3-D Modeling of Heat Transfer in Diesel Engine Piston Cooling Galleries

2005-01-1644

04/11/2005

Event
SAE 2005 World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
Ever increasing specific power of diesel engines has put huge demand on effective thermal management of the pistons for the desired reliability and durability. The piston temperature control is commonly achieved by injecting cooling oil into piston galleries, but the design of the cooling system as well as the boundary conditions used in FEA simulations have so far relied mostly on empirical methods. A numerical procedure using 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has therefore been developed to simulate the cooling process and to estimate the cooling efficiency of gallery. The model is able to predict the detailed oil flow and heat transfer in gallery, of different designs and engine applications, under dynamic conditions. The resulted spatially resolved heat transfer coefficient from the CFD model, with better accuracy, enables improved prediction of piston temperature in finite element analysis (FEA). The model has demonstrated to be a valuable tool in optimizing the piston cooling, including the management of cooling oil and piston gallery design.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-1644
Pages
10
Citation
Pan, J., Nigro, R., and Matsuo, E., "3-D Modeling of Heat Transfer in Diesel Engine Piston Cooling Galleries," SAE Technical Paper 2005-01-1644, 2005, https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-1644.
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Published
Apr 11, 2005
Product Code
2005-01-1644
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English