Cycle-to-Cycle Analysis of Swirl Flow Fields inside a Spark-Ignition Direct-Injection Engine Cylinder Using High-Speed Time-Resolved Particle Image Velocimetry

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusheng Wang ◽  
David L.S. Hung ◽  
Hanyang Zhuang ◽  
Min Xu
Keyword(s):  
Particle Image Velocimetry ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Particle Image ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Spark Ignition ◽  
Swirl Flow ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Direct Injection Engine ◽  
Engine Cylinder ◽  
Image Velocimetry

Unveiling the Flow Behavior Inside GDI Engine Cylinder Using High-Speed Time-Resolved Particle Image Velocimetry and CFD Simulation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed El Adawy ◽  
Morgan Heikal ◽  
bin Abd. Aziz Abd. Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Particle Image Velocimetry ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Particle Image ◽  
Cfd Simulation ◽  
Injection Pressure ◽  
Valve Lift ◽  
Fuel Spray ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Image Velocimetry ◽  
Spray Plume

Abstract RICARDO-VECTIS CFD simulation of the in-cylinder air flow was first validated with those of the experimental results from high-speed particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements taking cognisant of the mid-cylinder tumble plane. Furthermore, high-speed fuel spray measurements were carried out simultaneously with the intake-generated tumble motion at high valve lift using high-speed time-resolved PIV to chronicle the spatial and time-based development of air/fuel mixture. The effect of injection pressure(32.5 and 35.0 MPa) and pressure variation across the air intake valves(150, 300 and 450 mmH2O) on the interaction process were investigated at valve lift 10 mm where the tumble vortex was fully developed and filled the whole cylinder under steady-state conditions. The PIV results illustrated that the intake generated-tumble motion had a substantial impact on the fuel spray distortion and dispersion inside the cylinder. During the onset of the injection process the tumble motion diverted the spray plume slightly towards the exhaust side before it followed completely the tumble vortex. The fuel spray plume required 7.2 ms, 6.2 ms and 5.9 ms to totally follow the in-cylinder air motion for pressure differences 150, 300 and 450 mmH2O, respectively. Despite, the spray momentum was the same for the same injection pressure, the magnitude of kinetic energy was different for different cases of pressure differences and subsequently the in-cylinder motion strength.

Time-Resolved Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements of Nonreacting Flow Field in a Swirl-Stabilized Combustor Without and With Porous Inserts for Acoustic Control

2014 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Meadows ◽  
Ajay K. Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Particle Image Velocimetry ◽  
Flow Field ◽  
Particle Image ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Combustion Noise ◽  
Turbulent Structures ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Turbulence Structures ◽  
Image Velocimetry ◽  
Acoustic Instabilities

Combustion noise and thermo-acoustic instabilities are of primary importance in highly critical applications such as rocket propulsion systems, power generation, and jet propulsion engines. Mechanisms for combustion instabilities are extremely complex because they often involve interactions among several different physical phenomena such as unsteady flame propagation leading to unsteady flow field, acoustic wave propagation, natural and forced hydrodynamic instabilities, etc. In the past, we have utilized porous inert media (PIM) to mitigate combustion noise and thermo-acoustic instabilities in both lean premixed (LPM) and lean direct injection (LDI) combustion systems. While these studies demonstrated the efficacy of the PIM concept to mitigate noise and thermo-acoustic instabilities, the actual mechanisms involved have not been understood. The present study utilizes time-resolved particle image velocimetry (PIV) to measure the turbulent flow field in a nonreacting swirl-stabilized combustor without and with PIM. Although the flow field inside the annulus of the PIM cannot be observed, measurements immediately downstream of the PIM provide insight into the turbulent structures. Results are analyzed using the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method and show that the PIM alters the flow field in an advantageous manner by modifying the turbulence structures and eliminating the corner recirculation zones and precessing vortex core (PVC), which would ultimately affect the acoustic behavior in a favorable manner.

Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Time-Resolved Particle Image Velocimetry (TR-PIV) in the Wake of a Cavitating Hydrofoil

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Wosnik ◽  
Qiao Qin ◽  
Damien T. Kawakami ◽  
Roger E. A. Arndt
Keyword(s):  
Particle Image Velocimetry ◽  
Large Eddy Simulation ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Particle Image ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Pair Type ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Eddy Simulation ◽  
Image Velocimetry ◽  
Large Eddy

A Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach for cavitating flow, based on a virtual single-phase, fully compressible cavitation model which includes the effects of incondensable gas, has been shown to be capable of capturing the complex dynamical features of highly unsteady cavitating flows of two-dimensional hydrofoils. Here the LES results are compared to Time-Resolved Particle Image Velocimetry (TR-PIV) in the wake of a cavitating NACA 0015 hydrofoil, with particular attention to the predicted vortex shedding mechanisms. Despite some difficulty with obtaining vector fields from vortical clouds of vaporous-gaseous bubbles with cross-correlation techniques, the initial results seem promising in that they confirm the existence of a primary vortex pair (type A-B). In addition to TR-PIV, the cavitation cloud shedding was also documented with phase-locked, time-resolved photography and high speed volume-illuminated video, both with simultaneous imaging of side and plan views of the foil. All three experimental techniques confirm the need for fully three-dimensional simulations to properly describe the unsteady, three-dimensional cavitation cloud shedding mechanism.

scholarly journals On the use of particle image velocimetry (PIV) data for the validation of Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations during the intake process of a spark ignition direct injection (SIDI) engine

2021 ◽  
pp. 146808742110012
Author(s):  
Li Shen ◽  
Christopher Willman ◽  
Richard Stone ◽  
Tom Lockyer ◽  
Rachel Magnanon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particle Image Velocimetry ◽  
Particle Image ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Spark Ignition ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Experimental Measurements ◽  
Intake Process ◽  
Image Velocimetry ◽  
Rans Simulations ◽  
Cylinder Flow

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of the in-cylinder flow field are widely used in the design of internal combustion engines (ICEs) and must be validated against experimental measurements to enable a robust predictive capability. Such validation is complicated by the presence of both large-scale cycle-to-cycle variations and small-scale turbulent fluctuations in experimental measurements of in-cylinder flow fields. Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations provide overall flow structures with acceptable accuracy and affordable computational cost for widespread industrial applications. Due to the nature of averaging physical parameters in RANS, its validation against experimental results obtained by particle image velocimetry (PIV) requires consideration of how best to average or filter the measured turbulent flows. In this paper, PIV measurements on the cross-tumble plane were recorded every five crank angle degrees for [Formula: see text] cycles during the intake process of a motored, optically accessible spark ignition direct injection (SIDI) engine. Several methods including ensemble averaging, speed-based averaging and low-order proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) reconstruction were applied to remove the fluctuations from experimental PIV vector fields and thus enable comparison to RANS simulations. Quantitative comparison metrics were used to evaluate the performances of each method in representing the intake jet. Recommendations are made on how to provide a fair validation between measured data and simulation results in highly fluctuating flow fields such as the engine intake jet.

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