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- Wadekar, Sandip, 1989
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Large-Eddy Simulation of Gasoline Fuel Spray Injection at Ultra-High Injection Pressures
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Gasoline direct injection is a state-of-the-art technique that reduces hydrocarbon and particulate emissions. However, further improvement is needed to meet current as well as future emission regulations. A prominent solution is to increase the fuel injection pressure which allows faster fuel droplet atomization, quick evaporation and improves fuel-air mixture formation under realistic engine conditions. In this work, the gasoline fuel injection process at ultra-high injection pressures ranging from 200 to 1500 bar was analyzed using numerical models. In particular, the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) method, with the standard Smagorinsky turbulence model, was utilized using the Eulerian formulation for the continuous phase. The discrete droplet phase was treated using a Lagrangian formulation together with spray sub-models. In the first part of study, spray was injected into an initially quiescent constant volume chamber using two different nozzle hole shape geometries: divergent and convergent. The numerical results were calibrated by reproducing experimentally observed liquid penetration length and efforts were made to understand the influence of ultra-high injection pressures on spray development. The calibrated models were then used to investigate the impact of ultra-high injection pressures on mean droplet sizes, droplet size distribution, spray-induced large-scale eddies and entrainment rate. The results showed that, at ultra-high injection pressures, the mean droplet sizes were significantly reduced and the droplets achieving very high velocities. Integral length scales of spray-induced turbulence and air entrainment rate were better for the divergent-shaped injector, and considerably larger at higher injection pressures compared to lower ones. In the second part of the study, four consecutive full-cycle cold flow LES simulations were carried out to generate realistic turbulence inside the engine cylinder. The first three cycles were ignored, with the fourth cycle being used to model the injection of the fuel using the divergent-shaped injector only (which was found to be better in the previous part of this study) at different injection pressures. In addition to the continuous gas phase (Eulerian) and the dispersed liquid (Lagrangian), the liquid film feature (Finite-Area) was used to model the impingement of fuel spray on the engine walls and subsequent liquid film formation. The simulation results were used to evaluate spray-induced turbulence, fuel-air mixing efficiency and the amount of liquid mass deposited on the walls. The limitation of the high-pressure injection technique with respect to liquid film formation was optimized using a start of injection (SOI) sweep. Overall results showed that the mixing efficiency increased at high injection pressure and that SOI should occur between early injection and late injection to optimize the amount of mass being deposited on the engine walls.
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- Etikyala, Sreelekha, 1991
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Particulate Formation in GDI Engines
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The need to comply with stringent emission regulations while improving fuel economy and reducing criteria pollutant emissions from transportation presents a major challenge in the design of gasoline Direct Injection (DI) engines because of the adverse effects of ultrafine Particulate Number (PN) emissions on human health and other environmental concerns. With upcoming advances in vehicle electrification, it may be the case that electric vehicles completely replace all current vehicles powered by internal combustion engines ensuring zero emissions. In the meantime, Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) engines have become the primary mode of transportation using gasoline as they offer better fuel economy while also providing low CO2 emissions. However, GDI engines tend to produce relatively high PN emissions when compared to conventional Port Fuel Injection (PFI) engines, largely because of challenges associated with in-cylinder liquid fuel injection. Cold-starts, transients, and high load operation generate a disproportionate share of PN emissions from GDI engines over a certification cycle. The mechanisms of PN formation during these stages must therefore be understood to identify solutions that reduce overall PN emissions in order to comply with increasingly strict emissions standards. This work presents experimental studies on particulate emissions from a naturally aspirated single cylinder metal gasoline engine run in a homogeneous configuration. The engine was adapted to enable operation in both DI and PFI modes. In PFI mode, injection was performed through a custom inlet manifold about 50 cm from the cylinder head to maximize the homogeneity of the fuel-air mixture. The metal head was eventually modified by incorporating an endoscope that made it possible to visualize the combustion process inside the cylinder. The experimental campaigns were structured to systematically isolate and clarify PN formation mechanisms. Tests were initially performed in steady state mode to obtain preliminary insights and to screen operating conditions before conducting transient tests. Particulate emissions were measured and correlated with the images obtained through endoscope visualization where possible. Key objectives of these studies were to find ways of reducing PN formation by increasing combustion stability. It was found that by avoiding conditions that cause wall wetting with liquid fuel, PN emissions can be substantially reduced during both steady state operation and transients. Warming the coolant and injecting fuel at later timings reduced PN emissions during warmup and cold transient conditions. Additionally, experiments using fuel blends with different oxygenate contents showed that the chemical composition of the fuel strongly influences particulate formation under steady state and transient conditions, and that this effect is load-dependent. Overall, the results obtained in this work indicate that wall wetting is the dominant cause of particulate formation inside the cylinder and that fuel-wall interactions involving the piston, cylinder walls, and valves during fuel injection account for a significant proportion of PN emissions in the engine raw exhaust.
