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Intake Flow Simulation and Comparison with PTV Measurements
Technical Paper
1999-01-0176
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Intake flow simulations were carried out for a prototype DISI engine using the standard k-ε model and the RNG k-ε model. The results were compared with PTV (transient water analog) measurements. The study was focused on low load operations with engine speed at 400 rev/min. Two cases were studied, a single intake case in which one intake port was blocked and a dual intake port case. In the computations, the results show that the standard k-ε model tends to produce higher turbulence levels when turbulence is generated and decays faster when turbulence dissipates. Different turbulence models predict almost the same flow structures. However, the effects of the turbulence model on the predicted tumble and swirl ratios are significant. The TKE distributions at BDC predicted by the two models are also different. The standard k-ε model seems to be more diffusive. Good agreements with PTV data were obtained in the single valve case with the RNG k-ε model. However, in the dual intake case, the predictions of both models deteriorated, possibly due to the sensitivity of the flow symmetry to slight differences in flow details from the two valves.
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Fan, L., Reitz, R., and Trigui, N., "Intake Flow Simulation and Comparison with PTV Measurements," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-0176, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-0176.Also In
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