Benjamin Lawler

TL;DR: In this paper, a new combustion mode is introduced, called Thermally Stratified Compression Ignition (TSCI), which uses direct water injection to control both the average temperature and the temperature distribution prior to ignition, thereby providing cycle-to-cycle control over the start and rate of heat release in low temperature combustion.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Cooperative Fuel Research (CFR) engine with varying fuel-air equivalence ratio (φ) was evaluated with three alternative fuels, natural gas, ethanol, and syngas, at compression ratio of 8:1 and engine speed of 1200 rev/min.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model coupled with chemical kinetics mechanisms was applied to investigate the effect of various premixed fuels and equivalence ratios on the combustion, performance, and emissions characteristics of a dual-fuel indirect injection (IDI) pilot diesel ignition engine.

TL;DR: In this paper, a single-cylinder gasoline-fueled HCCI engine was used to characterize the relationship between key operating conditions, such as intake temperature, residual gas fraction, air-to-fuel ratio, and swirl, and thermal stratification.