Numerical Study of Turbulence in Diesel Spray Combustion Using Large Eddy Simulation

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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Under modern direct injection diesel engine conditions, the spray and combustion processes are known to be controlled by mixing. In large eddy simulation method, large eddies are solved directly and small scales are modeled, so it can potentially improve the predictive capability by better capturing the large-scale mixing of ambient air with the fuel vapor. In this paper, turbulent spray combustion is studied using the large eddy simulation method together with partially stirred reactor model using EPISO- SPRAY code. To develop this code, large eddy simulation method is applied in an Eulerian – Lagranian approach in which conservation equations of both phases are solved and then results of large eddy simulation are compared with those of Reynolds averaged of Navier-Stocks. Simulation of spray combustion using different sub-grid scale models of large eddy simulation method (Simple Smagorinesky and dynamic Smagorinesky) with partially stirred reactor combustion model are presented here. It is shown that with a fine mesh, results are in good agreement with experimental data. Results of non-reacting spray penetration length in gas environment and velocity profile during the intake stage are compared with related experimental data in order to validate the EPISO-SPRAY code performance. It is proved in this study that large eddy simulation results with relative fine mesh are much better than the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations results. Results of reacting liquid spray using simple step kinetic and fuel vapor penetration length are compared with experimental data. It is shown that overall characteristics of diesel spray combustion such as liquid spray penetration and fuel vapor penetration are both in good agreement with experimental data using Reynolds-averaged Navier– Stokes equations or large eddy simulation models. Although small differences in the flame shape are seen with the two methods, maximum and minimum temperatures are predicted to be the same in both models.

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Amirkabir Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Volume 50, Issue 4
November and December 2018
Pages 823-836

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