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- Hadadpour, Ahmad
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Spray combustion with multiple-injection in modern engine conditions
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Combustion of fuel in diesel engines emits substances harmful to the environment such as soot. These emissions can be reduced by either in-cylinder treatments or after-treatments. One of the common in-cylinder treatments is multiple-injection, which divides a single fuel injection to multiple smaller injections. There are many open questions on the physical processes of the ignition, combustion and emissions of diesel spray flame with multiple injections. The current PhD project aims at studying these processes using large-eddy simulations (LES) and strives to answer some of the open questions. To develop a fast and robust LES tool for this study, a new method is formulated for spray combustion simulation. This method is developed based on the flamelet-generated manifold (FGM) method and the Eulerian stochastic fields (ESF) method. The new ESF/FGM method relaxes some of the substantial assumptions in conventional FGM, while it still keeps the computational costs at a reasonable level for engineering applications. Additionally in this work, a new reaction progress variable for FGM models is proposed by using local oxygen consumption, and the advantages and limitations of this progress variable are explored. Spray-A from Engine Combustion Network (ECN) which is designed to mimic modern engine conditions is chosen as the baseline case for simulations. In this case, liquid n-dodecane, which is a diesel surrogate, is injected into a high-pressure constant-volume vessel. The comparison of simulation results with experimental measurements shows that the ESF/FGM method with the new progress variable can predict the spray combustion characteristics such as ignition delay time, ignition location, lift-off length, pressure rise and thermochemical structure of the spray flame, accurately. After validation of simulation results against experimental measurements, the new ESF/FGM and other available turbulence-combustion simulation tools are applied to simulate multiple-injection spray combustion. Different multiple-injection strategies are investigated by systematically changing the injection timing. The effects of applying each strategy on the ignition, combustion, mixing and emissions are investigated. The results show that in split-injection and post-injection strategies the major physical reason for reduction of soot is better air entrainment and lower local equivalence ratio. It is shown that increasing the dwell time and retarding it toward the end of injection can enhance this effect. On the contrary, for the pre-injection strategies, shortening the ignition delay time of the main injection reduces its pre-mixing and increases its soot formation. In these strategies, the high-temperature region from the pre-injection combustion can increase soot oxidation of the main injection fuel, only if this region is not cooled down as a result of air entrainment during dwell time. Therefore, in such cases shortening the dwell time decreases net soot emissions.
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- Li, Xiaojian, 1991, et al.
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Installation effects on engine design
- 2020
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Increasing the engine bypass ratio is one way to improve propulsive efficiency. However, an increase in the bypass ratio (BPR) has usually been associated with an increase in the fan diameter. Consequently, there can be a notable increase in the impact of the engine installation on the overall aircraft performance. In order to achieve a better balance between those factors, it requires novel nacelle and engine design concepts. This report mainly reviews installation effects on engine design. Firstly, the installation effects assessment methods are introduced. Then, the installation effects on engine cycle design, intake design and exhaust design are sequentially reviewed.
