Parametric study on the fuel film breakup of a cold start PFI engine

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 385-398

  Wang, Y P ^a   Wilkinson, G B ^a   Drallmeier, J A ^a  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROCARBONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FUEL ATOMIZATION; HYDROCARBON EMISSIONS; LIQUID FILMS; PORT-FUEL-INJECTED (PFI) ENGINES;

FUEL INJECTION;

BIOFILM;

EID: 4644281452     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-004-0827-x     Document Type: Article

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