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.