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Laser Doppler anemometry and Rayleigh scattering have been used to quantify the velocity and concentration fields after the start of injection in a model diesel engine motored at 200 rpm in the absence of compression. Fuel injection was simulated by a transient jet of vapour Freon-12 initiated at 40 degrees before top-dead-centre through a nozzle incorporated into the centre of a permanently open intake valve. Swirl was induced by means of 60 degree vanes located in the inlet, port. The piston configurations comprised a flat and a re-entrant piston-bowl.
The results indicate that for the two nozzle geometries investigated the mass flux decays faster than momentum with nearly constant decay rates along the centreline. The nozzle with the larger exit diameter and wider jet angle gave rise to slower decay of both mass and momentum with associated lower velocity and concentration fluctuations.
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Abbreviations
- D 0 :
-
nozzle diameter
- r :
-
radial coordinate
- Ū :
-
mean axial velocity
- \(\mathop {\bar U}\nolimits_{C_L } \) :
-
mean axial velocity at the centreline
- Ū 0 :
-
mean axial velocity at the nozzle exit
- ū :
-
rms of axial velocity fluctuations
- \(\bar X\) :
-
mean concentration (mole fraction)
- \(\bar X_0 \) :
-
mean concentration at the nozzle exit
- \(\tilde X\) :
-
rms of concentration fluctuations
- x :
-
axial coordinate
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A version of this paper was presented at the ASME Winter Annual Meeting of 1984 and printed in AMD, Vol. 66
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Arcoumanis, C., Green, H.G. & Whitelaw, J.H. Velocity and concentration measurements in a model diesel engine. Experiments in Fluids 3, 270–276 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00281773
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00281773