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Computational fluid dynamics of gas-fueled large-bore spark ignition engines with pre-chamber ignition can speed up the design process of these engines provided that 1) the reliability of the results is not affected by poor meshing and 2) the time cost of the meshing process does not negatively compensate for the advantages of running a computer simulation. In this work a flame propagation model that runs with arbitrary hybrid meshes was developed and coupled with the KIVA4-MHI CFD solver, in order to address these aims. The solver follows the G-Equation level-set method for turbulent flame propagation by Tan and Reitz, and employs improved numerics to handle meshes featuring different cell types such as hexahedra, tetrahedra, square pyramids and triangular prisms. Detailed reaction kinetics from the SpeedCHEM solver are used to compute the non-equilibrium composition evolution downstream and upstream of the flame surface, where chemical equilibrium is instead assumed.

3D CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) is widely used as a useful design tool because of its efficiency in engine development. In contrast, the computational time in 3D CFD with chemical reaction calculations is much longer than the 0D/1D CAD (Computer Aided Design) tools. Computational time reduction in engine combustion tools is necessary for more efficient engine development. The objective in this research is to develop a phenomenological 0D combustion model for a spark ignition engine. We especially focused on a spark ignition pre-chamber-type gas engine which has a spark plug in the pre-chamber. The combustion process in a pre-chambertype gas engine is complicated and difficult to be modeled. Therefore, in the presented work, the combustion process and heat release rate is analyzed in detail. The proposed methodology consists of three major processes. Firstly, turbulence in the pre-chamber is generated by compressed gas flow from the main chamber during the compression stroke.

Modeling ignition kernel development in spark ignition engines is crucial to capturing the sources of cyclic variability, both with RANS and LES simulations. Appropriate kernel modeling must ensure that energy transfer from the electrodes to the gas phase has the correct timing, rate and locations, until the flame surface is large enough to be represented on the mesh by the G-Equation level-set method. However, in most kernel models, geometric details driving kernel growth are missing: either because it is described as Lagrangian particles, or because its development is simplified, i.e., down to multiple spherical flames. This paper covers the geometric aspects of kernel development, which makes up the core of a Triangulated Lagrangian Ignition Kernel model. One (or multiple, if it restrikes) spark channel is initialized as a one-dimensional Lagrangian particle thread.