Fuel performances in Spark-Ignition (SI) engines: Impact of flame stretch

Combustion and Flame

Volumn 166, Issue , 2016, Pages 98-112

  Brequigny, Pierre ^a,b   Halter, Fabien ^a   Mounaïm Rousselle, Christine ^a   Dubois, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Flame stretch; Premixed combustion; Spark Ignition engine

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; IGNITION; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; MIXTURES; STRAIN RATE;

COMBUSTION PERFORMANCE; EQUIVALENCE RATIOS; FLAME STRETCH; FUEL DIVERSIFICATION; POLLUTANT EMISSION; PREMIXED COMBUSTION; SENSITIVITY PROPERTIES; SINGLE CYLINDER ENGINE;

FUELS;

FUEL; METHANE; OCTANE; PROPANE;

ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; FLAME; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPARK IGNITION ENGINE;

EID: 84960418654     PISSN: 00102180     EISSN: 15562921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2016.01.005     Document Type: Article

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