Optical and computational investigations of the effect of Spray-Swirl interactions on autoignition and soot formation in a compression ignition engine fuelled by Diesel …

A Jena, AP Singh, AK Agarwal - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Diesel engine injection strategy plays a crucial role in fuel–air mixing and consequent soot
formation, requiring optimisation. Fuel properties affect the combustion characteristics of the …

Ignition delay prediction of multiple injections in diesel engines

R Finesso, E Spessa - Fuel, 2014 - Elsevier
New correlations have been developed to predict the ignition delay of the main and multiple
pilot injections as a function of the operating conditions in diesel engines. The ignition delay …

A comprehensive modeling study of in-cylinder fluid flows in a high-swirl, light-duty optical diesel engine

F Perini, PC Miles, RD Reitz - Computers & Fluids, 2014 - Elsevier
The effectiveness of computational fluid dynamics modeling as a tool for researching fuel-
lean, low temperature engine combustion strategies relies on its capability to capture the …

Improved atomization, collision and sub-grid scale momentum coupling models for transient vaporizing engine sprays

F Perini, RD Reitz - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2016 - Elsevier
A computationally efficient spray model is presented for the simulation of transient
vaporizing engine sprays. It is applied to simulate high-pressure fuel injections in a constant …

A study of direct and Krylov iterative sparse solver techniques to approach linear scaling of the integration of chemical kinetics with detailed combustion mechanisms

F Perini, E Galligani, RD Reitz - Combustion and Flame, 2014 - Elsevier
The integration of the stiff ODE systems associated with chemical kinetics is the most
computationally demanding task in most practical combustion simulations. The introduction …

Piston geometry effects in a light-duty, swirl-supported diesel engine: Flow structure characterization

F Perini, K Zha, S Busch, E Kurtz… - … Journal of Engine …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This work studied how in-cylinder flow structure is affected in a light-duty, swirl-supported
diesel engine when equipped with three different piston geometries: the first two featuring a …

Improvement in performance of CI engine using various techniques with alternative fuel

P Yadav, N Kumar, R Gautam - Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
As a renewable, sustainable, and alternative fuel for combustion ignition (CI) engines,
researchers are more prone to accept biodiesel as fuel compared to diesel. Auto-ignition, as …

Comparison of linear, non-linear and generalized RNG-based k-epsilon models for turbulent diesel engine flows

F Perini, K Zha, S Busch, R Reitz - 2017 - sae.org
In this work, linear, non-linear and a generalized renormalization group (RNG) two-equation
RANS turbulence models of the k-epsilon form were compared for the prediction of turbulent …

Effect of swirl ratio on charge convection, temperature stratification, and combustion in gasoline compression ignition engine

A Jena, H Singh, AK Agarwal - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Various low-temperature combustion strategies (namely, homogeneous charge
compression ignition, reactivity controlled compression ignition, and partially premixed …

Dual-fuel reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) with alternative fuels

AB Dempsey - 2013 - search.proquest.com
This research will demonstrate that Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI) has
several advantages over other LTC concepts in regards to fuel flexibility and combustion …