《2016-01-1041 Fuel-Air Mixing Characteristics of DI Hydrogen Jets》.pdf

2008-01-1041 Fuel-Air Mixing Characteristics of DI Hydrogen Jets Rebecca Owston, Vinicio Magi and John Abraham Purdue University Copyright © 2008 SAE International ABSTRACT prior to spark initiation in a spark-ignition (SI) engine. Generally, local high temperature regions are responsible The following computational study examines the structure for such occurrences. of sonic hydrogen jets using inlet conditions similar to those encountered in direct-injection hydrogen engines. Research efforts on optimization of DI hydrogen engines Cases utilizing the same mass and momentum flux while are ongoing. Part of the issue with such engines is that varying exit-to-chamber pressure ratios have been a number of properties of hydrogen are very different investigated in a constant-volume computational domain. from those of conventional fuels. Thus, previous results Furthermore, subsonic versus sonic structures have been from the existing body of literature on hydrocarbon fuel- compared using both hydrogen and ethylene fuel jets. burning engines do not necessarily hold true when Finally, the accuracy of scaling arguments to characterize considering hydrogen-air combustion. For example, the an underexpanded jet by a subsonic “equivalent jet” has low ignition energy