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CFD-Aided Development of Spray for an Outwardly Opening Direct Injection Gasoline Injector
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A high pressure outwardly opening fuel injector has been developed to produce sprays that meet the stringent requirements of gasoline direct injection (DI) combustion systems. Predictions of spray characteristics have been made using KIVA-3 in conjunction with Star-CD injector flow modeling. After some modeling iterations, the nozzle design has been optimized for the required flow, injector performance, and spray characteristics. The hardware test results of flow and spray have confirmed the numerical modeling accuracy and the spray quality.
The spray's average Sauter mean diameter (SMD) is less than 15 microns at 30 mm distance from the nozzle. The DV90, defined as the drop diameter such that 90% of the total liquid volume is in drops of smaller diameter, is less than 40 microns. The maximum penetration is about 70 mm into air at atmospheric pressure. An initial spray slug is not created due to the absence of a sac volume.
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Xu, M. and Markle, L., "CFD-Aided Development of Spray for an Outwardly Opening Direct Injection Gasoline Injector," SAE Technical Paper 980493, 1998, https://doi.org/10.4271/980493.Also In
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