The decrease of greenhouse gases and pollutant emissions (nitrous oxides, carbon oxides, particles...) for spark ignited engines goes through the development of new technologies such as direct injection, turbocharging, downsizing, etc. However, the benefits of these technologies, which complexify the engines, are limited by the phenomena they intensify such as Cyclic Combustion Variability (CCV) and abnormal combustions. A thorough understanding of these phenomena is a cornerstone for the improvement of future engines. The aim of this work is to predict acyclic and transient phenomena in increasingly complex engines through the development, the validation and the use of a coupling method between Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) and system simulation. This thesis has demonstrated that simulating a complete industrial engine in 3D with LES to study its transient behavior is possible. The methodology developed in the present work was used to study the engine of the national research agency project SGEmac and a good agreement was obtained between the experiments and the tridimensional simulations. These results are the last validation step of the coupling method and demonstrate the capacity of the coupled solver to simulate the whole engine. The coupling method is then applied to study engine load and regime transients for the national research agency project ASTRIDE. The comparison between simulations and experiments show that the coupled solver can simulate CCV and transients, thus fulfilling its initial goal.
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