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Design and Simulation of Two Stroke Engines

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Chapter 3 - Scavenging the <strong>Two</strong>-<strong>Stroke</strong> Engine<br />

Fig. 3.20 Computational grid structure for scavenging calculation.<br />

In the preceding sections, there has been a considerable volume <strong>of</strong> information presented<br />

regarding experimentally determined scavenging characteristics <strong>of</strong> engine cylinders on the<br />

single-cycle gas scavenging rig. Consequently, at QUB it was considered important to use the<br />

PHOENICS CFD code to simulate those experiments <strong>and</strong> thereby determine the level <strong>of</strong><br />

accuracy <strong>of</strong> such CFD calculations.<br />

Further gas-dynamics s<strong>of</strong>tware was written at QUB to inform the PHOENICS code as to<br />

the velocity <strong>and</strong> state conditions <strong>of</strong> the entering <strong>and</strong> exiting scavenged charge at all cylinder<br />

port boundaries, or duct boundaries if the grid in Fig. 3.20 were to be employed. The flow<br />

entering the cylinder was assumed by Sweeney [3.23] to be "plug flow," i.e., the direction <strong>of</strong><br />

flow <strong>of</strong> the scavenge air at any port through any calculation cell at the cylinder boundary was<br />

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