Flash Boiling Model for Injectors with Gasoline-Ethanol Fuel Blends

The flow behavior of liquid fuel through injectors greatly affects its atomization and combustion efficiency inside an engine. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model is developed using the open source CFD library OpenFOAM to predict the fuel flow in injectors that are used in the gasoline direct injection systems (GDI). Additionally, a method is formulated to couple this model with fluids that represent the physical properties of gasoline-ethanol blends like E85.

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Currently working as a visiting researcher at the General Motors Technical center in Mi,USA. Education:PhD in Mechanical engineering from University of Massachusetts-Amherst;Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham;Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering from Fr. C.R.I.T., Mumbai University.