A control-oriented combustion model for a turbulent jet ignition engine using liquid fuel

Abstract

A control-oriented engine model is necessary for developing and validating the associated engine control strategies. For engines equipped with the turbulent jet ignition system, the interaction between the pre- and main-combustion chambers should be considered in the control-oriented model for model-based control strategies that optimize the overall thermal efficiency in real-time. Therefore, a two-zone combustion model based on the newly proposed parameter-varying Wiebe function is proposed. Since the engine uses the liquid fuel, a pre-chamber air–fuel mixing and vaporization model are also developed. The model was validated using the experimental data from a single-cylinder turbulent jet ignition engine under different operational conditions, and the simulation results show a good agreement with the experimental data. The relative simulation error of the in-cylinder pressure is less than 8%. For most of the other pressure-related variables, such as indicated mean effective pressure and main-chamber burn duration, the relative errors are within 5%.