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- Thulin, Oskar, 1987
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On the Analysis of Energy Efficient Aircraft Engines
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Aero engine performance analysis is highly multidimensional using various measures of component performance such as turbomachinery and mechanical efficiencies, and pressure loss coefficients. Using conventional performance analysis, relying on only the laws of thermodynamics, it is possible to understand how the performance parameters affect the component performance, but it is difficult to directly compare the magnitude of various loss sources. A comprehensive framework has been detailed to analyze aero engine loss sources in one common currency. As the common currency yields a measure of the lost work potential in every component, it is used to relate the component performance to the system performance. The theory includes a more detailed layout of all the terms that apply to a propulsion unit than presented before. The framework is here adopted to real gases to be used in state of the art performance codes. Additionally, the framework is further developed to enable detailed studies of two radical intercooling concepts that either rejects the core heat in the outer nacelle surfaces or uses the core heat for powering of a secondary cycle. The theory is also extended upon by presenting the installed rational efficiency, a true measure of the propulsion subsystem performance, including the installation effects of the propulsion subsystem as it adds weight and drag that needs to be compensated for in the performance assessment.
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- Edman, Jonas, 1973
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Modeling Diesel spray combustion using a Detailed Chemistry Approach
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The rapid development of computer hardware during the past decade has contributed substantially to advances in almost all branches of science. Computer modeling is being applied to increasingly small physical scales and increasingly large domains, facilitating the generation of advanced phenomenological models and models based on first principles. These developments have been especially valuable in fields where highly complex micro-scale events are observed or modeled, such as combustion studies, allowing (for instance) the incorporation of complex chemical combustion kinetics into engine spray combustion models. The crude models and global curve fits that were previously used to represent combustion phenomena have now been largely replaced by models based on "first principles". These modeling developments have coincided fortuitously with a shift in the focus of combustion concepts, from mixing-oriented combustion modes like Diesel and stratified charge Otto combustion to the kinetically controlled combustion modes usually referred to as Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI). The driving forces behind the development of the HCCI concept are environmental considerations, manifested in the form of emission legislation. Theoretically, HCCI combustion (characterized by fuel lean mixtures and low peak temperatures) has the potential to reduce soot and NOx emissions to current emission legislation levels even without after-treatment systems. In practical production engine applications, due to current drawbacks such as poor high load capability, the capacity to switch to conventional mode at high load operation is required. For the above reasons, computer modeling that is capable of describing both old and new combustion modes is required. In the work underlying this thesis, CFD modeling was applied to the passenger car Dl Diesel engine operated in both HCCI and conventional Diesel combustion modes. The aim was to couple chemical combustion kinetics and turbulent mixing in order to capture relevant phenomena related to ignition and emission formation for both modes. The resulting, coupled model is referred to as the Partially Stirred Reactor model (PaSR), and is the main component in the Detailed Chemistry Approach currently utilized in combustion modeling at Chalmers University of Technology (CTH). Other essential components of the Detailed Chemistry Approach are the Reference Species Technique (used to determine the relevant chemical timescales) and the Diesel fuel surrogate model (constructed to facilitate realistic treatment of the fuel in both liquid and gaseous states). The gaseous kinetic treatment of the Diesel fuel surrogate model, represented by a blend of aliphatic and aromatic components, consists of a chemical kinetic mechanism considering -75 chemical species participating in -330 elementary or global reactions describing n-heptane and toluene oxidation. Although most of the modeling was done in the CFD code KIVA-3V rel2, the development and validation of the chemical kinetic combustion mechanism was done using the SENKIN code and the CHEMKIN package. The chemical kinetic modeling has provided a kinetic mechanism for Diesel combustion that is capable of reproducing experimental ignition delay characteristics of both n-heptane and toluene oxidation in both low and high pressure regimes. In addition, it reproduces the negative temperature coefficient behavior that is an important feature of commercial Diesel fuels. It has also been able to reproduce cool flame phenomena, which play important roles in HCCI combustion. Results from the constant volume spray modeling have shown that the spray development, liquid and gas penetration and ignition characteristics observed in high pressure Diesel spray experiments are properly reproduced. Furthermore, major combustion variables such as ignition timing, heat release and pressure traces generated in engine simulations have satisfactorily reproduced experimental data acquired in tests using a single cylinder engine at Chalmers University of Technology.
