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The Application of Flame Image Velocimetry to After-injection Effects on Flow Fields in a Small-Bore Diesel Engine
Journal Article
03-15-03-0015
ISSN: 1946-3936, e-ISSN: 1946-3944
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Citation:
Yang, J., Rao, L., de Silva, C., and Kook, S., "The Application of Flame Image Velocimetry to After-injection Effects on Flow Fields in a Small-Bore Diesel Engine," SAE Int. J. Engines 15(3):321-333, 2022, https://doi.org/10.4271/03-15-03-0015.
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English
Abstract:
This study implements Flame Image Velocimetry (FIV), a diagnostic technique based
on post-processing of high-speed soot luminosity images, to show the in-flame
flow field development impacted by after-injection in a single-cylinder,
small-bore optical diesel engine. Two after-injection cases with different dwell
times between the main injection and after-injection, namely, close-coupled and
long-dwell, as well as a main-injection-only case are compared regarding flow
fields, flow vector magnitude, and turbulence intensity distribution. For each
case, high-speed soot luminosity movies from 100 individual combustion cycles
are recorded at a high frame rate of 45 kHz for FIV processing. The Reynolds
decomposition using a spatial filtering method is applied to the obtained flow
vectors so that bulk flow structures and turbulence intensity distributions can
be discussed. The results show significant after-injection-induced flow
structures as a group of vectors travelling back toward the center of the
combustion chamber upon the jet impingement on the piston bowl wall and then
jet-to-jet collision. Despite higher cyclic variations caused by the
after-injection, increased bulk flow magnitude and turbulence intensity upon the
after-injection event suggests locally enhanced mixing. Compared to the
long-dwell after-injection, the close-coupled after-injection shows more
significant turbulence enhancements.