Combustion Engines Development: Mixture Formation, Combustion, Emissions and Simulation [Paperback]

Combustion Engines Development nowadays is based on simulation, not only of the transient reaction of vehicles or of the complete driveshaft, but also of the highly unsteady processes in the carburation process and the combustion chamber of an engine. Different physical and chemical approaches are described to show the potentials and limits of the models used for simulation.Part A: Foundations of thermodynamics and chemistry.- Introduction.- Reciprocating Engines.- Combustion Diagnostics.- Engine Combustion.- Reactionkinetics.- Pollutant Formation.- Part B: Simulation of the overall process.- Calculation of the real working Process.- Charging of combustion engines.- Exhaust-Aftertreatment systems.- Part C: Simulation of combustion and charging.- Total process analysis.- Phenomenological combustion models.- Three-dimensional flow fields.- Simulation of injection processes.- Simulation of combustion.- 3D-Supercharging Simulation.- Appendix.Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. G?nter P. Merker was born in Augsburg/Germany in 1942. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University in Munich and received his diploma in 1969. He worked than as an assistant lecturer at this Institute and got his PhD in 1974 with a thesis on free convection problems. From 1975 to 1976, he has been as a research fellow at the Californian Institute of Technology in Pasadena/CA. Having returned to the Munich Technical University, he qualified as a university lecturer in 1978. From 1978 to 1980, he was with MTU GmbH in Munich. In 1980 he accepted an associate professorship for refrigeration technology at the University of Karlsruhe. In 1986 he started work at MTU Friedrichshafen, where he was head of the department analytics and engine calculation. In 1994 he accepted a full professorship for combustion engines at the University of Hannover. There he was head of the Institute of Technical Combustion until he retired in 2005. He was adviser to 43 PhD students. He is editor alƒ?