Technical Paper
CFD Simulation of Diesel Injection and Combustion
2002-03-04
2002-01-0945
A Diesel spray and combustion model has been connected to the CFD-code StarCD. The paper provides an overview of the submodels implemented, which account for liquid core atomization, droplet secondary break-up, droplet collision, impingement, turbulent dispersion and evaporation. Auto-ignition and combustion is described by the Representative Interactive Flamelet (RIF)-model. This concept allows to separate the fluid dynamics from the chemical processes with their significantly smaller timescales, and enables to account for a sufficiently large number of chemical species and reactions in order to predict pollutant formation such as NOx and soot. The CFD-predictions are extensively compared to experimental data. Spray model validation cases focus on the distribution of droplet sizes, velocities and fuel vapor in free and impinging sprays.