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Experimental and Numerical Simulations of Spray Impingement and Combustion Characteristics in Gasoline Direct Injection Engines under Variable Driving Conditions

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Gasoline direct injection (GDI) increases engine power output and reduces emissions. In GDI engines, increasing injection pressure improves atomization, which increases thermal efficiency at the cost of wall wetting. When wall wetting occurs, both soot emissions and fuel consumption increase. Wall wetting in GDI engines under cold driving conditions has rarely been considered. In this study, experimental data characterizing droplet splashing/spreading phenomena were collected to inform numerical simulations of combustion characteristics and wall wetting subject to variable driving conditions and excess air ratio, λ. Fully 3D and unsteady numerical simulations were carried out to predict flow-field, combustion, and spray-impingement characteristics. To simulate a GDI engine, a spray-impingement model was developed using both experimental data and previous modeling efforts. The excess air ratio and driving-condition temperature were the variable parameters considered in this study. When decreasing λ from 1.0 to 0.7 by increasing the fuel-injection rate (fuel rich), the cylinder pressure increases to 61 % of the pressure when λ=1.0. Because of increasing the fuel-injection rate, the increased momentum in the fuel spray increases both wall wetting and soot generation. At low driving-condition temperatures, the cylinder pressure was up to 63 % less than that under warm conditions, but with increased soot generation. Simulations revealed a correlation between wall wetting and the soot emissions. Soot generation was most sensitive to changes in wall wetting.

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Seo, J., Kim, H.Y., Park, S. et al. Experimental and Numerical Simulations of Spray Impingement and Combustion Characteristics in Gasoline Direct Injection Engines under Variable Driving Conditions. Flow Turbulence Combust 96, 391–415 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-015-9678-1

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