Spark-ignition direct-injection engines operating in a stratified, lean-burn regime offer improved engine efficiency; however, seemingly random fluctuations in stratified combustion that result in partial-burn or misfire prevent widespread implementation. Eliminating these poor combustion events requires detailed understanding of engine flow, fuel delivery, and ignition, but knowing the dominant cause is difficult because they occur simultaneously in an engine. This study investigated the variability in fuel–air mixture linked to fuel injection hardware in a near-quiescent pressure vessel at high-temperature conditions representative of late, stratified-charge injection. An eight-hole spark-ignition direct-injection spray was interrogated using high-speed schlieren and Mie-scatter imaging from multiple, simultaneous views to acquire the vapor and liquid envelopes of the spray. The mixture fraction of vaporized sections of the spray was then quantified at a plane between plumes using Rayleigh scattering. Probability contours of the line-of-sight vapor envelope showed little variability between injections, whereas probability contours derived from planar, quantitative mixing measurements exhibit greater amounts of variability for lean-combustion-limit charge. The mixture field between plumes was characterized by multi-hole and end-of-injection dynamics that attract the plumes to each other and toward the injection axis, resulting in a liquid-fuel-droplet-dense merged central jet in the planar measurements. Supplemental long-working distance microscopy imaging showed the existence of fuel droplets far downstream in the region of the planar laser measurements.


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    Title :

    Quantitative mixing measurements and stochastic variability of a vaporizing gasoline direct-injection spray




    Publication date :

    2015




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    52.35 / 52.35 Kolbenkraftmaschinen



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