Cavitation in fuel injection systems for spray-guided direct injection gasoline engines

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Papoulias, D ^a   Giannadakis, E ^a   Mitroglou, N ^a   Gavaises, M ^a   Theodorakakos, A ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Fluid Research Company   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Gasoline; Modelling; Multi Hole; Outwards opening; Pintle; Spray guided

Indexed keywords

CAVITATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GASOLINE; MODELS; NEEDLES; NOZZLE DESIGN; SPRAY NOZZLES;

CAVITATION STRUCTURE; DIRECT INJECTION GASOLINE ENGINE; FUEL INJECTION SYSTEMS; GENERIC GEOMETRIES; MULTI HOLES; OPERATING CONDITION; OUTWARDS-OPENING; PINTLE;

DIRECT INJECTION;

EID: 85072420248     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2007-01-1418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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