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Analytical and Experimental Optimization of the Advanced Corona Ignition System

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Ignition Systems for Gasoline Engines (CISGE 2016)

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Benefits in performance and emissions can be achieved by the use of a properly designed corona ignition system, but these can only be realised in a cost effective manner if the designer is able to assess the likely impact of design changes to both the ignition system and the combustion chamber in which it operates.

Finite element modelling is able to capture the processes with a high degree of fidelity, but at the expense of high computational cost and long run times.

Methods described here allow evaluation of design changes to be achieved with reduced computational effort, allowing for a wider array of investigations to be completed. It is shown how the performance of the total system may be improved using these methods.

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  1. Federal-Mogul Limited, Manchester, UK

    John Burrows

  2. Federal-Mogul Corporation, Plymouth, MI, USA

    Kristapher Mixell

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Burrows, J., Mixell, K. (2017). Analytical and Experimental Optimization of the Advanced Corona Ignition System. In: Günther, M., Sens, M. (eds) Ignition Systems for Gasoline Engines. CISGE 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45504-4_17

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