METHODOLOGY FOR ESTIMATION OF HEAT-STRESSED STATE FOR CYLINDER HEAD OF DIESEL ENGINE WITH AIR COOLING

Abstract

Performance tuning improvement of modern diesel engines exerts an influence on technical and economic, ecological and resource indices of an internal combustion engine (ICE). In its turn, that requires a complex estimation and improvement of engine indices. As is known, working process and thermal intensity of combustion chamber parts are interconnected between themselves. Changes in design, operating and adjustment parameters of systems and structural elements of internal combustion engines that enable air-fuel mixing and combustions processes stressed state of combustion chamber parts. Joint estimation of operating cycle parameters and strength indices of ICE parts makes it possible to solve a number of problems originating in the process of designing new engine models and further development of the existing ones. The paper provides results of comparative estimation on heat-stressed state of a cylinder head for a high-speed diesel engine Д21A (2Ч10,5/12) while operating a rated power mode. In order to simulate and specify a heat-stressed state for description of boundary heat conductivity conditions the following adjoint “gas – wall” problems have been solved: the first one – for combustion chamber of a diesel engine (an internal problem) – simulation of a working cycle for a diesel engine; the second one – for cooling edges while blowing over them by air flow (an external problem). Calculations have been made in three-dimensional non-stationary presentation within the Cartesian coordinates. In order to simulate a working cycle of the diesel engine a computational grid describing combustion chamber configuration, inlet and outlet channels has been used in the paper. Solution of the external problem for cooling edge surface in case of blowing over them by air flow has permitted to specify temperatures and heat-transfer coefficient and later to improve an accuracy while estimating level of temperatures and stresses of the cylinder head.