Multiple-injection has shown significant benefits in the reduction of combustion emissions and soot formation. However, there is a need to understand the secondary flow-induced air-fuel mixture formation and subsequent combustion mechanism under multiple-injection. An experiment was performed by changing the dwell time between the pilot and main injections under the conditions of 23 kg/m 3 ambient density with 0% O 2 (noncombusting) and 15% O 2 (combusting) ambient conditions, at an injection pressure of 120 MPa. The mass ratios of pilot and main injections in the study were 15%/85% and 20%/80%. A hybrid shadowgraph and Mie scattering imaging technique in a nearly simultaneous mode along the same line of sight was used to visualize the spray and flame luminosity. Pilot-main spray flame properties including ignition delay, ignition location, and lift-off length were characterized from experimental images. CFD simulation of pilot-main spray combustion was performed under the same experimental conditions to provide additional insights into the combustion process. The air-fuel mixing field and ignition process followed by main injection flame structure are significantly altered at different dwells. The spray-to-flame interaction mechanism model has been established for the development of an optimal multiple-injection scheme for, possibly, low soot formation and emissions. .

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A numerical methodology to simulate the high pressure spray evolution and the fuel-air mixing in Diesel engines is presented. Attention is focused on the employed atomization model, a modified version of the Huh and Gosman, on the definition of a turbulence length scale limiter and of an adaptive local mesh refinement technique to minimize the result grid dependency. All the discussed models were implemented into Lib-ICE, which is a set of libraries and solvers, specifically tailored for engine simulations, which runs under the open-source CFD technology OpenFOAM

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