Synopses & Reviews
In the development of engines and vehicles it is nowadays standard practice to use commercially available computing programmes for simulation, not only of the transient reaction of vehicles or of the complete driveshaft, but also of the highly unsteady processes in the combustion chamber of an engine. Normally the source code is not available for these computing programmes and it takes too much time to study the respective specifications, so the users often do not have sufficient knowledge about the physical and chemical contents of the approaches that the programmes are based on. We have often been faced with this fact in talks to employees or in discussions during the presentation of results of simulation. Therefore it is our aim to point out different physical and chemical approaches and to show the possibilities and limits of the models used.
Synopsis
Combustion Engines Development nowadays is based on simulation, not only of the transient reaction of vehicles or of the complete driveshaft, but also of the highly unsteady processes in the carburation process and the combustion chamber of an engine. Different physical and chemical approaches are described to show the potentials and limits of the models used for simulation.
Synopsis
With software simulations ever more ubiquitous in combustion engine development, this volume assesses cutting edge physical and chemical approaches and in doing so demonstrates both the potential and limitations of the models used for simulation.
About the Author
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Günter P. Merker was born in Augsburg/Germany in 1942. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University in Munich and received his diploma in 1969. He worked than as an assistant lecturer at this Institute and got his PhD in 1974 with a thesis on free convection problems. From 1975 to 1976, he has been as a research fellow at the Californian Institute of Technology in Pasadena/CA. Having returned to the Munich Technical University, he qualified as a university lecturer in 1978. From 1978 to 1980, he was with MTU GmbH in Munich. In 1980 he accepted an associate professorship for refrigeration technology at the University of Karlsruhe. In 1986 he started work at MTU Friedrichshafen, where he was head of the department analytics and engine calculation. In 1994 he accepted a full professorship for combustion engines at the University of Hannover. There he was head of the Institute of Technical Combustion until he retired in 2005. He was adviser to 43 PhD students. He is editor and co-editor of more than 140 technical scientific publications as well as six technical books on thermal transmission, fluid mechanics and combustion engines. He is a member of the Scientific Association in Braunschweig as well as of different technical committees. In addition to that, he works as an independent adviser for engine manufactories and service industries.
Table of Contents
Part A: Foundations of thermodynamics and chemistry.- Introduction.- Reciprocating Engines.- Combustion Diagnostics.- Engine Combustion.- Reactionkinetics.- Pollutant Formation.- Part B: Simulation of the overall process.- Calculation of the real working Process.- Charging of combustion engines.- Exhaust-Aftertreatment systems.- Part C: Simulation of combustion and charging.- Total process analysis.- Phenomenological combustion models.- Three-dimensional flow fields.- Simulation of injection processes.- Simulation of combustion.- 3D-Supercharging Simulation.- Appendix.