CFD Analysis of Port Water Injection in a GDI Engine under Incipient Knock Conditions

This paper investigates, through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, the knock resistance improvements that can be obtained in a turbo-charged GDI engine with water injection. In a first step, water and gasoline injector models are validated comparing the results with experimental data f...

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Main Authors: Jacopo Zembi, Michele Battistoni, Francesco Ranuzzi, Nicolò Cavina, Matteo De Cesare
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-09-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/18/3409