Resumen. El trabajo de investigación presentado en esta tesis doctoral está enmarcado en el desarrollo y optimización del sistema de combustión de un novedoso motor de dos tiempos de encendido por compresión, que presenta una arquitectura de barrido por válvulas en culata, y que ha sido diseñado para aplicaciones de automoción dentro de la gama de coches compactos. El objetivo principal de esta investigación ha consistido en mejorar el conocimiento existente sobre los motores dos tiempos con arquitectura de barrido por válvulas, y a la vez identificar los principales vínculos entre los procesos de renovación de la carga y de combustión, con el fin de cuantificar su impacto sobre la formación de emisiones contaminantes y el rendimiento térmico del motor. Adicionalmente, se desea optimizar las prestaciones de este motor de dos tiempos operando con el proceso de combustión diésel convencional controlada por mezcla, así como evaluar el potencial de distintos conceptos avanzados de combustión de baja temperatura con fase de premezcla extendida, con el fin de reducir los niveles de emisiones contaminantes y mejorar el consumo específico de combustible del motor.La metodología utilizada en esta tesis ha sido concebida combinando un enfoque teórico-experimental, que permite maximizar la información que se puede obtener acerca de los fenómenos físicos involucrados en los diferentes procesos objeto de estudio, y a la vez conservar un enfoque de optimización eficiente reduciendo en la medida de lo posible el número de ensayos experimentales requeridos. Con la finalidad de analizar en detalle la relación que existe entre las condiciones en el cilindro (como lo es la concentración de oxígeno, la temperatura de combustión y el dosado local) y el proceso de formación de emisiones contaminantes, especialmente de N O x y hollín, se desarrollaron y utilizaron distintas herramientas teóricas para complementar y sustentar los comportamientos y tendencias observadas mediante los ensayos experimentales, tanto para el modo de combustión diésel convencional como para los conceptos avanzados de combustión. Para la consecución de dichos objetivos se ha seguido una estructura secuencial en la cual el trabajo de investigación ha sido desarrollado en dos grandes bloques: primero, se analizó y optimizó el proceso de combustión diésel convencional, mediante la combinación adecuada de parámetros de operación del motor que modifican apreciablemente las características del proceso de combustión controlada por mezcla; y segundo, se logró implementar y evaluar el desempeño de dos conceptos avanzados de combustión, específicamente el modo combustión altamente premezclado de tipo HPC utilizando diésel como combustible (acrónimo de "Highly-Premixed Combustion") y el modo de combustión parcialmente premezclada de tipo PPC ("Partially Premixed Combustion") utilizando un combustible con mayor resistencia a la auto-ignición (en este caso se utilizó gasolina de octanaje 95). En esta segunda fase, se hizoénfasis en el análisis del concepto de combustión PP...
Turbulent premixed flame propagation in the vicinity of a
wall is studied using a
three-dimensional constant-density simulation of flames propagating in
a channel. The
influence of the walls is investigated in terms of the flamelet approach,
where flamelet
speed and flame surface density transport are used to describe the flame.
The walls
have constant temperature and lead to flamelet quenching for
sufficiently small wall–flame distances. Starting from the
exact evolution equation for the surface density of
propagating interfaces (Trouvé & Poinsot 1994; Candel &
Poinsot 1990; Pope 1988), a
budget for the flame surface density equation is presented before,
during, and after the
interaction with the wall. Before the flame interacts with the wall,
flame propagation
is controlled by a balance between surface production and annihilation.
During the
interaction, high flame surface density gradients near the wall are responsible
for
the predominance of the transport terms. Closures of all terms of the flame
surface
density equation are proposed. These models are based on flamelet ideas
and take into
account wall effects. Enthalpy loss through the wall affects flamelet speed,
flamelet
annihilation and flame propagation. Decrease of turbulent scales
near the wall affects
turbulent diffusion and flame strain. This model is compared to DNS results
using
two types of tests: (i) a priori tests, where individual
terms of the modelled flame
surface density equation are compared to the terms of the exact interface
density
propagation equation, calculated with the DNS; (ii) a posteriori
tests, where the final
model is used to obtain total reaction rate, mean fuel mass fraction,
heat flux at the
wall and fuel mass fraction at the wall in the configuration used in the
DNS. For
both types of tests the model compares well with the DNS results.
The transient and quasi-steady flame structure of reacting fuel sprays produced by single-hole injectors has been studied using chemiluminescence imaging and Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) in various constant-volume facilities at different research institutes participating in the Engine Combustion Network (ECN). The evolution of the high-temperature flame has been followed based on chemiluminescence imaging of the excited-state hydroxyl radical (OH *), and PLIF of ground-state OH. Regions associated with low-temperature chemical reactions are visualized using formaldehyde (CH 2 O) PLIF with 355-nm excitation. We compare the results obtained by different research institutes under nominally identical experimental conditions and fuel injectors. In spite of design differences among the various experimental facilities, the results are consistent. This lends confidence to studies of transient behavior and parameter variations performed by individual research groups. We present results of the transient flame structures at Spray A reference conditions, and include parametric variations around this baseline, involving ambient temperature, oxygen concentration and injection pressure. Key results are the observed influence of an entrainment wave on the transient flame behavior, model-substantiated explanations for the high-intensity OH * lobes at the lift-off length and differences with OH PLIF, and a general analogy of the flame structures with a spray cone along which the flame tends to locate for the applied parametric variations.
The structure of combusting diesel jets in low-temperature conditions is studied using laser-induced fluorescence (LIF). A single-hole common rail diesel injector is used, which allows high injection pressures up to 120 MPa. Visualizations are performed in a high-pressure, high-temperature cell that is designed to reproduce the typical thermodynamic conditions in the combustion chamber of a diesel engine. Planar LIF of the hydroxide (OH) radicals (OH LIF) with excitation near 280 nm and LIF with excitation at 355 nm (355 LIF) are applied simultaneously. In addition, simultaneous 355 LIF imaging and spatially resolved single-shot spectral analysis are performed in order to identify spatially the contribution of formaldehyde and poly-aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) fluorescence in the 355 LIF images. Also, the analysis of the pressure signal in the chamber and subsequent calculation of heat release rates are used to locate temporally each image within the different combustion stages. The combustion structure of a low-temperature freely propagating jet during those stages is then analysed in detail, using the information given by the simultaneous LIF techniques on the different reaction zones; this is then summarized by a conceptual model. Finally, the simultaneous LIF techniques are applied to a configuration where a jet impinges on a perpendicular wall. The results are used to analyse the effect of wall interaction on the combustion structure.
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