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A conventional automotive emission control system depends on the measurements provided by various sensors to control the air-fuel (A/F) ratio. Maintaining the A/F ratio close to stoichiometry permits catalytic converter to operate in an optimized efficiency, which reduces the exhaust emission. Malfunction resulted from engine misfire makes catalyst''s converting efficiency drop. Such a condition results in increased emissions as well as in damage to catalytic converters. So current researches are proceeded in response to the California OBD II (On-Board Diagnostics) and EOBD that will be adopted in Europe requirements for engine misfire detection in passenger vehicles. In this study, two methods to diagnose the misfire an approached: catalytic converter''s temperature measurement over the threshold exposure temperature to examine the catalyst''s damage, and the vehicle emission test over FTP-75 cycle by varying misfire rates.

A modified version of KIVA-II code is applied to scavenging flow simulation of a four-poppet-valved two-stroke engine. The standard k-ε turbulence model is used with no slip on the wall. Grid is generated through direct interface with three dimensional CAD data using a commercial CAE package. Valve motion is taken into account by identifying the cells occupied by the valve structure and putting them as solid obstacle cells. Results show reasonable trends for variation of the velocity field and fresh air mass fraction distribution with crank angle. Parametric study shows that the intake port orientation does not have much effect on the cylinder flow and scavenging efficiency due to strong flow diversion by the valves.