Combustion Modeling with the G-Equation

Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Rev. IFP, Vol. 54 (1999), No. 2, pp. 265-270.Abstract — Combustion Modeling with the G-Equation — Numerical investigations concerning the turbulent flame front propagation in Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) engines were made by implementing a flamelet model in the CFD code Fire. The advantage of this combustion model is the decoupling of the chemistry from the turbulent flow. For this purpose the combustion chamber has to be divided into a burned and an unburned area, which is realized by transporting a scalar field (G-Equation). The reference value defines the present averaged flame position. The complete reaction kinetics is calculated interactively with the CFD code in a one dimensional Representative Interactive Flamelet (RIF) code. This combustion model was verified by simulating a 2.0 l-2 V gasoline engine with homogeneous combustion where a parameter study was conducted to check the flamelet model for plausibility. Finally, the potential of this combustion model was investigated by simulating a hypothetical 2.0 l-4 V GDI engine.