TY - GEN
T1 - Probability density function modeling of ignition in a temperature stratified mixture for application to HCCI engines
AU - Bisetti, Fabrizio
AU - Chen, J. Y.
AU - Hawkes, Evatt R.
AU - Chen, Jacqueline H.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Homogeneous-charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine technology is capable of reducing NOx and soot emissions while achieving higher thermal efficiency than spark ignition engines. In order to obtain a smoother pressure rise, some degree of temperature stratification is introduced in the otherwise chemically (nearly) homogeneous fuel-air mixture. As some authors recently showed by means of Direct Numerical Simulation [E. R. Hawkes, R. Sankaran, P. P. Pébay, J. H. Chen, Combustion and Flame 145(1-2):145-159], temperature inhomogeneities lead to the coexistence of two ignition regimes - spontaneous ignition fronts, and deflagration fronts - Thus posing a modeling challenge to the multizone approach under high stratiFIcation conditions. In this paper we focus on the ignition of a pocket of lean H2/air mixture ( φ = 0:1, p = 41 atm and T = 1070 K). The igniting mixture parcel is lumped into a single reactor and a Probability Density Function (PDF) based model with sole treatment of micromixing and chemistry is applied. Our approach improved the predictions of the multizone model and it is found capable of quantitatively reproducing the time history of the global heat release rate, mean temperature and pressure rise from published DNS data. Most importantly, the dependence of the heat release rate on the extent of the initial temperature stratification in the charge is also well captured.
AB - Homogeneous-charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine technology is capable of reducing NOx and soot emissions while achieving higher thermal efficiency than spark ignition engines. In order to obtain a smoother pressure rise, some degree of temperature stratification is introduced in the otherwise chemically (nearly) homogeneous fuel-air mixture. As some authors recently showed by means of Direct Numerical Simulation [E. R. Hawkes, R. Sankaran, P. P. Pébay, J. H. Chen, Combustion and Flame 145(1-2):145-159], temperature inhomogeneities lead to the coexistence of two ignition regimes - spontaneous ignition fronts, and deflagration fronts - Thus posing a modeling challenge to the multizone approach under high stratiFIcation conditions. In this paper we focus on the ignition of a pocket of lean H2/air mixture ( φ = 0:1, p = 41 atm and T = 1070 K). The igniting mixture parcel is lumped into a single reactor and a Probability Density Function (PDF) based model with sole treatment of micromixing and chemistry is applied. Our approach improved the predictions of the multizone model and it is found capable of quantitatively reproducing the time history of the global heat release rate, mean temperature and pressure rise from published DNS data. Most importantly, the dependence of the heat release rate on the extent of the initial temperature stratification in the charge is also well captured.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84943517106
T3 - 5th US Combustion Meeting 2007
SP - 2115
EP - 2124
BT - 5th US Combustion Meeting 2007
PB - Combustion Institute
T2 - 5th US Combustion Meeting 2007
Y2 - 25 March 2007 through 28 March 2007
ER -