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- Binder, Christian, 1988-, et al.
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Phosphor Thermometry for In-Cylinder Surface Temperature Measurements in Diesel Engines
- 2019
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Ingår i: Measurement science and technology. - 0957-0233 .- 1361-6501.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Surface temperature measurements in technically relevant applications can be very hallenging and yet of great importance. Phosphor thermometry is a temperature measurement technique that has previously been employed in technically relevant applications to obtain surface temperature. The technique is based on temperature-dependent changes in a phosphor’s luminescence. To improve the accuracy and precision of temperature measurements with this technique, the present study considers, by way of example, the impact of conditions inside the cylinder of a diesel engine on decay time based phosphor thermometry. After an initial, general assessment of the effect of prevailing measurement conditions, this research investigates errors caused by soot luminosity, extinction, signal trapping and changes of phosphors’ luminescence properties due to exposure to the harsh environment. Furthermore, preferable properties of phosphors which are suitable for in-cylinder temperature measurements are discussed. 16 phosphors are evaluated, including four which – to the authors’ knowledge –have previously not been used in thermometry. Results indicate that errors due to photocathode bleaching, extinction, signal trapping and changes of luminescence properties may cause an erroneous temperature evaluation with temperature errors in the order of serval tens of Kelvin.
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- Caprioli, Sara, 1978
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Thermal impact on rolling contact fatigue of railway wheels
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Rolling contact fatigue (RCF) is a very common and costly damage mechanism for rails and wheels. This thesis investigates the influence of combined thermal and mechanical loading on RCF of railway wheels on the basis of numerical predictions. The established computational framework includes heat flux analyses, (two- and three-dimensional) elastoplastic finite element simulations and subsequent RCF life analyses. The computational framework is employed to quantify the influence of various operational parameters and modelling presumptions such as applied heat and tangential stress characteristics, load application schemes, mesh densities etc. Examples of results include quantifications of how partial slip conditions result in higher plastic strain magnitudes in a thin layer at the wheel tread surface, and differences in material responses between accelerating and braking wheels.The numerical model was extended to incorporate surface initiated cracks. With the extended model it is shown that 1 mm deep cracks have a substantial influence on the state of stress and strain in the bulk material between surface cracks. Further, comparisons between radial (thermal) and inclined (RCF) surface cracks show that the deformation of significantly inclined cracks (30 degrees) is more severe than that of radial cracks. Further, acceleration is found to give larger crack face displacements. However braking tends to induce tensile residual stresses that open the crack mouth, thus allowing fluid penetration that can promote crack growth. Also thermal loading is found to cause a significant crack mouth opening that is decreased by subsequent rolling contact.In a final study numerical RCF predictions are compared to full-scale experimental studies carried out at the Railway Technical Research Institute in Japan. Thermal loading tuned towards measurements by thermocameras and thermocouples are introduced in a truncated loading scheme corresponding to the test configuration. Estimated crack initiation life is found to be in good agreement with test results. The investigation also shows the significant influence of the employed material model. In addition to thermomechanical fatigue analyses, the case of purely thermal fracture has been investigated. This study quantified how the risk of fracture and resulting crack sizes depend on braking conditions and initial surface cracks. The results of this thesis are believed to be of importance in defining and enforcing sustainable operational conditions and maintenance actions. Further, this thesis provides tools to establish root causes and pertinent mitigating actions when thermomechanical wheel cracking nevertheless occurs.
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