Effect of injection strategy on fuel-air mixing and combustion process in a direct injection diesel rotary engine (DI-DRE)

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 154, Issue , 2017, Pages 68-80

  Chen, Wei ^a   Pan, Jianfeng ^a   Fan, Baowei ^a   Liu, Yangxian ^a   Peter, Otchere ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Combustion process; Diesel; Direct injection; Emissions; Mixture formation; Rotary engine

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; DIESEL ENGINES; DIESEL FUELS; EFFICIENCY; ENGINES; FUELS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; IGNITION; MIXING; MIXTURES; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; ROTARY ENGINES; SPARK PLUGS;

CHEMICAL KINETICS MECHANISMS; COMBUSTION EFFICIENCIES; COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; DIESEL; DIRECT INJECTION DIESEL; HIGH-PRESSURE DIRECT INJECTION; MAXIMUM COMBUSTION PRESSURES; MIXTURE FORMATION;

DIRECT INJECTION;

EID: 85033726778     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2017.10.048     Document Type: Article

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