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    Effects of injection strategy and combustion chamber modification on a single-cylinder diesel engine
    (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2020) GÜL, MEHMET ZAFER; Sener, Ramazan; Yangaz, Murat Umut; Gul, Mehmet Zafer
    The diesel engine is widely used due to its thermal efficiency, reliability and fuel economy, while diesel engine emissions are harmful to the environment and human health. Therefore, the standards (EPA, Tier, NRE-v/c standards, etc.) limit the exhaust emission of engines around the world. The most successful method of reducing emissions is to optimize the combustion chamber and the fluid motion inside the engine. In this study, experimental and numerical methods were used in a diesel engine to analyze fluid motion, spray, combustion process, and exhaust emissions. A new type of swirl piston bowls and a reentrant piston bowl were utilized on a baseline diesel engine. Different spray angles and injection pressures were applied and results were compared with the baseline design. Results show that the piston bowl shape has a critical influence on engine performance and emissions. Since the multi-swirl piston bowl (MSB) and double-swirl piston bowl (DSB) design increases in-cylinder swirl and turbulence, it contributes to reducing emissions and improving the combustion process. Increasing spray angle and injection pressure and using of DSB can reduce the soot emissions by 81%. DSB and MSB improve the combustion process but also increase NOx emissions due to increased in-cylinder temperature. On the other hand, NOx emissions may also be reduced if the injection parameters of the engine are optimized to provide the same power with the new swirl bowls.
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    Effect of air pressure on nanofiber production in solution blowing method
    (GAZI UNIV, FAC ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE, 2020-07-21) EKİCİ, BÜLENT; Polat, Yusuf; Yangaz, Murat Umut; Calisir, Mehmet Durmus; Gul, Mehmet Zafer; Demir, Ali; Ekici, Bulent; Kilic, Ali
    In this study, effect of air pressure on nanofiber diameter and morphology was studied for solution blowing technique. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was realized via ANSYS (R) Fluent software, and the results were compared with experimental solutions. The results showed that an increase in air inlet pressure from 100 kPa to 300 kPa has significant effect on nanofiber diameter and morphology. In contrast, as the air inlet pressure increases above 300 kPa to 600 kPa, both nanofiber diameter increases, and the fiber agglomerations are observed due to high turbulence intensity. The droplets were observed at 100 kPa air inlet pressure due to low driving force applied to the polymer solution. The effects of air pressure on nanofiber diameter and morphology have been investigated by using finite volume method, and the results are compared with the experimental results.
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    A Two-Time-Scale Turbulence Model and Its Application in Free Shear Flows
    (2024-02-01) GÜL, MEHMET ZAFER; YANGAZ, MURAT UMUT; GÜL M. Z., YANGAZ M. U., Sen S.
    A novel three-equation turbulence model has been proposed as a potential solution to overcome some of the issues related to the k–ε models of turbulence. A number of turbulence models found in the literature designed for compressed turbulence within internal combustion engine cylinders tend to exhibit limitations when applied to turbulent shear flows, such as those occurring through intake or exhaust valves of the engine. In the event that the flow is out of equilibrium where Pk deviates from ε, the turbulence models require a separate turbulence time-scale determiner along with the dissipation, ε. In the current research, this is accomplished by resolving an additional equation that accounts for turbulence time scale, τ. After presenting the rationale behind the model, its application to three types of free shear flows were given. It has been shown that the three-equation k–ε–τ model outperforms the standard k–ε model as well as a number of two-equation models in these flows. Initially, the k–ε–τ model handles the issue of the plane jet/round jet anomaly in an effective manner. Secondly, it outperforms the two-equation models in predicting the flow behavior in the case of plane wake, one that is distinguished by its weak shear form.