Investigation of the Flow Pattern inside a Diesel Engine Injection Nozzle to Determine the Relationship between Various Flow Parameters and the Occurrence of Cavitation
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In diesel engines the fuel injection system produces
the spray, which directly affects the combustion of the fuel, which in
turn determines the production of pollutants. In spite of this, the
details of this causal relationship remain unclear. There is, however, a
lack of quantitative experimental data for determining and visualizing
the cavitation inside real size diesel injector nozzle. The present work
is devoted to analyze analytically the flow pattern inside the nozzle
of a diesel engine working with hydrocarbon fuel (Diesel fuel) and to
predict the relationship between the various flow parameters and
occurrence of fuel cavitation in such nozzles. Basic physical parameters
affecting this phenomenon are identified and quantified while the
effect of nozzle geometry, fuel injection pressure, and engine cylinder
temperature upon the flow pattern and occurrence of cavitation in such
nozzles are assessed. In this study, a commercial computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) package (FLUENT-T grid) is used while a computational
grid is generated for the real geometry of diesel injector nozzle using
(ANSYS). The suitability of the generated computational grid to give
reliable results is examined using the suitable procedures and
techniques. The results indicated that, cavitation modeling has reached a
stage of maturity and it can usefully identify many of the cavitation
structures present in internal nozzle flows and their dependence on
nozzle design and flow conditions. The qualitative distributions and
comparison of cavitation inception and distribution as well as flow
parameters at the nozzle exit are also studied.
Cite this paper
Bastawissi, H. and Elkelawy, M. (2014)
Investigation of the Flow Pattern inside a Diesel Engine Injection
Nozzle to Determine the Relationship between Various Flow Parameters and
the Occurrence of Cavitation. Engineering, 6, 923-935. doi: 10.4236/eng.2014.613084.
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