Multidimensional predictions of in-cylinder turbulent flows: Contribution to the assessment of k-ε turbulence model variants for bowl-in-piston engines

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 883-896

  Baratta, Mirko ^a   Catania, Andrea E ^a   Spessa, Ezio ^a   Liu, Rui L ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Tianjin Transp Engineering College   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINE CYLINDERS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW;

IN-CYLINDER FLOW ANALYSIS; RENORMALIZATION GROUP; TURBULENCE MODEL;

ENGINE PISTONS;

ENGINE; MODEL; PISTON; PREDICTION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 27144540395     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1852567     Document Type: Article

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