Abstract
Various successful applications have proven the reliability of using multi-dimensional CFD tools to assist in diesel engine research, design and development. Those applications can be categorized as follows: using CFD tools to reveal details about invisible (or technically difficult and/or costly) in-cylinder processes of diesel combustion, so that guidance can be provided to improve engine designs in terms of emissions reduction and fuel economy; innovative combustion concepts can be evaluated numerically prior to experimental tests to reduce the number of investigated parameters and thus costs; important design parameters can be discovered by modelling engines of different sizes to establish engine size-scaling relationships and thus non-dimensionalize engine designs; by integration with optimization methodologies, CFD tools can also directly impact the design of optimum engine systems, such as piston geometry and injection parameters. Each of these aspects is described by relevant case studies in this chapter. The corresponding simulations were conducted with an improved version of the KIVA-3v2 code.
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Shi, Y., Reitz, R.D. (2010). Multi-dimensional Modelling of Diesel Combustion: Applications. In: Modelling Diesel Combustion. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3885-2_16
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