INLET MANIFOLD OPTIMISATION FOR GDI ENGINE USING VORTEX FLAPS AND HELICAL PORT

ABSTRACT

Gasoline direct injection (GDI) is an increasingly prevalent drive system for passenger cars worldwide, where the
growing demand for low fuel consumption and stricter emission limits are cause for innovative engine concepts.
Engines with gasoline direct injection creates air fuel mixture right inside the combustion chamber. This results in
higher compression thus improved efficiency, torque and dynamic driving characters, while emission levels are
reduced.

A Gasoline Direct Injection engine operates on lean mixture to minimize the NOx emissions due to excessive heat
release in stoichiometric combustion. Lean combustion in a GDI engine requires high turbulence inside the
combustion chambers to facilitate mixing and vaporization of injected fuel. Inlet manifold design plays a major role
in the generation of turbulence and vortices at the initial stages of suction stroke. The present work aimed at
increasing the turbulence inside the combustion chamber by incorporating vortex flaps inside the inlet manifold
and helical design for the inlet manifold, since air fuel mixture is created inside the combustion chamber addition
of vortex flaps and helical port doesn’t creates fuel accumulation and residuals inside the manifold. Steady state
analysis of suction stroke is carried out using ANSYS FLUENT. Flow and turbulent characteristics inside the
combustion chamber will be evaluated as part of the study. Bore and stroke of the ICE used for simulation is
82.5mm and 84.2mm respectively.