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.