Effects of Turbulence and Temperature Fluctuations on Knock Development in an Ethanol/Air Mixture
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Luong, Minh Bau
Desai, Swapnil
Hernandez Perez, Francisco
Sankaran, Ramanan
Johansson, Bengt

Im, Hong G.

KAUST Department
Clean Combustion Research CenterComputational Reacting Flow Laboratory (CRFL)
Mechanical Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2020-05-29Submitted Date
2019-12-16Permanent link to this record
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The effects of turbulence on knock development and intensity for a thermally inhomogeneous stoichiometric ethanol/air mixture at a representative end-gas autoignition condition in internal combustion engines are investigated using direct numerical simulations with a skeletal reaction mechanism. Two- and three-dimensional simulations are performed by varying the most energetic length scale of temperature, lT, and its relative ratio with the most energetic length scale of turbulence, lT/ le, together with two different levels of the turbulent velocity fluctuation, u′. It is found that lT/le and the ratio of ignition delay time to eddy-turnover time, τig/ τt, are the key parameters that control the detonation development. An increase in either lT or le enhances the detonation propensity by allowing a longer run-up distance for the detonation development. The characteristic length scale of the temperature field, lT, is significantly modified by high turbulence intensity achieved by a large le and u′. The intense turbulence mixing effectively distributes the initial temperature field to broader scales to support the developing detonation waves, thereby increasing the likelihood of the detonation formation. On the contrary, high turbulence intensity with a short mixing time scale, achieved by a small le and a large u′, reduces the super-knock intensity attributed to the finer broken-up structures of detonation waves. Either τig/ τt less than unity or le= lT even with a large u′ is found to have no significant effect on super-knock mitigation. Finally, high turbulent intensity may induce high-pressure spikes comparable to the von Neumann spike. Increased temperature and pressure by combustion heating, noticeably after the peak of heat release rate, significantly enhance the collision and interaction of multiple emerging autoignition fronts near the ending combustion process, resulting in localized high-pressure spikes.Citation
Luong, M. B., Desai, S., Hernández Pérez, F. E., Sankaran, R., Johansson, B., & Im, H. G. (2020). Effects of Turbulence and Temperature Fluctuations on Knock Development in an Ethanol/Air Mixture. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion. doi:10.1007/s10494-020-00171-9Sponsors
This work was sponsored by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and used the computational resources of the KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal
Flow, Turbulence and CombustionAdditional Links
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10494-020-00171-9ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s10494-020-00171-9