Full Cycle CFD Simulations to Study Thermal and Chemical Effects of Fuel Injection during Negative Valve Overlap in an Automotive Research Engine 2010-01-2236
Recently experiments were conducted on an automotive homogeneous-charge-compression-ignition (HCCI) research engine with a negative-valve-overlap (NVO) cam. In the study two sets of experiments were run. One set injected a small quantity of fuel (HPLC-grade iso-octane) during NVO in varying amounts and timings followed by a larger injection during the intake stroke. The other set of experiments was similar, but did not include an NVO injection. By comparing both sets of results researchers were able to investigate the use of NVO fuel injection to control main combustion phasing under light-load conditions.
For this paper a subset of these experiments are modeled with the computational-fluid-dynamics (CFD) code KIVA3V [
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The goals of this study are to validate the CFD model under NVO, HCCI-like conditions, evaluate assumptions made in the experimental study, and provide further insight into the thermal and chemical effects associated with NVO fuel injection.
Citation: Hessel, R., Steeper, R., Fitzgerald, R., Aceves, S. et al., "Full Cycle CFD Simulations to Study Thermal and Chemical Effects of Fuel Injection during Negative Valve Overlap in an Automotive Research Engine," SAE Technical Paper 2010-01-2236, 2010, https://doi.org/10.4271/2010-01-2236. Download Citation
Author(s):
Randy P. Hessel, Richard Steeper, Russell Fitzgerald, Salvador Aceves, Daniel Flowers
Affiliated:
Univ. of Wisconsin Madison, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Labratory
