Diesel Engine Spray Modeling with Lattice Boltzmann Method

Abstract:

In this paper we propose a novel Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) incorporated with Large Eddy Simulation (LES) to simulate diesel engine spray process. The proposed LB-LES method combines several advantages of LBM and LES including clear physical pictures, easy implementation and capacity to describe turbulence structures of high Renolds fluid, it also can settle the problem that LBM cant converge of high Renolds. Simulation result shows: (1) Strong vortex exist around the spray cone and head of the spray; (2) A high fuel density regime exits inside the head of spray, that verifies the experiment result of American APS laboratory with the application of avalanche photodiode (APD) X-ray imaging technology to spray field; (3) LB-LES method can simulate the surface undulation phenomenon of spray which is generated by the aerodynamic force in the case of high Renolds.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 779-780)
• Pages: 996-1006
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.779-780.996
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Cang Su Xu, Yang Xie, Dong Hua Fang, Yi Fan Xu
• Keywords: LBM, LES, Simulation, Spray, X-Ray

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