Modeling the effect of fuel ethanol concentration on cylinder pressure evolution in direct-injection flex-fuel engines

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2037-2044

  Oliverio, Nestor H ^a   Jiang, Li ^b   Yilmaz, Hakan ^b   Stefanopoulou, Anna G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COOLING; COMPRESSION STROKE; CYLINDER PRESSURES; DIRECT INJECTION; ENGINE OPERATING CONDITIONS; FLEX-FUEL; FUEL ETHANOL; GASOLINE FUELS; GASOLINE-ETHANOL BLEND; GENERATION ALGORITHM; LUMPED PARAMETER MODELS; PHYSICS-BASED; REAL-TIME MODELS; VAPORIZATION PROCESS; VARIABLE VALVE TIMING;

COOLING; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIESEL ENGINES; ENGINE CYLINDERS; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; FUELS; GASOLINE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; VAPORIZATION;

PRESSURE EFFECTS;

EID: 70449638307     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2009.5160634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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