Conditional and Frequency Analyses of LDV Signals from a Gas-Fuelled Engine,

Abstract

Measurements of gas velocity have been obtained in a firing gas-fuelled engine by laser-Doppler velocimetry as a function of crank angle and correlated with pressure and the signals from ionisation gauges. The engines was operated at 1000 rpm with part load and with sequences of five firing and nine non-firing cycles so that it was possible to examine the cyclic variability associated with nonfiring, rich and lean burn. The results show smaller variability than did previous results with liquid fuel that lean burn is associated with large variability than is stoichiometric burning and that the flame front is associated with increases in fluctuation levels which remain to be explained (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 23, 1992
Accession Number
ADP009006

Entities

People

  • C. Vafidis
  • H. M. Xu
  • J. H. Whitelaw

Organizations

  • Imperial College London

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Frequency
  • Gages
  • Ionization
  • Ionization Gages
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Portugal
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Sequences
  • Workshops

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • ballistics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy