Progress in knock combustion modeling of spark ignition engines

F Ji, S Meng, Z Han, G Dong, RD Reitz - Applied Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
Knock combustion is one of the primary factors limiting thermal efficiency improvement in
spark ignition (SI) engines. After a century of research, scholars have made significant …

Co-optimization of miller degree and geometric compression ratio of a large-bore natural gas generator engine with novel Knock models and machine learning

J Cao, T Li, S Huang, R Chen, S Li, M Kuang, R Yang… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Large-bore natural gas reciprocating generator engines will play crucial roles in future low-
carbon energy systems. Knock, as an abnormal combustion phenomenon, is a bottleneck for …

Knock: a century of research

DJ Corrigan, S Fontanesi - SAE International Journal of Engines, 2021 - iris.unimore.it
Knock is one of the main limitations on increasing spark-ignition (SI) engine efficiency. This
has been known for at least 100 years, and it is still the case today. Knock occurs when …

Influence of Pre-Chamber Volume, Orifice Diameter and Orifice Number on Performance of Pre-Chamber SI Engine—An Experimental and Numerical Study

R Tomić, M Sjerić, J Krajnović, S Ugrinić - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presented an experimental and numerical study of pre-chamber volume, number
of orifices and orifice diameter influence on engine performance and emissions. All the …

The development of an ignition delay correlation for PRF fuel blends from PRF0 (n-heptane) to PRF100 (iso-octane)

D DelVescovo, S Kokjohn, R Reitz - SAE International Journal of Engines, 2016 - JSTOR
ABSTRACT A correlation was developed to predict the ignition delay of PRF blends at a
wide range of engine-relevant operating conditions. Constant volume simulations were …

A phenomenological model of knock intensity in spark-ignition engines

T Li, T Yin, B Wang - Energy Conversion and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
In experimental calibration of mass production spark-ignition (SI) engines, knocking cycles
are usually determined by a specified threshold of knock intensity (KI). In engine cycle …

Evaluation of cylinder state estimator using fuel evaporation assessment in a PFI methanol HD SI engine

A Lius, A Cronhjort, O Stenlaas - 2022 - sae.org
Modern spark-ignited (SI) engines offer excellent emission reduction when operated with a
stoichiometric mixture and a three-way catalytic converter. A challenge with stoichiometric …

Efficiency improvement of a spark-ignition engine at full load conditions using exhaust gas recirculation and variable geometry turbocharger–Numerical study

M Sjerić, I Taritaš, R Tomić, M Blažić, D Kozarac… - Energy conversion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The numerical analysis of performance of a four cylinder highly boosted spark-ignition
engine at full load is described in this paper, with the research focused on introducing high …

Model-Based Exhaust Gas Temperature Control to Reduce the Mixture Enrichment at High Loads

J Mecagni, A Brusa, N Cavina, F Ponti, N Silvestri… - … International Journal of …, 2023 - JSTOR
In this work an exhaust gas temperature and a piston damage model are coupled, with the
aim to develop an innovative model-based strategy for the calibration of the lambda map …

Development and software-in-the-loop validation of an artificial neural network-based engine simulator

FP Shethia, J Mecagni, A Brusa, N Cavina - 2022 - sae.org
Due to the ever increasingly stringent emission regula-tions for passenger vehicles, the
efficiency and performance increase of Spark Ignition (SI) engines have been under the …