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A novel transient drive cycle simulation software package (TSVSIM) has been developed and tested with a transient engine dynamometer. TSVSIM functions by analysing vehicle parameters using a standard vehicle model and implementing a control strategy for the duration of the vehicle test. The transient engine simulation technique can be used as a cost-effective approach for improving engine calibration and vehicle emission performance. A complete system is capable of producing modal and integral mass emissions data with accurate time resolution. It has particular advantages for the upcoming Federal and European emission legislation and associated extremely low emission limits. TSVSIM has been successfully applied to a number of vehicle and engine combinations and has been tested with a range of legislative and performance drive cycles.

The transport of fuel during cold start in the intake of a port-injected engine has been investigated using a standard engine with very little modification. A fast response FID sampling from the intake manifold is used to measure the instantaneous vapor concentration during the start. At short times after the start, the engine is stopped, and the port under investigation isolated. The engine is then warmed up by passing hot water through it and at the same time is flushed with hot air, in the port and the cylinder. This evaporates the liquid fuel, and by integrating the vapor concentration multiplied by mass flow of the displaced gas, the fuel mass in the isolated port and cylinder is measured. It is shown how the mass of liquid in the port at the time at which the engine is stopped can reliably be related to the concentration measurement. By stopping the engine at different times after the start, detailed accounting of the fuel transport as a function of time since start can be made.

The paper presents a computer simulation of flow and heat transfer phenomena in the intake port of a spark ignition engine with port fuel injection. Engine cold starting conditions are studied including the effects of in-cylinder mixture back flow into the port. One dimensional air flow and wall fuel film flow models and a two dimensional fuel droplet flow model have been developed using a combination of finite difference approaches. As a result, predictions are obtained that provide detailed picture of the air-fuel mixture properties along the intake port. The model may be of special importance for exhaust gas ignition system simulation as it will provide data concerning mixture formation under conditions of excessive fuel injection during engine start-up. The calculations performed are shown to be phenomenologically correct.