The numerical activities of the Internal Combustion Engines section are carried out thanks to the REASE's High Performance Computing facility and are mainly focused on the simulation of unsteady flows in the complete intake and exhaust systems, fuel-air mixture formation in direct injection engines, in-cylinder combustion process, acoustics of mufflers and airbox and coupled engine/vehicle analyses.
Numerical models are based various approaches, ranging from three-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approaches, for the calculation of the thermo-fluid dynamic processes in complex moving geometries, three-dimensional acoustic approaches for the analysis of noise emissions in engine components, as well as 1D approaches for the simulation of the whole internal combustion engine.
The numerical team is directed by Dr. Francesco Balduzzi and coordinated by Prof. Giovanni Ferrara.
The main activities are:
Last update
19.05.2025