Exploration of cavitation-suppressing orifice designs for a heavy-duty diesel injector operating with straight-run gasoline

The occurrence of cavitation inside injectors is generally undesirable since it can cause
material erosion and result in deviations from the expected injector performance. Previous …

[HTML][HTML] Development and validation of the cavitation-induced erosion risk assessment tool

GM Magnotti, M Battistoni, K Saha, S Som - Transportation Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
This work presents the development of a cavitation-induced erosion risk assessment
(CIERA) tool that links multiphase flow simulation predictions with the progress towards …

Assessing fuel property effects on cavitation and erosion propensity using a computational fuel screening tool

GM Magnotti, S Som - Journal of Engineering for …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
To advance compression ignition combustion strategies, researchers have evaluated fuel
property effects and their impact on achieving higher efficiencies and lower emissions levels …

Cylinder deactivation strategies to stabilize high stratification gasoline compression ignition down to idle

A Babu, SL Kokjohn - SAE International Journal of Engines, 2021 - JSTOR
Gasoline compression ignition (GCI) is a family of combustion strategies that can be used to
achieve low emissions and fuel consumption in medium-and heavy-duty applications while …

Impact of geometric compression ratio and variable valve actuation on gasoline compression ignition in a heavy-duty diesel engine

Y Zhang, P Kumar, M Tang, Y Pei… - Internal …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Gasoline compression ignition (GCI) is a promising powertrain solution to simultaneously
address the increasingly stringent regulation of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and a new focus on …

Effect of fuel temperature on the performance of a heavy-duty diesel injector operating with gasoline

R Torelli, Y Pei, Y Zhang, M Traver, M Sellnau, S Som - 2021 - sae.org
In this last decade, non-destructive X-ray measurement techniques have provided unique
insights into the internal surface and flow characteristics of automotive injectors. This has in …

A Comparison of Injection, Spray, and Combustion Characteristics for Non-Eroded and Eroded Multi-Hole Fuel Injectors

GM Magnotti, AC Nunno… - Internal …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
It is well known that cavitation erosion in fuel injectors can prevent reliable engine
performance after only several thousand hours of operation. However, current simulation …

Accurately Simulating the Performance of Gasoline-Like Fuels in 1-D Hydraulic Injection System Models Operating at High Pressures

T Tzanetakis, AK Voice, M Traver - 2021 - sae.org
Recent research has shown that gasoline compression ignition (GCI) improves the soot-NOx
tradeoff of traditional diesel engines due to the beneficial properties of light distillate fuels …

Durability study of a light-duty high pressure common rail fuel injection system using E10 gasoline

T Tzanetakis, M Sellnau, V Costanzo, M Traver… - 2020 - sae.org
A 500-hour test cycle has been used to evaluate the durability of a prototype high pressure
common rail injection system operating up to 1800 bar with E10 gasoline. Some aspects of …

Exploring the effectiveness of a complex coating technique for use the smallest parts of advanced powertrain fuel system

SC Cha, HJ Park, JH Lee, KY Ko, CH Shin - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
The objective is to develop the complex coating technique with high quality and
homogeneity of coating for spherical parts with diameter of 2∼ 4 mm and stable mass …