Jeongkuk Yeom
The Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, vol. 22, no. 9, pp.1785-1792, 2008

Abstract : In this study, the effects of change in injection pressure on spray structure have been investigated on the high temperature and pressure field. To analyze the structure of evaporative diesel spray is important in speculation of mixture formation process. Also emissions of diesel engines can be controlled by the analyzed results. Therefore, this study examines the evaporating spray structure in a constant volume chamber. The injection pressure is selected as the experimental parameter, is changed from 72 MPa to 112 MPa with a high pressure injection system (ECD-U2). The PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) technique was used to capture behavior variation of the evaporative diesel spray. Analysis of the mixture formation process of diesel spray was executed by the results of flow analysis in this study. Consequentially the large-scale vortex flow could be found in downstream spray and the formed vortex governs the mixture formation process in diesel spray.

Keyword : Spray structure; Mixture formation; Evaporative diesel spray; Vortex; PIV technique