Project Group
The quality of the project outcome is guaranteed by an international collaboration setup with top expertise covering all the fields of relevance:
The largest producer of low-speed 2-stroke diesel engines in the world, MDT, will provide indispensable information about the challenges that the industry is facing. MDT will also make their 8 MW test engine with a cylinder head specially designed for multiple optical accesses available.
NTNU has important expertise in turbulent combustion and soot formation modeling. The Eddy Dissipation Model is the most applied turbulent combustion model in the CFD society and it was developed at NTNU.
SANDIA has world leading expertise in experimental combustion research as well as detailed combustion kinetics modeling. Studies by Sandia have always set the worldwide standard for the understanding of diesel engine combustion.
DTU Chemical Engineering
DTU Chemical Engineering has more than 20 years of experience with advanced experimental optical measurements in various combustion systems. Optical methods for fast and accurate temperature, heat flux and gas concentration measurements have been developed for use in aircraft engines, explosions and flames. A unique high temperature gas cell facility have been established at DTU Chemical Engineering for measurement of high resolution gas spectra in a wide spectral range up to 1600ºC. DTU Chemical Engineering also has the expertise in theoretical physics in the field of electromagnetic radiation. A line-by-line radiation model based on molecular physics of gases has also been developed at DTU Chemical Engineering.
DTU MEK has world leading expertise in CFD and has pioneered the development of wind turbines. Decades of combustion engine research has been performed as well. The recent years, these forces have been combined to develop the modeling tools that are needed to meet the future demands of combustion engines. A close collaboration with MDT has been an important part of this process. Ongoing and successful projects on CFD modeling and verification of scavenge flow and convective heat transfer in 2-stroke diesel engines has motivated for this project application.
The project will be managed by DTU Department of Mechanical Engineering and the main responsible person will be Jesper Schramm (Associate Professor), who will also participate in all project tasks. The project consists of the above mentioned 6 tasks. The project management will be overseen by a management group consisting of the main responsible persons of the five operating partners. The organization is shown in the figure below.
