Optimizing spray and combustion in diesel engine by multidimensional numerical simulation

The calculation of spray and combustion in diesel engines is described by using the software FIRE and BOOST. The application of the resulting computational method to the simulation of fuel spray and breakup, mixture formation and combustion in a heavy duty diesel is presented. According to detailed insight into the governing processes provided by the simulation results, various aspects of the dependence of the spray propagation and combustion on the chamber geometry and spray angle are discussed. Then, global cylinder-averaged pressure traces are extracted from the space and time resolved field quantities and compared to in-cylinder pressure measurements. Finally, an optimized configuration of the chamber geometry and spray angle with a new injection rate of higher injection pressure is proposed.