Last modified: 2021-11-06
Abstract
The paper aims a numerical investigation of the evolution of pressure field along the wave rotor channels of a pressure wave ICE supercharger. In the present literature, most of the studies are considering the fluids as incompressible and inviscid in a 2D field. The present study is using the compressible and viscous terms in unsteady Lattice Boltzmann method for fluid in 3D field. The geometry was drawn in CAD software using measurements made on real model of the of CX-93 pressure wave supercharger. The simulation was conducted using a code for native unsteady LBM approach to reproduce data such as pressures, temperature and mass flows which are usually hard to be measured in real pressure wave supercharger. The computational domain was modelled as a moving rotational domain with adaptive refinement. Results such as velocity, pressure and temperature field in the rotor channels were obtained for exhaust gas inlet pressure of 0.292 MPa and 721 K temperature at different rotational speeds. The air inlet state considered was: 0,096 MPa and 313 K. The simulated values obtained are similar to the reported experimental results found in the literature showing a good concordance with the model.