Third Two-day Meeting on
Internal Combustion Engine Simulations Using OpenFOAM® Technology


22-23 February 2018, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano

Final Program

First Day

  • 9.30 - 10.15: Registration
  • 10.15 - 10.30: Welcome from PoliMI
  • 10.30 - 11.00: Rapid Compression Machines: effect of inhomogeneity on auto-ignition and robust optimization
    F. Contino (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
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  • 11.00 - 11.30: CFD combustion simulation of a two-valve Diesel engine using Open-Foam and LibICE
    L. Vargiu, G. Hardy, N. Rapetto (FPT CNH Industrial)
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  • 11.30 - 12.00: Validation of combustion models with tabulated kinetics for compression ignition engines operating with advanced combustion modes
    T. Lucchini, G. D'Errico, A. Onorati (Politecnico di Milano)
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  • 12.00 - 12.30: Effect of in-cylinder swirl ratio on the formation and late cycle oxidation of soot in heavy duty engines; A numerical study with Multiple Representative Interactive Flamelets (MRIF) method
    H. Fatehi, X.S. Bai (Lund University), A. Karlsson (Volvo Group Trucks Technology)
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  • 12.30 - 13.30: Lunch

  • 13.30 - 14.00: Advanced CFD Modelling of Diesel-like Reacting Sprays in OpenFOAM
    J.M. Pastor, R. Novella (CMT-Motores Térmicos - UPV)
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  • 14.00 - 14.30: Incorporation of Flamelet Generated Manifold combustion closure to OpenFOAM and Lib-ICE
    A. Maghbouli, B. Somers (TU Eindhoven)
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  • 14.30 - 15.00: Modeling the after-treatment system of Diesel and S.I. internal combustion engines by means of OpenFOAM
    G. Montenegro, A. Della Torre, A. Onorati (Politecnico di Milano)
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  • 15.00 - 15.30: Coffee break
  • 15.30 - 16.00: Gas exchange, fuel-air mixing and combustion simulations in a turbocharged gasoline engine with high compression ratio and VVT system
    D. Paredi, T. Lucchini, G. D’Errico (Politecnico di Milano)
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  • 16.00 - 16.30: 3D spray simulation using advanced intra-droplet and interface modeling
    A. Pati, C. Hasse (TU Darmstadt)
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  • 16.30 - 17.00: Application and validation of combustion models for SI engines operating with diluted mixtures
    L. Sforza, T. Lucchini (Politecnico di Milano), T. Hori, T. Shiraishi (Nissan Motor Co.)
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  • 17.00 - 17.30: Additive Manufactured (AM) catalytic converter simulations
    V. Papetti, P. Dimopoulos Eggenschwiler (EMPA - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology)
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  • 19.30 - 21.30: Social dinner

Second Day

  • 9.00 - 9.30: In-cylinder flow simulations in large marine two-stroke engines
    Eric Baudoin, S. Mayer (MAN Diesel & Turbo)
  • 9.30 - 10.00: A MultiPhase Dynamic-VoF Solver to Model Primary Jet Atomization and Cavitation inside High-Pressure Fuel Injectors using OpenFOAM
    F. Piscaglia, F. Giussani, A. Montorfano (Politecnico di Milano), J. Hélie (Continental Automotive), S. M. Aithal (Argonne National Lab)
  • 10.00 - 10.30: Large eddy simulation of stratified combustion in spray-guided direct injection spark-ignition engine
    S. Wadekar, M. Oevermann (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
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  • 10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break

  • 11.00 - 11.30: Coupled Quadrature Based Moment Models and OpenFOAM for Spray Applications
    M. Pütz, M. Pollack, C. Hasse, M. Oevermann (Chalmers university of Technology)
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  • 11.30 - 12.00: Evaluation of wall heat flux models for CFD simulations of an Internal Combustion Engine under both motored and HCCI operation
    G. Decan, S. Broekaert, J. Vierendeels, S. Verhelst (Ghent University)
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  • 12.00 - 12.30: HELYX-Adjoint: Next-Generation Design Optimisation for Enterprise applied to Internal Combustion Engines
    P. Geremia, E. de Villiers (Engys Ltd.)
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  • 12.30 - 13.00: 1D-3D Coupled Simulation of the fuel injection inside a high performance engine for motorsport application: spray targeting and injection timing
    M. Fiocco, D. Borghesi (Mahindra Racing)
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  • 13.00 - 13.15: Closing remarks