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Planar LIF Observations of Unburned Fuel Escaping the Upper Ring-Land Crevice in an SI Engine
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Planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF) has been used to observe the in-cylinder transport of unburned fuel that, while trapped in the ring-land and ring-groove crevices, survives combustion in the propagating flame. Away from the top-ring gap, we detect a wall-jet comprised of unburned charge exiting the top ring-land crevice opening. At the location of the top-ring gap, we observe unburned fuel lying in the cool boundary layer along the cylinder wall during the later stages of the expansion stroke. This layer is scraped into the roll-up vortex during the exhaust stroke. These data lead us to conclude that away from the end gap, unburned, high pressure charge, trapped between the two compression rings escapes as a wall jet after ring-reversal near bottom center. Conversely, at the ring gap, when the cylinder pressure drops below the pressure between the compression rings, the trapped charge escapes through the gap and forms a thin layer on the cylinder wall.
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Green, R. and Cloutman, L., "Planar LIF Observations of Unburned Fuel Escaping the Upper Ring-Land Crevice in an SI Engine," SAE Technical Paper 970823, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/970823.Also In
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