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The calculations do not take into account that the effects of dissociation or presence of<br />

other intermediate species. It is however not very important, since the amount of<br />

dissociation at 2000 K is insignificant. For HCCI combustion these approximations will<br />

therefore be acceptable.<br />

9.4 Temperature estimate<br />

Assuming ideal gas behavior and no mass loss, the temperature may be estimated from<br />

the ideal gas law:<br />

pV<br />

T =<br />

mRmass<br />

Rmass is the mass based gas constant, 287 J/kg-K. This value is only valid for dry air. The<br />

gas constant valid for the unburned and burned charges is calculated as:<br />

Rmolar<br />

R mass = ; M mixture = xi<br />

M i<br />

M<br />

mixture<br />

where Rmolar is the universal gas constant, Mmixture is the molar weight of the mixture, xi<br />

the mass fraction of species i and Mi the molar weight of species i.<br />

Table 4: Molar masses and gas constants calculated for air, burned and unburned charge.<br />

Mixture Components Molar mass Gas constant<br />

Air N2: 0.78, O2: 0.21, Ar: 0.01 28.97 287.0<br />

Unburned N2: 0.739, O2: 0.225, DME: 0.036 29.55 281.4<br />

Burned N2: 0.739, O2: 0.15, CO2: 0.069, H2O:<br />

0.042<br />

29.28 283.9<br />

Average Based on burned and unburned 29.42 282.6<br />

The change in the mass based gas constant before and after combustion is insignificant.<br />

An average value of 283 is sufficient to improve accuracy in the temperature calculation<br />

with both burned and unburned mixtures.<br />

Since pressure and volume are known with good precision, the most critical is the<br />

determination of the cylinder mass, m. The amount of air entering the engine may be<br />

estimated from the volumetric efficiency and the intake conditions which are well known<br />

parameters for a diesel engine, while the amount of residual gas may be estimated from<br />

the exhaust temperature and cylinder pressure at EVC. A more precise evaluation of the<br />

trapped mass may be made by measuring the air flow with a laminar flow meter, if the<br />

valve overlap does not result in air flowing through the engine.<br />

9.5 Heat losses<br />

The preferred method of calculating heat transfer is by the Woschni Correlation. The heat<br />

transfer between a gas and a surface of area A is given by:

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