Quantitative planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging of multi-component fuel/air mixing in a firing gasoline-direct-injection engine: Effects of residual exhaust gas on quantitative PLIF

Combustion and Flame

Volumn 157, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1866-1878

  Williams, Ben ^a   Ewart, Paul ^a   Wang, Xiaowei ^a   Stone, Richard ^a   Ma, Hongrui ^b   Walmsley, Harold ^b   Cracknell, Roger ^b   Stevens, Robert ^c   Richardson, David ^c   Fu, Huiyu ^c   Wallace, Stan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SHELL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c JAGUAR LAND ROVER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Direct injection; Exhaust gas residuals; Fuel air mixing; Gasoline engines; Quantitative PLIF

Indexed keywords

BURN RATES; CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; CALIBRATION METHOD; CYCLIC VARIATIONS; CYLINDER TEMPERATURES; DATA SETS; DIRECT INJECTION; FIRING CONDITIONS; FIRING CYCLE; FUEL CONCENTRATION; FUEL MIXING; FUEL-AIR MIXTURES; FUEL-AIR RATIOS; FUEL/AIR MIXING; GASOLINE ENGINES; GASOLINE FUELS; HEAVY FRACTION; IMAGING EFFICIENCY; MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTICOMPONENT FUEL; MULTICOMPONENTS; NOVEL METHODS; PLANAR LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; PLIF IMAGES; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE PLIF; RE-CIRCULATION LOOPS; SIGNAL COLLECTION; SIGNIFICANT FACTORS;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENGINES; FLUORESCENCE; FUELS; GASES; GASOLINE; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MIXING; MIXTURES; SUPERSONIC FLOW;

ENGINE CYLINDERS;

FUEL; GASOLINE;

AIR; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; EVAPORATION; EXHAUST GAS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; PLANAR LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIMULATION;

EID: 77955774529     PISSN: 00102180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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