gas motion within the cylinder is one of the major factors that control the combustion process in spark ignition engine. it also has significant impact on heat transfer. both the bulk gas motion and the turbulence characteristics of the flow are important and governing the overall behavior of the flow. an arrangement for obtaining a stratified charge, using port injection, is proposed for a cur...

and Swirl Gas Angle on Evaporation of Hafnium Cathode in a Plasma Cutting Arc Nguyen Phi Long1, Y. Tanaka1, Y. Uesugi1, and Y. Yamaguchi2 1Division of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan 2Komatsu Industries Corporation, Japan Abstract: The effects of arc current and swirl gas angle on plasma cutting arc were investigated using a dev...

A computational study of a directinjection (DI) engine intake system using KIVA-3V was conducted. The engine considered had two intake ports designed to generate a swirling motion of the intake charge in the cylinder. To investigate the effect of adding shrouds to the intake valves on swirl, two sets of intake valves were considered; the first set consisted of conventional valves, and the secon...

The effects of cooling flow injection on the flow development and acoustic oscillation in a premixed swirl-stabilized combustor had been numerically investigated using 3D large-eddy simulation. Three different cases, including one with no injection and two with cooling flow injection (5, 20 m s), were simulated. With injection of cooling flow-through slits in the combustor wall, the absolute ve...

Introduction: Generally, geometrical parameters of the cyclone have a profound effect on determining its performance. The air outlet (Vortex Finder) as one of the cyclone’s components has a significant impact on the cyclone’s internal flow pattern, pressure drop and even dust removal efficiency. Material and Methods: Two different air outlets were designed in order to be easily installed and r...

We show in this study that the combination of a swirl flow reactor and an antimicrobial agent (in this case copper alginate beads) is a promising technique for the remediation of contaminated water in waste streams recalcitrant to UV-C treatment. This is demonstrated by comparing the viability of both common and UV-C resistant organisms in operating conditions where UV-C proves ineffective - no...

The measurements of a turbulent swirl flow in the subchannels of a 5 x 5 rod array having typical mixing devices at the MATIS-H (Measurements and Analysis of Turbulence In SubchannelsHorizontal) facility have been analysed using a commercial CFD code of STAR-CCM+ 4.02 with a unit grid model having no unmatched grid interface. The main objectives of this analysis is to establish a proper CFD ana...

Soot concentration distribution is investigated both numerically and experimentally in methane-air diffusion flame. The experimental work is conducted with a cylindrical swirl stabilized combustor. Filter paper technique is used to measure soot volume fraction inside the combustor. The numerical simulation is based on the solution of the fully-coupled conservation equations for swirling turbule...

In this manuscript, the experimental setup was designed and fabricated for optimizing the parameters of a catalytic converter of INDICA V2 exhaust system. Three turbulence intensify devices, namely Swirl Venturi, Swirl Blades and Swirl Contour, were close-fitted before the catalytic converter. The heating element is embedded in its body and thermocouples are used for knowing the performance at ...

Observations of tornadoes in the field and laboratory investigations of tornado-like end-wall vortices have both demonstrated the complexity of this fluid phenomenon. The structure of the core region in particular depends on a number of parameters, one being the swirl ratio (S), i.e the degree of swirl in the background flow (DaviesJones, 1976), another being the degree of roughness of the unde...