Airflow and Fuel Spray Interaction in a Gasoline DI Engine 2005-01-2104
Two optical techniques together with a CFD simulation have been used to study the interaction of intake airflow with the injected fuel spray in a motored direct injection gasoline engine. The combustion chamber was of a pent-roof construction with the side-mounted injector located low down between the inlet valves injecting at a 54° angle to the cylinder axis. The two-dimensional piston bowl shape allowed optical access for the Mie scatter technique to be used to investigate the liquid fuel behaviour in the central axial plane of the cylinder lying midway between the two inlet valves and passing through the centre line of the injector nozzle. A second set of images was obtained using backlighting, this time looking through the glass cylinder liner directly towards the injector. The in-cylinder simulation was run using the VECTIS software. Measurements and simulations were conducted for a range of early SOI timings between 20° and 80° ATDC. The results demonstrated clearly that the incoming airflow tended to flatten the jet and constrain it towards its centreline.
Citation: Alexander, P., Begg, S., Heikal, M., Li, G. et al., "Airflow and Fuel Spray Interaction in a Gasoline DI Engine," SAE Technical Paper 2005-01-2104, 2005, https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-2104. Download Citation
Author(s):
Paul Alexander, Steven Begg, Morgan Heikal, Gang Li, Martin Gold
Affiliated:
University of Brighton, Ricardo UK
Pages: 9
Event:
2005 SAE Brasil Fuels & Lubricants Meeting
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Combustion chambers
Fuel injection
Engine cylinders
Pistons
Computational fluid dynamics
Valves
Simulation and modeling
Gasoline
Optics
Nozzles
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