IMPROVEMENT OF TRANSIENT HEAT TRANSFER MODELS FOR THE COUPLED 3-D MOVING PISTON ASSEMBLY-LINER SYSTEM

摘要

A transient heat transfer model for the coupling 3-D moving piston assembly-liner system has been successfully improved for predicting temperature distributions in the components of internal combustion engine chamber. In the model the effect of the 3-D friction heat generated at the piston ring/cylinder liner interfaces and the multi-dimensional lubricant film thickness between the piston rings and the liner has been taken into account. A directly coupled finite element method (FEM) is employed in the model for establishing the heat transfer relation among the moving piston assembly-cylinder liner components. A 3-D discrete model of the coupling system is formulated, which includes the piston rings, piston, liner and cylinder. Due to the complexity of the temperature stiffness matrix, a sparse matrix data structure is employed in the model to save the memory and calculation time. Finally, the 3-D coupling heat transfer model has been used to analyze heat transfer processes in a gasoline engine.