A fuel-focused review of pre-chamber initiated combustion

G Trombley, E Toulson - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This review covers efforts to optimize combustion in spark ignition and compression ignition
engines using pre-chamber ignition systems, with a focus on the fuel used in the pre …

Stratified turbulent flames: Recent advances in understanding the influence of mixture inhomogeneities on premixed combustion and modeling challenges

AN Lipatnikov - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2017 - Elsevier
The goals of the present review paper are;(i) to introduce experimental facilities and
numerical tools applied to investigating inhomogeneously premixed flames,(ii) to summarize …

Consistent definitions of “Flame Displacement Speed” and “Markstein Length” for premixed flame propagation

GK Giannakopoulos, A Gatzoulis, CE Frouzakis… - Combustion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The definition of the flame displacement speed (FDS), often used to characterize the
dynamical properties of premixed flames, is generally ambiguous because, except for a …

Large-Eddy Simulation and experimental study of cycle-to-cycle variations of stable and unstable operating points in a spark ignition engine

V Granet, O Vermorel, C Lacour, B Enaux, V Dugué… - Combustion and …, 2012 - Elsevier
This article presents a comparison between experiments and Large-Eddy Simulation (LES)
of a spark ignition engine on two operating points: a stable one characterized by low cycle-to …

Influence of spark discharge characteristics on ignition and combustion process and the lean operation limit in a spark ignition engine

S Tsuboi, S Miyokawa, M Matsuda, T Yokomori, N Iida - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Lean combustion technologies have been investigated to decrease the heat loss of spark
ignition engines. However, as the excess air ratio approaches the lean operation limit, the …

Large-Eddy/Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes simulation of combustion oscillations in a cavity-based supersonic combustor

H Wang, Z Wang, M Sun, N Qin - International journal of hydrogen energy, 2013 - Elsevier
Combustion oscillations in a supersonic combustor with hydrogen injection upstream of a
cavity flameholder are investigated numerically using a hybrid RANS/LES (Reynolds …

Large eddy simulation of pre-chamber ignition in an internal combustion engine

Q Malé, G Staffelbach, O Vermorel, A Misdariis… - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2019 - Springer
Using homogeneous lean mixtures is an efficient way to reduce fuel consumption and
pollutant emissions in internal combustion engines. However, lean combustion requires …

Large Eddy Simulation of transient premixed flame–vortex interactions in gas explosions

V Di Sarli, A Di Benedetto, G Russo - Chemical engineering science, 2012 - Elsevier
In this work, a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) model was used to simulate the transient
premixed flame–vortex interaction, which is the key phenomenon determining dynamics and …

Using large-eddy simulation and multivariate analysis to understand the sources of combustion cyclic variability in a spark-ignition engine

K Truffin, C Angelberger, S Richard, C Pera - Combustion and Flame, 2015 - Elsevier
The origins of cyclic combustion variability (CCV) in spark-ignition engines are investigated
using large-eddy simulation (LES) of a stable (low CCV) and two unstable (high CCV) …

Examining the role of flame topologies and in-cylinder flow fields on cyclic variability in spark-ignited engines using large-eddy simulation

L Zhao, AA Moiz, S Som, N Fogla… - … Journal of Engine …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In this work, we have studied cycle-to-cycle variation in a spark-ignited engine using large-
eddy simulation in conjunction with the G-equation combustion model. A single cylinder of a …