Keywords
Navier Stokes equations
Alternative internal combustion engine
intake stroke
exhaust stroke
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Abstract
The computational representation of the fluid dynamic effects during the interaction between air as a working fluid and the different geometries that make up the intake and exhaust strokes in an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations using previously unpublished SolidWorks Flow Simulation (SWFS) is reported in this work. For which it was necessary to understand the requirements of the SWFS configuration process, adapt the initial and boundary conditions proposed in bibliographic precedents, and use an ICE geometry housed in a freely accessible geometric database. In the results it was possible to expose the characteristics of the working fluid inside the cylinder for various intake and exhaust valve openings in terms of key variables such as pressure, mass flow and speed fields called Swirl and Tumble; through validation it was possible to show that the proposed methodologies represent the fluid dynamics of air with a high level of convergence according to works reported in the literature.
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