Legislations for greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions from light-duty vehicles are
pushing the spark ignition engine to be cleaner and more efficient. As one of the promising …

Towards fundamental investigation of key physical aspects of pre-chamber combustion, the
current work utilizes computational fluid dynamics to comprehend the effect of the throat …

The recent demand for reducing pollutant and CO2 emissions from internal combustion
engines has created an urgent need for the development of ultra-lean burn engines that …

Towards a fundamental understanding of the ignition characteristics of pre-chamber (PC)
combustion engines, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations were conducted using …

A numerical investigation was conducted to study ignition and the initial phases of methane
combustion in a two-dimensional setup consisting of a pre-(PC) and main (MC) chamber …

Providing high ignition energies to low reactivity (hard-to-ignite) fuels in premixed
combustion modes is a challenging task. This is especially true if diluted combustion and …

Turbulent jet ignition (TJI) is a promising technology for burning ultra-lean mixtures; the
process is comprised of hot reactive jets issuing from a pre-chamber (PC) and initiating …

A parametric direct numerical simulation study was conducted to investigate the effects of
the initial flow field (quiescent or turbulent), nozzle inlet sharpness and width, main chamber …

Pre-chamber combustion (PCC) engines allow extending the lean limit of operation
compared to common SI engines, thus being a candidate concept for the future clean …

The current trend in automobiles is towards electrical vehicles, but for the most part these
vehicles still require an internal combustion engine to provide additional range and …