Direct injection (DI) strategy of natural gas (NG) into internal combustion engines (ICE) has led to higher thermal efficiency and lower exhaust emissions. In order to thoroughly understand the most relevant phenomena affecting the performances of such engines, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) plays a key role as an accurate description of the jet evolution and interaction within the combustion chamber is required to that aim. Accurate description of high-pressure gaseous jets is rather challenging at high Mach numbers, as the injected gas is strongly under-expanded once in the ambient, giving room to shocks due to compressibility effects. Also the interaction between shock waves and mixing layers needs to be carefully represented with a multi-dimensional model, calling for substantial computational resources requirements. In this paper a numerical investigation of the behavior of a gaseous jet (Argon) through an outward opening injector has been carried out. A Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach has been used in order to track the structures derived by the interaction of the injected fuel with the surrounding ambient. Although already good results were obtained using a Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach, the adoption of LES is required to characterize more accurately the jet properties in terms of vortex structures and mixing effectiveness. The effect of the Nozzle Pressure Ratio (NPR) on the jet evolution has been highlighted in the paper, showing how a higher NPR would give a faster injection process, compromising however the homogeneity of the mixture.

Bartolucci, L., Cordiner, S., Mulone, V., Scarcelli, R., Wallner, T., Swantek, A., et al. (2020). Gaseous jet through an outward opening injector: Details of mixing characteristic and turbulence scales. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND FLUID FLOW, 85, 108660 [10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2020.108660].

Gaseous jet through an outward opening injector: Details of mixing characteristic and turbulence scales

Bartolucci, L
;
Cordiner, S;Mulone, V;
2020-01-01

Abstract

Direct injection (DI) strategy of natural gas (NG) into internal combustion engines (ICE) has led to higher thermal efficiency and lower exhaust emissions. In order to thoroughly understand the most relevant phenomena affecting the performances of such engines, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) plays a key role as an accurate description of the jet evolution and interaction within the combustion chamber is required to that aim. Accurate description of high-pressure gaseous jets is rather challenging at high Mach numbers, as the injected gas is strongly under-expanded once in the ambient, giving room to shocks due to compressibility effects. Also the interaction between shock waves and mixing layers needs to be carefully represented with a multi-dimensional model, calling for substantial computational resources requirements. In this paper a numerical investigation of the behavior of a gaseous jet (Argon) through an outward opening injector has been carried out. A Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach has been used in order to track the structures derived by the interaction of the injected fuel with the surrounding ambient. Although already good results were obtained using a Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach, the adoption of LES is required to characterize more accurately the jet properties in terms of vortex structures and mixing effectiveness. The effect of the Nozzle Pressure Ratio (NPR) on the jet evolution has been highlighted in the paper, showing how a higher NPR would give a faster injection process, compromising however the homogeneity of the mixture.
2020
Pubblicato
Rilevanza internazionale
Articolo
Esperti anonimi
Settore ING-IND/08 - MACCHINE A FLUIDO
English
Fuel injection
Gaseous jet
LES
Outward opening injector
Engine efficiency
Bartolucci, L., Cordiner, S., Mulone, V., Scarcelli, R., Wallner, T., Swantek, A., et al. (2020). Gaseous jet through an outward opening injector: Details of mixing characteristic and turbulence scales. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND FLUID FLOW, 85, 108660 [10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2020.108660].
Bartolucci, L; Cordiner, S; Mulone, V; Scarcelli, R; Wallner, T; Swantek, A; Powell, C; Kastengren, A
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