Multiple-event fuel injection investigations in a highly-dilute diesel low temperature combustion regime

SAE International Journal of Engines

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 837-857

  Koci, Chad P ^a   Ra, Youngchul ^a   Krieger, Roger ^a   Andrie, Mike ^a   Foster, David E ^a   Siewert, Robert M ^b   Durrett, Russell P ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOST PRESSURE; CFD COMPUTATION; CHEMKIN; COMBUSTION NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; CYLINDER PRESSURES; EMISSIONS AND COMBUSTION; EVENT TIMING; FUEL DISTRIBUTION; FUEL INJECTION TIMING; HEAT RELEASE ANALYSIS; INJECTION PRESSURES; INJECTION TIMING; LIGHT-DUTY; LOW TEMPERATURE COMBUSTION; MOMENTUM FLUX; MULTIPLE INJECTIONS; OPERATION RANGE; PERFORMANCE AND EMISSIONS; PM EMISSIONS; RAIL PRESSURES; SINGLE-CYLINDER ENGINES; SPRAY MODEL; START OF COMBUSTION; UNBURNED HYDROCARBONS;

AIR QUALITY; COMBUSTION; DIESEL ENGINES; ENGINE CYLINDERS; FUEL INJECTION; FUELS; HYDROCARBONS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77953147553     PISSN: 19463936     EISSN: 19463944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2009-01-0925     Document Type: Article

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