Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers (한국자동차공학회논문집)

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CFD Analysis on the Fresh Air Distribution in the Catalytic Converter Varying Secondary Air Injector Position

2차 공기 분사 위치에 따른 촉매 내 공급 공기 분포에 대한 전산 유동해석

  • Yun, Jeong-Eui (Division of Mechatronics, Kangwon National University - Samcheok Campus)
  • 윤정의 (강원대학교 삼척캠퍼스 메카트로닉스공학부)
  • Received : 2009.09.18
  • Accepted : 2010.02.22
  • Published : 2010.09.01
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Abstract

SAI(Secondary Air Injection) system has been studied widely as one of the promising countermeasure for reducing HC emission at cold start. In this paper, in order to find out the optimal position of SAI, computational thermal fluid analysis on exhaust system adapted SAI system is performed using commercial 3-D CFD code, CFX. The present results showed that SAI position strongly affected the uniformity of air distribution in front of catalyst. And also through the decision process of optimal position of SAI, new index, uniformity of air distribution($U_{\phi}$) is proposed to define it quantitively. Because $U_{\phi}$ is very simple equation and similar with flow uniformity, it is very easy to figure out the physical meaning and to apply it to practices. Finally, we applied the index $U_{\phi}$ to the decision process of the optimal position of SAI, so that we could get the clear comparison results.

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