air pollution is one of the major issues about the diesel engines in todays' world. it is a special concern in those areas that have difficulty meeting health-based outdoor air quality standards. natural gas has low emission and resource abundance and also conventional compression ignition engine can be easily converted to a dual fuel mode to use natural gas as main fuel and diesel as pilo...

Gas exchange processes of internal combustion engines have an important effect on engine performances, emissions of pollutants and noise. To control the engine output torque by the intake airflow restriction, a throttle valve must be installed between the air cleaner and the intake manifold. Due to the complex nature of this unit geometry and the resulting flow field, a 3D flow model would be i...

nowadays, due to increasing the complexity of ic engines, calibration task becomes more severe and the need to use surrogate models for investigating of the engine behavior arises. accordingly, many black box modeling approaches have been used in this context among which network based models are of the most powerful approaches thanks to their flexible structures. in this paper four network base...

This article describes the results of a response surface model (RSM)-based numerical optimization campaign for spray-guided spark assistance at cold operations in heavy-duty gasoline compression ignition (GCI) engine. On basis an earlier work on spark-assisted GCI combustion, space-filling design experiments (DoE) method was first undertaken to investigate multitude hardware variables and engin...

Towards a Stronger Simulation Support for Engine Control Design: a Methodological Point of View — Thanks to a specific crank angle degree modelling approach and to an accurate simulator calibration, it is nowadays possible to build a complete simulator which allows the control engineer to access to numerous engine variables, especially non measurable values, and to perform tests over a wide ran...

Hybrid Propulsion is an attractive alternative to conventional liquid and solid rocket motors. This is an active area of research and technological developments. Potential wide application of Hybrid Engines opens the possibility for safer and more flexible space vehicle launching and manoeuvring. The present paper discusses fundamental combustion issues related to further development of Hybrid ...

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is being increasingly used to analyse gasoline direct injection (G-DI) combustion systems in the early stages of design and development. Consequently, it is important to ensure that the CFD codes are both fast and accurate. The objective of the work presented in this article was to validate the new, advanced boundary motion capability of VECTIS which is built ...

Performance of compression ignition engine is known to be spray characteristics related. Precise experimental information on fuel sprays is of utmost importance to model the fuel spray formation and its development in the engine combustion chamber. The previous experimental work of the present author on non-evaporating sprays produced by using a FIAT single-hole orifice type nozzle and a distri...

The one dimension computational model of a sequential injection engine, which runs on compressed natural gas (CNG) with spark ignition, is developed for this study, to simulate the performance of gas flow pressure profile, under various speed conditions. The computational model is used to simulate and study of the steady state and transient processes of the intake manifold. The sequential injec...