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In this paper, experiments were carried out on a direct-injection diesel engine using a common-rail system, in order to study the effects of multi-injection modes on the combustion characteristics and pollutant emissions. A soot model was proposed for the post-injection mode, namely the Hiroyasu—Kodota averaged-reaction-rate soot model, which took into account both the chemical kinetics reaction and the turbulent mixing motion of the spray jet. Through integrating the revised soot model into a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, the combustion process and pollutants formation of the tested engine were simulated. The in-cylinder gas pressure and combustion heat release rate showed satisfactory agreement with measurements. The experimental data demonstrated that the pilot-injection mode was one of the most effective measures for reducing combustion noise. Meanwhile an optimum split-injection mode consisting of an appropriate pilot-injection fuel quantity combined with an optimal pilot-injection—main-injection interval could be achieved to decrease the nitrogen oxide (NO x) emission while not causing the particulate matter (PM) emission to deteriorate very much. Two innovative concepts of an active thermo-atmosphere and a passive inert atmosphere were presented from numerical simulation to discuss the effect of the pilot-injection mode on the combustion behaviour of the main injection. Regarding the post-injection mode, its prominent advantage was to decrease significantly the PM emission without an NO x emission penalty. Furthermore, by CFD modelling of the soot formation process, it can be observed that the turbulent mixing motion caused by the post-injection spray played a vital role in the soot oxidization process.

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Compared with front engine vehicle, the windward side's flow field in cooling model of rear engine bus is complicated and it can't be calculated by means of 1D model. For this problem, this paper has used Star-CCM to build a 3D simulation model of cooling system, engine compartment and complete vehicle. Then, it had a 1D/3D coupling calculation on cooling system with Kuli software. It could be helpful in the optimization design of the flow field of rear engine compartment and optimization match of cooling system.

n-Octanol, as an oxygenated fuel, is considered as one of the most promising alternative fuels, owing to advantages such as its low hygroscopic nature, high cetane number, and high energy content. However, the introduction of n-octanol leads to a higher viscosity and latent heat of evaporation (LHOE), affecting the combustion and emission performances of compression ignition (CI) engines. This study sheds light on the effect of injection pressures (IPs, ranging from 60 to 160 MPa) on the combustion and emission performances of a turbocharged CI engine, in conjunction with n-octanol/diesel blends. According to the proportion of oxygen content, the test fuels contain pure diesel (N0), N2.5 (2.5% oxygen content in the blending fuels), and N5 (5% oxygen content in the blending fuels). The results indicate that the blending fuels have little influence on the in-cylinder pressure, ignition delay (ID), and CA50, but they improve the brake thermal efficiency (BTE). In terms of emissions, with the use of blending fuels, the levels of carbon monoxide (CO), soot, and nitrogen oxides (NOX) decrease, whereas emissions of hydrocarbons (HC) slightly increase. With increasing IP, the ID, brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC), HC, CO, and soot decrease significantly, and the BTE and NOX increase. In addition, the combination of n-octanol and IP improves the trade-off between NOX and soot and reduces the CO emissions.