F. Hempert, S. Boblest, M. Hoffmann, P. Offenhäuser, F. Sadlo, C. W. Glass, C.-D. Munz, T. Ertl, U. Iben:

High-Pressure Real-Gas Jet and Throttle Flow as a Simplified Gas Injector Model Using a Discontinuous Galerkin Method

In Proceedings of High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering 2016, Springer International Publishing, pp. 289–300, 2016.

Abstract

Industrial devices such as gas injectors for automotive combustion engines operate at ever-increasing pressures and already today reach regimes beyond the ideal-gas approximation. Numerical simulations are an important part of the design process for such components. In this paper, we present a case study with a computational fluid dynamics code based on the discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method with a real-gas equation of state. We assess a high-pressure throttle and jet flow as a basic model of a gas injector. We apply a shock-capturing method to achieve a robust simulation, and a newly developed method to maintain high efficiency despite load imbalances introduced by the shock capturing. The results indicate a dynamic mass flow rate at different pressure ratios between the inlet and outlet.

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