVA3v for full cycle engine simulation. The modeling results were successfully validated against available experimental data obtained from a rapid compression facility.

  • 出版日期2012