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previous researchers, but still remains a signicant challenge for modern EGR
diesel engines equipped with advanced fuel systems. A practical approach is
to rely on engine testing to obtain the experimental data for Df
com
, f
SOC
,
and
d in the entire engine speed–load domain or at various ambient conditions,
and then to empirically interpolate or surface-t them to obtain the required
values. Another approach is to rely on advanced combustion simulation (e.g.,
KIVA) to deduce certain general trends or phenomenological correlations
of heat release rates.
Diesel engine combustion heat release rate has been extensively researched
and modeled. Abundant information can be found in Meguerdichian and
Watson (1978), Watson et al. (1980), Miyamoto et al. (1985), Grimm and
Johnson (1990), Sierens et al. (1992), Tuccillo et al. (1993), Oppenheim et
al. (1997), Homsy and Atreya (1997), Kamimoto et al. (1997), Ladommatos
et al. (1998), Egnell (1999), Brunt and Platts (1999), Assanis et al. (2000),
Nieuwstadt et al. (2000), Lakshminarayanan et al. (2002), Schihl et al. (2002),
Hountalas et al. (2004), Cesario et al. (2004), Friedrich et al. (2006), Ponti
et al. (2007), Manente et al. (2008), Nuszkowski and Thompson (2009), and
Thor et al. (2009). Diesel engine combustion analysis is summarized in Hsu
(2002) and Borman and Ragland (1998).
4.3 Engine manifold filling dynamics and dynamic
engine system design
The thermodynamic processes of the transient performance of the intake and
exhaust systems are introduced in this section. The engine manifold lling
dynamics predicts the dynamic instantaneous values of the gas pressure,
temperature, and ow rate in the intake manifold and the exhaust manifold
as a function of time or crank angle. It is the foundation of dynamic engine
system design in the time domain or crank angle domain, which is related to
transient engine performance and engine controls. More information about
the mathematical model formulation of dynamic engine system design can
be found from the references provided in Chapter 14 (transient performance
and electronic controls) in the sections regarding the mean-value models
used by the engine controls community.
If the engine cylinder itself is the only subject of study for understanding
the in-cylinder cycle process, a simplied approach to solve the above
governing differential equations of the in-cylinder cycle process in the
previous section is to assume the pressures in the intake port and the exhaust
port are known constants as inputs. However, a more realistic and complex
approach, often required by dynamic engine system design or high-delity
static (steady state) engine system design, is to model them as instantaneous
(i.e., dynamic) unknowns by using the equations that govern the gas ows
in the intake and exhaust systems. Such an instantaneous calculation can be
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