Effect of inlet port on the flow in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine

Abstract

In this study, the characteristics of flow emerging from the inlet of the intake port in the cylinder were investigated experimentally. A particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique was used to measure the velocity distribution in order to observe and analyse the flow behaviour. High-image-density PIV provided acquisition of patterns of instantaneous and averaged vorticity and velocity, revealing the detail of the flow characteristics in the cylinder cavity. With this measuring technique, it is possible to study the effect of intake valve geometry on the flow behaviours.

The results showed that the flow structure changed substantially along the cylinder stroke due to the geometry of the intake valve port.

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PIV combustion vortex cylinder

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