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A Study on the Effects of Intake Port Geometry on In-Cylinder Swirl Flow Field in a Small D.I. Diesel Engine  

Lee, Ki-Hyung (한양대학교 기계공학과)
Han, Yong-Taek (한양대학교 대학원)
Jeong, Hae-Young (한양대학교 대학원)
Leem, Young-Chul (한양대학교 대학원)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers / v.12, no.6, 2004 , pp. 38-45 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper studies the effects of intake port configuration on the swirl that is key parameter in the flow field of direct injection diesel engines. In-cylinder flow characteristics is known to have significant effects on fuel air mixing, combustion and emissions. To investigate the swirl flow generated by various intake ports, steady state flow tests were conducted to evaluate the swirl. Helical port geometry, SCV shape and bypass were selected as the design parameters to increase the swirl flow and parametric study was performed to choose the optimal port shape that would generate a high swirl ratio efficiently. The results revealed that a key factor in generating a high swirl ratio was to suitably control the direction of the intake air flow passing through the valve seat. For these purposes, we changed the distance of helical and tangential port as well as installed bypass near the valve seat and the effects of intake port geometry on in-cylinder flow field were visualized by a laser sheet visualization method. From the experimental results, we found that the swirl ratio and mass flow rate had a trade off relation. In addition, the result indicates that the bypass is a effective method to increase the swirl ratio without sacrificing mass flow rate.
Keywords
Intake port; Steady state flow test; Bypass; SCV; Swirl ratio;
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