Preliminary assessment of the potential for rapid combustion of pure ammonia in engine cylinders using the multiple spark ignition strategy

Q Huang, J Liu - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
In pursuit of carbon neutrality, the adoption of zero-carbon fuels in internal combustion
engines offers a path to zero carbon emissions. Among such fuels, ammonia (NH 3) stands …

Application of artificial neural network to forecast engine performance and emissions of a spark ignition engine

J Fu, R Yang, X Li, X Sun, Y Li, Z Liu, Y Zhang… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing the application of machine learning algorithms in engine development has the
potential to reduce the number of experimental runs and the computation cost of …

3D CFD simulation of a CI engine converted to SI natural gas operation using the G-equation

J Liu, CE Dumitrescu - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
The conversion of heavy-duty CI engines to natural gas (NG) SI operation have the potential
to increase the use of NG in the transportation sector in the United States. More, the …

Investigation of in-cylinder combustion deterioration of diesel engines in plateau regions

Z Meng, Z Liu, J Liu - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
The plateau environment would increase the fuel consumption of the engines. The current
situation, however, is that the existing studies on high altitude engines are still not sufficient …

Combustion partitioning inside a natural gas spark ignition engine with a bowl-in-piston geometry

J Liu, CE Dumitrescu - Energy conversion and management, 2019 - Elsevier
A solution to increase the use of natural gas in US is to convert existing diesel engines to
natural-gas spark-ignition operation through the addition of a gas injector in the intake …

Numerical analysis of performance, combustion, and emission characteristics of PFI gasoline, PFI CNG, and DI CNG engine

S Sahoo, DK Srivastava - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Compressed natural gas (CNG) has gained widespread acceptance in the automobile
industry due to its clean-burning properties, lower emissions, and superior anti-knock …

Effect of piston crevices on the numerical simulation of a heavy-duty diesel engine retrofitted to natural-gas spark-ignition operation

I Stocchi, J Liu, CE Dumitrescu… - Journal of …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics internal combustion engine simulations
that use a simplified combustion model based on the flamelet concept provide acceptable …

Formation and evolution of thermal and fuel nitrogen oxides in the turbulent combustion field of ammonia internal combustion engines

R Yang, Y Yan, Z Liu, J Liu - 2023 - sae.org
Ammonia is a zero-carbon candidate fuel for the decar-bonization of internal combustion
(IC) engines. A concern when using ammonia in IC engines is the increased emissions of …

In-ground-effect modeling and nonlinear-disturbance observer for multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle control

X He, G Kou, M Calaf, KK Leang - Journal of …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper focuses on modeling and control of in-ground-effect (IGE) on multirotor
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). As the vehicle flies and hovers over, around, or …

Multidimensional computational fluid dynamics combustion process modeling of a 6V150 diesel engine

Z Liu, Y Zhang, J Fu, J Liu - Journal of …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The smart diesel program requires the engine electronic control unit to consider additional
parameters, such as altitude and climatic conditions, in the mapping calibration process. A …